Saul Landau

Saul Landau is an internationally known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker on foreign and domestic policy issues. He has been a fellow at IPS since 1972 and at the Transnational Institute since 1974. He has written 13 books, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles and reviews, and made more than 40 films and TV programs on social, political, economic and historical issues.

Among his numerous accolades, Saul received the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting and an Emmy for his 1980 film, "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang" (with Jack Willis), as well as the Letelier-Moffitt Award for his human rights work. He won a Golden Apple award for "The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas" as well as first prizes in many festivals with films about Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende and Subcomandante Marcos. He is Professor Emeritus at Cal Poly Pomona University.

Saul's weekly columns can be read on www.progresoweekly.com and at saullandau.wordpress.com. Saul's newest film is "Will the Real Terrorist Please Standup" (2011). It is available on DVD.

Recent Work

Blog
Cuban Five: 14 Years of Injustice
October 5 - For a Miami jury, the fact that Cuban agents were in Miami was sufficient for them to hand down a guilty verdict.

Blog
U.S. on a Pedestal of Nuclear Immorality
September 21 - What did Iran do to us to merit heavy U.S. sanctions? The media doesn't ask this question.

Op-Ed
Baseball Escapism
September 17 - It's a big business, like all professional sports, that uses good old American values to lure customers. Published in The (Logan County, KY) News-Democrat & Leader and The (Meriden, CT) Record-Journal.

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