Where’s the Rage Over the Arbit Ragers?
Contains plot spoilers. Since we will not learn in school the lessons about the 1% we ought to know, many of us rely on movies and TV, so that through…
Saul Landau
Violence defines American culture
As a child I played war games (cowboys killing Indians). My friends and I routinely shot each other with toy guns of course. In my south Bronx neighborhood, older gang…
Washington and Damascus
Syria has become dangerous. Syrians get killed and wounded almost daily. Their neighbours have also felt the impacts of violence: refugees in Turkey and outbreaks of fighting in Tripoli’s streets…
Five decades of inanity and still going
In 1991, The Soviet Union disappeared. Washington changed its anti-Cuba rhetoric from Cold War to human rights. But one issue remains: a U.S. economic colony that broke loose in 1959…
Nefarious details in the Cuban Five case
I sit on a gray plastic chair, facing a tiny, gray, plastic table and another empty, gray, plastic chair, waiting for Gerardo Hernández in the visiting room of the maximum-security…
Get serious about Syria
The Syrian conflict continues to boil – or boil over – when Syrian troops fired across the Turkish border on April 9, apparently killing either fleeing refugees or armed combatants.…
Massacres and PTSD
Western media has focused attention on Sgt. Robert Bales’s background. He allegedly murdered 16 Afghan civilians, 9 of them children, near Kandahar. After the bloodbath, Bales returned to his base…
Republicans implode; I’m uneasy
Republicans implode; I¹m uneasy > > By Saul Landau Republicans implode; I¹m uneasy-Saul Landau³ Romney now flaunting his wealth to impress voters! (The Onion) I smiled weakly when liberal Democrat…
The 1% solution in Europe
Last month a Super Committee (12 Members of Congress) failed to decide—fortunately—our economic destiny: where our tax money would go—or not. Yes, capitalism failed again. And with it went democratic…
Afghanistan calling!
Afghanistan calling! Ten plus years ago, the United States (oops, NATO) invaded Afghanistan and quickly won the war against the militarily (technologically) inferior Taliban government. Taliban fighters fled to Pakistan.…
Riots, demonstrations and new agencies of change
An angry demonstration virus spreads to country after country in response to negligent and callous political leaders who have ignored the basic needs of their citizens. Instead, they have bowed…
Our successful democracy abroad
“There have been charges that it is morally wrong for the U.S. to aid undemocratic regimes to strengthen their security systems, thereby serving to entrench them in power.” But “the…
The good, the bad and the crazy
The political elite and its stenographic media don’t classify types of terrorists. If they did we would get the good, the bad and the crazy. Since no one is perfect,…