Saul Landau

Film-maker, journalist and author

TNI Senior Fellow and former Director of TNI (1976), Landau was an award-winning filmmaker, journalist and author. Landau wrote 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. 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.

Gore Vidal says, "Saul Landau is a man I love to steal ideas from"

Saul received the Bernardo O'Higgins award from the Chilen government in 2010.

In 2011, he produced 'Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up' with Danny Glover and Fidel Castro, a film about 50+ years of US-Cuba relations.

He died from cancer at age 77 on September 9 2013.

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Areas of expertise:

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

Honours/Awards:

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."

Contact

Contact details:

Email:slandau AT csupomona.edu

Languages spoken:

English

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Long biography:

saul landau bio.pdf

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Recent content by Saul Landau

Chavez changed history for the better

March 2013

Saul Landau

Hugo Chavez died on March 5. Heads of state came to his funeral and sent condolences to his family – except for the U.S. president. Even in death the White House maintained a resentful tone toward a man we had named as an enemy. But what did Chavez do to us?

Free private Manning: Unmasking the Myth of National Security

May 2011

Saul Landau

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

October 2010

Saul Landau

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

Poverty Rising

September 2010

Saul Landau

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

August 2010

Saul Landau

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

Gross Media Negligence

August 2010

Saul Landau

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

July 2010

Saul Landau

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?

June 2010

Saul Landau

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.