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Peterson: OOPS! The Guardian Retracts Its Mock Interview with Noam Chomsky
Blog Post, November, 17 2005
David Peterson
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This morning greeted me with the news (forwarded to me by multiple friends in the U.K.---thanks) that The Guardian not only has issued a formal retraction of Emma Brockes's deceitful Halloween-day interview with Noam Chomsky ("The Greates...
Peterson: I.G. Farben's Dream
Blog Post, November, 17 2005
David Peterson
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According to an ALERT that was just posted to the Organic Consumers Association's website, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently is accepting public comments on a proposed rule change titled "Protections for Subjects in Human Researc...
Peterson: El Bloqueo
Blog Post, November, 16 2005
David Peterson
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Not sure which gets more comical---in a sick sense---with each passing year: The ever-mounting one-sidedness of the annual vote in the UN General Assembly urging those “States that have and continue to apply [measures against other States that aff...
Peterson: "Serpents All": More on The Guardian's Mock Interview with Noam Chomsky
Blog Post, November, 12 2005
David Peterson
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Seeing that multiple sources have been dumping upon fellow ZNet blogger Noam Chomsky of late (some of which were to be expected, some of which were not, while others are mere hard-ons with a blog---“hiss for hiss returned with fork'd tongue/ To fo...
Peterson: Baseball & Steroids
Blog Post, November, 11 2005
David Peterson
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To post an excerpt from Report on Investigation Into Rafael Palmeiro's March 17, 2005 Testimony Before the Committee on Government Reform, released yesterday: During his interview with Committee staff, Mr. Palmeiro was questioned about the po...
Peterson: "Thick as Autumnal Leaves": The Guardian's Mock Interview with Noam Chomsky
Blog Post, November, 06 2005
David Peterson
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When I found The Guardian's mock interview with Noam Chomsky on Halloween morning, I forwarded copies of it along to a number of friends, noting that as has been true perhaps forever---and certainly since those days when Satan and his legions ...
Peterson: Social Contracts, American-Style IV
Blog Post, November, 06 2005
David Peterson
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This past week, the annual Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey was released. Focusing on the performance of health-care systems in six rich countries---Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United St...
Peterson: ExxonMobil and the Chicago Tribune
Blog Post, November, 03 2005
David Peterson
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The Chicago Tribune published a paid advertisement on the Op-Ed Page of its October 31 edition (Sect. 1, p. 19): "Oil and Apples," ExxonMobil, Chicago Tribune, October 31, 2005 Word-for-word. The bar diagram too. Exactly as you find ExxonMobi...
Peterson: Jesus and Yahweh
Blog Post, November, 01 2005
David Peterson
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A transcript of the ageless literary critic Harold Bloom's October 27 appearance on American television's Charlie Rose Show follows. Bloom was a guest of this particular show to promote his new book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (Riverhead,...
Peterson: "starvation of civilians as a method of warfare" II
Blog Post, October, 30 2005
David Peterson
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Regrettably, though not surprisingly, either, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has yet to release any documentation which news reports as long as 16 days ago began promoting on the basis of the Special Rapporteur on the Righ...
Peterson: Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Blog Post, October, 29 2005
David Peterson
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For all of you denizens of the July 2003 outing of Valerie Plame Wilson via the syndicated columnist Robert Novak, it never hurts to keep an elementary truth of American politics in mind: Namely, that the political culture here is much less advanc...
Peterson: José Couso
Blog Post, October, 24 2005
David Peterson
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Monday's multiple rocket and suicide-bomber attacks on two Baghdad hotels, the Sheraton and the Palestine---bases from which American and British reporters have practiced "hotel journalism," a trade now having degenerated into "mouse journalism," ...
Peterson: The "Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal"?
Blog Post, October, 21 2005
David Peterson
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'Cabal' is such a silly word. Dripping with the "Neocon" con. And all of that.---You don't suppose, do you, that Dick Cheney - Donald Rumsfeld et al. invented American wars of aggression? Detention without habeas corpus? Torture and so-called ...
Peterson: Judith Miller
Blog Post, October, 19 2005
David Peterson
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What follows surely ranks among the Top Ten All-Time performances by the New York Times's justly embattled reporter, Judith Miller. Interviewed on the noxious FOX News Network the very day that the first interim report on Iraqi “weapons of mass d...
Peterson: Letter from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi
Blog Post, October, 18 2005
David Peterson
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Letter from al-Zawahiri to al-Zarqawi, July 9, 2005. (As posted to the website of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, October 11, 2005. Also see the accompanying News Release No. 2-05.) Of course, I cannot attest to this do...
