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Author of the New York Times and international bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse, Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde.
Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. Palast's reports appear on BBC's Newsnight and in Britain's Guardian, Rolling Stone and Harper's.
Palast is best known as the investigative reported who uncovered how Katherine Harris purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls in the 2000 Presidential Election.
Palast directed the US government's largest racketeering case in history--winning a $4.3 billion jury award. He also conducted the investigation of the Exxon Valdez on behalf of the Alaskan Natives.
Palast is recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.
Greg Palast's newest book, Vultures' Picnic will be released by Penguin Books in November of 2011. Find out more info at VulturesPicnic.org
Sunday, December 25, 2011 My Declaration of War on Christmas (5 comments)
America's problem seems to be that it can only be cruel 364 days a year. Christmas is that time of year when the United States of Scrooge takes a vacation from heartless profiteering and the nasty joy Americans get, that "I'm-not-one-of-those-losers" frisson.
Friday, December 2, 2011 Romney's Billionaire Threatens BBC Investigative Reporter "We have a File on Palast" (3 comments)
Last Monday, a call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office of Mitt Romney's billionaire backer and "advisor" Paul Singer.
Singer, top donor to the Republican Senate Campaign Committee had a message for the news chiefs at the prestigious broadcaster:
"We have a file on Greg Palast."
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Goldfinger eats Congo (2 comments)
"Top funders of the Republican Party have demanded that two African nations pay them over half a billion dollars.... Is one of these vulture's claims based on a stolen security, criminally transferred to an American financier called 'Goldfinger'? Greg Palast, author of the new book, Vultures' Picnic, investigates for BBC Television and The Guardian."
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Wall Street is Just an Address
So big deal. They evicted us. That just means we are among five million Americans evicted from their homes this year.
Go ahead, kick us and evict us. That won't stop us. Because it's not about the real estate. Wall Street's just an address.
Time to remind The One Percent why we o
Thursday, November 10, 2011 Escape from Lady Baba-land
[Based on a tip from some guy floating in the Caspian Sea in Central Asia, we take off for Baku, Azerbaijan, the "Islamic Republic of BP." Stopping in London, the deathly ill MI6 double-agent Leslie the Bagman lays out the history of the coup d'etat, hooker-bait and the $30 million "sweetener" paid by Lord Browne to the oil nation's "president"----and suggests we find his old spy-mate, Natasha.
Monday, November 7, 2011 Lazy Ouzo-Swilling, Olive-Pit Spitting Greeks
Here's what we're told:
Greece's economy blew apart because a bunch of olive-spitting, ouzo-guzzling, lazy-ass Greeks refuse to put in a full day's work, retire while they're still teenagers, pocket pensions fit for a pasha; and they've gone on a social-services spending spree using borrowed money.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 Chapter One Of Greg Palast's Vultures' Picnic -- Read It Now
After some tense discussion (Penguin was partly owned by Gaddafi, so you can imagine...), my publisher has given me the unusual right to give all my readers, for no charge, the entire first chapter of my new book Vultures' Picnic.
Even if you don't get the book, I really want you to read the first chapter.
Monday, October 31, 2011 GOLDMAN SUX? Giant Squid Strikes Again at Occupy Wall Street's Credit Union (2 comments)
Goldman had already demanded the return of its $5,000 payment to the Lower East Side Peoples Federal Credit Union. Now, sources say, the trillion-dollar Wall Street mega-bank sent the following message to the not-for-profit community bank: "You will never get a dime from any bank ever again."
Thursday, October 27, 2011 Sachs Fiend: Goldman Attacks Occupy Wall Street's Non-Profit Bank (1 comments)
Mega-bank Goldman Sachs (assets $933 billion), has declared war on one of the smallest banks in New York (assets $30 million), the customer-owned community bank that happens to also be the banker for Friends of Liberty Plaza, Inc, also known as Occupy Wall Street. And you thought Goldman didn't care.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Watch - Democracy Now! - Goldman Sachs V. Occupy Wall Street: A Greg Palast Investigation
A controversy in the banking community has arisen around the Occupy Wall Street movement. Greg Palast investigates the story behind Goldman Sachs' recent decision to pull out of a fundraiser for the Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union in New York City after it learned the event was honoring the protesters at Occupy Wall Street.
