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Greg Palast’s investigative reports appear in Rolling Stone, the Guardian and on BBC Television. His latest film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, on how Donald Trump stole the 2016 election, is available on Amazon. 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
(10 comments) SHARE Friday, November 2, 2012 UAW Files Charges Against Romney for Auto Bail-Out Profiteering
Mitt Romney has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by improperly concealing his multi-million dollar windfall from the auto industry bail-out. The Romneys' gigantic windfall was hidden inside an offshore corporation inside a Limited Partnership inside a trust which both concealed the gain and reduces taxes on it.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 2, 2016 Placebo Ballots: Stealing California From Bernie Using an Old GOP Vote-Snatching Trick
Two million ballots in 2008 were provisional and most were thrown in the garbage. We are heading into a primary where poll workers are going to try to shunt the independent voters to the provisional ballots and get their votes thrown away. If you take a provisional ballot and you are an NPP voter, it will 100% be thrown away because you're not allowed to use that ballot even if they give it to you.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2013 Aaron Swartz Died For Piers Morgan's Sins
In 2000, Aaron Swartz, aged 14, had just released his astonishing invention, RSS, liberating news and information. Around the same time, one of Piers Morgan's stringers hacked into the phone of Sir Paul McCartney's wife and stole some highly personal, and highly valuable, information. But Piers is serving time on prime time while Swartz was prosecuted and driven to commit suicide.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, March 27, 2017 TrumpCare dies, XL flies -- and the secret winner is...
When RyanCare-TrumpCare finally ended up face-down in the swimming pool, triumphalist Democrats whooped and partied and congratulated themselves on defeating the Trump-Ryan monstrosity.
But deep in their counting house, counting their gold, three brothers cackled with private jubilation.
David and Charles Koch knew the day was theirs.
(10 comments) SHARE Monday, July 6, 2015 GREECE'D: We Voted 'No' to slavery, but 'Yes' to our chains
Greek journalist Michael Nevradakis and US investigative journalist Greg Palast have a different take on the Greek 'No' vote against Europe's cruel austerity demands.
(14 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 17, 2010 The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian Holocaust
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.
(24 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 7, 2016 How California is being stolen from Sanders right now
How California is being stolen from Sanders right now. The complications of NPP voting virtually ensure that Clinton will "win" the California primary.
The party wants Clinton and has rigged the system while Sanders' people failed to do anything all year.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 14, 2013 "I want my fair share--and that's ALL OF IT": The Kochs & the XL Pipeline
Why did Koch, worth about $3 billion at the time (now $20 billion) need to pilfer a few bucks from some Indian in a trailer home? Koch answered:
"I want my fair share -- and that's all of it."
Now "all of it" includes a pipeline, the Keystone XL, which would run the world's filthiest oil, crude made from tar sands, down from Canada to his family's refinery on the Gulf Coast of Texas.
(22 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 18, 2016 Scalia's Black Beemer
There's been a lot of gleeful chuckling, for example, about Scalia's courtroom bench "humor." But behind his jokey comments lay a cruelty aimed at the poor, the injured, the Beemer-less class that turns to the Court as the last hope for protection against corporate and state violence.
Here's a telling example of Scalia's humor from a crucial voting rights case.
(37 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 29, 2009 Obama is a two-faced liar. Aw-RIGHT!
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.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, December 20, 2010 Palast Arrested- Busted by BP in Azerbaijan
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.
(25 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 4, 2012 What the Hell Happened, Mr. President?
What the hell happened? Did Barack have a fight with Michelle? Was it nicotine withdrawal? Do really rich guys just scare you, Mr. Obama?
Dear Mr. President: As a journalist I don't take partisan sides, but I do take America's side. And as Commander-in-Chief, you simply cannot fall asleep in the saddle.
I mean Commander-in-Chief in the Class War. The war of the billionaires against the rest of us.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, March 23, 2009 Stick your damn hand in it
"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.
(24 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 11, 2012 The Worst Teacher in Chicago
An educational Katrina: squeeze the teachers until they strike, demolish their unions and drown the students.
Chicago's classroom war is class war by another name.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, April 20, 2012 BP Cover-up Part 2: Bribery, George Bush and WikiLeaks
Evidence now implicates top BP executives as well as its partners Chevron and Exxon and the Bush Administration in the deadly cover-up ---- which included falsifying a report to the Securities Exchange Commission.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 22, 2009 TIME TO CHANGE BERNANKE'S MEDICATION? Secret White House letter to G-20
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."
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, October 13, 2017 I went to School with the Vegas Shooter
This is where Paddock and Palast were bred: Sun Valley, the anus of Los Angeles. Steve's brain was too big to end up on the tracks. He lived in empty apartments in crappy buildings he bought, then in a barren tract house outside Reno. I laugh when they say he was "rich." He wanted to be THEM, to have their stuff. He got close.
SHARE 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
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 23, 2010 Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court allows China and others unlimited spending in US elections
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 10, 2012 The Fukushima Story You Didn't Hear on CNN
I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant,
(10 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Bradley Manning, The Real WikiLeaks Champ
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.
(13 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 20, 2016 New York voting fiasco just the warm-up for the November game
Buckle up, America. The voting demolition derby that was the New York primary on Tuesday was merely the crash test for the coming voting wreckage in November: a carefully planned pile up.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 25, 2011 My Declaration of War on Christmas
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.
