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Peterson: The Nuclear-Weapon State of Israel
Blog Post, April, 05 2005
David Peterson
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Every five years, the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons hold a formal and extensive review of the Treaty's successes and failures since the last formal Review, all with an eye toward identifying the Treaty's ...
Peterson: Jesus Cristo Libertador?
Blog Post, April, 05 2005
David Peterson
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Have been wondering how best to express the actual place of the Church in the Modern World---a phrase by which one means the Catholic Church, of course, but also its celebrated proclamations of some three and four decades ago, and, most important,...
Peterson: "Intelligence" and the Invasion of Iraq
Blog Post, April, 01 2005
David Peterson
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Thursday's release of the Report to the President of the United States, the latest official re-assessment of the state of pre-war "intelligence" behind the claims that the former regime in Baghdad possessed various nuclear, biological, and chemica...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" Interruptus
Blog Post, March, 31 2005
David Peterson
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What the very existence of the Second Interim Report of the Volcker Committee's Inquiry into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program, with its obsessive focus on the conduct of two men, the UN Secretary-General and his son, and their roles in the ...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" VII
Blog Post, March, 29 2005
David Peterson
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That the Secretary-General's In Larger Freedom document could have broached one of the crucial topics that it does, under III.E, "Use of force," namely, the need for a Security Council resolution to establish binding principles that cover "when an...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" VI
Blog Post, March, 26 2005
David Peterson
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If the New York Times understood anything about the Secretary-General's In Larger Freedom document, surely it was this: The document's proposed definition of terrorism would in fact "redefine terrorism," the Times noted, and redefine terrorism so ...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" V
Blog Post, March, 25 2005
David Peterson
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A little more than halfway through his In Larger Freedom document, in a section bearing the curious title, "Rule of Law" (pars. 133-139), the Secretary-General writes: 134. Nowhere is the gap between rhetoric and reality — between declarations ...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" IV
Blog Post, March, 22 2005
David Peterson
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In the 24 hours since the Secretary-General delivered his In Larger Freedom document to the UN General Assembly in New York---or the 48 hours since the document was first posted online to the UN's website---or the 72 hours since the Los Angeles Ti...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" III
Blog Post, March, 21 2005
David Peterson
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Last fall, as he suffered withering attacks from segments of the American and British media, and the U.S. Congress, Kofi Annan began holding--or being invited to attend---discreet meetings with a coven of "foreign policy experts" around New York C...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" II
Blog Post, March, 21 2005
David Peterson
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So: It appears that the UN Secretary-General's newly minted report, In Larger Freedom: Towards Security, Development and Human Rights for All, isn't all that serious about reforming the Security Council. I say this, because the Annan Report (pars...
Peterson: "In Larger Freedom" I
Blog Post, March, 20 2005
David Peterson
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According to the Report delivered last December by the UN Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, any changes in the composition of the Security Council, the one organ with the "primary responsibility...for the main...
Peterson: Three Questions
Blog Post, March, 17 2005
David Peterson
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First Question: If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make a sound? Second Question: If the American actor and Academy Award-nominated star of the film Hotel Rwanda, Don Cheadle, is "invited to joi...
Peterson: "The Secret Genocide Archive"
Blog Post, March, 16 2005
David Peterson
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I happened to miss Nicholas Kristof's "The Secret Genocide Archive" when first published on the Op-Ed page of the February 23 New York Times. Though by all accounts, it made for quite an exhibit: Kirstof's commentary on the "victims of our indiff...
Peterson: Nukes and the Americans
Blog Post, March, 15 2005
David Peterson
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One no doubt could tally the number of draft and final resolutions that wind their way in and out of the UN General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security every session---the current being the 59th. But there sure ha...
Peterson: When America Kills....II
Blog Post, March, 14 2005
David Peterson
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To repeat a question that I asked last month (Feb. 26): Why do you suppose the American and British governments pay so little attention to how many Iraqis they are killing? Readers will have to forgive me for speaking so frankly. But the questio...