Friday, October 21, 2011 The 1% Who Get The Gold Mine (We Get The Shaft) (3 comments)
[Wall Street, New York] No one here in Zuccotti Park is protesting "Wall Street." Wall Street is just an address, just a street sign on a post.
The 99% Movement is about Them: the 1%. The 1% who own Wall Street and all our streets and have posted a foreclosure notice on the entire planet.
Thursday, July 21, 2011 It's Not Default of Obama: Jail GOP Deadbeats for Debt Crisis (3 comments)
Let's talk about how we ended up in this pickle, bucking up against the "debt ceiling." From 2001 to 2008, a Repub President took an annual surplus of $86 billion left for him by Clinton and ran up the budget deficit to over half a trillion in a year ($642 billion in 2008).Altogether, W. blew up the national debt by over $3 TRILLION--then left the bills to Obama.Default lies with the Republican spendthrifts, Mr. President.
Friday, May 20, 2011 Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa (4 comments)
Director-General Dominique Strauss-Kahn's cruelty, arrogance and impunity toward African and other nations as generalissimo of the IMF is right in line with the story told by the poor, African hotel housekeeper in New York City.
Sunday, April 24, 2011 BP's Secret Deepwater Blowout
You've heard and seen much about the Gulf disaster that killed 11 BP workers.If you have not heard about the earlier blowout,it's because BP has kept the full story under wraps.
Nor did BP inform Congress or US safety regulators,& BP,along with its oil industry partners, have preferred to keep it that way.
The earlier blowout occurred in Sept '08 on BP's Central Azeri platform in the Caspian Sea -a spark away from exploding.
Monday, December 20, 2010 Palast Arrested- Busted by BP in Azerbaijan (8 comments)
Welcome to the Islamic Republic of BP, otherwise known as Azerbaijan. And good-bye. I'm out of there. Out with the evidence we need about BP and how it lead to the Gulf of Mexico blow-out and an extension of the occupation of Iraq. It's a hell of a story, and my holiday gift to myself is that I'm here and ready to tell it.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Bradley Manning, The Real WikiLeaks Champ (10 comments)
NO ONE gives a fruit fly's rectum about this heroic man now rotting in Obama's prison cell, facing a 52-year sentence. That includes Mr. Assange, who did nothing to protect Bradley and is doing nothing now.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Slick Operator: The BP I've known too well (1 comments)
Oil spills can be cleared easily if response is prompt and containment is complete. But this means maintaining an expensive, trained crew with equipment available around the clock. It was BP, not Exxon, that failed to do this in the 1989 Valdez disaster. And it is BP again this time that has cut costs by mothballing its safety team.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 AZ Immigration Law is Really About Vote Suppression (14 comments)
It was not anti-immigration hysteria that drove the AZ legislature to crack down on immigrants; it was a way to intimidate Hispanic voters, who overwhelmingly vote Democratic. Gov Brewer purged the roles of 100,000 Hispanic voters when she was SoS. The vast majority of perfectly legal voters who lack the ID called for in the current law are citizens of color.
Monday, April 26, 2010 Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GOP Game to Swipe the November Election (1 comments)
What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote -- and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 The Kvetcher in the Rye (4 comments)
In the sixth grade, the Boys' Vice-Principal threatened to suspend me from school unless I stopped carrying around The Catcher in the RyeI think because it had the word "fuck" in it. Since the Boys' Vice-Principal hadn't read the book - and I don't think he'd ever read any book - he couldn't tell me why.
But Mrs. Gordon was cool. She let me keep the book at my desk and read it at recess as long as I kept a brown wrapper
Saturday, January 23, 2010 Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections (3 comments)
I'm losing sleep over the millions -- or billions -- of dollars that could flood into our elections from ARAMCO, the Saudi Oil corporation's U.S. unit; or from the maker of "New Order" fashions, the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Or from Bin Laden Construction corporation. Or Bin Laden Destruction Corporation.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections
So it's not just un-Americans we need to fear but the Polluter-Americans, Pharma-mericans, Bank-Americans and Hedge-Americans that could manipulate campaigns while hidden behind corporate veils. And if so, our future elections, while nominally a contest between Republicans and Democrats, may in fact come down to a three-way battle between China, Saudi Arabia and Goldman Sachs.