(15 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 20, 2015 Trojan Hearse: Greek Elections and the Euro Leper Colony
Europe is stunned, and bankers aghast, that polls show the new party of the Left, Syriza, will win Greece's parliamentary elections to be held this coming Sunday, January 25.
Syriza promises that, if elected, it will cure Greece of leprosy.
Oddly, Syriza also promises that it will remain in the leper colony.
The problem is, austerity run wild is merely a symptom of an illness. The underlying disease is the euro itself.
SHARE 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.
(14 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 28, 2010 AZ Immigration Law is Really About Vote Suppression
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.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 4, 2013 Bradley Manning & The Deepwater Horizon
Manning could have saved the lives of the eleven killed on the Deepwater Horizon:
Only after I dove into deep water in Baku did I discover, trolling through the so-called "WikiLeaks" documents, secret State Department cables released by Manning. The information was stunning: the US State Department knew about the (previous) BP blow-out in the Caspian and joined in the cover-up.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, February 8, 2013 Hugo Chavez Told Me He Won't Sell Oil To The Kochs
All the Kochs have to do is get the US government to agree to pop a pipe through Cushing to Houston: the Keystone XL. But that would require that the US government go stark raving mad, commit environmental suicide and reverse all policy to slow global warming -- all to bring in foreign oil while the US itself is suffering from a major oil and gas glut.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 21, 2015 The US government told me Bin Laden read my book. But what is it not telling us?
Finding that Bin Laden read my book, with its several chapters revealing state secrets, confirms for me that the new official war on whistleblowers and reporters is not about keeping information out of the hands of terrorists, but making sure that "the public ought not to know" where the fools at the helm are leading us.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 19, 2014 The Secret Lists that Swiped the Senate
Statistics guru Nate Silver simply can't understand why every single legitimate poll indicated that Democrats should have gotten 4% more votes in the midterm elections than appeared in the final count.
The answer, Nate, is "Crosscheck."
If not for the boost of this voter-roll purge system used in 23 Republican-controlled states, the GOP could not have taken the U.S. Senate.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2010 The Kvetcher in the Rye
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
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, November 11, 2016 The Election was Stolen -- Here's How...
Before a single vote was cast, the election was fixed by GOP and Trump operatives.
Starting in 2013 -- just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act -- a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP--controlled states.
(16 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Larry Summers: Goldman Sacked
On Sunday afternoon, facing a revolt by his own party's senators, Obama dumped Larry as likely replacement for Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
Until news came that Summers' torch had been snuffed, I was going to write another column about Larry, the Typhoid Mary of Economics.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 10, 2013 "Now that the SOB is dead..." Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan about Afghanistan
The Silk Road nation of Kazakhstan is an excellent place to encounter the dervishes of the Great Game for control of the camel-and-pipeline routes of the Central Asian steppes. Here we can witness the diplomatic-military idiocies of new empires pathetically attempting to ignore the dried skeletons of the imperial forces that went before them.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 19, 2015 Chelsea Manning and the Deepwater Horizon Killings
The military whistleblower's 2010 Wikileaks dump included information that could have saved the 11 BP workers who died that spring in the Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster.
Five years ago Monday, 11 men died on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig -- despite Chelsea Manning's effort to save their lives.
SHARE 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.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 29, 2014 GOP-led Purge Threat to 3.5 Million Voters: Al Jazeera Expose
Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voter rolls, especially targeting minority voters.
Al Jazeera America has obtained 2.1 million names from the target lists, kept confidential until now. Experts reviewing the lists conclude it is suspiciously over-weighted with Black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 20, 2013 My Big Fat Greek Minister
Fat Bastard -- or Theodoros Pangalos, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Party (PASOK), Greece's equivalent to UK's Labour Party -- thinks the little Greek kiddies should stop belly-aching. Pangalos, as you can see from the photo below, is not bent over with hunger pains. In fact, he looks more likely to be bent over with labour pains, but in truth he probably just can't bend over at all.
SHARE Wednesday, November 22, 2017 The Keystone Pipeline And The Safety PIG That Was Muzzled So It Couldn't Squeal
Federal law requires pipelines, like the Keystone, to be regularly inspected to spot corrosion, failing welds, minor leaks, and other such issues before they can cause any problems. To do this, oil companies send PIGs -- Pipeline Inspection Gauges -- through their pipes. However, the data they send back is only as good as the computer code used to analyze it.
(51 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Charlottesville: A gun in his face, but he got the photo
Don't look away. Four white neo-Nazis are beating a Black man, crawling on the ground, with their metal poles and a yellow hunk of lumber. The beating continues -- there's blood on the pavement.
