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- Friday, Mar 05, 2010
Commentary During pre game Super Bowl ceremonies Queen Latifah sang America the Beautiful. Following her, American Idol winner Carrie Underwood began warbling the Star Spangled Banner. Four jet fighters swished over the stadium. Did any of the cheering crowd... -
- Monday, Mar 01, 2010
Commentary History quiz: Name the greatest robbery committed in the last 100 years... -
- Friday, Feb 19, 2010
Commentary Global temperatures varied because of changes in ocean heating and cooling cycles. `When we average temperature over 5 or 10 years to minimize that variability,' said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one... -
- Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
Commentary Look at the front page of the New York Times (Jan 17)... and you'd swear that chaos and violence are running rampant in Haiti, that everyone from journalists to relief workers must be risking their necks just to venture out into the streets... The... -
- Friday, Jan 22, 2010
Commentary For U.S. magical realists, a coup becomes a coup after Washington defines it as such. On March 10, 1952, Cuban General Fulgencio Batista grabbed power and sought to legitimize his coup by holding fake elections. Magically, the coup makers won; Was... -
- Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010
Commentary The Senate passed a $626 billion "defense" budget without discussion. Since 1947, when the War Department became the Defense Department, Congress has allocated trillions of dollars, but all for offense and with dubious results: Korea (1950-53), Vi... -
- Sunday, Dec 20, 2009
Commentary After eleven months in office, Barack Obama has hardly revolutionized – or even altered – the major dysfunction that confronts our system. A man of obviously good values – read his books and speeches – he has yet to show convictions. He ha... -
- Saturday, Nov 14, 2009
Commentary Over decades of movie addiction, I know after depositing my fee for entrance, somewhere between the candy counter and the seat, I lose my critical sensibilities by putting on a pair of invisible (virtual) glasses, instruments of optical delusion t... -
- Monday, Nov 02, 2009
Commentary The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to end the US Economic, Financial and Commercial Embargo of Cuba. The Cubans claim the embargo cost them over $242 million in 2008 alone. The embargo, Cuba claims, makes foreign capital unavailable bec... -
- Monday, Oct 26, 2009
Commentary After Fidel Castro's abdominal surgery in the summer of 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Cubans in Bush's name: "You must know that you have no greater friend than the United States of America." This great pal showed amity by not ... -
- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
Blog Post Saul Landau's Resoc Interview -
- Friday, Oct 09, 2009
Commentary On September 20, President Raul Castro dropped in unannounced to see a family member who had invited me and other American friends to visit. Dressed in a white guayavera shirt and neatly pressed beige trousers, his black shoes highly polished, Rau... -
- Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009
Commentary In Miami, several retired U.S. officials remembered the early 1960s, when the CIA sent hundreds of employees to join other government bureaucrats to process and recruit thousands of Cuban exiles to destroy the Cuban revolution. Assassination plans... -
- Saturday, Sep 12, 2009
Commentary By 2012, college professors will stare into the glazed eyes of their students as they refer to non existent weapons of mass destruction and routine torture of suspected terrorists. Like the Vietnam War (estimated 4 million Vietnamese and 55,000 pl... -
- Monday, Aug 31, 2009
Commentary During early and mid August typhoon Morakot killed unknown numbers of Chinese, Taiwanese and Filipinos, dislocating millions, provoking landslides and hampering rescue efforts. The rising waters destroyed homes, public buildings and bridges; burie... -
- Monday, Aug 24, 2009
Commentary A group of scientists, military officials and government bureaucrats signed an informal pact with the Devil. The contract became public in August 1945, when US bombers nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
- Sunday, Aug 09, 2009
Commentary I thought of Cousin Harry when I read about the July 21 bust of five New York and New Jersey orthodox rabbis along with scores of New Jersey officials. Like the clean shaven, dapper and secular Harry, these long bearded and black garbed religious ... -
- Friday, Jul 31, 2009
Commentary During mid July, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s qualifications for the Supreme Court. The Solon’s oratory focused on themes of some fictional world, not one threatened by global warming and diving econo... -
- Sunday, Jul 19, 2009
ZNet Article From May 2000 to August 2005, Brazil lost more Amazon land to “development†than all of Greece. Since 1971, corporate ranchers and agribusiness cleared tens of thousands of acres for grazing, lumber and mining interests. During that period, B... -
- Saturday, Jul 18, 2009
Commentary Amidst interminable "reporting" on the "poor" victims of Ponzi maven Bernie Madoff - would anyone care if people had blown $65 billion trying to get richer in Las Vegas? - an alarming July 5 NY Times headline informs: "Safety Net Is Fraying for th... -
- Sunday, May 17, 2009
ZNet Article Final part of interview with Gerardo Hernandez -
- Saturday, May 16, 2009
ZNet Article Gerardo Hernandez interviewed by Saul Landau -
- Thursday, May 14, 2009
ZNet Article Telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez from the U.S. prison (Part III) -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
ZNet Article Telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez from the U.S. prison (Part II) -
- Thursday, Apr 30, 2009
ZNet Article A telephone conversation with Gerardo Hernandez -- Part 1 -
- Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009
Commentary Instead of focusing attention on the devastation caused by an unjust, imperial war, the US media deliberate on the success of 'surge' and cheer for the troops. -
- Tuesday, Apr 14, 2009
Commentary On March 27, Vice President Joe Biden began a three-day tour to Latin America to attend a high level consultation session for the Summit of the Americas, scheduled for mid-April in Trinidad and Tobago. He met in Chile with President Michelle Bache... -
- Friday, Mar 27, 2009
Commentary While the arcane Washington budget processes each Senator and Member trying to grab something for his or her district or State -- unfold, the poor should start to worry. They have already lost or about to be lose homes, jobs and health care. The p... -
- Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009
Commentary Most Jews I know get little pleasure from the existence of Israel; just the opposite. They feel disgusted by the behavior of their tribal kin toward Palestinians. This antipathy doesn’t concern Israel’s right to exist, a phony argument still m... -
- Sunday, Mar 15, 2009
Commentary When the Soviet Union and its state socialism collapsed, the promoters of capitalism kvelled. But ten years later, in the early Bush years, ENRON, a super giant corporation got caught cooking its books to disguise the real state of its operations.... - All Most Recent Content
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