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Commentary Landau: Bush's policy change: From reckless to prudent imperialism

Commentary, December, 03 2006 Saul Landau
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The policy change has begun: from reckless imperialism to prudent imperialism. The signal: the nomination of the malleable establishment fixer Robert Gates to replace as Defense Secretary the intractable neo con Donald Rumsfeld, who announced h...

Commentary Landau: BushÕs Foley ÐThe DemocratsÕ big chance

Commentary, October, 28 2006 Saul Landau
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Less than one month before the November congressional elections, the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky directed Republicans to stage a disruptive sex scandal Ð for the benefit of the Democrats.

Commentary Landau: Bush’s Foley –The Democrats’ big chance

Commentary, October, 28 2006 Saul Landau
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Less than one month before the November congressional elections, the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky directed Republicans to stage a disruptive sex scandal – for the benefit of the Democrats.

Commentary Landau: Post-Castro Cuba

Commentary, October, 14 2006 Saul Landau
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Reporters and friends keep asking: "so what'll happen when Castro dies?"

Commentary Landau: Ideology as facade for criminality

Commentary, October, 03 2006 Saul Landau
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On 9/11/73, General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that overthrew Chile's elected government. The military bombed the Presidential Palace, assassinated 3,197 and tortured of tens of thousands more in order to "save" Chile from "subversion." ...

Znet Article Landau: Terrorism at Sheridan Circle: 30 years ago

Znet Article, October, 03 2006 Saul Landau
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Terrorism struck then as it does now, without warning. At about 9:45 on Tuesday morning, September 21, 1976, the phone rang. I put down my coffee cup. "I just saw the worst accident," she said, with distress in her voice. My wife then described wh...

Commentary Landau: Support our troops: It costs nothing

Commentary, August, 23 2006 Saul Landau
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At an Oakland California freeway exit ramp, a disheveled young man held up a sign: "Help a Gulf War vet." I gave him a dollar. Drivers behind me began to blow their horns, so I didn't ask him if he had fought in Gulf War I or II.

Commentary Landau: Report from Louisiana and Texas

Commentary, July, 01 2006 Saul Landau
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In Shreveport, Louisiana the "f" word now stands for FEMA, a Methodist minister informed me. Prompted by the looming hurricane season, residents of this Red River city have become very conscious of the thousands of refugees FEMA placed here from ...

Znet Article Landau: Who remembered victims of U.S. covert war on Memorial Day?

Znet Article, June, 19 2006 Saul Landau
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On Memorial Day, I read the following in a Chilean magazine: "In November 1977, 'Mamo' [General Manuel Contreras, chief of DINA, Chile's Secret Police and Intelligence] asked him to cook up a bacteria soup to 'incapacitate' Mena [General Odlanier ...

Commentary Landau: Massacres Go With War

Commentary, June, 17 2006 Saul Landau
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"I can't help wondering today how many of the innocents slaughtered in Haditha took the opportunity to vote in the Iraqi elections - before their 'liberators' murdered them."

Commentary Landau: Vietnam Diary _ Part Ii

Commentary, May, 03 2006 Saul Landau
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I read the March 15 Vietnam News (English language daily) at the modern Hanoi airport. VinaLand, I learn, has invested more than $200 million into Vietnamese real estate, a "hot sector," according to Merrill Lynch. The Wall Street giant calls Viet...

Commentary Landau: Vietnam Diary ­ Part Ii

Commentary, May, 03 2006 Saul Landau
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I read the March 15 Vietnam News (English language daily) at the modern Hanoi airport. VinaLand, I learn, has invested more than $200 million into Vietnamese real estate, a "hot sector," according to Merrill Lynch. The Wall Street giant calls Viet...

Commentary Landau: Vietnam Diary -- Part I

Commentary, April, 14 2006 Saul Landau
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I arrived in Hanoi in the late morning. The sun flitted through the clouds, and I couldn't decide whether I needed my light wind-breaker. The temperature hovered in the mid 60s, with enough humidity to let some reality into my brain to share space...

Commentary Landau: Does Anyone Give a Damn?

Commentary, March, 18 2006 Saul Landau
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"We gave him [Saddam Hussein] a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in."

Znet Article Landau: The Country's Going To Hell At Home And Abroad

Znet Article, March, 09 2006 Saul Landau
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"If the country's on the road to Hell, just claim that it's Heaven." I don't meet many Republicans, but those few I do talk to agree that the world and the country are going to hell. That oft spouted clich� has taken on new meaning given recen...

Znet Article Landau: Munich And The Hamas Electoral Victory

Znet Article, February, 11 2006 Saul Landau
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How does Steven Spielberg’s Munich relate to Hamas’ recent electoral victory? Israel presents this organization as the epitome of Palestinian terrorism. This caricature could lead Washington to deny aid to the Palestinian people ...

Znet Article Landau: Different Americas

Znet Article, January, 06 2006 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush, like the old European monarchs, claimed he possessed inherent rights and implied that those who question such prerogatives might have treasonous motives. “As President and Commander-in-Chief, I have the constitutional respo...

Znet Article Landau: The Good Neighbor Policy and Other Political Amusements Bolivian Democracy and the US: a History Lesson

Znet Article, December, 22 2005 Saul Landau
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Even the prospect of the election of socialist peasant leader Evo Morales as Bolivia's next president disturbed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Charles Shapiro. "It would not be welcome news in Washington to see ...

Znet Article Landau: Latinos At War

Znet Article, December, 16 2005 Saul Landau
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In the faculty dining room at the California State University where I teach, a Mexican-American woman places thin slices of turkey on bread. Stress lines radiate down from her high cheekbones. One of her sons left last week for Iraq. "I pray every...

Commentary Landau: The Scandal Is The Illegal War, Not The Leak

Commentary, December, 03 2005 Saul Landau
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave,

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