Our photographer, Zach D. Roberts, continues to shoot -- even as a white militant raises a 9mm pistol to his face.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, March 24, 2014 25 Years After Exxon Valdez, BP Was the Hidden Culprit
Because BP's willful negligence, prevarications and fraud in the Exxon Valdez spill cost the company nothing, its disdain for the law, for the environment and for the safety of its workers was repeated in the Gulf of Mexico with deadly consequences, resulting, two decades later, in the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Just this month, the Obama administration authorized BP to return to drilling in the Gulf.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 7, 2018 92-Year-Old Georgia Voter Blocked Jim Crow in 59 seconds... Why Stacey Won't Quit
Christine Jordan, aged 92, was blocked from voting yesterday, thrown out of the polls with her walker -- just one victim of Kemp's mass cancellation of voter registrations -- more than half a million Georgians purged in the night, stealthily, hidden from the public eye.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Greg Palast: Wisconsin "movers" didn't move
On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court may choose our president. That is, justices will hear arguments in a lawsuit that would force the state to remove 129,000 people from the voter rolls on grounds they'd moved from their registration addresses.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
Every state now lets voters cast ballots in designated polling stations and at county offices in the weeks before Election Day. Do it. Don't wait until Election Day to find out you have the wrong ID, your registration's "inactive," (9.9 million of you) or you're on some creep's challenge list. By Election Day, if your name is gone or tagged, there's little you can do but hold up the line.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 17, 2018 What We Must Do Now: Abrams, Georgia And Something Extraordinary
I have been investigating Brian Kemp for five years. And I remember in 2014 shocking a Legislator, Stacey Abrams, with Kemp's purge lists. She told my al Jazeera audience that she was furious that "our Secretary of State" was spending his time attacking the voter rolls. Little did I imagine they'd be squaring off years later, and Kemp's voter-roll monkey business would be decisive in the ugliest way.
(31 comments) SHARE Monday, January 5, 2009 Bill Richardson - Kissinger-American
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, March 19, 2018 Cambridge Analytica Ain't Nuthin: Look out for i360 and DataTrust
The GOP has been using computer power to erase the voting rights of Black and Hispanic voters for years -- by "caging," "Crosscheck," citizenship challenges based on last name (Garcia? Not American!!), the list goes on -- a far more effective use of cyberpower than manipulating your behavior through Facebook ads.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, October 7, 2013 Golden Dawn Murder, Larry Summers & New Fascism
On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece.
Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi. But I don't believe it.
Larry didn't hold the knife: The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a political party made up of skin-head freaks, anti-immigrant fear-mongers, anti-Muslim/ anti-Semitic/ anti-Albanian sociopaths and ultra-patriot fruitcakes.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 31, 2011 GOLDMAN SUX? Giant Squid Strikes Again at Occupy Wall Street's Credit Union
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."
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 2, 2013 Billionaire Bankster Breaks into Obama's Cabinet
Today, Obama has named Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce. As the President says, It's a milestone: the first female fraudster to hold that post. No longer will criminal bankers have to lobby the administration - because now they'll have one of their own in the Cabinet.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 14, 2013 The Drone Ranger: Obama's Dirty Wars
Every Tuesday, President Obama personally checks off the names of people he wants killed. George Bush, a bit more squeamish than Obama, never did that; but Mr. Obama felt those decisions were the president's responsibility: he want[s] to keep his own finger on the trigger," according to one report. A tidy, scheduled man, the President only picks his victims once a week, now called "Terror Tuesday."
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 26, 2010 Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GOP Game to Swipe the November Election
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 30, 2017 How Hillary Votes Were Suppressed in Wisconsin
A new study estimates that at least 5.2% of voting-eligible registered voters in Wisconsin were prevented from voting in the 2016 presidential election because of new ID requirements.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 10, 2017 Charlottesville Victim of Neo-Nazi Beating Charged With Assault -- No Kidding!
African-American school teacher DeAndre Harris, victim of a beating by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, has been charged with assaulting the white supremacists who beat him with boards, iron rods, and brass knuckles.
SHARE Wednesday, July 19, 2017 Sanders and Jackson join hands to take on Trump's Vote Thief-in-Chief
Jesse Jackson has declared war -- and drafted Bernie Sanders for the front-line assault. Their target: Donald Trump's so-called "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" -- and its chief, Kris Kobach, Sec. of State of Kansas.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 6, 2017 GOP States Send Voter Files to Kobach, While Claiming They Will "Resist" His Demand
Kobach, who has recently announced his candidacy for Governor of Kansas, has indicated the lists will be used to remove illegal voters. But voting rights advocates say the goal is actually to allow fewer people to vote.
Twenty-one states listed by CNN as refusing Kobach his demands for voter files have already turned over voter files to Kobach's office.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, October 4, 2019 The Las Vegas Shooter, Two Years Later
Just like veterans of the Vietnam War who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder even after five decades, so too losers of the class war can be driven mad by a PTSD that lingers, that gnaws away their whole lives.
(12 comments) SHARE Monday, December 3, 2007 FEAR OF CHAVEZ IS FEAR OF DEMOCRACY
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 9, 2013 Steven Cohen Can't Make his Mommy's Monkey Jump
This week, Cohen's hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors will plead guilty to criminal charges of insider trading and pay $1.2 billion in fines and forfeitures. Cohen himself is not accused of knowing the information he used was obtained by criminal means. But, he still faces SEC charges of letting his minions operate like a high-finance NSA, sucking up and trading on illegally obtained information.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 27, 2009 Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst
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."
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Slick Operator: The BP I've known too well
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 24, 2016 EXCLUSIVE: Trump and the 13 Losers Behind Him
Trump's inner circle, which, after an outcry over the glaring sex bias, was supplemented by eight women, features some of the worst offenders when it comes to political power-brokering for personal gain. But that's just pay-to-play politics, and is therefore not so surprising.
