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

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

Commentary Landau: Pinochet: The Al Capone of the southern cone

Commentary, September, 04 2004 Saul Landau
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ÒMy rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way!Ó

Commentary Landau: God and Botox

Commentary, August, 24 2004 Saul Landau
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ÒNature is a woman, with lots of wrinkles.Ó

Commentary Landau: Transfer Of Power, Sort Of -- Now And Then

Commentary, August, 17 2004 Saul Landau
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"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himse...

Commentary Landau: The Shlemiel As Muckraker

Commentary, July, 25 2004 Saul Landau
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A muckraking shlemiel provides a cinematic case for US regime change. But "Fahrenheit 9/11" goes beyond the predictable anti-Bush screed; it delves into the nature of empire. Like Michael Moore's earlier documentaries, "Roger and Me" and "Bowling ...

Commentary Landau: Bush Invests National Treasure In Death & Destruction

Commentary, July, 07 2004 Saul Landau
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"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also," Jesus said in Matthew 6:19-21. The United States, the most Christian nation on earth, has placed its treasure in destruction and death. As Associated Press' Dan Morgan reports (June 12 2...

Commentary Landau: Really Bad Trade News Obscured By Distractingly Bad News On Other Fronts

Commentary, June, 18 2004 Saul Landau
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"The poor and the marginalized are most commonly denied justice and would benefit most from the fair application of the rule of law and human rights. Yet despite the increasing discourse on the indivisibility of human rights, in reality economic, ...

Commentary Landau: The Empire In Denial And The Denial Of Empire

Commentary, May, 03 2004 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush, for all the jokes about his intellectual challenges, has established an unsurpassed level of imperial denial, while he blithely rejects notions that he runs an empire that has run into considerable trouble. Indeed, except for the c...

Commentary Landau: An Irresponsible Accountability Act

Commentary, April, 12 2004 Saul Landau
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The United States has made a terrible error in its Middle East policy. On December 12, 2003, with little fanfare, George W. Bush signed the Syria Accountability (and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration) Act SAA -- which empowers the president to plac...

Commentary Landau: Will the filthy rich dump Bush?

Commentary, March, 28 2004 Saul Landau
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ÒLet me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, ...

Commentary Landau: Fog Of War Ð Vietnam And Iraq

Commentary, February, 12 2004 Saul Landau
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American leaders donÕt easily learn lessons from the past. Before choosing war in Iraq, the Bush leadership might profitably have consulted former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara 1995 memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam ...

Commentary Landau: Fog Of War – Vietnam And Iraq

Commentary, February, 12 2004 Saul Landau
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American leaders don’t easily learn lessons from the past. Before choosing war in Iraq, the Bush leadership might profitably have consulted former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara 1995 memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of ...

Commentary Landau: Substitute BushÕs Faith for Preparation H

Commentary, January, 23 2004 Saul Landau
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Happy New Year! 2004 may become known as the year that the newly created Department of Faith-Based Homeland Anxiety helped George W. Bush slip back into the White House.

Commentary Landau: Substitute Bush’s Faith for Preparation H

Commentary, January, 23 2004 Saul Landau
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Happy New Year! 2004 may become known as the year that the newly created Department of Faith-Based Homeland Anxiety helped George W. Bush slip back into the White House.

Commentary Landau: Bully goes to war Ð blames God

Commentary, January, 05 2004 Saul Landau
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ÒMissed you at Bible study.Ó

Commentary Landau: Bully goes to war – blames God

Commentary, January, 05 2004 Saul Landau
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“Missed you at Bible study.”

Commentary Landau: Bush Tries Farce As Cuba Policy

Commentary, January, 04 2004 Saul Landau
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"The United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague Latin America with misery in the name of liberty." ---Simon Bolivar

Commentary Landau: FTAA: Good For Big Us Corporations; Bad For The People

Commentary, December, 22 2003 Saul Landau
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As kids we swapped baseball cards, or sold them for money (10 cents). But today trade means something very different. Indeed, every child in the Americas should understand that those attending the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) meetin...

