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Peterson: “My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever”
Blog Post, May, 25 2012
David Peterson
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About George Monbiot’s “My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever” (The Guardian, May 22), here is one important rejoinder which I’ve been meaning to take-up since the commentary first appeared, but am just getting around to now.
Peterson: S&P Downgrades the United States?
Blog Post, August, 08 2011
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
"creditworthiness" really means the political commitment of Congress and the Administration to cater to elites
Peterson: Srebrenica-Related Graves Through 2002
Blog Post, July, 22 2011
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Somewhere between 1,919 and 1,985 is a reasonable range of estimates for the number of individual persons recovered from the Srebrenica-related mass graves through 2002.
Peterson: Rwanda's 1991 Census
Blog Post, June, 17 2011
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When the U.S.-based researchers Christian Davenport and Allan Stam had concluded their last assessment of mortality rates in Rwanda during the period of extreme violence from April through July, 1994,
Peterson: The Tea Party vs. The Left
Blog Post, April, 08 2011
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
A friend of mine just sent me a Fox News Poll that was conducted immediately before the March 19 start of the U.S. war on Libya.
Peterson: More Elementary Thoughts on Libya and the States Now Attacking It
Blog Post, March, 24 2011
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Michael: I believe that your " Very Elementary Thoughts on Thinking about Now" (March 22) had already been overtaken by events before you ever posted the piece.
Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference -- Part 1
Blog Post, December, 16 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When citizens of foreign countries are denied their democratic rights, when they become the victims of human rights abuses by their own states, and when their actions to secure their rights are met with even greater abuse, the likelihood that the ...
Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference -- Part 2
Blog Post, December, 16 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
"'[B]randing' technology is a tool of psychological manipulation," one Kazakhstani analyst observes, where the discrediting of elections via allegations of fraud, combined with the "losers' ability to mobilize the discontented voters" and the feed...
Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference -- Part 3
Blog Post, December, 16 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
While the causes of human rights and democracy in Iran caught the liberal U.S. media's attention in 2009-2010, human rights and democracy in Honduras did not. But when we push our inquiry even further out into allegedly left opinion, beyond the Ne...
Peterson: Solidarity Versus Indifference -- Part 4
Blog Post, December, 16 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
It might seem counter-intuitive that a State Department-needs model could predict not only how the New York Times responds to political upheavals in foreign countries, but also how the Western left responded to a pair of upheavals such as those wh...
Peterson: Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System
Blog Post, October, 24 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
When a young Iranian woman was shot dead by the security forces of her own government (allegedly -- she was shot by a sniper, after all), and digital images of her death were loaded onto the Internet and then YouTube, they "rocketed around the wor...
Peterson: The Politics of Genocide - Two
Blog Post, August, 14 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
In his 2006 textbook, Genocide: A Critical Introduction, the Canadian academic Adam Jones admits to having been "severely shaken by the holocaust in Rwanda in 1994;" he even titled one of this textbook's chapters "Holocaust in Rwanda."
Peterson: The Politics of Genocide
Blog Post, July, 04 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Edward Herman and David Peterson have written a very short book that's not nearly short enough. It should never have seen the light of day.
Peterson: "Rwanda and the DRC in the Propaganda System"
Blog Post, May, 10 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia “may have been the most misrepresented series of major events over the past twenty years.”[1] But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies, and civil wars that have rava...
Peterson: "Chutzpah, Inc."
Blog Post, February, 25 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
In the establishment U.S. media, perhaps the least reported (as in most heavily "censored") foreign story of 2009 turned on the question: What do Iran's 70 million citizens really want?
Peterson: Open Letter on the Open Letter on Iran
Blog Post, February, 08 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
I'd like to ask the 44 Nobel laureates who added their names and endorsements to the Open Letter on Iran published in the New York Times on February 7, 2010
Peterson: Oliver Kamm Tells A Lie
Blog Post, January, 25 2010
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
On January 25, 2010, The Times Online's blogger and Times leader-writer Oliver Kamm told a lie.
Peterson: An Open Letter to the 265 Individuals Who Endorsed Akbar Ganji's Open Letter
Blog Post, August, 31 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Noticing that the August 12 "Open Letter to the UN Secretary General" by the Iranian expatriate Akbar Ganji was joined by at least 264 endorsers,
Peterson: A Reply to Stephen Zunes
Blog Post, July, 05 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Does Stephen Zunes "really support 'massive American violence' and interventionism"?
Peterson: And Whose Side Are You On?
Blog Post, July, 01 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Reese Erlich's "Iran and Leftist Confusion" has enjoyed wide circulation among progressive-types these past three days.
Peterson: Non-Violence 101
Blog Post, June, 30 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Lucky for Stephen Zunes that Truthout's Steve Weissman "did not provide a link" to Peter Ackerman and Ramin Ahmadi's January 2006 op-ed for the New York Times
Peterson: Tear Down These Cyberwalls!
Blog Post, June, 24 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
It will interest all of you to learn that the total number of mentions on the pages of the New York Times of the terms 'Tudeh Party',
Peterson: Iran and the Americans
Blog Post, June, 22 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Can anyone tell me whether the major tide of events sweeping across Iran since the day of Iran's presidential election on June 12 is revolutionary or counter-revolutionary?
Peterson: "Ballots Over Bullets"?
Blog Post, June, 11 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
According to Beirut's Al-Manar Television channel, a study of the June 7 parliamentary election in Lebanon by the Beirut Center for Research and Information is reporting that
Peterson: "Iran Has Centrifuge Capacity for Nuclear Arms"?
Blog Post, June, 06 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
In light of the ominous cast to the coverage of the International Atomic Energy Agency Director General's most current report about Iran's nuclear program
Peterson: How Best To Use the New Media?
Blog Post, May, 06 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Yesterday (May 5), the Senate Finance Committee heard presentations by 15 different witnesses on the issue of "reforming" the U.S. health care system.
Peterson: No Refuge But in Audacity
Blog Post, April, 30 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Marjorie Cohn is rightly disgusted with the never-ending criminality of the Bush regime, whose eight year reign gave many new faces and names to Tacitus' old maxim.
Peterson: American Impunity
Blog Post, April, 16 2009
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Earlier today, Candido Conde-Pumpido, Spain's attorney general, dismissed the efforts of Spain's counter-terrorism Judge Baltasar Garzon to bring indictments against six former Bush regime officials
Peterson: Washington to the World: Drop Dead!
Blog Post, November, 14 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
For a soaring defense of the freedom to prey upon the less powerful, no less than a proclamation to the rest of the world that while it still clings to power,
Peterson: The Future of American Politics
Blog Post, November, 06 2008
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
I see that PBS - TV's Bill Moyer's Journal is scheduled to air an interview with Kevin Phillips this coming Friday evening, November 7.