(15 comments) SHARE Monday, July 25, 2016 Bernie Should Take Satan's Advice
Clinton ran a campaign that basically sneered at idealism. It was the vice-principal telling us, "You can't have universal health care, you can't have low-cost education, you can't bust up the banks. A permanent coalition of Bernie activists will quickly turn that sneer into fear. Because if there's one thing a politician hates more than full disclosure of their donors, it's an informed, organized, and activated voter.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 19, 2017 Will New Jim Crow Scam Tip Georgia's Ossoff-Handel Congressional Race?
Who accosted whom is less important than Handel promoting the dangerous new trend of attacking the press, sometimes physically, when questions are uncomfortable or challenging. I want an answer to the question: Who will decide the race in the Sixth -- the voters or Jim Crow?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 9, 2020 Bernie lost 553,000 Votes to California Dem Party Rules
In February, California mailed 3.7 million primary ballots that, to the astonishment of many who received them, excluded the presidential candidates. These ballots do have candidates for all other primary races, including for Congress, but not the race for president"
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, January 1, 2021 Georgia Closes Black Polling Stations;White Polls Open for Early Voting
"All the polling sites they cut were in Black and Brown neighborhoods," said Arnwine, Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition, who relocated to Atlanta for the US Senate run-offs. She expressed concern that Georgia leads the nation in new, sophisticated Jim Crow vote manipulation tactics.
SHARE Sunday, August 16, 2020 How Safe is Vote by Mail?
the Post Office has imploded with mail-in balloting that we've had before. So this is a huge, huge problem
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 16, 2014 Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway?
Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway?
Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires ---- and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following these hidden hugger-muggers.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 7, 2019 End PG&E's Reign of Error With a Hostile Takeover
The only thing more dangerous than leaving PG&E in the hands of its current mis-managers is the proposal to give control of PG&E to the financier known as "The Vulture," Paul Elliott Singer of Elliott Management.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, October 17, 2008 It's Already Stolen
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!
SHARE 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..
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 15, 2018 Bush Sr. Made a Killing -- 50 Miners Buried Alive
While pundits are falling all over themselves spewing about the "civility" of the patrician George H. W. Bush, l must honor the memory of those 50 men who were buried alive in a gold field in Africa so Bush Sr. could cash in.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 14, 2007 Bush Hit-Woman Behind Prosecutor Firings Has Long History of Purges to Protect Bush
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 31, 2013 How Bush Won The War In Iraq -- Really!
Oil men, whether James Baker or George Bush or Dick Cheney, are not in the business of producing oil. They are in the business of producing profits. And they've succeeded. Iraq, capable of producing six to 12 million barrels of oil a day, still exports well under its old OPEC quota of three million barrels. As George Bush could proudly say to James Baker: Mission Accomplished!
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, May 3, 2013 FBI Spiked Chechen Jihadi Investigation
When the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, I grabbed those FBI files -- and a plane for Kazakhstan, bullying cameraman Rocco D into joining me. [Rocco, no fool, won't let me print his full name.]
Here in Astana, Kazakhstan's capital, televisions everywhere run endless loops of the bombs going off at the Boston Marathon, the screams, the blood, the victims... and the questions.
SHARE Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Crime Scene -- New Orleans
Nine years ago this week, New Orleans drowned. Don't you dare blame Mother Nature. Miss Katrina killed no one in this town. But it was a homicide, with nearly 2,000 dead victims. If not Katrina, who done it? It wasn't an Act of God. It was an Act of Chevron. An Act of Exxon. An Act of Big Oil.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, December 2, 2011 Romney's Billionaire Threatens BBC Investigative Reporter "We have a File on Palast"
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."
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 1, 2018 How Brian Kemp Illegally STOLE The Georgia Election
Abrams was prepared to fight over the provisional ballots. She even got a judge to say count them -- but you can't count provisional ballots which were never handed out. It was a pure steal. And the trick that Kemp used to bleach the voter rolls whiter than white was used by the GOP nationwide. And this is the practice for 2020 -- unless we put a stop to it.
SHARE Thursday, March 5, 2015 From White Sheets to Spreadsheets
Dr. King had to lead a dangerous march from Selma for voting rights that were supposedly guaranteed a century earlier by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution -- rights won after 600,000 Americans fought to their deaths between Bull Run and Gettysburg. The struggle for civil and human rights did not begin 50 years ago, and it will not end in another 50. It is a centuries-long story of advance and retreat.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 8, 2018 Trump's Top Vote Suppressor and Illegal Alien Voter Claim Goes to Court
The mainstream media has simply missed the voting rights trial whose outcome could unleash the newest mass vote suppression weapon, the invention of Donald Trump's chief vote suppression tactician, Kris Kobach of Kansas.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 27, 2011 Sachs Fiend: Goldman Attacks Occupy Wall Street's Non-Profit Bank
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 30, 2009 The Day the President Turned Black
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.
SHARE Friday, October 26, 2018 Georgia's Brian Kemp Purged 340,134 Voters, Falsely Asserting They Had Moved
This is the story of the mass exodus from Georgia that never happened, and the mass purge of voters by Kemp, GOP candidate for governor, through methods guaranteed to disproportionately take away the vote from the young, the poor and voters of color.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 1, 2016 The No-BS Inside Guide to the Recount
There's been so much complete nonsense since I first broke the news that the Green Party would file for a recount of the presidential vote, I am compelled to write a short guide to flush out the BS and get to just the facts, ma'am.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, December 11, 2017 Legal victory stops steal in 'Bama! But...
