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Peterson: Why Isn't Iraq in the 2008 Election?
Blog Post, March, 03 2008
David Peterson
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Friends: Give me a word or a phrase that in your judgment best describes the U.S. political system?
Peterson: One-in-100 Americans Behind Bars
Blog Post, February, 28 2008
David Peterson
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According to a new report just released by the Pew Center on the States, "at the start of 2008, 2,319,258 adults were held in American prisons or jails, or one in every 99.1 men and women."
Peterson: Iran in Wonderland
Blog Post, February, 23 2008
David Peterson
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In the Alice-in-Wonderland -- and by now reflexive -- formula of the International Atomic Energy Agency's assessments of Iran's nuclear program for its Board of Governors
Peterson: Iran in Wonderland II
Blog Post, February, 23 2008
David Peterson
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The image below speaks a thousand words. -- Of course, insofar as its real information content is concerned, what the satellite image reveals very well may be zero.
Peterson: Phantom Statehood II
Blog Post, February, 22 2008
David Peterson
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Addressing the February 17 U.S.-KLA Declaration of Independence from the Republic of Serbia, Sir John Sawers, the British ambassador to the United Nations, explained it like this (S/PV.5839, p. 13.2):
Peterson: Phantom Statehood
Blog Post, February, 17 2008
David Peterson
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It is amazing to watch American Power as it exploits theUnited Nations and international law to take whatever it wants from both of them, and discard whatever it doesn't.
Peterson: Questions for the U.S. Presidential Candidates
Blog Post, February, 07 2008
David Peterson
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Numerous questions always come to mind that would be worth asking the rapidly-declining major-party presidential candidates in the States
Peterson: George Clooney
Blog Post, February, 01 2008
David Peterson
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Due to the "likeability" factor of this particular Hollywood actor, due to his eagerness to perform in the role of "United Nations Peace Messenger," and,
Peterson: The Gaza, Iran, and the Security Council
Blog Post, January, 29 2008
David Peterson
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I just ran some searches of the Nexis, Factiva, and NewsBank databases for the period beginning Tuesday, January 15, and extending through Monday, January 28.
Peterson: "Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence"
Blog Post, January, 24 2008
David Peterson
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A friend writes to remind me that, as far as he knows, "NATO (and the U.S.) never abandoned the first-strike option,
Peterson: "Iraq: The War Card"
Blog Post, January, 23 2008
David Peterson
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When you read each of these two statements, both uttered by American presidents, both therefore highly prominent, given the speaker and the nature of his office, and, most important, both lies, which arouses a more negative reaction in you?
Peterson: "Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option"
Blog Post, January, 22 2008
David Peterson
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This one ought to illustrate for you -- in case you are still in need of any illustration -- just how dangerous our world is.
Peterson: There Is No "War on Terror"
Blog Post, January, 21 2008
David Peterson
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When you stop and take a look at usage of the phrases 'war on terror' and 'war on terrorism' across a great many public records over many years, something curious turns-up:
Peterson: "Language and Politics" -- by Kelvin Yearwood
Blog Post, September, 23 2007
David Peterson
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Not for some time have citizens of the Western world been made so acutely aware of the politics of language. This issue has moved from muttering gripes about po- litical correctness onto the center stage of public con- sciousness. B...
Peterson: The U.S. Senate Betrays Us
Blog Post, September, 20 2007
David Peterson
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This afternoon, Thursday, September 20, the United States took yet another serious step in the direction of a closed society. By an overwhelming margin of 72 to 25, the Senate voted to adopt an amendment sponsored by Republican Senator...
Peterson: From the Dog-Bites-Man File
Blog Post, September, 17 2007
David Peterson
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On Thursday, September 6, the very same day that the Israeli Air Force carried out a bombing raid in northern Syria for still-undisclosed reasons -- unless it's an obvious reason, such as testing the performance of the kind of Russi...
Peterson: Crocker and Petraeus Do Washington
Blog Post, September, 10 2007
David Peterson
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All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; and by and by I learned that, most appropriately, the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs had entrusted him with the making of a re- port, for its future guidance...
Peterson: No End In Sight
Blog Post, September, 07 2007
David Peterson
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If, say, the Overlords in Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi novel Childhood's End had shocked and awed the planet Earth some time in early 2003, and were currently occupying large swaths of the continental United States, then I, not on...
Peterson: To Bomb Iran
Blog Post, September, 01 2007
David Peterson
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The Washington regime continues to lay out its case for war with Iran -- not the least of which is how little success it has enjoyed at militarily sub- jugating the population of Iraq. In a speech Tuesday before the National Co...
Peterson: "By the Conjunction of Terrorism and WMD"
Blog Post, August, 21 2007
David Peterson
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I am not certain when the very first time was that a senior U.S. Government official tried to link Tehran to the Iraqi resistance's successful use of "explosively formed penetrators" (EFPs and the like -- recall the ea...
Peterson: Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entities
Blog Post, August, 16 2007
David Peterson
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Here's a phrase that'll wow them come election time in November 2008: "Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity." As in whenever Washington goes to the trouble of designating X a "global terrorist entity" -- t...
Peterson: The Sock-it-to Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Syria Acts of 2007
Blog Post, August, 14 2007
David Peterson
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What percentage of American citizens -- even among the candidates for next year's presidential elections, for that matter -- do you suppose has an inkling that their Commander-in-Chief has been declaring "national emergencies&qu...
Peterson: The Warrantless Surveillance and State Secrets Act of 2007
Blog Post, August, 10 2007
David Peterson
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Whether you, I, our friends, neighbors, acquaintances, or complete strangers are ever subjected to surveil- ance -- wiretapping of telephone lines and the inter- cept of cellular calls, email, and old-fashioned postal services -- by ...
Peterson: An Interventionist's Dream
Blog Post, August, 01 2007
David Peterson
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Yesterday, the Security Council adopted Res. 1769, calling on "all the parties to the conflict in Darfur to immediately cease all hostilities and commit them- selves to a sustained and permanent cease-fire," and establishin...
Peterson: When the Whole Really Is False
Blog Post, July, 28 2007
David Peterson
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You know: At least the 2007 Tour de France had the right sense of etiquette to all-but-collapse under the weight of scandal and disillusionment triggered by the news of the widespread use of doping techniques by its top racers. ...
Peterson: President Bush Defends the Homeland
Blog Post, July, 25 2007
David Peterson
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By my count, the Commander-in-Chief used the phrase 'al Qaida' a total of 87 different times yesterday during his speech at the U.S. Air Force base in Charleston, South Carolina. (Others have come up with even higher estimates: At one point yeste...
Peterson: President Bush Declares War on Dissent -- Part 97
Blog Post, July, 20 2007
David Peterson
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Might you be determined to commit, or pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq, or undermining efforts to ...
Peterson: Hearts and Minds and Americans
Blog Post, July, 17 2007
David Peterson
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Somebody kicked-over a rock at The Nation the other day. An important but otherwise hidden issue lay beneath it. A hearts-and-minds issue. One of Alexander Cockburn's friends wondered about the "grand taboo" of the anti-war movement i...
Peterson: The Road To Nowhere
Blog Post, July, 08 2007
David Peterson
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Seeing that this Sunday's New York Times advocated at length for the immediate withdrawal of the occu- pying military's troops from Iraq -- "without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit&qu...
Peterson: American Dilemmas
Blog Post, June, 29 2007
David Peterson
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A friend writes to remind me that today is the day for the U.S. release of Michael Moore's film, SiCKO. He quoted Moore's news release, about what a "weirdly funny week" it's been, even though it's not quite over yet; ...
