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Landau: The Wrestler: An American Tragedy
Commentary, February, 17 2009
Saul Landau
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As a kid, I watched the Super Swedish Angel, Gorgeous George, and Primo Carnera (former boxer), wrestle on a small black and white TV screen. I would scream from my living room at the TV because the ref always looked elsewhere when the villain del...
Landau: Terrorists, freedom fighters, or schlemiels? You pick
Commentary, February, 11 2009
Saul Landau
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On January 21, President Obama telephoned the King of Jordan, the Prime Minister of Israel, the President of Egypt and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority, before dispatching former Senator George Mitchell to spearhead p...
Landau: Reason for War?
Commentary, February, 02 2009
Saul Landau
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On January 18, Israel and Hamas agreed to a weeklong cease-fire. Prime Minister Olmert declared Israel had achieved its objectives. "Hamas was hit hard, in its military arms and in its government institutions. Its leaders are in hiding and many of...
Landau: An Obama Nightmare
Commentary, January, 22 2009
Saul Landau
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My wish for Obama's New Year's resolutions: Lose the empire! Stop giving military aid and special treatment to Israel; demand Israel behave responsibly under international laws; get out of Iraq and Afghanistan -- quickly.
Landau: Roger (Cohen) and Me
Commentary, December, 29 2008
Saul Landau
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As the prosperous, ethical and super-duper powerful United States erodes, The New York Times Magazine editors decided to feature, on its December 2 cover, the demise of Cuba's socialist society.
Landau: Then and now, Venezuela and Cuba
Commentary, December, 21 2008
Saul Landau
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Watching Hugo Chavez orate on Venezuelan television rings old memory bells. "Socialism. Revolution, Patria." Words I heard in 1960-61 in Cuba.
Landau: Postcard from Venezuela
Commentary, December, 17 2008
Saul Landau
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Anti-Chavez sentiment, which inspired a failed military coup in 2002, has grown smarter. Newly elected opposition governor Capriles Radonsky participated in that coup, but now he has pledged to work with Chavez's government to confront national pr...
Landau: Requiem for a Scandal
Commentary, December, 08 2008
Saul Landau
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U.S. scandals arose centuries ago, often deriving from imperial adventures that involved breaking laws and lying or covering up. Each one dramatizes the conflict between the values of a democratic republic and an autocratic empire, between pious C...
Landau: Old Axioms Unsuitable For New Needs
Commentary, November, 30 2008
Saul Landau
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The time for Obama and his "change" phrases will soon get tested. As candidate, he wisely refrained from spelling out the specifics of policies the country needed or what he actually planned to do about failed foreign policy and a badly wounded ec...
Landau: Old Axioms Unsuitable For New Needs
Commentary, November, 24 2008
Saul Landau
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The time for Obama and his "change" phrases will soon get tested. As candidate, he wisely refrained from spelling out the specifics of policies the country needed or what he actually planned to do about failed foreign policy and a badly wounded ec...
Landau: Response to poverty and empire: Denial
Commentary, November, 17 2008
Saul Landau
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In the 1970s, Martin Agronsky, a weekend talk show host in Washington, finally invited the venerable I.F. (Izzy) Stone to join the establishment "pundits." From the early 1950s through the early 1970s, Izzy had raised the basic issues to a readers...
Landau: The New President Faces Economic Disaster
Commentary, November, 06 2008
Saul Landau
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President Obama will inherit the financial meltdown that has begun to reach beyond the "developed" countries and into Russia, Korea and Brazil. As he makes plans to reissue New Deal measures to get people back to work and reinforce the crumbling i...
Landau: Whining About Winning In Iraq
Commentary, November, 02 2008
Saul Landau
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On infrequent news reports from Iraq I occasionally recognize a place I filmed. In late September 2002, I saw Baghdad, Kerbalah, Najaf, Hamidayah and other Iraqi cities through the camera lens. Saddam Hussein had just announced he would allow UN w...
Landau: Myth: Guns And Butter Forever And Lower Taxes
Commentary, October, 27 2008
Saul Landau
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We all learned - again -Truth occupies a unique space in American politics: the taboo corner. I don't refer to John McCain's "always putting my country first," or his pious eschewing of special interests; or Barack Obama's solemn oath to escalate ...
Landau: "Denial" -The Fall Election Musical Comedy
Commentary, October, 20 2008
Saul Landau
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Historians will write of the 2008 election campaign as a bizarre comedy in which audiences watched the United States morph from the top of its imperial trajectory into the sick joke of the early 21st Century. It stars not just the cancerous -- in ...
Landau: The ab-surge-ity of it all
Commentary, October, 11 2008
Saul Landau
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We know Bush started the war in Iraq on impulse. It only took a year or so for the impulse to realize itself. But why have major political figures and mass media continue to accept the nuttiness of this bloody gag and report that the president and...
Landau: A "private" letter to President George Bush on Cuba and U.S. policy
Commentary, September, 20 2008
Saul Landau
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I wanted to review your accomplishments and thank you for your persistence in helping our Cuban revolutionary regime. Specifically, you provided needed aid that helped us improve the economy, boost our trade relations and make our succession a pea...
Landau: Real Gold Winners: Coke, Mcdonald's, Kfc
Commentary, September, 16 2008
Saul Landau
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In 776BC, the Greeks first allegedly celebrated physical beauty alongside skill, courage, strength and will. The ethical character of their naked athletes would honor Zeus, top Dog in the pantheon of Gods. Slaves did not qualify, of course, but Gr...
Landau: The Georgian Dogs Of August - Or Shmucks Of Our Time
Commentary, August, 28 2008
Saul Landau
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Stupid leaders interpret words to satisfy their political desires. They miss vital nuances in dangerous international relations. On August 7, Mikheil Saakashvili ordered Georgia's armed forces to invade South Ossetia, a secessionist province borde...
Landau: Cuba's Reforms
Commentary, August, 15 2008
Saul Landau
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Cuban leaders have begun a reform process - combining certain ministries, opening up more farming possibilities and decentralizing certain functions. They have not given clear signals as to what model will emerge. The government appears determined...