Sunday, January 17, 2010 The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian Holocaust (14 comments)
Gates wouldn't send in food and water because, he said, there was no "structure ... to provide security." For Gates, appointed by Bush and allowed to hang around by Obama, it's security first. That was his lesson from Hurricane Katrina. Blackwater before drinking water.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Supreme Court to OK Al Qaeda donation for Sarah Palin?
The six GOP appointees to the court are expected to use the case to junk federal laws that now bar corporations from stuffing campaign coffers. The court's expected decision is far, far more dangerous to U.S. democracy. Think: Manchurian candidates.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 TIME TO CHANGE BERNANKE'S MEDICATION? Secret White House letter to G-20 (6 comments)
While acknowledging that this year's economy has gone to hell in a handbag, Obama's aide and ambassador to the G-20 seems to be parroting the irrational exuberance of Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke who declared last week that, "The recession is very likely over." All that was missing from Bernanke's statement was a banner, "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED."
Thursday, August 27, 2009 Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst (6 comments)
I don't get to use the word "heroic" very often.The Deputy Dir of the LA. State U. Hurricane Center,it was van Heerden who told me,on camera,something so horrible, so frightening, that,if it weren't for his international stature,it would have been hard to believe:"By midnight on Monday the White House knew. Monday night I was at the state Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had breeched. Nobody."
Friday, August 14, 2009 Obama on Drugs: 98% Cheney? (12 comments)
Big Pharma kingpins did not actually agree to cut their prices. Their promise with Obama is something a little oilier: they apparently promised that, over ten years, they will reduce the amount at which they would otherwise raise drug prices. We'll still get the shaft from Big Pharma, but Obama will have circumcised the increase.
Thursday, July 30, 2009 The Day the President Turned Black (2 comments)
What's missing in America - and in the Oval Office - is any hint of outrage at the endemic, systemic cruelties visited on Black Americans, like Pratt and Johnson, who lack a key to the Harvard Alumni Club.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Stick Your Damn Hand In It (2 comments)
Corporate Fraud: Victims, Living or Dead
Exxon is immortal?
Monday, March 23, 2009 Stick your damn hand in it (4 comments)
"Gail, Please! Stick your hand in it!" The petite Eskimo-Chugach woman gave me that you-dumb-ass-white-boy look. "Gail, Gail. STICK YOUR DAMN HAND IN IT!" She stuck it in, under the gravel of the beach at Sleepy Bay, her village's fishing ground. Gail's hand came up dripping with black, sickening goo. It could make you vomit. Oil from the Exxon Valdez.
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Obama is a two-faced liar. Aw-RIGHT! (37 comments)
Republicans are right. President Barack Obama treated them like dirt, didn't give a damn what they thought about his stimulus package, loaded it with a bunch of programs that will last for years and will never leave the budget, is giving away money disguised as "tax refunds," and is sneaking in huge changes in policy, from schools to health care, using the pretext of an economic emergency.
Monday, January 5, 2009 Bill Richardson - Kissinger-American (31 comments)
Bill Richardson is out: Caught with his hand, if not exactly in the cookie jar, at least you could say his sticky finger were near it. I'm not surprised.
For years I've been investigating the second-most corrupt state in the USA (after Alaska). I like to check in on the enchanted state with my bud Santiago Juárez.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Obama's "Way-to-Go, Brownie!" Moment? (6 comments)
Educationally, the world is swamping us. The economic and social levees are bursting. We cannot afford another Way-to-go Brownie in charge of rescuing our children.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 The Pits: Georgia's GOP Swipes the Peach State
Over 50,000 new voters in GA have been blocked from voting by using a nasty little new law,Help America Vote Act signed by George Bush.(Bush is helping us vote-look out!)the steal in Senate races may allow the GOP to savage,obstruct,sabotage President Obama's ability to repair the damage of 8 years of looting by the unelected junta of the Bush regime.They begin with the theft of the GA Senate seat,now heading into a run-off.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft (2 comments)
We obtained,as part of our investigation for Rolling Stone magazine,the Repub's list the GOP alleged were the very worst cases of vote and registration fraud by ACORN & similar groups.We went through the names the GOP asserted were "obviously,undeniably and clearly fraudulent" voter registrations.Not one fraud.And these were their best cases out of the "illegal voters" who Repub leaders claim have infiltrated our voting rolls.
