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Peterson: "Failed States Index 2007"
Blog Post, June, 19 2007
David Peterson
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The online edition of the July/August issue of Foreign Policy prefaces its entire Failed States Index 2007 bit with the following three sentences: The world's weakest states aren't just a danger to themselv...
Peterson: Shoot the Messenger
Blog Post, June, 13 2007
David Peterson
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Like me, I'm sure you've all noticed that the multi-year battle that led DePaul University of Chicago to deny tenure to Professor Norman Finkelstein, the outstanding Jewish-American academic, has been pretty seriously...
Peterson: Boycott DePaul University
Blog Post, June, 10 2007
David Peterson
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The [University Board on Promotion and Tenure] has determined that your scholarship does not meet DePaul's tenure standards. Moreover, on the record before me, I cannot in good faith conclude that you honor the obligations...
Peterson: The 2008 Presidential Race
Blog Post, June, 07 2007
David Peterson
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On June 3, CNN carried a "debate" among all eight of the current hopefuls to win the nomination of the Democratic Party to run for the presidency in 2008. From left-to-right on the stage at Saint Anselm College in New...
Peterson: American Power, Iran, and the New York Review of Books
Blog Post, June, 03 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
For what is perhaps the single most cost-free public gesture that Western "intellectual" - types can take at the present moment (though perhaps tied-for-first- place with public lamentations over the "genocide" i...
Peterson: Open Letter Over the Memorial Day Weekend
Blog Post, May, 27 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
As a resource for the online public sphere, Truthout's consistently U.S.- centric point of view -- e.g., 980 U.S. soldiers dead in Iraq since memorial Day 2006; untold commentaries lamenting how the current regime's wars ar...
Peterson: Open Letter on an Open Letter on Darfur
Blog Post, April, 18 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Aside from Harold Pinter ("Art, Truth, and Politics"), how many of the other nine leading figures of the contemporary European enlightenment do you suppose would be willing to sign a comparable letter (mutatis mutandis, of...
Peterson: Open Letter to the World on the U.S. Threat to the Peace
Blog Post, March, 31 2007
David Peterson
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The United States -- sometimes alone, often with Israel, now most recently with the United Kingdom -- threatens to attack Iran. Daily, the world's media report new U.S. troop, naval, and material commitments to the region (e.g., &qu...
Peterson: Iran, the United States, and the Security Council II
Blog Post, March, 27 2007
David Peterson
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Last Saturday's (March 24) presentation before the Security Council by the acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Alejandro Wolff was nothing short of insulting and slanderous towards Iran. It was thus a perfectly fitting...
Peterson: "The Wicked Son"
Blog Post, March, 26 2007
David Peterson
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Thanks to Warren L.'s prodding, I picked up a Flossmoor Public Library copy of David Mamet's The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews (Schocken Books, 2006). It's a real beaut. Evidently, in terms of U...
Peterson: Iran, the United States, and the Security Council I
Blog Post, March, 25 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Under the nomenclature of "nonproliferation," the UN Security Council has adopted three binding resolutions with respect to Iran since July 31 of last year: 1696, 1737, and, just yesterday, 1747. Each of these resolutions ...
Peterson: And how do you rate conditions where you live?
Blog Post, March, 19 2007
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The release Monday, March 19, of the results of the D3 Systems survey of public attitudes among Iraqis as they enter their fifth year of foreign military occupation and war reminded me to go on a hunt for an old blog of mine about a...
Peterson: A Case of Genocide?
Blog Post, March, 10 2007
David Peterson
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Under the Charter of the United Nations (esp. Ch. 1, Art. 2), states have obligations to treat each other as equals, to settle their disputes by peaceful means, to refrain from the threat or use of force, to respect the territorial ...
Peterson: "The Israel Factor"
Blog Post, March, 03 2007
David Peterson
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I think the Junior Senator from the State of Illinois is the subject of far too much unfair criticism for being, as they say, a novice at foreign affairs. His speech last November before the Chicago Council on Global Aff...
Peterson: Something about Human Rights Watch
Blog Post, February, 24 2007
David Peterson
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Recently a friend who works as a reference librarian dredged up on my behalf a copy of an April 1984 Americas Watch report, Human Rights in Nicaragua. Juan E. Mendez, then the director of Americas Watch's Washington...
