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Peterson: British Records on the Prewar Bombing of Iraq
Blog Post, July, 06 2005
David Peterson
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As the London Times's Michael Smith has been reporting in multiple venues (e.g., "The War Before the War,” New Statesman, May 30, 2005), the best publicly available source at the moment for evidence of the scale of the pre-war bombing campaign lau...
Peterson: "Spikes of Activity"
Blog Post, July, 05 2005
David Peterson
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To repeat for the second time in recent days an important passage from the British reporter Michael Smith's work on the joint criminal conspiracy between the Bush and the Blair regimes, the explicit purpose of which was to engineer the U.S. and U....
Peterson: "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Blog Post, July, 04 2005
David Peterson
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglass, Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852
Peterson: Not-So-Strange Bedfellows
Blog Post, July, 04 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Pages 238-239 of the print edition (and pp. 256-257 of the PDF version) of The 9/11 Commission Report first released in July of last year reproduce the list of the 19 September 11, 2001 suicide hijackers---in terms of the immediate destructiveness...
Peterson: Red Meat for the Christian Right
Blog Post, July, 02 2005
David Peterson
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A report in this morning's London Independent relates how the early September, 2004 conversion of the Bush regime, from a state of atheism or at most agnosticism on questions concerning the nature of the crisis in the Darfur region of the western ...
Peterson: No Memo Required
Blog Post, July, 01 2005
David Peterson
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For the record: The so-called "Downing Street Memos" provide us with some truly valuable bits of evidence that the British Prime Minister and other ruling Labour Party ministers and advisors not only engaged in a joint criminal conspiracy with the...
Peterson: "Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?"
Blog Post, June, 29 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
For a textbook example of how to close one's eyes in the face of real evil, check out: “Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?” Michael Ignatieff, New York Time Magazine, June 26, 2005 Therein, this Harvard intellectual and...
Peterson: The Very Definition of Tyranny
Blog Post, June, 20 2005
David Peterson
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I am not sure how many luminaries of the American political establishment have called upon the Senate's Minority Whip, Richard Durbin, to apologize, to face the full wrath and fury of the Senate, or even to resign his office, effective immediately...
Peterson: ...must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime...
Blog Post, June, 19 2005
David Peterson
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Judging by the panel discussion that closed out Fox News's Sunday with Chris Wallace for the morning of June 19, the most important item around the world for the previous seven days was U.S. Senator Richard Durbin's remarks on the floor of the Sen...
Peterson: The Downing Street Memos
Blog Post, June, 15 2005
David Peterson
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Jefferson Morley notes that the "memos" expressing the state of the Blair Government's pre-war planning for the eventual U.S.-U.K. military seizure of Iraq have "made headlines from Australia to China to Pakistan" since the London Times published ...
Peterson: Dear Mr. Byron Calame
Blog Post, June, 13 2005
David Peterson
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Mr. Byron Calame, Public Editor New York Times 229 West 43rd St. New York, NY 10036-3959 Dear Mr. Calame: Hello. And welcome to your new job as the Public Editor (or ombudsman) of the New York Times.--- Almost 40 years at The Wall Street Journ...
Peterson: The Nation's Powerful Nightmares
Blog Post, June, 08 2005
David Peterson
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When it comes to the game of respectability, how to play it, and how best to win it, I've always been impressed by the deftness of Nation-Left types. With one significant counter-instance over the years---beginning, let us say, with the instaur...
Peterson: Unde Malum?
Blog Post, June, 05 2005
David Peterson
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With the May 20 death of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur, age 92, at his home in France, Saturday's Chicago Tribune finally ran an obituary on the man and his work (Antonio Olivo, June 4). Which was to be expected, I guess: Because Ricoeur was a pro...
Peterson: Damage Control at Camp X-Ray
Blog Post, June, 04 2005
David Peterson
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Even taking at face value Friday's package of News Releases from U.S. Southern Command's (Florida) Joint Task Force investigation into allegations of abuse of the Koran (or Qur'an, as Newsweek spells it) at the American-run Guantanamo Bay prisoner...
Peterson: "Deep Throat"
Blog Post, June, 03 2005
David Peterson
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As the crazy world of American politics turns, it turns out that it was President Ronald Reagan who, with his signature on March 26, 1981, granted a "full and unconditional pardon" to the former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigati...