Thursday, October 23, 2008 Download Steal Back Your Vote! Comic Book Here
Thanks to the support of thousands of generous donors we are now able to offer the download of the Kennedy/Palast investigative comic "Steal Back Your Vote!"for free.Spread the word-our servers can take it-we have a goal of 100,000 downloads by the end of the week - help us get the word out - tell everyone you know to go to our website and download the guide for FREE -or if you can- support our investigation and donate.
Friday, October 17, 2008 It's Already Stolen (5 comments)
Since the last presidential race, "States used dubious'list management' rules to scrub at least 10,000,000 voters from their rolls."Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas,NM-a victim of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that left as many as one in nine Democrats without a vote.For Maez,the state's purging his registration was particularly shocking-he's the county elections supervisor. There's more!
Friday, October 10, 2008 BBC TV: "Set up to steal it again" Is 2008 already 'fixed'?
On Friday at 6pm and 10pm Eastern Time,BBC America will bust open the story of the systematic[Repub] attack on US voters that could easily cost Barack Obama the White House.Democrats don't have clean hands either,as Palast discloses: from the Acoma Pueblo, we find Natives (almost all Democrats) who've had their ballots illegally junked by local Democrats.But whichever party attacks the poor, it's McCain that's the winner.
Friday, September 19, 2008 Night of the Living Vote-snatchers - from Steal Back Your Vote! (5 comments)
When a Bush tells you he's going to "help" you vote - look out!
The result: in the 2004 presidential election, over three million votes - 3,006,080 - were cast and not counted. Like, what the !@#!?
That's from the official data from an agency created by George Bush called the "Elections Assistance Commission." When a Bush tells you he's going to "assist" our elections... (well, you get it).[3]
Monday, June 23, 2008 Is the 2008 Election Stolen Already? Vote Theft for Idiots - Part One (4 comments)
Ted Rall and I have teamed up for one of the first ever series of hard-edged investigative journalism - in 'toon form. Steal this strip ... and pass it on: VOTE THEFT FOR IDIOTS - PART 1 ...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Case of 1,000,000 Missing Votes (4 comments)
Law professor Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Greg Palast are launching an investigation. We want to know: where are these votes? Who swiped them? How? And how do we prevent it from happening in November? Read on to see where you fit in and how you can help.
Thursday, February 28, 2008 Exxon suxx. McCain duxx
What the heck does this have to do with John McCain?The Senator is what I'd call a "Tort Tart.'Ken Lay's "Law Suit Reform"-posse was one of the fronts used by a gaggle of corporate lobbyists waging war on your day in court. Their rallying cry is "-Tort Reform,'by which they mean they want to take away the God-given right of any American,rich or poor,to sue the bastards who crush your child's skull through product negligence..
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 One Bush Left Behind
In his State of the Union,the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city.As there are,officially,15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20.So how much educational dreaming will $20 buy?Bush's alma mater,Phillips Andover Academy,tells us their annual tuition is $37,200.The $20 "Pell Grant for Kids,"-as the White House calls it,will buy 35 minutes...
Friday, January 25, 2008 South Carolina Primary Colors: Black and White? (2 comments)
South Carolina 2000: Six hundred police in riot gear facing a few dozen angry-as-hell workers on the docks of Charleston. In the darkness, rocks, clubs and blood fly. The cops beat the crap out of the protesters. Of course, it's the union men who are arrested for conspiracy to riot. And of course, of the five men handcuffed, four are Black. The prosecutor: a White, Bible-thumping Attorney General running for Governor.
