Product Description: "Read Saul Landau."—Barbara Ehrenreich Botox promoters promise to wipe away wrinkles, the signs of aging—the signs of time passing. Such "eternal youth" potions metaphorically help erase the very notion of time itself. In a phony world, increasingly dependent on smoke and mirrors, it is no wonder we look at elected officials like a cheap circus act. Saul...read more

Product Description: When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls and the desolation they leave behind...read more

Product Description: Perhaps no world leader is better placed to challenge the global authority of the United States than Hugo Chavez, the populist leader of Venezuela. As the head of one of the world's largest oil-producing countries, Chavez has been instrumental in raising world oil prices, undermining the control and profits of the multinational oil companies, and introducing innovative plans to use the wealth from this natural resource to help the impoverished-rather than the already powerful-in his own country and around the world...read more

Product Description: Saul Landau is an internationally known scholar, author, journalist, poet and activist. An Emmy-award-winning film maker, he does frequent radio and TV shows, and his work on human rights and Latin America have won him acclaim the world over...read more

Product Description: Cultural Writing. Politics. Explosive commentary aimed at the rich and wicked, this crash-the-gates tour of politics, vice and corruption is a collection of commentaries by Saul Landau, as heard on Pacifica Radio. "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 clueless" -- Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Foreword...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)