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Peterson: Forty-Three Months -- and Counting
Blog Post, October, 19 2006
David Peterson
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On this 43rd-month anniversary of Operation Iraq Freedom, a couple of questions for everyone. First, to what extent do you suppose the now 43-month-old American military seizure of Iraq falls within one or more of the foll...
Peterson: Mortality After the March 2003 U.S. Military Invasion of Iraq
Blog Post, October, 11 2006
David Peterson
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For the blessings of freedom and democracy, no price is too high for the Americans to ask—no, to demand—the Iraqis to pay. Clearly, the people who were living (and have been dying ever since) inside Iraqi national territory prior to Marc...
Peterson: A Picture Tells A Thousand Words
Blog Post, September, 24 2006
David Peterson
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Madame President, excellencies, heads of state, heads of government, high representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you very respectfully, to those who have not read this...
Peterson: Shoot the Messenger
Blog Post, September, 12 2006
David Peterson
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The important study "Human rights abuse and other criminal violations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a random survey of households," by Athena Kolbe and Royce Hutson of Wayne State University in Detroit, was initially posted to The Lancet's w...
Peterson: Iraq "Intelligence" Phase II Reports
Blog Post, September, 10 2006
David Peterson
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Last Friday, September 8, the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence—author in July 2004 of the Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq—released what the Committee calls its “Phase II Reports...
Peterson: Transatlantic Trends 2006
Blog Post, September, 09 2006
David Peterson
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The fifth annual Transatlantic Trends survey of U.S. and European "public opinion" was released just the other day, on September 6. (And don't for one moment think, either, that the architects of these surveys aren't highly cons...
Peterson: The United States (and Israel) vs. the World
Blog Post, September, 07 2006
David Peterson
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Two recent opinion surveys by the U.S.-based Harris Interactive Company caught my eye. Both were released on August 30--to very little fanfare, it appears. Exactly how little is worth noting. According to the opinion survey that I will arbitrar...
Peterson: Terror in Haiti
Blog Post, September, 02 2006
David Peterson
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[E]stimates suggest that about 8000 individuals were murdered, with almost half of the perpetrators identified as political actors. Sexual abuse, especially among children, was also a frequent occurrence. [The] data suggest that 35 000 women and g...
Peterson: Hate Speech and the Internet
Blog Post, August, 19 2006
David Peterson
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I for one believe that posts to websites such as the one that I'm about to reproduce below the page-break constitute hate-speech. Were, for example, you to receive an envelope via the postal service, and upon opening it, found that it contained a...
Peterson: Greater Israel
Blog Post, August, 10 2006
David Peterson
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For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our...
Peterson: "violations of Lebanese sovereignty committed by Israel"
Blog Post, August, 07 2006
David Peterson
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According to regular, monthly reports filed with the Secretary-General and the General Assembly dating back further than I've checked, the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations had reported a total of 529 “violations of Lebanese sover...
Peterson: One Fine Armageddon
Blog Post, July, 23 2006
David Peterson
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“The world's carefully constructed international system for maintaining peace and security, built around the UN charter, is now on its last legs,” former UN Mission in Iraq member Salim Lone contends ("The charter is on its last legs,&quo...
Peterson: An Open Letter to Baseball Fans
Blog Post, June, 18 2006
David Peterson
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I hope that in accepting Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan “Bud” Selig's Open Letter to Baseball Fans, the no fewer than five newspapers that decided to publish it---at least through Friday, June 16: the Arizona Republic, Chicago Tribu...
Peterson: Pew Global Attitudes Survey
Blog Post, June, 13 2006
David Peterson
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Yet another Pew Global Attitudes Survey was released today (June 13). See: America's Image Slips, But Allies Share U.S. Concerns Over Iran, Hamas (Summary of Findings), Pew Global Attitudes Project, June 13, 2006. (For the PDF vers...
Peterson: "Weapons of Terror"
Blog Post, June, 02 2006
David Peterson
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"So long as any state has nuclear weapons, other states will want them," the just-released Report of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission notes quite simply and elegantly. It adds: "So long as any such weapons remain, there i...
