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Saul Landau

Film-maker, journalist and author

TNI Senior Fellow and former Director of TNI (1976), Landau is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and author. Landau writes weekly on US politics and foreign policy and has produced more than forty films on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights.

Landau has written fourteen books - his most recent book is A Bush and Botox World (Counterpunch, 2007). He received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt.

He is Professor Emeritus at California State University, Pomona. Gore Vidal says, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from"

Central America & Caribbean; NAFTA; US Politics & US Foreign Policy

Landau won the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award for his lifelong work on human rights, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang."

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Recent content by Saul Landau

Free private Manning: Unmasking the Myth of National Security (12 May 2011)

Double standards and double speak surround the case of private Manning; the term 'national security' has been used again and again by the government to cover up bureaucratic mistakes and human rights crimes.

Assassination on Embassy Row: 34 years later (5 Oct 2010)

Remembering Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt 34 years after their assassination by Chile's secret police.

Poverty Rising (16 Sep 2010)

As the empire flails in unsuccessful efforts to control 'strategic areas' abroad, its internal politics have devolved into 'The Unreality Game'.

Revenge of the Deficit-Haters (31 Aug 2010)

Ironically, the loudest complainers about paying taxes become the most eloquent advocates of spending more on the military.

Gross Media Negligence (10 Aug 2010)

When the mainstream media fails to question the dictates of the powerful or omits the contradictory facts that might lead to a questioning audience, history itself gets rewritten, with dangerous implications for the future.

A Tale Of Two Extraditions (19 Jul 2010)

The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the request.

Remember Vietistan? (30 Jun 2010)

McChrystal's departure has highlighted not only how mired in conflict the US has become - but also the striking similarities between Vietnam - now the second longest War in US history - and Afghanistan.

Israel again gives Jews a bad name (17 Jun 2010)

Israel's attack against a humanitarian flotilla to Gaza was intended to show the world who is the boss.

The new right history (8 Jun 2010)

The US Texas State Board of Education approved a new social studies
curriculum to reflect American History as it should have happened.

The decline of the Catholic Church? (15 Apr 2010)

Scandals distract the public from focusing on key issues. Sometimes, however, they also provide insights into the character of leading cultural and political figures -- and their institutions.

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