Peterson: Crimes of Aggression
Blog Post, February, 01 2007
David Peterson
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Something the leadership of no state is willing to face -- but never moreso than in the contemporary United States: The inherent criminality of aggressive war. After taking up...
Peterson: Saddam Hussein
Blog Post, December, 31 2006
David Peterson
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When the former President of Iraq first was paraded into the theater of the Iraqi Special Tribunal on July 1, 2004 -- only days after the Americans handed over the keys to the country to Puppet No. One, Prime Minister-designate A...
Peterson: "Disarmament and Non-Proliferation"
Blog Post, December, 27 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The 2005 World Summit Outcome document was adopted by the UN General Assembly in a non-recorded vote on September 16, 2005. (For a verbatim record of that particular day's activities in the General Assembly, see...
Peterson: Iran before the Security Council
Blog Post, December, 24 2006
David Peterson
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Forty-five months into their savage destruction of Iraq, it is amazing to watch how successful the Americans remain at imposing their agenda on the "international community." (A phrase by which I mean the multilateral institutions, howe...
Peterson: Without Killers or Cannon Fodder
Blog Post, December, 23 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
At the top of the Selective Service Agency's homepage there currently appears the following Notice: NO DRAFT ON HORIZON! As the Agency's Notice went on to explain: Current...
Peterson: "The Continuing Bid for Palestinian Territory -- Without the Palestinians," by Kelvin Yearwood
Blog Post, December, 21 2006
David Peterson
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To refresh and re-focus my mind in respect of the Israeli and Palestinian story, I did what almost any U.K. citizen can do. I walked into a public library and booked a couple of free 2-hour Internet sessions at the end of my working day. On these...
Peterson: Human Rights Watch Does Milosevic
Blog Post, December, 16 2006
David Peterson
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Well. At least this outrageous document appears to have been stillborn. Aside from whatever initial publicity it may have generated via the P.R. - wire services and its god-only-knows-how-many iterations over the Internet (e.g., Reuters - AlertN...
Peterson: Question of the Moment
Blog Post, December, 07 2006
David Peterson
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Meet Prime Minister Grave and President Deteriorating. Have you ever seen two more diminished figures than these? In the annals of slam-dunk wars of aggression and the holding of news conferences to justify them at a later stage, theirs are the ...
Peterson: Beit Hanoun at the United Nations
Blog Post, November, 22 2006
David Peterson
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Two weeks ago today, on the heels of Operation Autumn Clouds, a week-long Israeli offensive into the northern Gaza that featured a Fallujah-class military siege of the as many as 50,000 inhabitants of Beit Hanoun, Israeli jets and artillery struck...
Peterson: "A Way Forward in Iraq"?
Blog Post, November, 21 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Friends: The history of politics is replete with candidates (even potential candidates) saying one thing, then doing another. Also with the political establishment's ability (near infinite, it some times seems) to discover and/or to create ca...
Peterson: Iraq and Vietnam II
Blog Post, November, 17 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The American President just landed in Hanoi. He is there to participate in this weekend's summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. His trip to Vietnam marks the first ever by his Preisdency, and only the second by an American P...
Peterson: Alliance of Civilizations
Blog Post, November, 14 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Critical opinions by an important "high-level" body organized under the auspices of the United Nations, on a topic of immeasurable importance in our day, and what kind of coverage of them do we find? At least sticking to English-lan...
Peterson: Iraq and Vietnam I
Blog Post, October, 29 2006
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
In one of his old "Turning the Tide" blogs at ZNet ("Iraq and Vietnam," June 10, 2004), Noam Chomsky wrote that he didn't "see much useful analogy between Iraq and Vietnam." The major dissimilarity between the tw...
Peterson: The American Lobby
Blog Post, October, 27 2006
David Peterson
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A friend once asked me whether I might be able to find any of the records of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services' hearings into the "Crisis in the Persian Gulf Region," chaired by Democratic Senator Sam Nunn, and dating from ...
Peterson: Who Answers to the Name of Liberals?
Blog Post, October, 20 2006
David Peterson
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"Make no mistake," Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin proclaimed in a kind of liberal manifesto posted a couple of day ago to the online edition of the American Prospect: "We believe that the use of force can, at time...
