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A Bush & Botox World: Travels Through Bush's America (Counterpunch) (Paperback)
by Saul Landau, Gore Vidal (Foreword)
The
Business of America: How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How
We Can Reverse the Trend
"Look
at our culture of consumption as a scientist would see bacteria
growing in an immense Petri dish. We develop or get conditioned
amidst an amorphous atmosphere of perpetual sales pitches as if
human nature itself possesses some compulsion to lure us, like the
biblical serpent with its glowing apple did to Eve." -Saul
Landau, THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA
Landau's latest book probes and disputes the forces that have transformed
citizens into voracious consumers eager to pillage as much as they
can from Earth. From online shopping to the cash-and-carry ethos
of political campaigns, Landau decodes the subtle ways advertisers
entice us to correct our inadequacies by buying more "things,"
from SUVS and credit cards to that perfect deodorant.
In six incisive chapters (The Bush Vision of America, The National
Security Culture, Media in the 21st Century, At Two With Nature
and The Iraq Conundrum), Landau challenges the notion that consumption
must dominate our society and reveals a growing anti-commercialism
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The
Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom
Landau's
2003 book is a scathing account of George W. Bush's world before
and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that will appeal to anyone
who is disenchanted with the cynicism of Bush's government, and
the blatant imperialism U.S. international policy -- or those who
just want to learn about what's happening in US politics.
Landau
covers the topical and controversial issues -- from terrorism and
US foreign policy to Bush's wondrous election victory; from Enron,
Chile and Pinochet to Cuba, the Middle East, the IMF, the environment
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Guerrilla
Wars of Central America
This text gives both the needed facts and analysis on the revolutions
in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala from the 1960s through the
mid 1990s. It also dissects US-backed counter-revolutions in these
insurrections. The author combines scholarship with material he
gathered making films about the Contra war in the 1980s and in interviewing
leaders of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements.
"A deeply insightful and provocative study of a subject that
needs to be better understood." Professor Philip
Brenner, American Univeristy, in RACE AND CLASS
The
Dangerous Doctrine
"Saul Landau is among the shrewdest, most consistent,
and most courageous analysts of U.S. policy. His new book is a must."
Fred Halliday, London School of Economics
To
Serve the Devil
Assassination
on Embassy Row
(Edgar Allen Poe Award Winner)
A devastating political document that probes all aspects of the
September 21, 1976 Letelier-Moffitt assassinations, interweaving
the murder investigations by the FBI and the Institute for Policy
Studies. The story surpasses the most sophisticated fiction while
concurrently raising serious and tantalizing questions about the
response of American intelligence and foreign policy to international
terrorism.
My
Dad Was Not Hamlet
Blue
Print for Change in Central America
Red
Hot Radio
Fasten your seat belts for this crash-the-gates tour of politics,
vice and corruption. In this collection of trenchant commentaries
heard on Pacifica Radio, Saul Landau applies his wit, wisdom, and
good old-fashioned fire-and-brimstone analysis to American politics.
"Often I am stopped on the street by earnest people who inquire,
'Left, right--shouldn't we be over all those isms by now? In this
era of Web marketing, telecommunications and universal acclaim for
the global free enterprise system, how can we be expected to tell
the difference between left and right anyway?' In response to these
queries I say two things: One: how do you manage to get your shoes
on the correct feet in the morning or, for that matter, decide which
hand should wield the fork? Two: Read Saul Landau. He's just a living,
breathing exemplary of what it means to be left as opposed to right,
or morally and intellectually alive as opposed to brain-dead and
socially clueless. Read him, underdogs of the world, and delight!"
--From the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
Hot
Air
"Saul Landau's Hot Air brings together the insights and
wisdom of one of the nation's most perceptive and brilliant minds.
It is a treasure house of commentaries on our most urgent national
and international challenges."
George McGovern
They
Educated the Crows A Transnational Institute Report on the
Letelier-Moffitt Murders
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