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Peterson: This Masquerade
Blog Post, October, 22 2004
David Peterson
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On Wednesday, October 20, the long-serving Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik Al-Hariri---one of the richest people in the world, and widely acclaimed as the man most responsible for lining up the capital to rebuild the central area of Beirut, devas...
Peterson: Patterns in the Rubble
Blog Post, October, 21 2004
David Peterson
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According to Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip (October, 2004), a new Human Rights Watch report, the Israeli military demolished the single greatest number of Palestinian houses in the Rafah region in the southern Gaza Strip, j...
Peterson: A Hall of Mirrors
Blog Post, October, 19 2004
David Peterson
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I've always felt that a hall of mirrors is a wonderful metaphor for life in a hyper-reflected---if nowhere near as reflective---media age. Not because of some silly metaphysical-slash-ontological predicament the alleged affliction with which serv...
Peterson: Srebrenica and the Neocolonial Community
Blog Post, October, 17 2004
David Peterson
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There have been three good reasons over the course of the past seven or eight days for the small city in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina named Srebrenica to have been reported in the world's news. (Leaving aside whatever other good reasons ther...
Peterson: If Only the World Had a Vote....
Blog Post, October, 16 2004
David Peterson
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Writing on behalf of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and its contribution to this Friday's important ten-country survey, "What the World Thinks of America," Shmuel Rosner defined the two essential conditions behind the Israeli public's support for t...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections III
Blog Post, October, 14 2004
David Peterson
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Just as there is a "standard set of cliches and patriotic symbols that are mobilized to justify U.S. intervention," Edward Herman and Frank Brodhead wrote 20 years ago in Demonstration Elections, so, too, there is a standard set of cliches and---i...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections II
Blog Post, October, 14 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Are there any doubts that, some time around the end of this month (maybe a little later), after all of the ballots are transported to one of the eight counting centers around the country, and the final ballot tabulated---or, whether they are all s...
Peterson: Nader/Camejo 2004
Blog Post, October, 12 2004
David Peterson
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According to Nader 2000 Leaders Organize To Defeat Bush, an Open Letter addressed to "progressives" of all sizes, shapes, and colors: This year, we urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's p...
Peterson: Beyond Demonstration Elections I
Blog Post, October, 11 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
At last some good news from the colonies! The solidarity of the 15 presidential candidates who joined the document that came out of the meeting at the Kabul residence of Abdul Satar Sirat, protesting Saturday's national election in Afghanistan, "...
Peterson: John Winston Howard
Blog Post, October, 10 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Worse than I first thought---that's how the outcome of the Australian national elections now looks. A "stunning election result which will let [Prime Minister John Howard] put his conservative stamp on Australia," was how AAP Newsfeed described ...
Peterson: Duelferland
Blog Post, October, 09 2004
David Peterson
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Among the hottest questions circulating between people who have dared to venture into Duelferland, and managed to find their way back out again, are two: Did the official Report of the Knight Errant to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq'...
Peterson: One Down. Three To Go.
Blog Post, October, 08 2004
David Peterson
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It's not the end of the year yet, so a retrospective may be out of place. Premature. Untimely even. Still. I do not believe that it is too early to recall my favorite magazine cover of the year, one unlikely to be surpassed in the remaining 12...
Peterson: Principals of World Order II
Blog Post, October, 05 2004
David Peterson
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When two Palestinian bombers, one right after the other, blew up both themselves and at least 16 Israelis on two separate buses in the Israeli city of Beersheva on August 31---at the time, the bloodiest attack of its kind since October, 2003---the...
Peterson: Contemporary Barbarism
Blog Post, October, 04 2004
David Peterson
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Well. It is now Monday morning, October 4. Today's Chicago Tribune---like pretty much the rest (and perhaps all) of the mainstream American print dailies on this first Monday of October---began with a total of six different reports on its front ...
Peterson: "Killing in the Name of God"?
Blog Post, October, 03 2004
David Peterson
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When the Chicago Tribune first unveiled Struggle for the Soul of Islam on February 8 of this year, "A note from the editors" introduced this series of occasional articles as follows: Many Muslims see America's war on terror as a war against Isl...