Peterson: The Tyrant in Chief
Blog Post, May, 25 2005
David Peterson
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Congress voted recently to adopt the $82 billion Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief Act to help cover the costs of these three perversely linked items during the current fiscal year (200...
Peterson: "Preserving Our Readers' Trust"?
Blog Post, May, 24 2005
David Peterson
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According to the brief statement that used to accompany Daniel Okrent's byline at the New York Times, the Times's now-former Public Editor (or ombudsman, watchdog---the "first person charged with publicly evaluating, criticizing and otherwise comm...
Peterson: "...interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur'an down a toilet..."
Blog Post, May, 19 2005
David Peterson
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Given everything we know about the American Government's radical innovations in the theory and practice of the detention (not to mention the "extraordinary rendition"), the maltreatment, and the torture of the foreign nationals held in its custody...
Peterson: Something About Yale's David R. Graeber
Blog Post, May, 18 2005
David Peterson
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In a recent interview with the embattled---and on the verge of becoming a former---Yale University Assistant Professor of Anthrolopogy David Graeber, Joshua Frank reported that in early May, "Prof. Graeber was informed that his teaching contract a...
Peterson: A Conspiracy So Immense II
Blog Post, May, 18 2005
David Peterson
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Following his appearance this morning before the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the British Respect Party's George Galloway was interviewed on the Cable News Network. CNN, incidentally, also televised parts of Galloway'...
Peterson: XXX
Blog Post, May, 16 2005
David Peterson
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This blog is a mistake. Sorry about that. Honestly, I never meant to post it.---Though since some of you already have begun to contribute comments to it, the blog will remain. Mistake or not. Sunday evening, I was working on an idea for a blo...
Peterson: A Conspiracy So Immense I
Blog Post, May, 14 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Among the legacies of that slice of American history known as the McCarthy Era---mistakenly known as, I should add, because although the Wisconsin Senator after whom the "era" takes its name has long since departed from the political stage, the us...
Peterson: In the Penal Colony
Blog Post, May, 05 2005
David Peterson
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I see that they picked up this wonderful story all the way down in Australia. "Sexual predators tracked by satellite," was how the News.com.au service put it (May 3), picking up something that originated with Reuters in Florida's capital city of ...
Peterson: The Blair Era
Blog Post, April, 30 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
One of the more deliciously ironic passages in Lord Peter Goldsmith's formerly "secret" findings on the "Possible legal bases for the use of force" (March 7, 2003) occurs right off the bat, in paragraphs 2 and 3: 2. As I have previously advised,...
Peterson: "As Far As Feasible"
Blog Post, April, 29 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
Without much ado this past week, Washington closed the lid on its last remaining formal inquiry into one of the greatest lies in American history. At some moment on April 25, the CIA posted several Addendums to last fall's speculative epic by t...
Peterson: Gestapo Journalism
Blog Post, April, 24 2005
David Peterson
Peterson's ZSpace page
The front page of the print edition of Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times reads: SEX OFFENDERS GET 'DUMPED' IN ILLINOIS NURSING HOMES "Half of these ex-cons are age 50 and under," the headline continues. "PART ONE OF A SUN-TIMES INVESTIGATION has ...
Peterson: Neither Man Nor Angel
Blog Post, April, 20 2005
David Peterson
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From an observer's perch high above Saint Peter's Square in Rome, Richard John Neuhaus, the Editor-in-Chief of the "conservative" (to put it politely) American journal of homo religiosus, First Things, instructs us that ("Rome Diary, April 21"), "...
Peterson: UN Commission on Human Rights
Blog Post, April, 18 2005
David Peterson
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The 61th session of the UN Human Rights Commission is winding down to its completion in Geneva this week. Or should I have written that the Commission is ratcheting up towards its grand finale? Because with two powerful movers and shakers in the...
Peterson: Sex, Scatter/Gather I/O Servers, and ZNet
Blog Post, April, 17 2005
David Peterson
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This morning's Guardian tells the story of three MIT computer grad students who used a software program of their own design to generate a fake research paper, loaded with titillating, appropriately academic-sounding jargon such as "scatter/gather"...
Peterson: Warrior for Peace?
Blog Post, April, 07 2005
David Peterson
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According to a post to Michel Collon's website, the fearless founder of Medecins du monde Bernard Kouchner's 2004 book Les guerriers de la paix ("Warriors for Peace"---Grasset) recounts the following exchange between Kouchner and the former presid...
