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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
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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.
Friday, May 20, 2011Strauss-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.
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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.
Sunday, April 24, 2011BP'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.
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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.
Monday, December 20, 2010Palast 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.
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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.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010Bradley 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.
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
The Gross Negligence of BP: Oil Giant's Trying to Slick Its Way Out of Controversy In the end, this is bigger than BP and its policy of cheaping-out and skiving the rules. This is about the anti-regulatory mania which has infected the American body politic.
Sunday, May 9, 2010The Gross Negligence of BP: Oil Giant's Trying to Slick Its Way Out of Controversy In the end, this is bigger than BP and its policy of cheaping-out and skiving the rules. This is about the anti-regulatory mania which has infected the American body politic.
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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.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010Slick 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.
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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.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010AZ 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.
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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.
Monday, April 26, 2010Behind 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.
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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
Wednesday, February 3, 2010The 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
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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.
Saturday, January 23, 2010Manchurian 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.
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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.
Thursday, January 21, 2010Manchurian 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.
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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.
Sunday, January 17, 2010The 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.
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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, December 15, 2009Supreme 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.
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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."
Tuesday, September 22, 2009TIME 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."
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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."
Thursday, August 27, 2009Expert 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."
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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.
Friday, August 14, 2009Obama 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.
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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.
Thursday, July 30, 2009The 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.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
Greg Palast Investigates... On the Trail - Coming Soon Greg Palast Investigates... On the Trail DVD Trailer
Monday, March 30, 2009Greg Palast Investigates... On the Trail - Coming Soon Greg Palast Investigates... On the Trail DVD Trailer
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Stick Your Damn Hand In It Corporate Fraud: Victims, Living or Dead Exxon is immortal?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009Stick Your Damn Hand In It Corporate Fraud: Victims, Living or Dead Exxon is immortal?
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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.
Monday, March 23, 2009Stick 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.
