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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

Reflections of routine air travel (18 Mar 2010)

Few commentators dare link poverty and corruption to extremism in Muslim countries.

Reciprocity! (11 Mar 2010)

The CIA has backed some 600 documented attempts against Castro, while there have been no Havana-backed plots against U.S. Presidents. Should Cuba put Washington on its terrorist list? Long Live Reciprocity!

Department of Defense, Inc. (4 Mar 2010)

Instead of Pentagon fighting healtcare for the lion's share of US budget, introducing a National Defense Medicare bill, lodged inside the Pentagon budget, would assume health care as just one more task in the unending challenge of defending our besieged nation.

The Pentagon: Gargantua’s mouth (25 Feb 2010)

With no real military dangers threathening the US, the Pentagon has to invent them to justify its multi-billion dollar budget. And the bill is presented to the taxpayers.

Decline of decency (15 Feb 2010)

Instead of discussing the ethical dimension of the US foreign policy, the national debate in the US still rages around how many more crimes the government should commit to ensure “security.”

Really inconvenient truth (4 Feb 2010)

Most political leaders face a challenge they refuse to acknowledge: to gain control of runaway climate change they must abandon convenience, the unchallenged assumptions that place the corporation as means and ends of policies.

Honduras: The preventive coup (Final Part) (21 Jan 2010)

Zelaya's biggest sin was proposing, through a non-binding
referendum, a Constitutional convention to consider structural change.

Magical Realism -- A coup in Honduras, so 20th Century! (Part 1) (14 Jan 2010)

By recognising the coup in Honduras, Obama follows the old US Latin American policy of siding with corporate interests against the will of the people.

Naked empire (7 Jan 2010)

In November 2008, Americans, recoiling from the Bush nightmare, voted for “hope” and “change”, but Obama turned out not to be exactly what they voted for.

Almost one year: Assessment (17 Dec 2009)

We have made the transition from a President who both horrified and amused us to one who simply disappoints.

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