Friday, January 11, 2008 Will Jose Crow Voter ID Laws Pick Our President? (2 comments)
On Wednesday,the Repub majority on the US Supreme Court indicated it would vote to uphold these new voter ID requirements.And just in time.If not for these new ID laws,warns Sen. Pearce and other Republicans across the nation,a dark wave of illegal aliens would vote again in our upcoming Presidential election.Or maybe not.Maybe there aren't 5,000,000 illegal voters for Hillary,Obama or Edwards.Maybe there were just 500.Maybe 0
Monday, December 10, 2007 Palast pisses in the punch. Your turn?
Greg Palast may be the only journalist with a New York office who works, as he says, "in journalistic exile."Âť There, with a team of a half-dozen researchers largely supported by $50 donations from readers, Palast ferrets out documents and smoking-gun-toting insiders from Washington to Ecuador and uses them to gird his bitingly sardonic investigative essays that most American mainstream outlets won't touch.
Monday, December 3, 2007 FEAR OF CHAVEZ IS FEAR OF DEMOCRACY (12 comments)
The Family Bush can fix Florida. They can fix Ohio. But it's just driving them crazy that they can't fix the vote in Venezuela.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 The Assassination of Hugo Chavez (1 comments)
Why must they kill Chavez?With the help of guerrila cameraman Rick Rowley ("Fourth World War"),I flew to Caracas to get the answer - from Chavez himself.I also talked to the guy who took Chavez hostage in 2002.(I had to wear a wire for that one.)The answer is right underneath Chavez' feet.Oil.How much?According to the inside documents that fell into my hands from the Department of Energy - LOTS of oil,5 times Saudia Arabia's
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Dan Rather: Tased and Confused
Newly unearthed records reveal that, in '04,when Americans were in the midst of a brutal electoral battle over whether to reelect a president posing as a war hero,a commanding US reporter,Dan Rather,went AWOL. Just 3 months before the election,Rather had a story that might have changed the outcome of that razor-close race.We now know that Dan cut a back-room deal & let his network retract a story he knew to be absolutely true
Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Student Tasered for Armed Madhouse Question to Kerry (1 comments)
We warned you: 'Armed Madhouse' is a dangerous book. Yesterday, Andrew Meyer, a University of Florida student was attacked by five cops, zapped with tasers and arrested after demanding that Senator John Kerry answer the question.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 American Nightmare: Gonzales 'wrong and illegal and unethical' (2 comments)
"What I've experienced in the last six months is the ugly side of the American dream."
Last month, David Iglesias and I were looking out at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island where his dad had entered the US from Panama decades ago. It was a hard moment for the military lawyer who, immediately after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fired Iglesias...
Thursday, August 23, 2007 Hurricane George: How the White House Drowned New Orleans
It's been two years. And America's media is about to have another tear-gasm over New Orleans. Maybe Anderson Cooper will weep again. The big networks will float into the moldering corpse of the city and give you uplifting stories about rebuilding and hope.
Friday, July 27, 2007 Watch PBS tonight on "NOW: The fix is in" for 2008
Catch Greg Palast on PBS' top current affairs program.
'NOW' furthers the story Palast first busted open for Britain's BBC Newsnight, the scheme to attack voters of color - the 'Blue' ones.
For Bill Moyers' capable successor, David Brancaccio, Palast lays out the latest evidence never before televised.
Friday, June 22, 2007 Conyers Slams Gonzales' Deputy Over Voter Caging
Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, grilled Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty on voter caging. Conyers forced McNulty to reveal that he had, in his original briefing papers, an article by Greg Palast about the attack on Black voters yet did nothing about it.
