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Peterson: Great White Warrior
Blog Post, September, 14 2004
David Peterson
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"We will not return to our homes until the white people come and make us safe." Although the weblink I've just provided takes you to the article wherein this quote appears---Samantha Power's "Dying in Darfur: Can the ethnic cleansing in Sudan...
Peterson: How Many Deaths Are Too Many?
Blog Post, September, 13 2004
David Peterson
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‘Milestone' was a frequently used word last week. (So was ‘anniversary'. Though let's not go there. At least not for now. Some other time. Perhaps.) Pick your favorite purple modifier (‘grim' and ‘tragic' were often in use), or your favori...
Peterson: The War on Genocide
Blog Post, September, 11 2004
David Peterson
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"[W]e have concluded that genocide has taken place in Darfur," a statement issued by the White House Office of the Press Secretary on behalf of the American President affirmed September 9. "We urge the international community to work with us to p...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial V
Blog Post, September, 10 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Today, Presiding Judge Patrick Robinson issued an Order on Request for Certification To Appeal the Decision of the Trial Chamber on Court Assigned Counsel---he gave the court's okay to the recently-imposed and wholly non-autonomous defense counsel...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial IV
Blog Post, September, 09 2004
David Peterson
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Get this! In the latest twist to the Milosevic saga, the defendant's newly-imposed (Oops! I mean newly "assigned") counsels, Steven Kay and Gillian Higgins---who, until September 3, used to work as two-thirds of the trial's "friends of the court...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial III
Blog Post, September, 09 2004
David Peterson
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Tiphaine Dickson, the eloquent Canadian lawyer and the woman who drafted the Open Letter of July 29 on behalf of more than 90 legal-types protesting the Yugoslavia Tribunal's then-impending plans---made a reality on September 3 (CC/ P.I.S./890-e)-...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial II
Blog Post, September, 08 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
NOTING the confidential "Prosecution's Submissions in Response to the Trial Chamber's 19 July 2004 Further Order on Future Conduct of the Trial," filed on 26 July 2004.... Notice that I could provide a weblink to one of these two documents ...
Peterson: "All These Things Happened Among Us" II
Blog Post, September, 06 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Last Friday (Sept. 3), in an U.S. District Court in Fresno, California, Judge Oliver Wanger ruled that a retired captain in the Salvadoran Air Force, Alvaro Rafael Saravia, was "liable" (though by no means solely responsible) for the assassination...
Peterson: UNSC 1559: The Resolution Out of Nowhere
Blog Post, September, 05 2004
David Peterson
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Have been trying to figure out exactly where Thursday's (Sept. 2) UN Security Council Resolution 1559 came from. All of a sudden. In a flash. Seemingly out of nowhere. Any clues? You've all heard of Res. 1559, I presume. Sponsored by the...
Peterson: "Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and Threat" I
Blog Post, September, 03 2004
David Peterson
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The 48th Annual Regular Session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is scheduled to open in Vienna later this month, Monday through Friday, the 20th through the 24th. As you all know, the IAEA is tasked wit...
Peterson: The Song Remains the Same
Blog Post, September, 03 2004
David Peterson
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This one, pretty much, is the pits. The U.K.-based Oxfam---a vital nongovernmental organization in its own right, no doubt about it---announced today that a new musical collection titled Songs for Sudan "has been released to raise money for the w...
Peterson: "Power Harnessed to Legitimacy"
Blog Post, September, 02 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Below you'll find links to 100 percent of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's statements, in his official capacity as the UNSG, pertaining to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq for the 13-day period from the launching of the invasion on Wednesday, March ...
Peterson: "How America Gets Away With Murder" II
Blog Post, September, 01 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Mind if I ask you to rack your brains for a few moments? Okay. Here goes.---To the best of your knowledge, has the UN Secretary-General ever used terminology comparable to "strongly condemns" when referring to actions taken by the U.S. Governmen...
Peterson: The Milosevic Trial I
Blog Post, August, 31 2004
David Peterson
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The trial of Slobodan Milosevic resumes Tuesday, August 31, after a six-month recess, with various failed attempts to resume the proceedings along the way. Most notably on July 6, when Presiding Judge Patrick Robinson decided instead that "it is ...
