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Znet Article Landau: Cuban Five 2/4: Telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez from the U.S. prison (Part II)

Znet Article, May, 01 2009 Saul Landau
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Telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez from the U.S. prison (Part II)

Znet Article Landau: Cuban Five 1/4

Znet Article, April, 30 2009 Saul Landau
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A telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez -- Part 1

Znet Article Landau: The NATO Axiom: 2 + 2 = 5

Znet Article, May, 18 2008 Saul Landau
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One of many relevant questions the ABC moderators neglected to ask Hillary and Obama in the mid April televised debate: Why does NATO continue to exist after the Soviet Union collapsed? Indeed, the entire media accepts NATO as one of the several m...

Znet Article Landau: Second Letter from Europe

Znet Article, December, 30 2007 Saul Landau
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For decades, tourism has grown as one of the fashionable ways to shop abroad or in a different city in your own country. Less than 200 years ago, people thought of travel as a way to enrich education.

Znet Article Landau: The NIE Watergates Bush

Znet Article, December, 24 2007 Saul Landau
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In early December, an intelligence report served as the instrument to disgrace Bush and Cheney. Behind this apparently benign act stood the relieved super rich and their government guardian who saw the reckless policies of Bush and Cheney as a thr...

Znet Article Landau: David and Goliath in Iraq

Znet Article, October, 14 2007 Saul Landau
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David and Goliath in Iraq

Znet Article Landau: The Other 9/11

Znet Article, September, 30 2007 Saul Landau
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"Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spr...

Znet Article Landau: From Gonzo to Pottygate

Znet Article, September, 10 2007 Saul Landau
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As media dissection of Senator Larry Craig's toilet stall indiscretion abates, George Bush prepa...

Znet Article Landau: The FBI in peace and war -- still the same

Znet Article, August, 11 2007 Saul Landau
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When I read a news story about the FBI "taking cues from the CIA to recruit thousands of covert informants in the United S...

Znet Article Landau: Terrorism at Sheridan Circle: 30 years ago

Znet Article, October, 03 2006 Saul Landau
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Terrorism struck then as it does now, without warning. At about 9:45 on Tuesday morning, September 21, 1976, the phone rang. I put down my coffee cup. "I just saw the worst accident," she said, with distress in her voice. My wife then described wh...

Znet Article Landau: Who remembered victims of U.S. covert war on Memorial Day?

Znet Article, June, 19 2006 Saul Landau
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On Memorial Day, I read the following in a Chilean magazine: "In November 1977, 'Mamo' [General Manuel Contreras, chief of DINA, Chile's Secret Police and Intelligence] asked him to cook up a bacteria soup to 'incapacitate' Mena [General Odlanier ...

Znet Article Landau: The Country's Going To Hell At Home And Abroad

Znet Article, March, 09 2006 Saul Landau
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"If the country's on the road to Hell, just claim that it's Heaven." I don't meet many Republicans, but those few I do talk to agree that the world and the country are going to hell. That oft spouted clich� has taken on new meaning given recen...

Znet Article Landau: Munich And The Hamas Electoral Victory

Znet Article, February, 11 2006 Saul Landau
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How does Steven Spielberg’s Munich relate to Hamas’ recent electoral victory? Israel presents this organization as the epitome of Palestinian terrorism. This caricature could lead Washington to deny aid to the Palestinian people ...

Znet Article Landau: Different Americas

Znet Article, January, 06 2006 Saul Landau
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George W. Bush, like the old European monarchs, claimed he possessed inherent rights and implied that those who question such prerogatives might have treasonous motives. “As President and Commander-in-Chief, I have the constitutional respo...

Znet Article Landau: The Good Neighbor Policy and Other Political Amusements Bolivian Democracy and the US: a History Lesson

Znet Article, December, 22 2005 Saul Landau
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Even the prospect of the election of socialist peasant leader Evo Morales as Bolivia's next president disturbed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Charles Shapiro. "It would not be welcome news in Washington to see ...

Znet Article Landau: Latinos At War

Znet Article, December, 16 2005 Saul Landau
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In the faculty dining room at the California State University where I teach, a Mexican-American woman places thin slices of turkey on bread. Stress lines radiate down from her high cheekbones. One of her sons left last week for Iraq. "I pray every...