There's one certain way to stop these vote-suppression games. One candidate, named Barack Obama, told our team: You can't steal all the votes all the time. Turn out so massively, they just can't steal it. We will see if enough Alabama citizens will cross that bridge tomorrow to overcome the trickery and flim-flam that Alabama calls an election.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 8, 2016 "Let's Make A Deal" -- A Brief History of Hillary Clinton, the Manchurian Candidate
Palast: The story I'm about to tell you is not to do oppo research for Trump's campaign. It's so you know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but -- about your candidates. I've been following the Clintons for longer than they've been running for President. I wrote about Clinton's "tour business" originally for The Guardian.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, May 20, 2011 Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 25, 2016 The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters
The Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters -- with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 17, 2014 Voter purges alter US political map
Duplicate or double voting is a crime punishable by 2 to 10 years in prison. Yet, despite this supposed vote-fraud crime wave, not one suspect on Crosscheck lists was charged, although prosecutors would have access to any alleged fraudsters' names and addresses.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 23, 2013 The Frog Who Crushed The Planet
This week, US prosecutors finally began the trial of the only person on the entire planet whom they have charged with the financial crimes that sank worldwide stock markets by trillions in 2008 and left millions homeless and jobless, from Detroit to Manchester.
Amazingly, say prosecutors, it all came down to a single Frenchman, Fabrice "Fabulous Fab" Tourre, only 29 years old at the time.
SHARE Tuesday, March 3, 2020 Disenfranchisement by Postcard
Greg Palast explains that California's rules allow the 5 million voters who register independent to vote in the Democratic primary. These are the young, progressive people who are Bernie's natural base. Listen to the tricks the party has used to trick them into not voting.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 21, 2016 Here's what we do now about Election Fraud -- a personal note
Being right never felt so horrid.
"This is the story of the theft of the 2016 election. It's a crime still in progress."
So opens my film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
And on Election night I waited for the returns to make a fool of me.
Instead, the returns made the fool a President.
And so, my vacation's cancelled. My life's cancelled; that is, a life of anything but sleuthing and exposing the details...
(16 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 14, 2013 Rand Paul's Zombie-nomics versus Janet Yellen
Will Senator Rand Paul, misunderstanding the voices of the un-dead, block the appointment of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board?
No joke. Tea Party fave Paul told the Wall Street Journal he would have preferred Milton Friedman, the free-market fanatic, to the liberal-ish Yellen. But, as a stunned Journal reporter informed the Senator, Milton Friedman is, alas, some years dead.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, February 9, 2018 The "Steele Dossier" on... Me: Why the Nunes Memo should scare you
Despite Nunes' assertions, nothing in his memo -- none of this FBI misconduct, however unacceptable -- undermines Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Trump and gang. Still, I cannot applaud billionaires bending our elections, manipulating -- wittingly or unwittingly -- the FBI.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, April 18, 2014 Lap Dancers, the CIA, Pay-offs, and BP’s Deepwater Horizon
Lap Dancers, the CIA, Pay-offs, and BP’s Deepwater Horizon. There was CIA involvement through a company called Mega Oil. They were shipping in arms under the cover of oil tools.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, March 11, 2016 Fukushima: They Knew
I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level.
Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant:
Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated...In fact, the plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earthquake.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 15, 2018 How JFK Saved MLK's Life And So Won The Presidency
It was a Republican, Martin Luther King Sr., who made John Kennedy president of the United States -- for JFK's saving Daddy King's son, Martin Jr., from lynching. Those mighty Kings and Kennedys are gone. Today, we honor a man whose courage must now be ours; and then we can make American truly great again.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Mississippi: Ugly Old Trick Targets Espy Voters
Palast Investigative Fund attorneys, led by Jeanne Mirer of Mirer Mazzocchi & Julien of New York, have notified the State of Mississippi that The Palast Fund will file suit under the National Voter Registration Act unless we receive complete information about mass purges in the state prior to the mid-term elections.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 15, 2018 Ohio's Junk Mail Trick Led The Supreme Court To Approve Jim Crow Vote Purge
Even the Court's right-wing majority concedes that federal law strictly forbids removing voters because they skipped some elections. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 states that a voter purge program "shall not result in the removal of the name of any person ... by reason of the person's failure to vote."
SHARE Friday, December 1, 2017 Vote "Caging" Gets legal?!? RNC Asks Court To Lift Consent Decree That Blocked Jim Crow Voter Purge Scam
When voting-rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined our investigations team in 2008, he examined the latest documents we'd squirreled out of Republican Party headquarters' files. And then he said, speaking of Karl Rove and his associate Tim Griffin, "What they did was absolutely illegal -- and they knew it and they did it anyway. Griffin should be in jail."
But Griffin's not in jail, he went to Congress.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 6, 2015 Cops gun down un-armed journalist's career
Cops gun down un-armed journalist's career.