Peterson: Rosemary Woods, Meet Emma Brockes
Blog Post, May, 26 2006
David Peterson
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The Guardian's Emma Brockes, here shown re-enacting how she accidentally, inadvertently, "partially recorded over" the "most contentious&qu...
Peterson: Iran, the IAEA, and American Power III
Blog Post, May, 01 2006
David Peterson
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In the by-now-legendary, you-can't-disprove-a-negative phraseology of the International Atomic Energy Agency when it deals with an Official Enemy of one of the Principals of World Order (see Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Is...
Peterson: Iran, the IAEA, and American Power II
Blog Post, April, 29 2006
David Peterson
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As best I can tell, the International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to post a copy of Friday&undefined;s report on the Iranian nuclear program to its website. (See In Focus: IAEA and Iran.) However, this morning&undefined;s Guardian ...
Peterson: Iran, the IAEA, and American Power I
Blog Post, April, 25 2006
David Peterson
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According to footnote 3 (p. 2) of the International Atomic Energy Agency's February 27, 2006 report to its Board of Governors on the Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran (GOV/2006/15), this report constitu...
Peterson: Torture and the Americans II
Blog Post, March, 27 2006
David Peterson
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Last fall, in a survey of the Americans' beliefs and attitudes about their "place in the world," the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press determined that "nearly half" of them (46% overall) believes t...
Peterson: Counting Bodies in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Blog Post, March, 25 2006
David Peterson
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It turns out that, not just once, but at least twice over the past three months, in late December and then again in early March, the U.S. Department of State’s Review of European Security Issues has recognized that the “...
Peterson: The Tyrant in Chief II
Blog Post, March, 24 2006
David Peterson
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No doubt about it: The story that Friday's Boston Globe reported about the President's March 9 signing into law of two different bills authorizing new versions of the frightening USA Patriot Act, while adding "an addendum saying that ...
Peterson: International Criminal Court
Blog Post, March, 22 2006
David Peterson
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I'm afraid that the International Criminal Court is off to a very bad start indeed. Struggling to get off its institutional butt in the face of its serious and perhaps debilitating rejection by the Americans---having in May, 2002...
Peterson: The Death of Slobodan Milosevic
Blog Post, March, 11 2006
David Peterson
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Today, Saturday 11 March 2006, Slobodan Milosevic was found lifeless on his bed in his cell at the United Nations Detention Unit in Scheveningen. The guard immediately alerted the Detention Unit Officer in command and the M...
Peterson: Baseball and Steroids II
Blog Post, March, 08 2006
David Peterson
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Finally, a new book on Major League Baseball that might be worth picking up: Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams (Gotham Books...
Peterson: Overthrowing the NPT the American Way
Blog Post, March, 07 2006
David Peterson
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Let there be no mistake about it: It is the position of the regime in Washington---and, therefore, the position of every other government this regime can drag after it---most recently, by "spinning a web" for the Government of India---th...
Peterson: What Are the Alternatives?
Blog Post, March, 06 2006
David Peterson
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In calling the following report from today's Wall Street Journal to my attention--- "Impeachment Proves Risky Political Issue," Jeanne Cummings, Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2006 (as posted to Truthout) ...
Peterson: AIPAC Policy Conference 2006
Blog Post, March, 06 2006
David Peterson
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Among the many issues taken up at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2006 now underway in Washington D.C. (March 5 - 7), two issues clearly stand at the top of the agenda: The Iranian resistance to the Americans' r...
Peterson: Chairman Fred Hampton Way
Blog Post, March, 01 2006
David Peterson
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The headline of Tuesday’s Chicago Sun-Times read: BLACK PANTHER STREET NAME OUTRAGES COPS Two articles, one apiece by veteran Sun-Times reporters Fran Spielman and Andrew Herrmann, developed this headline on ...
Peterson: The Bosnian Genocide Promoters
Blog Post, February, 15 2006
David Peterson
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For those among you who have never come across it before, there is a relatively new weblog titled: Srebrenica Genocide Blog Believe it or not. According to the information on the website, this blog was launch...
