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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 ...

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."

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,

Commentary Landau: An Oily Religious Dream (Satire)

Commentary, November, 17 2005 Saul Landau
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In September, the body count and property damage assessment mounted steadily along the Gulf Coast. After watching TV news images of the carnage, the Rev. Jerry Pat Flatulence had one of his many epiphanies, after eating his dinner in his home in L...

Commentary Landau: How The United States Supplied Iran With Nuclear Know How

Commentary, September, 18 2005 Saul Landau
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A doctor friend expressed concern over the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Sixty years ago, some 250,000 people died when US atomic bombs fell over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You needn't become a scientist to understand that radioactivity from nucl...

Commentary Landau: Aggression Dominates The Airwaves

Commentary, August, 11 2005 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush seems to have inspired not only political extremism in action, but in words as well - especially on the radio. If you want to hear cruel and mean words, just tune into prime time AM radio. The "John and Ken Show," an afternoon talk ...

Commentary Landau: The Role of the Media

Commentary, July, 24 2005 Saul Landau
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Overwhelmingly, corporate management of media remains attentive to the interests of its major stockholders: profit and reproduction. In order to do so, it must both validate the ruling authority (government in power) and simultaneously present...

Commentary Landau: Posada arrest points to BushÕs anti-terror hoax

Commentary, July, 04 2005 Saul Landau
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President George W. Bush has emphasized that if one of the myriad of U.S. police agencies even suspect someone of planning, abetting or carrying out a terrorist act, he will, at a minimum, get tossed into a dark hole. Indeed, Bush has thrown the M...

Commentary Landau: Posada arrest points to Bush’s anti-terror hoax

Commentary, July, 04 2005 Saul Landau
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President George W. Bush has emphasized that if one of the myriad of U.S. police agencies even suspect someone of planning, abetting or carrying out a terrorist act, he will, at a minimum, get tossed into a dark hole. Indeed, Bush has thrown the M...

Commentary Landau: Lessons From Vietnam: Wars Kill Empires As Well As People

Commentary, June, 06 2005 Saul Landau
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In 2005, the United States has become Communist Vietnam's single-largest trading partner. Vietnam's products permeate U.S. stores. But the "Vietnam War trauma" remains central to U.S. politics. Note how the Vietnam service record of presidential c...

Commentary Landau: The Bush-Delay Axis Of Naked Power

Commentary, May, 17 2005 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush and Tom DeLay, his political enforcer in the House of Representatives, have changed long established rules of U.S. political culture as ÒbipartisanshipÓ has become winner take all; debate and deliberation has devolved into Party lin...

Commentary Landau: A Visit To One Bush Culture

Commentary, May, 03 2005 Saul Landau
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After walking through the parking lot of Hummers, SUVs and pick up trucks with gun racks and NRA insignia and confederate flag bumper stickers, my friend and I paid $8 each to get into the Gun Show at the Paso Robles Fairgrounds. The sign also ass...

Commentary Landau: Interview with Ricardo Alarcon** Part 2

Commentary, April, 10 2005 Saul Landau
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Landau: How do you compare Bush's discourse with that of past presidents? And how do you compare them with his deeds?

Commentary Landau: Interview with Ricardo Alarcon (Part I)

Commentary, March, 17 2005 Saul Landau
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Landau: Elections in Iraq?

Commentary Landau: Nothing Succeeds like Failure

Commentary, February, 28 2005 Saul Landau
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President Bush doesnÕt allow negative news to interfere with his predictable rendition of clichŽs and slogans. ÒIraq will be free, the world will be more peaceful, and America will be more secure,Ó he regularly announces, as news of bloody chaos e...

Commentary Landau: An Imperial Portrait

Commentary, February, 12 2005 Saul Landau
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After spending $40 for two 75 minute guided walks through some of the 165 rooms and guest houses of La Cuesta Encantada (The Enchanted Mountain), I learned what Gore Vidal already knew about tasteless millionaires: "The more money an American accu...

Commentary Landau: Cuban deja Vu All Over Again, All Over Again

Commentary, January, 05 2005 Saul Landau
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On December 10, US Interest Section Chief in Havana James Cason offered yet another Bush Administration policy missile to overthrow the Cuban government and replace it with a "democratic" regime, i.e.; one that would revere private property and ki...

Commentary Landau: The Assassination Of Danilo Anderson

Commentary, December, 24 2004 Saul Landau
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The November 18 car bombing of Danilo Anderson in Caracas brought back vivid memories. When I read that two explosions tore through the Venezuelan prosecutorÕs SUV, I flashed back 28 years to a traumatic event in my life.

Commentary Landau: The appeal of George W. Bush:

Commentary, December, 03 2004 Saul Landau
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What's wrong with the voting public? Or is it me? For four plus years, I watched Bush on TV and conjured up the image of a spoiled rich kid, a fool who thoughtlessly led the country into a bloody mess in Iraq, screwed up the economy and devastated...

Commentary Landau: Pinochet's Woes

Commentary, November, 22 2004 Saul Landau
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September has become Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet UgarteÕs cruelest month. September once loomed as the time of PinochetÕs personal triumph -- and death for his victims around the world. On September 11, 1973 (28 years before the World Trade Cen...

Commentary Landau: ÒCheÓ -- Man And The Movie

Commentary, November, 15 2004 Saul Landau
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In the summer of 1960 the 32 year old Dr. Ernesto ÒCheÓ Guevara agreed to meet some US students at his presidentÕs office in CubaÕs National Bank. Fidel had recently appointed him to that unlikely post. Like most events in Cuba, CheÕs becoming Ban...

Commentary Landau: “Che” -- Man And The Movie

Commentary, November, 15 2004 Saul Landau
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In the summer of 1960 the 32 year old Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara agreed to meet some US students at his president’s office in Cuba’s National Bank. Fidel had recently appointed him to that unlikely post. Like most ev...

Commentary Landau: The Reality Of Empire And Campaign Rhetoric

Commentary, October, 21 2004 Saul Landau
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Try to digest radio blasts of campaign rhetoric amidst nerve-wracking traffic jams and insistent billboards. In a massive mall parking lot, designed to divert the brain from human themes, I try to understand my country's empire. The energy spent i...

Commentary Landau: Geezers Make Gas

Commentary, October, 04 2004 Saul Landau
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Our cause is just, itÕs just to slay

Commentary Landau: Mercury in U.S. lakes; cyanide in India Ð trust the CEOs!

Commentary, September, 27 2004 Saul Landau
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ÒCapitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.Ó

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