The story: On July 27, the LA Times fired their long-time columnist and cartoonist Ted Rall for fabricating a story of police misconduct. The LA Times' evidence? A tape recording provided by the LAPD. Problem was, the tape was muffled--possibly tampered with.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 10, 2018 Georgia Voter Purge Victim: "This Was a Strategy From Kemp"
Abrams' legal team is fighting to count every ballot -- including those provisionals, as well as the piles of absentee ballots rejected under Kemp's rules -- to force Kemp into a run-off. The fact that Kemp is blocking legitimate requests for provisional ballots will make the push for a re-run that much harder.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 25, 2018 Look what Santa Brought from Georgia
Now that Brian Kemp is no longer Secretary of State of Georgia, his office has informed The Palast Investigative Fund attorneys that they are throwing in the towel in the Palast and Butler v. Kemp suit we filed in Atlanta Federal Court in October.
SHARE Sunday, May 13, 2018 Mom's Last Message For You
In 1988, Mom was a delegate to the Democratic Party Convention in Atlanta. But the maids and janitors at the Atlanta Marriott were on strike. My mother donned her red-white-and-blue outfit, added a mop and bucket -- dressed union pickets with the same outfits -- and challenged the Democrats not to cross the picket line. It put her and her mop on the cover of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 24, 2013 Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
On May 6, 2008, twelve fraudulent voters, dressed as nuns, attempted to cast ballots in the Presidential Primary in Indiana.
It turns out the nuns that Posner's ruling turned away were, in fact "nuns. All the sisters had photo drivers licenses, but they had expired.
It was a cute story that ran nationwide. What wasn't so cute, was that 72,000 Black voters were black voters were blocked at the polls.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 25, 2018 Florida = Honduras: Inequality kills.
A crucial factor about the Florida killer: his family had to move out of the school district because they couldn't afford the rent. Resentment yields anger. Not every poor kid becomes a killer -- think Bill Clinton -- but there will be one. Inequality kills.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Purged Voters' "Provisional" Ballots Could Decide Georgia Governor Race
"Federal judges may feel differently about Kemp's right not to count these provisional ballots," says Jeanne Mirer, lead attorney on the lawsuit filed against Kemp in October. If the court determines that Kemp misused his power as Georgia's "Purge'n General" it could order that those provisional votes be counted.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 2, 2021 Georgia's New Voting Law Is Rife With Hidden Horrors
The food-in-line prohibition is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to horrific provisions hidden in the 95 pages of Georgia's new anti-voting law.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 27, 2020 Ballot Condom for Safe Voting
Protect the health of your democracy during this epidemic of stupidity, meanness, and misinformation. Follow these simple instructions
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 19, 2016 Dad's Last Erection
It was 1965 and Martin Luther King was speaking about the three kinds of love as defined by the Greek philosophers. King's philosophy lesson was given in a church surrounded by angry white men who changed their white sheets for police uniforms and were prepared to burn down the church as they had done before.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 23, 2011 Goldfinger eats Congo
"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."
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 18, 2018 Why we are suing Ohio and Kansas -- We CAN Reverse Purges
The doors to the truth are opening. Ohio's Husted has now given us the name of every single voter purged in the last decade. But we need the details of who got postcards, who returned them, and why he sent these voters postcards in the first place. And we need copies of the junk mail that stole Ohio's democracy.
(12 comments) SHARE Friday, August 14, 2009 Obama on Drugs: 98% Cheney?
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.
SHARE Sunday, April 19, 2020 Vote-by-Mail Could Cost Dems the Election
Unless America radically changes the way we send, receive and count mail-in ballots, the massive switch to postal voting, and the mountain of uncounted minority votes it will generate, could lead to Trump's re-election -- no matter the will of the voters.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 2, 2018 How the "Bernie of Mexico" Won the Presidency
AMLO has won a crushing, too-big-to-steal victory in Mexico's presidential election.
And while the Good and Great told him he'd be finished if he kept protesting the stolen election, he made counting every vote the very first of his five-point campaign platform. He understands that even those with empty stomachs also hunger for democracy.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, December 8, 2017 Poor People's Non-Profit Bank Sues Trump Over Illegal Seizure Of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Willie Sutton robbed banks -- Trump is worse -- he's letting the banks rob their customers. The CFPB is trying to corral the pay-day check cashing predators. Trump wants to continue the shake-down and give the jackals a tax break. By suing Trump, New York's Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union is making itself a target of the entire Trump regime and its rightwing Brownshirts.
SHARE Thursday, May 31, 2018 Rhymes with Weinstein
Greg Palast, the journalist, shares a brain with Greg Palast the poet and story writer. This is the first time Palast the poet has bothered you with verse -- and the last time.
SHARE Sunday, April 26, 2020 We Won't Lift the Quarantine on Kemp
Gov. Brian Kemp has decided to "open up" Georgia, extending a nice, warm Georgia welcome to the coronavirus. Even Fox News pundits are rolling their eyes and Trump, finger in the wind, turned on Kemp.
SHARE Saturday, December 16, 2017 Gov. McAuliffe, End New Jim Crow Voter Suppression Tactic
Imagine if Gov. McAuliffe put an end to Virginia's strange and inexplicable participation in a GOP voter suppression trick that reeks of Jim Crow. Since 2013, this stealth voter purge program has cost tens of thousands of Virginians of color their right to vote. It's called Interstate Crosscheck. The Crosscheck hit list is racially biased in the extreme. The lists are little more than compilations of common names.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 4, 2016 'Colonel' behind the "caging" attack on Black voters in N Carolina exposed
'Colonel' behind the "caging" attack on Black voters in N Carolina exposed.
