Washington, D.C., District of Columbia

Monday October 18th at 7:00 PM Howard University's Crampton Auditorium. Free to the public. Doors will open at 6:00 PM.

BBC investigative reporter and best selling author Greg Palast and his new documentary "Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."
The Howard University Department of Political Science is sponsoring the Washington, D.C. debut of BBC investigative journalist Greg Palast's documentary "Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."

This hour long documentary follows the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team's spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq.

The film is based on the work published in Greg's best selling book "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Investigative journalist Greg Palast has uncovered scandal, fraud, corruption, and lies in the highest seats of power from the White House to corporate America. Known in Britain as "the greatest investigative reporter of our time" (Tribune magazine).

In this polemical indictment of globalization and political corruption, Palast updates the muckraking tradition with some 21st century targets: the IMF, World Bank and WTO, plus oil treaties, energy concerns and corporate evildoers of all creeds. In particular, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy addresses the following:
-How Bush killed the FBI's investigation of the financing of terrorist organizations by Saudi Arabia.
-How the Bush family stole the election in Florida.
-How Enron cheated, lied, and swindled its way into an energy monopoly.
Following the film will be a one hour panel discussion with Greg Palast and others on the importance of the Nov. 2 election, the invasion of Iraq, the "War on Terror" is it making the United States safer, and the Bush domestic agenda.

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