Commentary Landau: Cui bono? The embargo as ideology for rip offs

Commentary, November, 23 2003 Saul Landau
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OPINION: "U.S. law forbids Americans to travel to Cuba for pleasure. That law is on the books and it must be enforced. We allow travel for limited reasons, including visit to a family, to bring humanitarian aid, or to conduct research. Those excep...

Commentary Landau: Contradictions: Pumping Empire And Losing Job Muscles

Commentary, November, 15 2003 Saul Landau
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"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the names of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." George W. Bush at the Dedication Ceremony for the George Bush Center for Intelligenc...

Commentary Landau: Rush To Judgment: Should Limbaugh Do Jail Time For His Addiction?

Commentary, November, 03 2003 Saul Landau
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Was Rush Limbaugh high when he said, "There's nothing good about drug useÉIt destroys individualsÉ familiesÉ societies, some might say this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugsÉAnd so if peop...

Commentary Landau: Guillermo Novo and Me

Commentary, October, 12 2003 Saul Landau
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Twenty two years ago, in the hallway of the Washington DC Federal Court Building, Guillermo Novo threatened me. So, when I read that on November 18, 2000 Panamanian cops had arrested him on an assassination charge, I felt the pleasant tingle of re...

Commentary Landau: Schwarzenegger And Cuban Migration

Commentary, September, 25 2003 Saul Landau
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Even Arnold Schwarzenegger loves immigrants. ÒIÕm one myself,Ó he reminds California voters. But in 1994 The Terminator supported CaliforniaÕs immigrant bashing Proposition 187, which the courts voided in 1999. The measure aimed to Òprevent illega...

Commentary Landau: Bush And King Henry Ð Similar Birds Of Different Feathers

Commentary, August, 29 2003 Saul Landau
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President Bush has a well-deserved reputation among the high brows as uncultured. While he may not have the intellect to distinguish between Shakespeare and Ogden Nash, he has certainly immersed himself in the culture of power Ð in the narrowest s...

Commentary Landau: Bush And King Henry – Similar Birds Of Different Feathers

Commentary, August, 29 2003 Saul Landau
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President Bush has a well-deserved reputation among the high brows as uncultured. While he may not have the intellect to distinguish between Shakespeare and Ogden Nash, he has certainly immersed himself in the culture of power – in the nar...

Commentary Landau: Report from Syria: Between Iraq and Israel Ð A Hard Place

Commentary, July, 26 2003 Saul Landau
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Father Tofiq, an Arabic speaking Roman Catholic priest from Lebanon, recites the LordÕs Prayer in Aramaic in the Convent of St. Serge in Maaloula, a town about thirty miles north of Damascus.

Commentary Landau: Report from Syria: Between Iraq and Israel – A Hard Place

Commentary, July, 26 2003 Saul Landau
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Father Tofiq, an Arabic speaking Roman Catholic priest from Lebanon, recites the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic in the Convent of St. Serge in Maaloula, a town about thirty miles north of Damascus.

Commentary Landau: Exporting The Best Chemicals The Stomach Can Absorb

Commentary, July, 18 2003 Saul Landau
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I fell asleep reading an article in a magazine I grabbed in the hotel lobby. The author crowed about how successful we Americans have become in exporting our ways of life - our basic cultural values. I missed my dinner.

Commentary Landau: Clear Channel Fogs The Airwaves

Commentary, July, 06 2003 Saul Landau
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Swiss novelist Max Frisch described technology as "the knack of so arranging a world that we need not experience it." Since Frisch died in 1991, just before the

Commentary Landau: The Bible-touting Chicken Hawk Orders Soldiers to War

Commentary, April, 11 2003 Saul Landau
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Earlier this year, before he ordered a massacre of Iraqis, President George W. Bush claimed that on his vacation last summer he had read, wellÉ maybe he didn't finish it, Eliot A. Cohen's The Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in ...

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