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Commentary Landau: Really Bad Trade News Obscured By Distractingly Bad News On Other Fronts

Commentary, June, 18 2004 Saul Landau
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"The poor and the marginalized are most commonly denied justice and would benefit most from the fair application of the rule of law and human rights. Yet despite the increasing discourse on the indivisibility of human rights, in reality economic, ...

Znet Article Landau: Torture's Logic

Znet Article, May, 13 2004 Saul Landau
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Most US citizens don’t reflect on the reasons for anti-American sentiment throughout much of the world. But policy makers once focused precisely on this theme. In 1947, George Kennan, who headed policy planning for the State Department, as...

Commentary Landau: The Empire In Denial And The Denial Of Empire

Commentary, May, 03 2004 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush, for all the jokes about his intellectual challenges, has established an unsurpassed level of imperial denial, while he blithely rejects notions that he runs an empire that has run into considerable trouble. Indeed, except for the c...

Commentary Landau: An Irresponsible Accountability Act

Commentary, April, 12 2004 Saul Landau
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The United States has made a terrible error in its Middle East policy. On December 12, 2003, with little fanfare, George W. Bush signed the Syria Accountability (and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration) Act SAA -- which empowers the president to plac...

Commentary Landau: Will the filthy rich dump Bush?

Commentary, March, 28 2004 Saul Landau
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ÒLet me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, ...

Znet Article Landau: Haiti Redux

Znet Article, February, 26 2004 Saul Landau
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One of my students asked me about the current unrest in Haiti. “Reading the news accounts,” she offered, “I can’t figure out who stands for what. And what role is US policy playing in the ongoing events?” ...

Commentary Landau: Fog Of War Ð Vietnam And Iraq

Commentary, February, 12 2004 Saul Landau
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American leaders donÕt easily learn lessons from the past. Before choosing war in Iraq, the Bush leadership might profitably have consulted former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara 1995 memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam ...

Commentary Landau: Fog Of War – Vietnam And Iraq

Commentary, February, 12 2004 Saul Landau
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American leaders don’t easily learn lessons from the past. Before choosing war in Iraq, the Bush leadership might profitably have consulted former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara 1995 memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of ...

Commentary Landau: Substitute BushÕs Faith for Preparation H

Commentary, January, 23 2004 Saul Landau
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Happy New Year! 2004 may become known as the year that the newly created Department of Faith-Based Homeland Anxiety helped George W. Bush slip back into the White House.

Commentary Landau: Substitute Bush’s Faith for Preparation H

Commentary, January, 23 2004 Saul Landau
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Happy New Year! 2004 may become known as the year that the newly created Department of Faith-Based Homeland Anxiety helped George W. Bush slip back into the White House.

Commentary Landau: Bully goes to war Ð blames God

Commentary, January, 05 2004 Saul Landau
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ÒMissed you at Bible study.Ó

Commentary Landau: Bully goes to war – blames God

Commentary, January, 05 2004 Saul Landau
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“Missed you at Bible study.”

Commentary Landau: Bush Tries Farce As Cuba Policy

Commentary, January, 04 2004 Saul Landau
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"The United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague Latin America with misery in the name of liberty." ---Simon Bolivar

Commentary Landau: FTAA: Good For Big Us Corporations; Bad For The People

Commentary, December, 22 2003 Saul Landau
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As kids we swapped baseball cards, or sold them for money (10 cents). But today trade means something very different. Indeed, every child in the Americas should understand that those attending the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) meetin...

Znet Article Landau: FTAA

Znet Article, November, 25 2003 Saul Landau
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Kevin Danaher is a founding director of Global Exchange (www.globalexchange.org), an international human rights group based in San Francisco. His new book is "Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power," co-authored with Jason Mark (Routl...

Commentary Landau: Cui bono? The embargo as ideology for rip offs

Commentary, November, 23 2003 Saul Landau
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OPINION: "U.S. law forbids Americans to travel to Cuba for pleasure. That law is on the books and it must be enforced. We allow travel for limited reasons, including visit to a family, to bring humanitarian aid, or to conduct research. Those excep...

Znet Article Landau: FTAA

Znet Article, November, 20 2003 Saul Landau
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As kids we swapped baseball cards, or sold them for money (10 cents). But today trade means something very different. Indeed, every child in the Americas should understand that those attending the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) meetin...

Commentary Landau: Contradictions: Pumping Empire And Losing Job Muscles

Commentary, November, 15 2003 Saul Landau
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"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the names of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." George W. Bush at the Dedication Ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligenc...

Znet Article Landau: Words Of War From Warmakers And Warmongers

Znet Article, November, 13 2003 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush’s malapropism (the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar) no longer makes me laugh. On November 2, Iraqis fired a surface to air missile into a US helicopter, killing 15 and wounding 21 ser...

Commentary Landau: Rush To Judgment: Should Limbaugh Do Jail Time For His Addiction?

Commentary, November, 03 2003 Saul Landau
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Was Rush Limbaugh high when he said, "There's nothing good about drug useÉIt destroys individualsÉ familiesÉ societies, some might say this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugsÉAnd so if peop...

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