TNI History

TNI mourns loss of filmmaker activist Saul Landau

September 2013

TNI and Institute for Policy Studies staff and friends are mourning the loss of Saul Landau, an award-winning filmmaker, author, poet, and fearless human rights activist. Saul was an IPS Fellow and TNI Senior Fellow for many years.

Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum

September 2012
Orlando Letelier

Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden on September 10, 1976. The same day that he was deprived of his Chilean nationality by decree. 

TNI remembers Orlando Letelier 36 years on

September 2012

In 2012, as the global economic crisis deepens and Occupy Wall Street marks one year,  we remember the visionary work of Orlando Letelier in setting up a programme at TNI for a New International Economic Order.

Letelier Case Timeline

April 2010

Letelier Case Timeline: from September 1970 until March 2001.

The Pinochet Affair

March 2007
Roger Burbach

This book tells the epic story of the events that surrounded the dramatic arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London in October 1998.

Pinochet’s legacy: no dictator should have legal impunity

December 2006
TNI

The legacy of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet should be a renewed fight against impunity for human rights violations.

Ideology as façade for criminality

October 2006
Saul Landau

Pinochet, under house arrest, faces charges of murder, torture, drug dealing, tax evasion and money laundering.

Terrorism at Sheridan Circle: 30 years ago

September 2006
Saul Landau

When FBI agents interviewed me hours later and asked me who might have done the dirty deed, I replied “DINA.” The agent asked: “Do you know her last name?”

TNI activities 1999

August 2006

First TNI director (1973-75) professor Eqbal Ahmad passes away. TNI's work on drug policies, Burma and Bretton Woods' Institutions deepens. TNI holds 25th anniversary Festival of Ideas.

TNI in 1995

June 2006
TNI publishes several books including The Next Threat: Western Perceptions of Islam, edited by Jochen Hippler and Andrea Lueg, which debunks the myths about the nature of Islam and Islamic movements.