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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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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?
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
Landau: Portrait of Rudy -- the contender from the Ridiculous Party
Commentary, December, 08 2007
Saul Landau
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Portrait of Rudy -- the contender from the Ridiculous Party
Landau: Truth Begets Pariah Status
Commentary, November, 17 2007
Saul Landau
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Truth Begets Pariah Status
Landau: Jornalero Stories In The Age Of Immigrant Panic
Commentary, September, 17 2007
Saul Landau
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Jornaleros line the corners along East Oakland's High Street. Additional groups of mostly young men wait along San Leandro Street and International Boulevard. An occasional car or pick up truck stops, all run to the vehicle and a few get in to cle...
Landau: LIBBY AND POSADA: TWO SIDES OF A RATTY COIN
Commentary, August, 10 2007
Saul Landau
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How does the commutation of the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, coincide with the release by a federal judge of Luis Posada Carriles, former top terrorist of the Western Hemisphere...
Landau: J.Lo Investigates The Juarez Muders
Commentary, July, 24 2007
Saul Landau
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At six AM, on June 15, 2000, a man noticed our TV camera and pointed across the street. In this residential section of Ciudad Juarez, a woman lay motionless in the street. As we filmed her inert form the local police and the judiciales (federal in...
Landau: 47 years later in Havana
Commentary, June, 24 2007
Saul Landau
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I landed at Jose Marti International airport in May of 1960, 17 months after a young, bearded man and his fellow barbudos had captured control of the island and sent a hated dictator fleeing. Musicians played a lively tune as the passengers deplan...
Landau: FOUR DEAD IN OHIO: A REHEARSAL FOR TIANNAMEN SQUARE?
Commentary, May, 31 2007
Saul Landau
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In May 1970, 19 years before Chinese officials ordered troops to fire on its students and other citizens demonstrating in favor of democracy at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, US state and federal officials had authorized National Guardsmen to fire w...
Landau: WHINING IMPERIALISTS
Commentary, April, 30 2007
Saul Landau
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Two kinds of imperial whining have come to pervade foreign policy discussion. One relates to Bush's overextending the military so they cannot deploy to other places desperately needing their lethal capacity.
Landau: Feeling calmer than in New York
Commentary, April, 23 2007
Saul Landau
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The bus ride headed 30 miles north from Damascus takes us - a rare group of American visitors -- to Sednaya, the site of All Convent of Our Lady, Greek Orthodox Church. Mother Superior told us the Virgin Mary had visited this spot, disguised as a ...
Landau: A fool and charlatan in power
Commentary, February, 21 2007
Saul Landau
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"Éthere is a connection between fools and power."
Landau: Gore Vidal in Havana -- Part 1
Commentary, January, 16 2007
Saul Landau
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After 9/11, George Bush began firing fear-loaded spitballs at Congress and the media who reacted by being frightened. Five years and three months later, Gore Vidal in Havana countered W's discords of panic with chimes of truth.
Landau: A gay outing for Democratic voters
Commentary, December, 22 2006
Saul Landau
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The Reverend Elmer Gantry was reading an illustrated pink periodical devoted to prize-fighters and chorus girls in his room at Elizabeth J. Schmutz Hall late of an afternoon when two large men walked in without knocking.
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...
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.
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.
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?"
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." ...