Go to http://www.gregpalast.com to read and listen to the hearing-
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 Medical Alert: Washington Post Goes Blind - Misses 'Caging' Story
Last week, someone named "Dan Froomkin," on the Washington Post website, huffed and puffed and tried to blow down BBC's exposure of voter 'caging' - a GOP trick for challenging legitimate ballots.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 SENATORS DEMAND JUSTICE DEPT. INVESTIGATION INTO TIM GRIFFIN, RNC 2004 VOTE CAGING ALLEGATIONS (1 comments)
SENATORS DEMAND JUSTICE DEPT. INVESTIGATION INTO TIM GRIFFIN, RNC 2004 VOTE CAGING ALLEGATIONS
Sens. Kennedy and Whitehouse Send Letter to DoJ Inspector General's Office Seeking Probe into RNC Voter Supression Tactics
Inquiry Into What Justice Officials Knew About Griffin's Vote Caging Activities When He Was Named as US Attorney for Arkansas
Monday, June 18, 2007 The Tears of a Clone (5 comments)
Boo-hoo! I made Tim Griffin cry.
He cried. Then he lied.
You remember Tim. Karl Rove's right hand (right claw?) man. The GOP's ragin' cagin' man.
Griffin is the Rove-bot exposed by our BBC Newsnight investigations team as the man who gathered and sent out the infamous 'caging' lists to Republican state chairmen during the 2004 election.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Watch Greg Palast on Youtube Video (1 comments)
Want to know about the Karl Rove emails that congress hasn't seen yet? Palast has seen them and talks about what's in them.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Journalist with BBC Has Rove Office Emails
BBC Television's Newsnight has 500 "missing" Rove office emails, including a series of self-incriminating notes which provide "the keys to the kingdom" behind the prosecutor firings.
Monday, May 14, 2007 Fired Prosecuters: Rove's "Obstruction of Justice?" RFK says "They Ought to be in Jail" (1 comments)
On a single day, December 7, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demanded the resignations of 8 United States Attorneys. What was really the purpose of the firings - and who was behind it? Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Naked neo-cons: Perjury and the Big, Bad Wolfowitz (1 comments)
George Bush is trying to save Paul Wolfowitz' job as President of the World Bank even after the vulpine neo-con was caught slipping a load of World Bank loot to his love interest, Shaha Ali Riza.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 RFK: Rove And Rove's Brain, 'Should be in jail,' Not In Office (6 comments)
Voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for prison time for the new US Attorney for Arkansas, Timothy Griffin and investigation of Griffin's former boss, Karl Rove, chief political advisor to President Bush.
Sunday, April 29, 2007 US Media Have Lost the Will to Dig Deep (2 comments)
I've long argued that Britain needs a 1st Amendment right to press freedom. It could, of course, borrow ours. We don't use it.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Don't Fire Gonzales
Before President Bush fired his sorry ass, US Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico, in a last sad attempt to suck up to his Republican padrones, allowed his chief mouthpiece, Norm Cairns, to speak with me. He shouldn't have.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Bush Hit-Woman Behind Prosecutor Firings Has Long History of Purges to Protect Bush (3 comments)
The Mister Big behind the scandal of George Bush's firing of US Attorneys is not a 'mister' at all. The House Judiciary Committee has released White House emails indicating that the political operative who ordered the hit on prosecutors too honest for their own good was Harriet Miers, one-time legal counsel to the President.
Thursday, January 25, 2007 Off the Rails: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the State of the Union (1 comments)
There was that tongue again. When the President lies he's got this weird nervous tick: He sticks the tip of his tongue out between his lips. Like a little boy who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat...
Friday, December 8, 2006 The Baker Boys: Stay Half the Cours
Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?
by Greg Palast
They're kidding, right?
James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the "Iraq Study Group" have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.
Baker's Two Big Ideas are:
1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq is a disaster getting more disastrous. The Baker Boys' idea: cut the disaster in half - leave 70,000 troops there.
Wednesday, November 8, 2006 RUMSFELD: VIRGIN FOR THE VOLCANO (2 comments)
Why doesn't George Bush just throw a virgin into a volcano? Or Dick Cheney? Or Lynn Cheney?
Well, someone's head had to roll -- not for our bloody defeat in Iraq, but for the GOP's defeat in the mid-terms.
Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Steal Back Your Vote!
A lot of advice we're getting from our progressive friends is to take photos of your ballot and silly stuff like that. Well, that's all about how to complain after they steal it. I have a better idea: Win, don't whine.
Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen. (10 comments)
And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.