While the rest of the press is shocked that white North Carolina vigilantes are using racially-poisonous trickery to knock more than 6,700 Black citizens off the voter rolls, we already have the ringleader of the scheme on camera boasting of his election-snatching tactics.
SHARE Saturday, August 29, 2020 Why didn't the Justice Dept indict Kobach as well as Bannon?
The wire transfers of $250,000 and $100,000 that Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage were indicted for would have to be approved by the We Build the Wall foundation's general counsel Kris Kobach, who used the non-profit's donor list to raise money for his Senate run, normally a felony crime.
SHARE Saturday, January 3, 2015 A Tale of Two Cuomos
It is the harsh and uncomforting work of a journalist to reveal the unforgiving facts when history is falsified. It's a task I would rather avoid, especially now that The Governor's great, golden voice, the voice that spoke for the working person, is silenced forever. Now, may you rest in peace, Mario Cuomo. Both of you.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, October 21, 2011 The 1% Who Get The Gold Mine (We Get The Shaft)
[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.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Obama's "Way-to-Go, Brownie!" Moment?
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 11, 2013 Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It's the oil. And it's the Koch Brothers -- and it's the ketchup.
SHARE Wednesday, November 28, 2018 Abrams' New Voting Rights Org -- Fair Fight Georgia -- Files Suit
Abrams, who has formed a non-partisan voter protection organization, Fair Fight Georgia, cites, among other racially biased attacks on the rights of citizens to vote, the wrongful mass purge of voters by Secretary of State Brian Kemp -- who was Abrams' opponent and the presumptive winner.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 28, 2018 Gladys Palast 1921 -- 2018
On Friday at 11am, Mom will be memorialized at Miramar Military Cemetery. My father, who gave away his combat medals to protest the War in Vietnam, will have his ashes interred beside her; each will receive a full military color guard. Mom taught us how to make noise, make trouble and make a difference -- in our little tract home in San Fernando Valley, filled with extraordinary idealism, humor, confidence, caring and love.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Too Fat To Vote
The Voting Rights Act was the law that Martin Luther King Jr had a dream about a half-century ago: that all citizens will be able to exercise their right to vote. But, like all pleasant dreams, morning means waking up to the ugly reality sleeping next to you.
SHARE Friday, February 5, 2016 Who Hatched Rubio?
I've been on the trail of racist vote suppression tactics since 2000 when Katherine Harris was Purge'n General. And behind so many of the moves to disenfranchise voters, all too successful, is the Rove operation. This is not about whether Rubio or Clinton or Sanders or any other candidate should win. This is about making sure that the ballots, not the billionaires, determine the election.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 17, 2013 New York Genitals Fight for Office
New York Genitals Fight for Office. Go ahead and shoot me. It's hopeless. My War on Stupid is facing defeat on every front.
I open up the New York Times and there's a page one story about Anthony Weiner, who is now ahead in the race for Mayor of New York.
The article is 17 column inches long. I measured. The entire profile of the candidate -- every bumpy, veined inch of it -- is about Mr Weiner's penis.
SHARE Monday, December 16, 2013 The Mandela Barbie
I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his image up in any silly outfit they choose.
It's more nauseating than hypocrisy and ignorance.
SHARE Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Georgia tries to block new voters ahead of runoff
Georgia's Board of Elections is trying to sneak through a new rule that could block new registrations before the Senate runoff to people who don't have a car registered in the state.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Stick Your Damn Hand In It
Corporate Fraud: Victims, Living or Dead
Exxon is immortal?
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 28, 2012 So These Ten Nuns Walk Into a . . .
The draconian ID law and other voting and registration restrictions passed in just the year before the 2012 election, according to the Brennan Center, are going to cost five million voters to lose their civil rights.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 20, 2006 Recipe for a Cooked Election
A nasty little secret of American democracy is that, in every national election, ballots cast are simply thrown in the garbage
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 21, 2011 It's Not Default of Obama: Jail GOP Deadbeats for Debt Crisis
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Stealing Georgia: Raffensperger is No Hero
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is exposed for using vote suppression Jim Crow tactics, even misleading a federal court to keep 198,000 Georgians from voting in Tuesday's Senate run-off.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Tuesday, March 1, 2016 Rubio's Billionaire wins ransom from Argentina
Paul Singer, known as The Vulture, won a $4.65 billion payment from Argentina -- nearly ONE HUNDRED TIMES his "investment" of $50 million in old Argentina bonds. It was, in finance speak, the most successful "vulture attack" ever.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, September 19, 2008 Night of the Living Vote-snatchers - from Steal Back Your Vote!
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]
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 9, 2006 UNREPORTED: THE ZARQAWI INVITATION
They got him -- the big, bad, beheading berserker in Iraq. But, something's gone unreported in all the glee over getting Zarqawi … who invited him into Iraq in the first place?
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 8, 2007 RFK: Rove And Rove's Brain, 'Should be in jail,' Not In Office
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 28, 2008 How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft
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.