Peterson: "starvation of civilians as a method of warfare" I
Blog Post, October, 16 2005
David Peterson
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Omens of a story that could be explosive. That ought to be explosive. But that in all likelihood will be defused. A damp squib. Just as sure as Judith Miller will be rehabilitated. The U.S. and UN will set the Iraqi people on the road to free...
Peterson: Super Predator
Blog Post, October, 07 2005
David Peterson
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An inspiration to us all: Thursday's speech by the American President about the "War on Terror." About how the "murderous ideology of the Islamic radicals is the great challenge of our new century," and threatens the peace and security of the ent...
Peterson: Covert Propaganda
Blog Post, October, 01 2005
David Peterson
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For those of you so inclined: Take a look at any one of the six reports and editorials that follow. Each of them deals with the Bush Administration's use of phony "journalists" as fronts to spread administration-friendly propaganda to the America...
Peterson: Kitzmiller v. Dover School District I
Blog Post, September, 27 2005
David Peterson
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This week, the international disgrace of a Great Power in the choke-hold of the fundamentalist liars who enjoy undue influence over its fate proceeds to a new stage. (Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover School District, et al., U.S. District Court, Middl...
Peterson: The Looters' Class
Blog Post, September, 23 2005
David Peterson
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Here's a proposal sure to tickle the heart of the Looters' Class: "How We'll Get Back to the Moon," NASA Bulletin, September 20, 2005 This one shouldn't pass even the laugh test. It's whole purpose is to maintain a certain claim on the Federal ...
Peterson: Malevolent Designs
Blog Post, September, 15 2005
David Peterson
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“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” – Theodosius Dobzhansky Below you will find some excerpts from the writings of the late Ernst Mayr (1904 - 2005), one of the leading figures behind placing the thought an...
Peterson: The United States vs. The World
Blog Post, September, 10 2005
David Peterson
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Padilla v. Hanft, the very important decision yesterday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, must not pass unnoticed. Much less unmourned. Narrowly, the Fourth Circuit accepted the Bush regime's contention that the...
Peterson: The Silver Christopher
Blog Post, August, 31 2005
David Peterson
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This one falls under the category of the right man in the right place: "A War to Be Proud Of," Christopher Hitchens, Weekly Standard, September 5/September 12, 2005 Onward Christian Soldiers! Onward Enemies of Islamo-Fascism, Talibanism and B...
Peterson: To the Greater Glory of the G.O.P.
Blog Post, August, 23 2005
David Peterson
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When the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate last Friday (the 19th) told Tennesseans in his home state that he backs the teaching of "intelligent design" in America's schools, immediately one could hear the echo of a Republican Party strategy for...
Peterson: Aggressive/Antisocial, Drug Addiction, Mental Illness
Blog Post, August, 15 2005
David Peterson
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Have you at any time in the past been diagnosed with one or more forms of mental illness as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV)? How about an antisocial personality disorder? Aggressivene...
Peterson: For Christ's Sake!
Blog Post, July, 18 2005
David Peterson
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So somebody has finally posted a link to pornography in the comments section (see nikkicraft, July 16 at 05:32 PM) of a ZNet blog that appeared the other day under Noam Chomsky's name ("Hustler Interview Context," July 12)! And who knows what...
Peterson: "Scrutinizing Bush's Record"?
Blog Post, July, 14 2005
David Peterson
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“Scrutinizing Bush's record,” a July 14 commentary by the Chicago Tribune's Public Editor, Don Wycliff, was a cop-out. Plain and simple. Wycliff cites an email he received from a reader noting that on July 11, commentaries by Dennis Byrne and ...
Peterson: The Starboard at Portside
Blog Post, July, 12 2005
David Peterson
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Monday evening, the respected listserve of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism known as Portside selected for circulation a commentary that had appeared in that morning's Boston Globe: Swanee Hunt's “The Three Lessons of S...
Peterson: The Srebrenica Massacre
Blog Post, July, 10 2005
David Peterson
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Don't know whether or not you've had the chance to look over Edward Herman's “The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre,” first posted to ZNet last Thursday, and then circulated around who-knows-how-many other websites since. It is a pow...
Peterson: Devolution at the Church of Rome
Blog Post, July, 09 2005
David Peterson
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So, the Church of Rome is in the process of reversing course on evolution---of devolving dogmatically, one might say, on questions that pertain to the universe and to nature and to the origins of life on the planet earth, such as it is? The Cath...
