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Commentary Landau: The Revolution 55 Years After Moncada

Commentary, August, 06 2008 Saul Landau
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You can't build socialism in one country, chanted revolutionaries throughout much of Europe as the Bolsheviks took power in 1917. In four years, under Lenin's leadership, the audacious insurrection had extended to the far reaching corners of the T...

Commentary Landau: Obits for Opposites

Commentary, July, 28 2008 Saul Landau
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In 1977, James Abourezk (D-SD) had just returned from Cuba. He and his fellow South Dakota Solon, George McGovern, had sought to use basketball diplomacy. The University of South Dakota's team played Cuba's national team. President Carter had supp...

Commentary Landau: Truth In Comedy

Commentary, July, 26 2008 Saul Landau
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Have mainstream politicians grown so out of synch with the needs of the people that only comedians address the issues? Traditionally, the court jester dared shine a satiric light on imperial problems. In our society, standup comics and "The Daily ...

Commentary Landau: New Orleans -Almost 3 Years Later

Commentary, July, 20 2008 Saul Landau
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The French Quarter vibrates with sounds and smells of perpetual Spring Break. Was a film crew shooting the young men and women, drinks in hands, screaming "let's party." No. The celebrants were acting goofy on their own, as they routinely do in Ft...

Commentary Landau: Huckster And Tomsky (Marvin and Saul ) Discover More America

Commentary, July, 03 2008 Saul Landau
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Elvis was to rock and roll what Marilyn Monroe was to Hollywood movies, a great box office star, provoking teen-agers and, with Marilyn, the world's "sex kitten," even "mature" men. Like Elvis, she also failed to find contentment. At age 42, in 19...

Commentary Landau: Life and Commercial Death Near the Mississippi

Commentary, June, 22 2008 Saul Landau
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In June 2008, Tom and Huck (Saul and his friend Marin) return as two senior citizens not on a raft but in a rented car, driving from New Jersey south and then west through Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and into Illinois...

Commentary Landau: How We Got Into The Mess

Commentary, June, 02 2008 Saul Landau
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Bush made a sacrifice. He stopped playing golf, to symbolize his sympathy with the troops in Iraq. He did not, however, stop playing give video golf. For Bush to forgo other pleasures might require he start another war.

Znet Article Landau: The NATO Axiom: 2 + 2 = 5

Znet Article, May, 18 2008 Saul Landau
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One of many relevant questions the ABC moderators neglected to ask Hillary and Obama in the mid April televised debate: Why does NATO continue to exist after the Soviet Union collapsed? Indeed, the entire media accepts NATO as one of the several m...

Commentary Landau: Cuba Will Live

Commentary, May, 16 2008 Saul Landau
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At a May 2 dinner in Miami hundreds of Cuban exiles, the vast majority of them in the Viagra generation, feted Luis Posada Carriles. This homage to the man suspected of masterminding the bombing of a Cuban commercial airliner that blew up over Bar...

Commentary Landau: Crises At Home

Commentary, May, 11 2008 Saul Landau
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If you live in affluent neighborhoods you might have conditioned yourself to ignore the significant sector of US society that gets in your face by showing they're poor, suffering from disease and acute angst - if not worse.

Commentary Landau: How To Leave Iraq? Just Go

Commentary, April, 22 2008 Saul Landau
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Iraq-satiated Democrats face a formidable political challenge: If they win in November, can they extricate the country from Bush's illegal war, which apparently can't be won by US military forces and has drained material and psychic resources?

Commentary Landau: Dear Future Presidents Clinton and Obama (which one will be Vice President?)

Commentary, April, 07 2008 Saul Landau
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I request that as your first act in office you end the "War on Terror." Such action, I submit, would make most Americans feel more secure. Millions of us are sick of the word "terror," of feeling terrified. Terror means fear; fear precludes hope a...

Commentary Landau: From Cuba, Fidel Slew The Monroe Doctrine! From Washington, Viva The Monroe Doctrine!

Commentary, March, 25 2008 Saul Landau
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As very few celebrate the anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, most of the world recognizes Bush’s compulsion to mass violence as an act of pre-medieval arrogance and ignorance. Like Vietnam and Korea before it, the Iraq and Afghanistan experie...

Commentary Landau: Afghanistan -- The Next Disaster

Commentary, March, 02 2008 Saul Landau
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The overwhelming public sentiment against Iraq will turn to Afghanistan as casualty rates continue or accelerate.

Commentary Landau: Fidel: Father of Modern Cuba

Commentary, February, 24 2008 Saul Landau
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Cubans, even in Miami, will admit that Fidel Castro changed their lives. Their departure to the US is testimony to some of the failings of the Cuban revolution, but while Castro remains alive, he will use his agile mind to improve the Caribbean is...

Commentary Landau: Speech Found In Mailbox Of Supreme Underdog On Super Tuesday

Commentary, February, 07 2008 Saul Landau
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Between now and the November election, the public and the political professionals expect me to behave like a traditional candidate. Avoid important issues and instead focus on abstractions like "change" and non political, life style issues like fo...

Commentary Landau: Bush Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

Commentary, January, 23 2008 Saul Landau
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Insisting on Iran's nuclear threat despite the opposite findings of an intelligence report is a part of Bush's well-rehearsed tactic of spreading fear to keep power. Historians will view Bush as the president who snatched defeat from the jaws of v...

Commentary Landau: Reflections: 60 Years of Empire

Commentary, January, 15 2008 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush has led the United States from a bright dream toward an incipient nightmare.

Znet Article Landau: Second Letter from Europe

Znet Article, December, 30 2007 Saul Landau
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For decades, tourism has grown as one of the fashionable ways to shop abroad or in a different city in your own country. Less than 200 years ago, people thought of travel as a way to enrich education.

Znet Article Landau: The NIE Watergates Bush

Znet Article, December, 24 2007 Saul Landau
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In early December, an intelligence report served as the instrument to disgrace Bush and Cheney. Behind this apparently benign act stood the relieved super rich and their government guardian who saw the reckless policies of Bush and Cheney as a thr...

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