SHARE 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.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 30, 2008 The Case of 1,000,000 Missing Votes
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, September 11, 2006 Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 16, 2021 "Organized" March to Capitol Was Not Permitted, Rally Organizers Warned White House
Before Donald Trump exhorted the Jan. 6 rally to march on the Capitol, the White House had been warned by the rally sponsor that there was no permit for a march, that the Interior Department's Park Police were promised there would be no march, and that such an unplanned march was dangerous.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Georgia, do I really have to sue you again?
The Palast Investigative Fund wrote a letter to the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanding he obtain the list of over 198,000 voters he and his predecessor, Brian Kemp, wrongly purged from the voter rolls -- and return these voters to the registration rolls before the election.
SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 25, 2006 LAY CONVICTED, BUSH WALKS (AND AHNOLD GETS LAY'D)
Don't kid yourself. If you think the conviction of Ken Lay means that George W. Bush is serious about going after corporate bad guys, think again.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 9, 2013 Vaya Con Dios, Hugo
In one last move, Chavez played a brilliant endgame, naming Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, as good and decent a man as they come, as heir to the fight for those in the "ranchos." The One Percent of Venezuela, planning on Chavez's death to return them the power and riches they couldn't win in an election, are livid with the choice of Maduro. Class war on a chessboard. Even in death, I wouldn't bet against Hugo Chavez.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, July 14, 2006 Why Democrats Don't Count: Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 4, 2012 BP Settlement Sells Out Victims
Some deal. BP gets the gold mine and its victims get the shaft. And a few lawyers will get vacation homes--though they won't be so stupid as to build them on the Gulf Coast.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Naked neo-cons: Perjury and the Big, Bad Wolfowitz
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 10, 2006 How George Bush Gave Krazy Kim the Bomb
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 11, 2008 Will Jose Crow Voter ID Laws Pick Our President?
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
SHARE 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.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Trump may name Kris Kobach new immigration czar
The real danger in this "Immigration Czar" appointment: Kobach could organize the purge of young voters and voters of color by the hundreds of thousands just before the 2020 election. For all his antics, don't underestimate Kobach, a graduate of Harvard, Yale and Oxford. The wily lawyer and political hit-man knows that the lawsuits by voter victims wouldn't bite until after the steal of the 2020 election.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, June 18, 2007 The Tears of a Clone
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Watch Greg Palast on Youtube Video
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.
SHARE 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...
SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, January 25, 2008 South Carolina Primary Colors: Black and White?
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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, August 14, 2006 So Osama Walks Into This Bar, See?
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.
SHARE 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
SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 8, 2006 RUMSFELD: VIRGIN FOR THE VOLCANO
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.
SHARE 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.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 3, 2006 Stealling It (the Mexican Election) In Front of Your Eyes
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 29, 2007 US Media Have Lost the Will to Dig Deep
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.
SHARE 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.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, June 23, 2008 Is the 2008 Election Stolen Already? Vote Theft for Idiots - Part One
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 ...
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 28, 2007 American Nightmare: Gonzales 'wrong and illegal and unethical'
"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...
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 19, 2007 SENATORS DEMAND JUSTICE DEPT. INVESTIGATION INTO TIM GRIFFIN, RNC 2004 VOTE CAGING ALLEGATIONS
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
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Greg Palast: Kerry won in '04
Kerry Won. Now Get Over It . . .
...because they're putting '08 in their pocket. Republicans just seem to have that winning spirit. They also have caging lists, felons of the future, rotting ballots, snuffed canaries, and a lock on the votes of Kissinger-Americans and the undead.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, July 7, 2006 Senor Blank-o wins in Mexico
... 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Student Tasered for Armed Madhouse Question to Kerry
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.
SHARE 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.
(10 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.
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.
SHARE Sunday, April 30, 2006 Armed Madhouse
A five-part investigation of
global economic piggery so deep, dark and devious you just have to
scream or cry -- or laugh. From the author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy".
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Big Brother Inc. Tries to Fool Randi Rhodes -- And That's Not Nice
I smell mendacity! The sticky-sweet Atlanta drawl of the PR flack for America's private KGB was dancing in rhetorical circles with Randi Rhodes, Air American, on her broadcast yesterday. Unfortunately for the Bush-friendly Spies-R-Us contractor, Randi also has a keen nose for the telltale scent of pure bullshit.
SHARE 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." 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.
SHARE Friday, September 2, 2005 BUSH STRAFES NEW ORLEANS. WHERE IS OUR HUEY LONG?
Hurricanes happen, but death comes from official neglect, from tax cuts for the rich that cut the heart out of public protection. The corpses in the street are victims of a class war in which only one side has a general.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 14, 2007 The Assassination of Hugo Chavez
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
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 25, 2007 Off the Rails: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the State of the Union
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...
SHARE 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-
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 12, 2005 R. ROVE AND THE ACCESS OF EVIL; Tell Us Your "Source," Judy
The only thing more evil, small-minded and treacherous than the Bush Administration's jailing Judith Miller for a crime the Bush Administration committed, is Judith Miller covering up her Bush Administration "source."
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 3, 2006 I WANT TO HURT SOMEBODY
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.
SHARE Tuesday, April 11, 2006 LOSER NATION
America is a nation of losers. It's the best thing about us. We're the dregs, what the rest of the world barfed up and threw on our shores.
I finally figured out what's wrong with George Walker Bush. He's so far away from his refugee loser roots that he just doesn't get what it is to be American. So he steals the one thing that every American is handed off the boat: a chance.