Peterson: Hail, Mary
Blog Post, March, 13 2005
David Peterson
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Recalling the long career of the late evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, who died in early February at the age of 100, after spending more than six decades as an intellectual leader in his field, a former colleague of Mayr's writes (March 13): ...
Peterson: Social Contracts, American-Style III
Blog Post, March, 12 2005
David Peterson
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Right-wing attacks on the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds (a.k.a. Social Security) I can live with. They fool nobody. Nobody who's honest, anyway. (Not a trivial qualification.) Ultimately, they are...
Peterson: Social Contracts, American Style II
Blog Post, March, 12 2005
David Peterson
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Man. Is the class-warfare dragon in the States fanning its wings these days. Or what? Not only does it feed off the Bunko Artist-in-Chief's proposal to “reform” the Social Security system---potentially the single greatest financial scam in Amer...
Peterson: Social Contracts, American-Style I
Blog Post, March, 11 2005
David Peterson
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The last time I looked at the phenomenon of bankruptcy in the States---and, yes, it appears that Americans lead the world in this category too, inasmuch as comparitive date are available---as they do in public indebtedness, private indebetedness, ...
Peterson: A "Cedar Revolution" II
Blog Post, March, 10 2005
David Peterson
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The "Arab World" keeps turning up lately. So much so, in fact, that it sometimes seems as if the English-language media have caught an "Arab World" cold, and can't stop blowing their collective nose. Of course, I won't speak for you. But I for ...
Peterson: Manufacturing Public Opinion
Blog Post, March, 07 2005
David Peterson
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Last July, the highly respected Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland reported that slightly more than one-in-two Americans (56%) believed that “genocide” either had or was in the process of occurring in the Darfu...
Peterson: Iran V
Blog Post, March, 06 2005
David Peterson
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Anyone care to take a stab at the reasons why the "international community" would expect Iran to permanently forgo all uranium-enrichment activities, and why this morning's New York Times expressed shock over the fact that "Iran says it won't"? S...
Peterson: Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino
Blog Post, March, 05 2005
David Peterson
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According to the CIA World Factbook 2004, among the slightly more than 11 million people who live on the island of Cuba (exclusive of the Guantanamo Bay population, that is), "nominally 85% [of them were] Roman Catholic prior to Castro assuming po...
Peterson: "The Case for the Draft"
Blog Post, March, 04 2005
David Peterson
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The March 2005 issue of the Washington Monthly has just published a lengthy article titled, "The Case for the Draft." Co-authored by Phillip Carter and Paul Glastris, the article's revealing subtitle reads: America can remain the world's super...
Peterson: A "Cedar Revolution" I
Blog Post, March, 03 2005
David Peterson
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"We find ourselves in an era of monumental advancement for human rights and democracy," Paula Dobriansky, the American Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, said on Monday. She was releasing the State Department's annual Country Reports on...
Peterson: Iran IV
Blog Post, March, 02 2005
David Peterson
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An "alarming number of unresolved questions about Iran's nuclear program," Jackie Sanders, the American ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned at the IAEA's Board meeting in Vienna today. The Agence France Presse report from...
Peterson: Many Little Eichmanns
Blog Post, March, 01 2005
David Peterson
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A U.S. District Court in New York City today heard the opening arguments in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 27 Vietnamese victims of one category of chemical weapons stemming from the American war over their country four decades ago: Ope...
Peterson: Iran III
Blog Post, February, 28 2005
David Peterson
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Judging by official statements to have come from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, so far this year, the most important steps the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty can take to reduce the risks ass...
Peterson: When America Kills.... I
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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Nearly one month ago, The Chronicle of Higher Education examined the reasons why the number of Iraqis killed at the hands of their American liberators has failed to make a dent in the English-language media's coverage of the war and occupation. A...
Peterson: Iran II
Blog Post, February, 26 2005
David Peterson
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See also Iran I. [Continued from Iran I. The capacity this blog will hold forced me to paste the second-half here.] The same challenge still applies, however. You take a look at the material I've archived in these two blogs. Then, you...
