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

Op-Ed
Smoldering Planet
July 30 - Colorado's wildfires and the record heat waves should sober up some climate change doubters. Published in The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT) and The Liberty (TX) Vindicator.

Blog
Wild Fires are Exactly What Global Warming Looks Like
July 17 - Consevatives claim this is the biggest scientific fraud ever, but reality says this is our greatest collective challenge.

Commentary
A Coup in Paraguay? Who Cares!
July 9 - I had trouble finding San Franciscans who knew where Paraguay was or cared what happened there.

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