Peterson: "Crisis in Darfur"
Blog Post, October, 02 2004
David Peterson
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Almost every time I read about the "Crisis in Darfur"---a crisis which, at least as far as the UN Secretary-General, the various UN humanitarian agencies such as the OCHA and the UNHCR, and the UN News Center are concerned, surely has received mor...
Peterson: Whitey's America
Blog Post, October, 01 2004
David Peterson
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Don't you wish that, at least once every presidential-election cycle in the States, everyone who doesn't vote and who is at least 18-years-old somehow could be enticed to cast a ballot, separately from the Regular Voters, of course, and that the m...
Peterson: "Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone"
Blog Post, September, 28 2004
David Peterson
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Odd, don't you think, that members of the International Atomic Energy Agency could have adopted more than one resolution during Friday's (the 24th) closing session of its 48th General Conference in Vienna, and now it's already four days later, the...
Peterson: "Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and Threat" II
Blog Post, September, 28 2004
David Peterson
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Pleading for a long overdue "accounting" in world affairs, one wherein peoples and states will decide, once and for all, what they are "united for" and what they are "united against," Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs Silvan Shalom stepped befo...
Peterson: Barack Obama and the Clash of Civilizations
Blog Post, September, 27 2004
David Peterson
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A question for Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner (an absolute shoe-in, in fact) in the race to capture the seat in the U.S. Senate currently occupied by the Republican Peter Fitzgerald (the other held by the Democrat ...
Peterson: Principals of World Order I
Blog Post, September, 25 2004
David Peterson
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Of every UN member state to address the General Assembly Friday, September 24 (19 in all, at least by my count), not only did the UN News Center select the address by the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister to report first, at the top of the entire list....
Peterson: The War on Terror
Blog Post, September, 24 2004
David Peterson
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Fitting, isn't it, that upon landing on U.S. soil Wednesday, the Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi should visit the White House and Congress and even the Council on Foreign Relations (sort of like the American Chamber of Commerce, this crew...
Peterson: The Non-Aligneds Have Gotten the Message
Blog Post, September, 22 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Has anyone ever checked out the website of the International Atomic Energy Agency? But especially during weeks like the present one, when so many of the brightest stars of the nuclear firmament streak across the IAEA's Vienna heavens? While ther...
Peterson: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Blog Post, September, 22 2004
David Peterson
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Several hours ago, the UN Secretary-General engaged in the annual ringing of the Peace Bell on the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, outside the UN General-Secretariat Building in New York City---a "special occasion," he remarked, the 21st being Internation...
Peterson: Iranian Nukes? Check Their Beards
Blog Post, September, 21 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
One subtle indicator of the relative dominance of a state in the world is the number of successes it enjoys at imposing its agenda upon other states, peoples, and assorted collections thereof---the so-called international community, to risk using ...
Peterson: "Countries Where al Qaeda Has Operated"
Blog Post, September, 20 2004
David Peterson
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A friend just called to my attention "The Kafka Files #172," a semi-regular series of email dispatches by a friend of his named Eileen Sutton, wherein the contemporary world's race to catch up with---if never quite outpace---the work of their name...
Peterson: Three Headless Corpses
Blog Post, September, 19 2004
David Peterson
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Closing out his weekly radio address Saturday during a campaign stop in North Carolina, the American President announced that "At the United Nations this week, I will make some additional proposals to expand prosperity and accelerate the march of ...
Peterson: Not in Conformity with American Power
Blog Post, September, 18 2004
David Peterson
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Might anyone care to hazard a guess why the Secretary-General today (though only in the voice of his spokesman, Fred Eckhard) felt impelled to reiterate that the "United Nations remains committed to assist the Iraqi people hold free, fair and cred...
Peterson: "How America Gets Away with Murder" III
Blog Post, September, 16 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
If the American war over Iraq in the spring of 2003 truly was "illegal," as the UN Secretary-General asserted yesterday during an interview with BBC World Service radio---"it was not in conformity with the UN Charter," were his exact words, and "F...
Peterson: The United Nations According to New York Time
Blog Post, September, 15 2004
David Peterson
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Officially, the 58th Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly closed its doors and put away its gavel in New York City on Monday, the 13th. The 59th edition of the same opened its on Tuesday, the 14th---"at 3:00 P.M. (New York Time)...
