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Commentary Landau: Terrorists Are On The Run Some Away From Bush, Othe Rs Toward His Nurturing Arms

Commentary, February, 25 2003 Saul Landau
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If you had taken up terrorism as your lifeÕs vocation, or even as a means to a political end, President BushÕs State of the Union words would have put you into a state of terrible gloom. ÒWe have the terrorists on the run,Ó he boasted, ÒweÕre keep...

Commentary Landau: The Source Of Terror

Commentary, December, 27 2002 Saul Landau
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We live in terrifying times. But into what context can we Americans place the terrorism weÕve recently experienced? Until 9/11 Americans could pretend that we were different, that God or something had truly blessed us. Yes, Al Qaeda tormentors tri...

Commentary Landau: In The United States The Source Of Terror

Commentary, November, 20 2002 Saul Landau
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ÒWherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be AmericaÕs heart, her benedictions and her prayers. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroyÉby once enlisting under other banners of fo...

Commentary Landau: A Baghdad Diary

Commentary, November, 06 2002 Saul Landau
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We share the one hour Gulf Falcon Air 747 flight from Damascus to Bagdad. With dozens of Iranian women pilgrims who used knife sharpened elbows to get first in line through Syrian immigration and then onto the plane. ÒSaddam Hussein would be bette...

Commentary Landau: Progress Equals More Freeways And Lower Taxes For The Rich

Commentary, October, 19 2002 Saul Landau
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We have survived the first anniversary of 9/11 without suffering another massive attack. From the White House the message rings loud and clear: "We live in the best of all possible worlds. We come closest to representing what God had in mind when ...

Commentary Landau: Report On The Juarez Maquilas: The Environment

Commentary, August, 09 2002 Saul Landau
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After spending a period of weeks investigating labor and environmental conditions on the US-Mexico border, I have concluded that the production system used to inundate us with commodities Ð ÒglobalizationÓ Ð lacks a human brain, but has an excelle...

Commentary Landau: A Post Card From The Enigmatic Island

Commentary, June, 26 2002 Saul Landau
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A two-hour drive from the noxious fumes of Havana takes us to Vinales, in Pinar del Rio, CubaÕs western province. Fidel Castro has ordered all nooks and crannies of the city sprayed so as to eliminate the dreaded Aedis Egipsis, the mosquito that h...

Commentary Landau: Harboring Terrorists: Our Own List Is Long

Commentary, June, 15 2002 Saul Landau
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As our leaders warn countries that harbor terrorists, who will warn our leaders about harboring terrorists here?

Commentary Landau: World News In Shotgun Pellets From The Media

Commentary, May, 19 2002 Saul Landau
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Did the extra cup of coffee or the TV news cause my anxiety? Or should I attribute my uneasiness to the news headlines blaring over my car radio as I brake to a stop on a ten lane Los Angeles freeway? The media will report on any "news" that might...

Commentary Landau: Otto Reich’s Appointment

Commentary, February, 23 2002 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush has appointed 56 year old Otto Reich, a Cuban born right-wing Republican, to direct Inter American affairs at the State Department. For Washington insiders this illustrates two axioms of current political behavior.

Commentary Landau: Otto ReichÕs Appointment

Commentary, February, 23 2002 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush has appointed 56 year old Otto Reich, a Cuban born right-wing Republican, to direct Inter American affairs at the State Department. For Washington insiders this illustrates two axioms of current political behavior.

Commentary Landau: Vicente Fox Merits The Flat Tire Of The Year Award

Commentary, February, 11 2002 Saul Landau
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Last year the first freely elected President of Mexico promised his voters substantial economic growth through his free market plans, a rapid settlement of the Chiapas mess and a campaign to wipe out human rights abuse and corruption. Despite my s...

Commentary Landau: Chilean Socialists Use Ultra Lite Model

Commentary, January, 01 2002 Saul Landau
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I left Chile in late November, just as the political parties prepared for their December congressional elections. Campaign posters hung from electric wires, clung to walls and glowed as bumper strips on cars. But the human excitement was absent.

Commentary Landau: The Logic Of Our Time

Commentary, December, 10 2001 Saul Landau
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Since September 11, our officials have offered a strange brand of logic to the apparently accepting American public. Let me analyze the meaning of the new axioms and twists in bureaucratic discourse.

Commentary Landau: Fast trick on fast track

Commentary, October, 25 2001 Saul Landau
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While Congress remains in its bipartisan spasm, Bush Administration fast talkers try to pass fast track on free trade by placing it into their national unity package. Fast track gives the President power to negotiate broad trade agreements like NA...

Commentary Landau: MURDER CHARGES AGAINST CASTRO?

Commentary, August, 31 2001 Saul Landau
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The June 8 conviction of a small group of Cuban spies in south Florida holds ominous news on the US-Cuba front. The South Florida US Attorney Guy Lewis hinted that he might indict Fidel Castro by stating that the conviction of spymaster Gerardo He...

