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Peterson: Iran I
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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Well. This morning I had hoped to draft something short and to the point about the threat posed to international peace and security by the Master of the world. Not a trivial undertaking, I'm sure you'll agree. Particularly since its Fearless Le...
Peterson: Kosovo
Blog Post, February, 24 2005
David Peterson
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According to a recent report by the International Crisis Group---Can't help but wonder how many crises the ICC has played a hand in defining in a manner favorable to American Power?---by the middle of 2006, and assuming certain interim steps have ...
Peterson: The Knight Foundation Study
Blog Post, February, 22 2005
David Peterson
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A little while back, a friend called my attention to a study published under the auspices of the presumably liberal John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (though these days, how the hell can you tell?): Future of the First Amendment: What Americ...
Peterson: Global Warming II
Blog Post, February, 22 2005
David Peterson
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Since I drafted my comments on Global Warming, and on the release last week of the landmark study of the phenomenon by scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, I've managed to locate t...
Peterson: Global Warming I
Blog Post, February, 20 2005
David Peterson
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The phrase ‘global warming' is pretty ubiquitous these days. So are 'greenhouse gases' and 'greenhouse effect'. And over the course of the past week, ‘Kyoto' (not simply in the sense of the city in Japan, but in the sense of the 1992 Kyoto Trea...
Peterson: Ward Churchill
Blog Post, February, 19 2005
David Peterson
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Between ourselves, I would never want to work for the Racial Statistics Branch of the Population Division of the Census Bureau in Washington. Nevertheless. It appears that some of my fellow Americans would. Thus a friend tells me that a recent ...
Peterson: "The World's 10 Worst Dictators"?
Blog Post, February, 19 2005
David Peterson
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The February 13 issue of Parade Magazine in the States ran contributing editor David Wallechinsky's list of “The World's 10 Worst Dictators,” along with Wallechinsky's “Dishonorable Mentions” list (i.e., No.s 11-20). An explanatory note told us t...
Peterson: Camilo Mejia
Blog Post, February, 17 2005
David Peterson
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As one of the buffoons at CBS-TV's 60 Minutes II introduced a segment last June: “We first met Sergeant Mejia earlier this year when he was still AWOL---absent without official leave. He went AWOL, he told us, because he was morally opposed to a...
Peterson: "Quadrangle of Evil"?
Blog Post, February, 17 2005
David Peterson
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With Monday's assassination of the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Al-Hariri, former Minister Basil Fleihan, and many others in a massive car-bombing in Beirut followed immediately and reflexively by Washington's seizure of this event to i...
Peterson: The Price of Indifference III
Blog Post, November, 19 2004
David Peterson
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Amazing, isn't it, how much free publicity a news conference can win you, when what you say runs in near-perfect parallel with what the world's most powerful state wants to hear, and you save its official spokespeople the trouble of having to say ...
Peterson: The Price of Indifference II
Blog Post, November, 18 2004
David Peterson
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At a news conference in Vienna today, the National Council for Resistance in Iran---a.k.a. the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, for the past seven years among the State Department's officially "Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations," a group w...
Peterson: The Price of Indifference I
Blog Post, November, 16 2004
David Peterson
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If ever the U.S.-Israeli Axis of Good had reason to bomb nuclear-related sites within Iran---though an errant strike upon an orphanage or a hospital, "collaterally" damaging them, wouldn't hurt, either---now is the time. After a Letter of Agreeme...
Peterson: Impeach 'Em All
Blog Post, November, 14 2004
David Peterson
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Among the most important questions the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee can ask Alberto Gonzales, the White House's chief legal counsel and nominee to succeed John Ashcroft at the Department of Justice---the "least accountable Justice Dep...
Peterson: "New Paradigm"
Blog Post, November, 12 2004
David Peterson
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I think the titles of these two articles---but especially when juxtaposed---tell us a lot about what's going on in the United States of America: "Terror lawyer Bush's new legal chief" "A more moderate voice as AG" But then, so do these two: ...
Peterson: Please Do Not Disturb
Blog Post, November, 10 2004
David Peterson
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Let's say the American assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah officially began over the past weekend, November 6-7, 2004. (Though feel free to date the start of the whole ongoing campaign any time you think most faithful to the facts. For example...
