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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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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...

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...

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