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Commentary Landau: News From Raul; Same Old From Us Immigration

Commentary, October, 09 2009 Saul Landau
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On September 20, President Raul Castro dropped in unannounced to see a family member who had invited me and other American friends to visit. Dressed in a white guayavera shirt and neatly pressed beige trousers, his black shoes highly polished, Rau...

Commentary Landau: Covert memories from Miami

Commentary, September, 29 2009 Saul Landau
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In Miami, several retired U.S. officials remembered the early 1960s, when the CIA sent hundreds of employees to join other government bureaucrats to process and recruit thousands of Cuban exiles to destroy the Cuban revolution. Assassination plans...

Commentary Landau: Watergate And Modern Scandals

Commentary, September, 12 2009 Saul Landau
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By 2012, college professors will stare into the glazed eyes of their students as they refer to non existent weapons of mass destruction and routine torture of suspected terrorists. Like the Vietnam War (estimated 4 million Vietnamese and 55,000 pl...

Commentary Landau: Moby Dick And Asian Typhoons

Commentary, August, 31 2009 Saul Landau
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During early and mid August typhoon Morakot killed unknown numbers of Chinese, Taiwanese and Filipinos, dislocating millions, provoking landslides and hampering rescue efforts. The rising waters destroyed homes, public buildings and bridges; burie...

Commentary Landau: The Nuclear Gang Rides Again

Commentary, August, 24 2009 Saul Landau
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A group of scientists, military officials and government bureaucrats signed an informal pact with the Devil. The contract became public in August 1945, when US bombers nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Commentary Landau: "The Kidney Broker And The Money Laundering Rabbis

Commentary, August, 09 2009 Saul Landau
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I thought of Cousin Harry when I read about the July 21 bust of five New York and New Jersey orthodox rabbis along with scores of New Jersey officials. Like the clean shaven, dapper and secular Harry, these long bearded and black garbed religious ...

Commentary Landau: The Egyptian River Flows Through Washington

Commentary, July, 31 2009 Saul Landau
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During mid July, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s qualifications for the Supreme Court. The Solon’s oratory focused on themes of some fictional world, not one threatened by global warming and diving econo...

Znet Article Landau: Th Amazon 2009

Znet Article, July, 19 2009 Saul Landau
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From May 2000 to August 2005, Brazil lost more Amazon land to “development” than all of Greece. Since 1971, corporate ranchers and agribusiness cleared tens of thousands of acres for grazing, lumber and mining interests. During that period, B...

Commentary Landau: No Bernie Madoff For The Most Vulnerable To Blame

Commentary, July, 18 2009 Saul Landau
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Amidst interminable "reporting" on the "poor" victims of Ponzi maven Bernie Madoff - would anyone care if people had blown $65 billion trying to get richer in Las Vegas? - an alarming July 5 NY Times headline informs: "Safety Net Is Fraying for th...

Znet Article Landau: Cuban Five 5/5: Gerardo Hernandez Speaks

Znet Article, May, 17 2009 Saul Landau
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Final part of interview with Gerardo Hernandez

Znet Article Landau: "One small detail about Miami: there are many good people as well'

Znet Article, May, 16 2009 Saul Landau
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Gerardo Hernandez interviewed by Saul Landau

Znet Article Landau: Cuba's biggest “crime”: its desire to be a sovereign and independent nation

Znet Article, May, 14 2009 Saul Landau
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Telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez from the U.S. prison (Part III)

Znet Article Landau: Cuban Five 2/4: Telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez from the U.S. prison (Part II)

Znet Article, May, 01 2009 Saul Landau
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Telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez from the U.S. prison (Part II)

Znet Article Landau: Cuban Five 1/4

Znet Article, April, 30 2009 Saul Landau
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A telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez -- Part 1

Commentary Landau: Iraqi dead join us optimists to extol success of surge

Commentary, April, 21 2009 Saul Landau
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Instead of focusing attention on the devastation caused by an unjust, imperial war, the US media deliberate on the success of 'surge' and cheer for the troops.

Commentary Landau: Biden And Nixon: A Tale Of Two Latin American Experiences

Commentary, April, 14 2009 Saul Landau
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On March 27, Vice President Joe Biden began a three-day tour to Latin America to attend a high level consultation session for the Summit of the Americas, scheduled for mid-April in Trinidad and Tobago. He met in Chile with President Michelle Bache...

Commentary Landau: Sliding Down In Anger

Commentary, March, 27 2009 Saul Landau
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While the arcane Washington budget processes each Senator and Member trying to grab something for his or her district or State -- unfold, the poor should start to worry. They have already lost or about to be lose homes, jobs and health care. The p...

Commentary Landau: The State That Tolerates No Criticism: How Israel Gives Jews a Bad Name

Commentary, March, 17 2009 Saul Landau
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Most Jews I know get little pleasure from the existence of Israel; just the opposite. They feel disgusted by the behavior of their tribal kin toward Palestinians. This antipathy doesn’t concern Israel’s right to exist, a phony argument still m...

Commentary Landau: Capitalism has failed: Face the facts

Commentary, March, 15 2009 Saul Landau
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When the Soviet Union and its state socialism collapsed, the promoters of capitalism kvelled. But ten years later, in the early Bush years, ENRON, a super giant corporation got caught cooking its books to disguise the real state of its operations....

Commentary Landau: The Crisis Unseen

Commentary, March, 03 2009 Saul Landau
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After the November election, liberal Democrats began to scream for rapid bailouts and threw money at bankers who then shocked the lawmakers by behaving like bankers. They took the taxpayers' money and spent it on themselves. "Let me tell you about...

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