Friday, November 3, 2006 I WANT TO HURT SOMEBODY (1 comments)
It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times today splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic who'd retrieved it from the brain
of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith.
Thursday, October 26, 2006 Enron's Skilling Sentenced; Bush Walks
Don't kid yourself. If you think the sentencing of Jeff Skilling, former Enron CFO (criminal financial officer), to twenty-four years in the slammer means that justice has been done, think again.
Friday, October 20, 2006 Recipe for a Cooked Election (2 comments)
A nasty little secret of American democracy is that, in every national election, ballots cast are simply thrown in the garbage
Tuesday, October 10, 2006 How George Bush Gave Krazy Kim the Bomb (3 comments)
How did a berserker like North Korea's Kim John Il get the bomb in the first place? Answer: He bought it from the Dr. Strangelove of Pakistan in 2001 - while all our President's men ordered our intelligence agents to keep their eyes shut tight.
Monday, September 11, 2006 Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree (1 comments)
It's true. It's weird. It's nuts. The Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year hunt for Osama, has finally brought charges against"¦ Greg Palast. I kid you not... Thank Exon.
Sunday, September 3, 2006 Today's Pig is Tomorrow's Bacon
The gap between what we produce and what we get is widening like an alligator's jaw. The more you work, the less you get. It used to be that as the economic pie got bigger, everyone's slice got bigger too. No more.
The One Percent have swallowed your share before you can get your fork in.
Monday, August 28, 2006 Hurricane Expert Threatened for Pre-Katrina Warnings
Van Heerden isn't the typical whistleblower I usually deal with. This is no minor player. He's the Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center. He's the top banana in the field -- no one knew more about how to save New Orleans from a hurricane's devastation. And no one was a bigger target of an official and corporate campaign to bury the information.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 Announcing Re-Mix Contest for "Armed Madhouse"
All members of the public are invited to download recordings of the book by Jello Biafra, Amy Goodman, Larry David, Janeane Garofalo and other troublemakers and create your own version, with original music, sounds and beats of your own making.
Monday, August 14, 2006 So Osama Walks Into This Bar, See? (4 comments)
I'm going to tell you something which is straight-up heresy: America is not under attack by terrorists. There is no WAR on terror because, except for one day five years ago, al Qaeda has pretty much left us alone.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Ken Lay's Alive!
Don't check the casket. I know he's back. When I saw those lights flickering out at La Guardia Airport yesterday and heard the eerie shrieks and moans in the dark, broiling subway tunnels, I just knew it: Ken Lay's alive! We can see his spirit in every flickering lightbulb from Kansas to Queens as we head into America's annual Blackout season.
Friday, July 14, 2006 Why Democrats Don't Count: Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico (3 comments)
The GOP knows the key to their electoral domination is not in winning over their opponents' votes, but in not counting them.
The un-Gore of Mexico City has a lesson for the Blue-party gringos. Either the Democrats demand that all votes count, or the Democrats will count for nothing.
Friday, July 7, 2006 Senor Blank-o wins in Mexico (1 comments)
... too many statistics missing from the official tallies to jump to the automatic conclusion of US mainstream media, that this election was Mexico's first "clean" vote. It may look clean and neat from the Intercontinental Hotel in Mexico City where reporters shuttle from bar to press conference. But sniffing into the garbage piles and ballot piles of Veracruz, it smells more like Ohio con salsa.
Monday, July 3, 2006 Stealling It (the Mexican Election) In Front of Your Eyes (3 comments)
While Reuters reports that exit polls in Mexico show the progressive, Obrador has won, the ruling crew, friends of Bush, have announced it is too close to call.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Treason: "Firing Squad" for the New York Times?
So I'm tempted to say that, Yes, the New York Times has committed treason -- not by reporting on what Bush's spies are doing, but on failing to report on what Bush's spies did not do: a deadly failure to follow the money before September 11 because the House of Bush chose to protect the House of Saud.
Friday, June 9, 2006 UNREPORTED: THE ZARQAWI INVITATION (2 comments)
They got him -- the big, bad, beheading berserker in Iraq. But, something's gone unreported in all the glee over getting Zarqawi Â… who invited him into Iraq in the first place?