Peterson: The Franklin Affair
Blog Post, August, 29 2004
David Peterson
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Spying for Israel seems such a silly way of putting it. So does passing secrets. Espionage. And the like. As if, in real world terms, there were a wall or barrier of some kind categorically separating these two states and historical projects. ...
Peterson: Homo Ludens
Blog Post, August, 28 2004
David Peterson
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Yesterday, one of the "feel-good stories" of the Athens Olympic Games, indeed, one of the "games' most captivating stories," drew to its uneventful conclusion, when the Iraqi national soccer team ("football," as the sport is known in the more civi...
Peterson: The "Oops!" Theory of American History
Blog Post, August, 27 2004
David Peterson
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The last morning I myself happened upon a commentary by the presidential historian Stanley I. Kutler, he noted that "Principled resignations have not been prominent in American history," while adding that "Resigning on principle, in the firm belie...
Peterson: "Ne'er a Villain Dwelling in All Denmark"
Blog Post, August, 27 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The last four digits on the Cost Of Iraq War webpage keep flying past at an astonishing rate. When last I glanced at the site, just moments ago, it read: $134,733,079,_ _ _. (Those blanks are meant to represent the last three digits, or sums of ...
Peterson: Torture and "Intelligence" in 2004
Blog Post, August, 26 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
By my count (and please correct me, if I'm mistaken), through this Wednesday in August, 2004, the public realm has been blessed with four official U.S. Government (whether directly or so-called independently, on behalf of an official request) inve...
Peterson: "How America Gets Away With Murder" I
Blog Post, August, 25 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
With the military assault on the most resolute faction of the resistance to the American occupation of Iraq approaching some kind of final climax in and around the Imam Ali Mosque in the Old City of Najaf, where the "smell of burnt flesh filled th...
Peterson: "All These Things Happened Among Us" I
Blog Post, August, 24 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
To quote an important UN document from 1993, From Madness to Hope:...Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador (S/25500, April 1, 1993---though released a couple weeks earlier): On Monday, 24 March 1980, the Archbishop of San Salv...
Peterson: "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths"---and the Presidential Campaign
Blog Post, August, 24 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Back in April, the Toledo Blade received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for its lengthy series of reports "uncovering the atrocities of an elite U.S. Army fighting unit in the Vietnam War that killed unarmed civilians and children...
Peterson: Not on the Dong Cung River
Blog Post, August, 22 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
One feature of the whole Swift Boat Veterans For Truth-slash-Kerry Edwards-slash-Bush Cheney contest over the Democratic Party presidential nominee's distant records of military and anti-war service that I've been enjoying the most has been how li...
Peterson: The Right to Kill
Blog Post, August, 21 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
In a very short period of time (really, inside just the past week or so), one issue of great importance has irrupted on the American political scene: Much less a contest about the Vietnam War-era record of the Democratic Party's presidential nomin...
Peterson: The Crap that Fills Americans' Minds
Blog Post, August, 20 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Once again, and for the countless time, Wednesday's release of (what was billed as, anyway) a major survey of American public opinion by the The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press was far more interesting for what it betrayed about t...
Peterson: "No Freedom from Fear"
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
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Gee. I wonder whether it's purely an accident of history that Washington “feels more and more like a fortress these days”? And in what, exactly, this “whole terrorist atmosphere” has its origins? In the “armed guerrillas” of Baghdad and Najaf...
Peterson: The Captive British Mind
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Question: Do you possess, or have your ever possessed, information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit an act of terrorism, including (though by no means limited to) a “plot to commit murder and to cause mayhem with c...
Peterson: Initiatives to Make America Safer
Blog Post, August, 19 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
"Worldwide, more than 3,000 operatives have been incapacitated." ----"Waging the War on Terror," U.S. Department of Justice
Peterson: Swift Boat Veterans For Truth
Blog Post, August, 18 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Tuesday's Los Angeles Times (Aug. 17) published a very long (around 3500 words), page-one analysis of the television ad that has been running in at least three "key battleground states" this election cycle, "calling into question [the Democratic P...
Peterson: The Captive New York Times
Blog Post, August, 17 2004
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The New York Times published a bona fide gem today: "Rounding Up Qaeda Suspects: New Cooperation, New Tensions, New Questions," it was called. (For a copy, see below.) Unfortunately for the Times, this lengthy article (upwards of 2500 words) g...