Peterson: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Blog Post, November, 10 2004
David Peterson
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“We vigorously disagree with the court's decision, and will seek an emergency stay of the ruling and immediately appeal," a spokesman for the Department of Justice complained. He was reacting to Monday's U.S. District Court ruling that one Sali...
Peterson: False Dawn
Blog Post, November, 09 2004
David Peterson
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To say that I am impressed by how impressed the Americans are, not only with their ability to kill Iraqis, but their ability to get away with it, too, would be an understatement. At this art---two arts, really---two distinct but nonetheless insep...
Peterson: Like Flies to Wanton Boys
Blog Post, November, 06 2004
David Peterson
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I can't tell you the precise content of the UN Secretary-General's October 31 letter to the American President, the British Prime Minister, and the Iraqi Interim Prime Minister, addressing the American-led assault on the besieged city of Fallujah....
Peterson: The Question of Palestine, November 13, 1974
Blog Post, November, 06 2004
David Peterson
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* "Question of Palestine," Yasser Arafat, UN General Assembly Plenary, November 13, 1974 (A/PV.2282 and Corr.1) FYA ("For your archives"): For those of you who, for whatever reason, can't open the document via the weblinks I've provided, here is ...
Peterson: Holy Rollers
Blog Post, November, 05 2004
David Peterson
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"There are many issues that seriously and sometimes narrowly divide the country, but same sex marriage is not one of them," one of America's Holy Rollers said in explanation of Tuesday's elections. “The upsets in the Senate and House races and th...
Peterson: The Great American Genitals Caper
Blog Post, November, 04 2004
David Peterson
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If you happen to live in the State of Ohio---and just to be clear, I mean 'state' in the sense of a sovereign political entity, not state in the sense of a condition or mode of being-in-the-world---then come the New Year, you will live in a State ...
Peterson: Strange Logic
Blog Post, November, 02 2004
David Peterson
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Friday's New York Times devoted all of 92 words to the story. In what other fragmentary U.S. print daily reports I've been able to find on the same event, the Orange County Register spent all of 27 words (out of an article 450-words-long). The S...
Peterson: Petition to the U.S. to "Stop the Escalation!"
Blog Post, November, 02 2004
David Peterson
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On behalf of one from among a growing number of open letters invoking the conscience of humanity to call upon the American state to cease immediately its plans to launch a full-scale military assault on the overwhelmingly civilian population trapp...
Peterson: Doppelgänger
Blog Post, November, 01 2004
David Peterson
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Not sure whether the Democratic challenger was in Ohio that day, and the Republican incumbent in Florida. Or the Republican in Ohio and the Democrat in Florida. But, no matter. When news of the latest videotaped communiqué from Osama bin Laden ...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities---and American Silence
Blog Post, October, 30 2004
David Peterson
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In one of the handful or two of reports to have appeared on American television, in this instance, the prestigious Cable News Network (CNN), the program's host, Wolf Blitzer, introduced the item as a part of his "quick check of other stories now i...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power III
Blog Post, October, 29 2004
David Peterson
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My goodness! A never-ending stream of bright and shiny news from the neocolonies. U.S.-UN-OSCE-staged elections in Afghanistan. UN-EU-staged elections in Kosovo. And sooner or later, U.S.-UN-Iraqi Interim Administration-staged elections in Ira...
Peterson: Iraq, Civilian Fatalities, and American Power II
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
David Peterson
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To repeat a couple of questions first asked in these ZNet Blogs back on September 13: Within American-occupied Iraqi territory: 1) How many American deaths are too many? 2) How many Iraqi deaths are too many? I bother with these questions, fir...
Peterson: Turning Point?
Blog Post, October, 28 2004
David Peterson
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Can anyone recall when the first time was that, after the Americans bombed and invaded a foreign country---even if, as we just saw with the case of Iraq in early June, they install a puppet regime which, in turn, invites them to stay on as the lea...
Peterson: Governments of Confrontation
Blog Post, October, 27 2004
David Peterson
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According to an Agence France Press report last week, the morning after Lebanon's long-serving Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri resigned his post---under an "ultimatum," AFP added, "from the speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri, either to accept [Pres...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections IV
Blog Post, October, 25 2004
David Peterson
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Well. The "preliminary" results are in. And it's getting pretty close to official. With 22,413 polling stations reporting and 95.1 percent of the votes counted, "Afghan President Hamid Karzai is sure of victory in his country's historic preside...
