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Landau: Clear Channel Fogs The Airwaves
Jul 06, 2003
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
Landau: The Bible-touting Chicken Hawk Orders Soldiers to War
Apr 11, 2003
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 Wartime.
Lakey: Strategy Tool
Mar 23, 2003
How can we organize against the multiple wars of the U.S. and at the same time plant the seeds for the future mass radical movement that's required to end the war system itself? As Adele Oliveri points out in her Commentary written from Spain in February,
Landau: Terrorists Are On The Run Some Away From Bush, Othe Rs Toward His Nurturing Arms
Feb 25, 2003
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 keeping them
Landau: The Source Of Terror
Dec 27, 2002
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 tried to us
Landau: In The United States The Source Of Terror
Nov 20, 2002
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 foreign in
Landau: A Baghdad Diary
Nov 06, 2002
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 better off us
Landau: Progress Equals More Freeways And Lower Taxes For The Rich
Oct 19, 2002
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 He offer
Landau: Report On The Juarez Maquilas: The Environment
Aug 09, 2002
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 excellent calcu
Landau: A Post Card From The Enigmatic Island
Jun 26, 2002
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 haunts th
Landau: Harboring Terrorists: Our Own List Is Long
Jun 15, 2002
As our leaders warn countries that harbor terrorists, who will warn our leaders about harboring terrorists here?
Landau: World News In Shotgun Pellets From The Media
May 19, 2002
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 produce
Lusane: Who Judges The Judges?
Apr 21, 2002
Was it normal Supreme Court idiosyncrasies or post-September 11th racial blowback? A recent incident at the U.S. Supreme Court, where Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist ordered a young Indian woman to remove a scarf on her head because it apparently made
Landau: Otto ReichÕs Appointment
Feb 23, 2002
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.
Landau: Otto Reich’s Appointment
Feb 23, 2002
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.
Landau: Vicente Fox Merits The Flat Tire Of The Year Award
Feb 11, 2002
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 skepticis
Lusane: Lethal Truth
Jan 05, 2002
As the totalitarianism rustles continue to rise across the American landscape sowing intolerance, more and more progressive voices are being targeted. Danny Glover is the latest.
Landau: Chilean Socialists Use Ultra Lite Model
Jan 01, 2002
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.
Landau: The Logic Of Our Time
Dec 10, 2001
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.
Jul 18, 2003
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.