Znet Article Landau: Who We Are

Znet Article, November, 22 2005 Saul Landau
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G. W. Bush returned from a brief but difficult November learning foray in Latin America: "Wow, Brazil is big." Meanwhile, US citizens grew impatient with his performance. CBS polls rated him at 35% approval in early November. Even his supporters a...

Znet Article Landau: Globalization And Its Discontents

Znet Article, August, 08 2005 Saul Landau
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness; the other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.                                  --     Wood...

Znet Article Landau: The Ascent Of Fashionism; The Decline Of Consciousness

Znet Article, August, 06 2005 Saul Landau
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"Fascism has taken hold," friends warn, referring to how Bush has used the Patriot Act to whittle away liberties (like habeas corpus) and increase the power of Homeland Security. "It's fashionism, not fascism," offers another friend, referring t...

Znet Article Landau: Mission Accomplished: Iraq Is Broken

Znet Article, July, 14 2005 Saul Landau
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It’s hard to believe that supposedly intelligent people like Senators Joseph Biden (DE), Hillary Clinton (NY) and John Kerry (MA) call for “staying the course” in Iraq and acting responsibly by] sending more US troops with ...

Znet Article Landau: Koran Descretion is Part of the Torture Plan; So is Media Silence

Znet Article, July, 05 2005 Saul Landau
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How to understand torture by a free society with a free press!Over the last year, overwhelming evidence forced the media to report that U.S. military personnel had tortured Muslim prisoners. On May 9, Newsweek claimed that a prison guard had flush...

Znet Article Landau: Purges, Pedophiles and Cover Ups

Znet Article, May, 12 2005 Saul Landau
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How does the new Pope connect to Catholic kids persecuting me as a child, especially during Halloween, obstructing justice and shaping US politics? At age six, growing up in the Bronx, a gang of Irish Catholic kids jumped me and beat me. As they...

Znet Article Landau: Payout for Pinochet Victims Shines in Dark Times for Human Rights

Znet Article, March, 16 2005 Saul Landau
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On February 25, Riggs Bank agreed to pay $9 million into a fund for victims of Augusto Pinochet to settle a case over the bank's role in hiding the former dictator's ill-gotten gains. This latest development in the decades-long fight to hold Pinoc...

Znet Article Landau: Sex In The Country

Znet Article, January, 06 2005 Saul Landau
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"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." Karl Marx - Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right Extrapolating from November's voting resul...

Znet Article Landau: Listening And Talking To God About Invading Other Countries

Znet Article, December, 11 2004 Saul Landau
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“I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance more than one night. And one night late it came to me…:(1) That we could not give them [the Philippines] back to Spain – that would b...

Znet Article Landau: Facts And Lies; Slogans And Truth

Znet Article, October, 12 2004 Saul Landau
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Instead of “sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth may be found,” much of the media repeats distortions that flow from the mouths of Administration officials. Bush, the worst President in US history – I apologize to...

Znet Article Landau: Bush: A Man of His Words

Znet Article, October, 11 2004 Saul Landau
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The Presidential debates revealed aspects of George W. Bush’s character that bear careful scrutiny – if not acute psychiatric care. The media made much of his body language and facial expressions, especially his reactions to John K...

Znet Article Landau: Buzz Words And Venezuela

Znet Article, July, 01 2004 Saul Landau
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"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint; but when I asked why people are poor, they called me a communist." --Brazilian Bishop Don Helder Camara President Hugo Chavez Frias' enemies refer to him as a "terrorist" and a "communist." I...

Znet Article Landau: Torture's Logic

Znet Article, May, 13 2004 Saul Landau
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Most US citizens don’t reflect on the reasons for anti-American sentiment throughout much of the world. But policy makers once focused precisely on this theme. In 1947, George Kennan, who headed policy planning for the State Department, as...

Znet Article Landau: Haiti Redux

Znet Article, February, 26 2004 Saul Landau
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One of my students asked me about the current unrest in Haiti. “Reading the news accounts,” she offered, “I can’t figure out who stands for what. And what role is US policy playing in the ongoing events?” ...

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