Internationally-acclaimed journalist Greg Palast will be speaking on the Sonoma State University campus on Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. in Warren Auditorium on the Rohnert Park campus. General admission is $5.
An award-winning reporter for BBC Television's Newsnight and London's top newspapers, Greg Palast's extraordinary reports have been front page news in Europe, yet blocked out of America's main stream media.
Palast will discuss, among other topics, his new book, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons and High Finance Fraudsters."
The Guerrilla News Network, naming Palast "Reporter of the Year," wrote: "His stories about Bush's election theft, intelligence agency cover-ups, and globalization - backed up with smoking gun documents, inside sources and on-record interviews - will shock even the most informed readers."
Palast won Britain's highest journalism honors for his 1998 undercover investigation of influence peddling within Tony Blair's cabinet by Enron and other US corporations. He then turned his sleuthing skills on to the Bush money trail and uncovered for the BBC and The London Observer the uncomfortable truths of how the Bush Administration quashed investigations of Saudi financing of terror.
Before taking up the pen for the The Observer and Guardian newspapers, Los Angeles-born Palast traveled the globe as expert investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. For the Chugach Natives of Alaska, he unearthed the doctored safety records that proved the Exxon Valdez disaster was an inevitability, not an accident.
In 1988, Palast directed the government's investigation of a US nuclear plant builder in which the jury awarded the largest racketeering penalty in US history.
The lecture is sponsored by Project Censored, the media project at Sonoma State University. For further information, phone (707) 664-2500.
