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

Commentary
Get Serious About Syria
April 23 - Syrians will pay a higher human toll if the rush for U.S. entanglement does not subside.

Op-Ed
Brian Latell's Well-Known "Fidel" Secrets
April 6 - The exiles and government officials who upbraid him have yet to thank Fidel for providing them with long-term employment.

Commentary
Massacres and PTSD
April 1 - To stop future massacres, send Bales back to Afghanistan for trial. Let's see how "diminished capacity" plays in Kandahar - the scene of the crime.

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