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Commentary Landau: Free Private Manning

Commentary, May, 08 2011 Saul Landau
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For Washington’s powerful, the real crime is public humiliation

Commentary Landau: Welcome To The 2011 American Dream

Commentary, January, 11 2011 Saul Landau
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“What’s good for General Motors is good for the country,” was a statement attributed to former GM CEO Charles Wilson in 1953, during hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Commentary Landau: Wikileaks Deserves An Award

Commentary, January, 02 2011 Saul Landau
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US officials routinely declare commitment to a free press – except when someone uses it to reveal unflattering information. Ironically, members of the media critical of Wikileaks also think the government should protect us by not sharing “classifi...

Commentary Landau: What We’ve Done To Others

Commentary, October, 04 2010 Saul Landau
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Few Americans have a clear memory of our nuclear history -- part of our heritage, just like the cruel deeds of 9/11/01.

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 ...

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...

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...

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