Commentary Landau: BEHIND THE VIOLENCE IN JAMAICA

Commentary, July, 26 2001 Saul Landau
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In early July, Jamaica made headlines. Before the repressive forces had restored "order" more than 25 people lay dead. Some had been shot in the back of the head, others at close range. One witness reported that he heard pleas for mercy from insid...

Commentary Landau: TRANSPORTATION CRISIS?

Commentary, June, 27 2001 Saul Landau
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We live in the best of all possible worlds. Indeed, we export our way of life zealously to those who havenÕt yet tasted its rewards, especially to residents of China, India and Brazil, the big markets as we now know them. When systemic problems ar...

Commentary Landau: Bay of Pigs Lessons

Commentary, April, 15 2001 Saul Landau
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What have we learned from what historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr dubbed "the perfect failure?" Schlesinger, who served as a high level adviser to president John F. Kennedy, opposed the CIA backed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by a brigade of anti C...

Commentary Landau: THE PINOCHET CASE: LEGAL COURAGE; POLITICAL COWARDICE

Commentary, March, 09 2001 Saul Landau
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It finally happened. On January 29, Judge Juan Guzman Tapia charged Geralissimo Augusto Pinochet, former dictator, President, chief of the armed forces, with 75 counts of murder and kidnapping. Five years ago, even most optimists had abandoned hop...

Commentary Landau: FIDEL AND THE REVOLUTION, FORTY YEARS LATER

Commentary, January, 06 2001 Saul Landau
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On January 2, 1959, Habaneros filled the streets to greet the small band of long-haired, guerrilla warriors. The hated dictator, Fulgencio Batista, had fled to Florida, with his entourage. But what would the new government do? Everyone knew the re...

Commentary Landau: THE PRIZZI BUSHES WILL OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE

Commentary, December, 15 2000 Saul Landau
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Maureen Down has cleverly labeled them the Kennebunkport Corrleones. But I Êthink of the Bushes as the Texas Prizzis, that Mafia branch that has moved Êto cowboy country and have successfully filched the 2000 election. Recall Êin Prizzi's Honor ho...

Commentary Landau: Haitian and Cuban Refugees

Commentary, October, 30 2000 Saul Landau
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Over the last two months, smugglers routinely drop Haitians and Cubans off the South Florida coast. US authorities arrest these presumably "illegal" immigrants and haul them off to Krome detention center. All the Haitians then await hearings for d...

Commentary Landau: Pinochet naked -- at last!

Commentary, September, 09 2000 Saul Landau
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Picture Homer Simpson's boss, naked, a scrawny figure bent with age, covering his genitals with his general's hat. The caption: "You've stripped me, but don't take my hat!" Augusto Pinochet, former President, Generalissimo, King of the world, now ...

Commentary Landau: THE DRUG WAR IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE AND COCAINE

Commentary, August, 10 2000 Saul Landau
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One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton's request that Congress fund a new $1.2 billion military aid package for Colombia, so the Colombian military can better engage the iniquitous narco-traffickers. "You don't unders...

Commentary Landau: THE 47TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIDEL'S ATTACK ON MONCADA

Commentary, July, 26 2000 Saul Landau
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July 26, 1953. Fidel Castro leads 158 men to attack Fort Moncada, in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest military installation. Flashback. 1860. John Brown's raiders hit Harper's Ferry. Brown, like Castro, lost the battle. Both of these ...

Commentary Landau: WATCH OUT FOR THE FOX IN THE MEXICAN HEN HOUSE

Commentary, July, 12 2000 Saul Landau
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US pundits and government figures gush over Vicente Fox's victory last Week as if Mexicans had elected Abraham Lincoln's reincarnation as their new president. Fox represents the right of center PAN, National Action Party. He stands for NAFTA, corp...

Commentary Landau: "POOR PINOCHET"-- AN UPDATE ON THE TRIALS OF THE TYRANT

Commentary, June, 10 2000 Saul Landau
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The Santiago Appeals Court apparently voted 13-9 to revoke General Augusto Pinochet's parliamentary immunity. This makes Pinochet vulnerable to prosecution in Chile for allegedly ordering his subordinates to carry out a mass murder campaign - whic...

Commentary Landau: McCaffery (Goliath) v. Hersh (David)

Commentary, May, 21 2000 Saul Landau
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I found the May 15 NPR news very even-handed - as always. The host interviewed Seymour Hersh, who wrote for the May 22 New Yorker Overwhelming Force, an expose on General Barry McCaffery's Gulf War conduct. Hersh interviewed soldiers and officers ...

Commentary Landau: REPORT FROM SANTIAGO: DEJA VU

Commentary, May, 08 2000 Saul Landau
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History repeats itself, wrote Marx, first as tragedy and then again as farce. First time: Chile, November, 1970. In one photo, a helmeted officer just to the right of and behind Allende's car wears a bored, or maybe slightly pained, expression. Ge...

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