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The inimitable Greg Palast, the intrepid investigative reporter mainstream American media won't touch, because they are in his sights too.

In this DVD, he goes South of the Border to provide the real scoop on why the populist pro-democracy tilt of our neighbors to the South is so threatening to corporate America, which means our current government.

Actually this consists of three of Greg's greatest hits on the role of oil, the Bush Administration, the World Bank and the IMF, and U.S. interference in government affairs in Venezuela, Ecuador and Mexico.

Here's the description of the DVD from Greg's site:

The Assassination of Hugo Chavez
“Madman” & “Dictator” or “Liberator” & “Hero”?
Why must they eliminate Hugo Chavez?

For BBC Television’s Newsnight, gonzo journalist Greg Palast flew to Venezuela to get the inside information on the man the Bush Administration loves to hate: Hugo Chavez. Palast meets with the president the Bushmen call a madman, a dictator - and then finds the man who took Chavez hostage (Palast wears a hidden wire for that one).

Here, from the winner of the George Orwell Prize for Courage in Journalism, are the inside documents that tell you why Chavez must die.

Follow him from Venezuela to Ecuador where, from the oil-smeared Amazon, he shows you the inside documents from the International Monetary Fund that are plans for a financial coup d’etat - as originally reported for Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!

Then Palast, the reporter who busted Jeb Bush for illegally purging Black voters in Florida, takes on the Theft of the Presidential Election - in Mexico. It’s “Florida Con Salsa” as Palast, “a cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes” (Jim Hightower) goes after the vote rustlers in his inimitable film noir style.

Based from Palast’s award winning expose for Harper’s Magazine and his New York Times bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse.

Captured in Venezuela by guerilla lensman Richard Rowley (”Fourth World War”) for BBC, Democracy Now! LinkTV and BigNoise films.

Includes three investigative stories on Venezuela, Ecuador and Mexico, respectively.

A production of the Palast Investigative Fund for high-risk journalism, with research supported by The Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation.

From Greg's biograph:
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “Armed Madhouse” (Penguin Paperback 2007). When Palast, an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism, he was quickly recognized as, “The most important investigative reporter of our time” [Tribune Magazine] in Britain, where his first reports appeared on BBC television and in the Guardian newspapers.

Author of another New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast is best known in his native USA as the journalist who, for the Observer (UK), broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George. His reports on the theft of election 2004, the spike of the FBI investigations of the bin Ladens before September 11, the secret State Department documents planning the seizure of Iraq’s oil fields have won him a record six “Project Censored” for reporting the news American media doesn’t want you to hear. “The top investigative journalist in the United States is persona non grata in his own country’s media.” [Asia Times.] He returned to America to report for Harper’s Magazine.

Palast’s Sam Spade style television and print expos’es about elections manipulations, War on Terror and globalization, as seen on BBC ’s Newsnight and Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now!



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