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Landau: The Empire In Denial And The Denial Of Empire
May 03, 2004
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 comments
Landau: An Irresponsible Accountability Act
Apr 12, 2004
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 place econom
Landau: Will the filthy rich dump Bush?
Mar 28, 2004
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, it is ve
Landau: Fog Of War Ð Vietnam And Iraq
Feb 12, 2004
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 or seen
Landau: Fog Of War – Vietnam And Iraq
Feb 12, 2004
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 Vietnam or seen Fog of War, the carefully made Errol Morris documentary featuring the former Kennedy Administration Whiz Kid. In his own words McNamara "put before the American people why their government and its leaders behaved as they did and what we may learn from their experience."
Landau: Substitute BushÕs Faith for Preparation H
Jan 23, 2004
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.
Landau: Substitute Bush’s Faith for Preparation H
Jan 23, 2004
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.
Landau: Bully goes to war Ð blames God
Jan 05, 2004
ÒMissed you at Bible study.Ó
Landau: Bully goes to war – blames God
Jan 05, 2004
“Missed you at Bible study.â€
Landau: Bush Tries Farce As Cuba Policy
Jan 04, 2004
"The United States appears to be destined by Providence to plague Latin America with misery in the name of liberty." ---Simon Bolivar
Landau: FTAA: Good For Big Us Corporations; Bad For The People
Dec 22, 2003
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) meeting in Mia
Landau: Cui bono? The embargo as ideology for rip offs
Nov 23, 2003
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 exceptions ar
Landau: Contradictions: Pumping Empire And Losing Job Muscles
Nov 15, 2003
"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 Intelligence, April
Landau: Rush To Judgment: Should Limbaugh Do Jail Time For His Addiction?
Nov 03, 2003
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 people are v
Landau: Guillermo Novo and Me
Oct 12, 2003
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 relief. No
Landau: Schwarzenegger And Cuban Migration
Sep 25, 2003
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 illegal aliens
Landau: Bush And King Henry Ð Similar Birds Of Different Feathers
Aug 29, 2003
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 sense.
Landau: Bush And King Henry – Similar Birds Of Different Feathers
Aug 29, 2003
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 narrowest sense.
Landau: Report from Syria: Between Iraq and Israel Ð A Hard Place
Jul 26, 2003
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.
Jun 18, 2004
"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, social a