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Znet Article Landau: The Iraq Ploy And Resemblances To The Start Of The Cold War

Znet Article, November, 26 2002 Saul Landau
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“If you’re going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein, you have to go to Baghdad...

Commentary Landau: In The United States The Source Of Terror

Commentary, November, 20 2002 Saul Landau
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ÒWherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be AmericaÕs heart, her benedictions and her prayers. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroyÉby once enlisting under other banners of fo...

Commentary Landau: A Baghdad Diary

Commentary, November, 06 2002 Saul Landau
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We share the one hour Gulf Falcon Air 747 flight from Damascus to Bagdad. With dozens of Iranian women pilgrims who used knife sharpened elbows to get first in line through Syrian immigration and then onto the plane. ÒSaddam Hussein would be bette...

Commentary Landau: Progress Equals More Freeways And Lower Taxes For The Rich

Commentary, October, 19 2002 Saul Landau
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We have survived the first anniversary of 9/11 without suffering another massive attack. From the White House the message rings loud and clear: "We live in the best of all possible worlds. We come closest to representing what God had in mind when ...

Commentary Landau: Report On The Juarez Maquilas: The Environment

Commentary, August, 09 2002 Saul Landau
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After spending a period of weeks investigating labor and environmental conditions on the US-Mexico border, I have concluded that the production system used to inundate us with commodities Ð ÒglobalizationÓ Ð lacks a human brain, but has an excelle...

Commentary Landau: A Post Card From The Enigmatic Island

Commentary, June, 26 2002 Saul Landau
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A two-hour drive from the noxious fumes of Havana takes us to Vinales, in Pinar del Rio, CubaÕs western province. Fidel Castro has ordered all nooks and crannies of the city sprayed so as to eliminate the dreaded Aedis Egipsis, the mosquito that h...

Commentary Landau: Harboring Terrorists: Our Own List Is Long

Commentary, June, 15 2002 Saul Landau
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As our leaders warn countries that harbor terrorists, who will warn our leaders about harboring terrorists here?

Commentary Landau: World News In Shotgun Pellets From The Media

Commentary, May, 19 2002 Saul Landau
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Did the extra cup of coffee or the TV news cause my anxiety? Or should I attribute my uneasiness to the news headlines blaring over my car radio as I brake to a stop on a ten lane Los Angeles freeway? The media will report on any "news" that might...

Znet Article Landau: The Enron System Works-Well,For Some People

Znet Article, March, 13 2002 Saul Landau
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The Enron System Works-Well,For Some People

Znet Article Landau: I Don't Got To Show You No Stinkin Reasons

Znet Article, March, 11 2002 Saul Landau
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Gore Vidal, the great novelist and political critic, asked me how I liked living under the dictatorship. I laughed, but I felt a chill. We've now experienced six months of life under unusual circumstances and it's time that citizens did some serio...

Commentary Landau: Otto ReichÕs Appointment

Commentary, February, 23 2002 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush has appointed 56 year old Otto Reich, a Cuban born right-wing Republican, to direct Inter American affairs at the State Department. For Washington insiders this illustrates two axioms of current political behavior.

Commentary Landau: Otto Reich’s Appointment

Commentary, February, 23 2002 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush has appointed 56 year old Otto Reich, a Cuban born right-wing Republican, to direct Inter American affairs at the State Department. For Washington insiders this illustrates two axioms of current political behavior.

Commentary Landau: Vicente Fox Merits The Flat Tire Of The Year Award

Commentary, February, 11 2002 Saul Landau
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Last year the first freely elected President of Mexico promised his voters substantial economic growth through his free market plans, a rapid settlement of the Chiapas mess and a campaign to wipe out human rights abuse and corruption. Despite my s...

Commentary Landau: Chilean Socialists Use Ultra Lite Model

Commentary, January, 01 2002 Saul Landau
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I left Chile in late November, just as the political parties prepared for their December congressional elections. Campaign posters hung from electric wires, clung to walls and glowed as bumper strips on cars. But the human excitement was absent.

Commentary Landau: The Logic Of Our Time

Commentary, December, 10 2001 Saul Landau
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Since September 11, our officials have offered a strange brand of logic to the apparently accepting American public. Let me analyze the meaning of the new axioms and twists in bureaucratic discourse.

Commentary Landau: Fast trick on fast track

Commentary, October, 25 2001 Saul Landau
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While Congress remains in its bipartisan spasm, Bush Administration fast talkers try to pass fast track on free trade by placing it into their national unity package. Fast track gives the President power to negotiate broad trade agreements like NA...

Commentary Landau: MURDER CHARGES AGAINST CASTRO?

Commentary, August, 31 2001 Saul Landau
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The June 8 conviction of a small group of Cuban spies in south Florida holds ominous news on the US-Cuba front. The South Florida US Attorney Guy Lewis hinted that he might indict Fidel Castro by stating that the conviction of spymaster Gerardo He...

Commentary Landau: BEHIND THE VIOLENCE IN JAMAICA

Commentary, July, 26 2001 Saul Landau
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In early July, Jamaica made headlines. Before the repressive forces had restored "order" more than 25 people lay dead. Some had been shot in the back of the head, others at close range. One witness reported that he heard pleas for mercy from insid...

Commentary Landau: TRANSPORTATION CRISIS?

Commentary, June, 27 2001 Saul Landau
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We live in the best of all possible worlds. Indeed, we export our way of life zealously to those who havenÕt yet tasted its rewards, especially to residents of China, India and Brazil, the big markets as we now know them. When systemic problems ar...

Commentary Landau: Bay of Pigs Lessons

Commentary, April, 15 2001 Saul Landau
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What have we learned from what historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr dubbed "the perfect failure?" Schlesinger, who served as a high level adviser to president John F. Kennedy, opposed the CIA backed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by a brigade of anti C...

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