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Glover: Visiting Gerardo
Commentary, August, 24 2010
Danny Glover
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From the Ontario California airport some 60 miles east of downtown Los Angeles we drove north on Highway 15, the road to Las Vegas. Cars with expectant amateur gamblers and loaded big rigs climb and descend the mountains where the Angeles and San ...
Landau: The Alan Gross Case
Commentary, August, 02 2010
Saul Landau
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Someone, perhaps the protagonist himself, made a mistake -- perhaps an “oversight,” as Washington bureaucrats label their errors. Alan Gross, on a mission for his company (DAI) working for US AID (United States Agency for International Development...
Landau: The Rhetoric-Reality Gulf
Commentary, July, 19 2010
Saul Landau
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To Hell with war, I told myself on July 4, as the people of Alameda, California (my town) celebrated the onset of the war for freedom and independence by forgetting war: a parade, backyard BBQs, booze and fireworks.
Landau: A Tale Of Two Extraditions
Commentary, July, 06 2010
Saul Landau
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The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the request.
Landau: Israel Again Gives Jews A Bad Name
Commentary, June, 23 2010
Saul Landau
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After Israeli commandos murdered nine people and wounded scores of others in international waters, I concluded that Israel continues to give Jews a bad name. The US government and media, in their effort to kiss the Israeli lobby’s ass, contributed...
Landau: The New Right History
Znet Article, June, 14 2010
Saul Landau
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The Texas State Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum to reflect American History as it should have happened. Board member Cynthia Dunbar (R) elucidated the core of the Board’s premise: America was and should be “a Christian ...
Landau: Another Far Right Outing
Commentary, May, 31 2010
Saul Landau
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I laughed when 61 year old Reverend Baptist minister George Alan Rekers got outed after his most excellent European vacation with a 20 year Rentboy.com. “Anti-Gay Activist Cavorts With Male Hooker,” the headline might have read.
Landau: GM’s Shell Game
Commentary, May, 17 2010
Saul Landau
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On April 21, the Wall Street Journal published an op ed by Ed Whitacre, CEO of General Motors, claiming GM had paid back the money it had borrowed from the government -- plus interest. GM ads boasted of their rapid repayment of the company’s TARP ...
Landau: Dan Ellsberg: Most Dangerous Man In The World
Commentary, April, 12 2010
Saul Landau
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In 2005, teaching a history class to university juniors and seniors, I mentioned the Vietnam War. I noticed glazed looks in the eyes of several students. I asked a young woman born about a decade after that war had ended: “You know when the Vietna...
Landau: The Pentagon's appetite is killing us
Commentary, March, 05 2010
Saul Landau
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During pre game Super Bowl ceremonies Queen Latifah sang America the Beautiful. Following her, American Idol winner Carrie Underwood began warbling the Star Spangled Banner. Four jet fighters swished over the stadium. Did any of the cheering crowd...
Landau: Defense Elephant in America's Living Room
Commentary, March, 01 2010
Saul Landau
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History quiz: Name the greatest robbery committed in the last 100 years...
Landau: The Hottest Decade
Commentary, February, 19 2010
Saul Landau
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Global temperatures varied because of changes in ocean heating and cooling cycles. `When we average temperature over 5 or 10 years to minimize that variability,' said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one...
Landau: Universal Disorientation: Reading Newspapers, Watching TV and Listening to Radio
Commentary, February, 03 2010
Saul Landau
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Look at the front page of the New York Times (Jan 17)... and you'd swear that chaos and violence are running rampant in Haiti, that everyone from journalists to relief workers must be risking their necks just to venture out into the streets... The...
Landau: Magical Realism -- A coup in Honduras, so 20th Century!
Commentary, January, 22 2010
Saul Landau
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For U.S. magical realists, a coup becomes a coup after Washington defines it as such. On March 10, 1952, Cuban General Fulgencio Batista grabbed power and sought to legitimize his coup by holding fake elections. Magically, the coup makers won; Was...
Landau: Naked Empire
Commentary, January, 13 2010
Saul Landau
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The Senate passed a $626 billion "defense" budget without discussion. Since 1947, when the War Department became the Defense Department, Congress has allocated trillions of dollars, but all for offense and with dubious results: Korea (1950-53), Vi...
Landau: Almost One Year: Assessment
Commentary, December, 20 2009
Saul Landau
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After eleven months in office, Barack Obama has hardly revolutionized – or even altered – the major dysfunction that confronts our system. A man of obviously good values – read his books and speeches – he has yet to show convictions. He ha...
Landau: A Serious Man -What A Laugh!
Commentary, November, 14 2009
Saul Landau
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Over decades of movie addiction, I know after depositing my fee for entrance, somewhere between the candy counter and the seat, I lose my critical sensibilities by putting on a pair of invisible (virtual) glasses, instruments of optical delusion t...
Landau: The Embargo: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Commentary, November, 02 2009
Saul Landau
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The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to end the US Economic, Financial and Commercial Embargo of Cuba. The Cubans claim the embargo cost them over $242 million in 2008 alone. The embargo, Cuba claims, makes foreign capital unavailable bec...
Landau: Fidel
Commentary, October, 26 2009
Saul Landau
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After Fidel Castro's abdominal surgery in the summer of 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Cubans in Bush's name: "You must know that you have no greater friend than the United States of America." This great pal showed amity by not ...
Landau: My Resoc Interview
Blog Post, October, 21 2009
Saul Landau
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Saul Landau's Resoc Interview
