Stories by Greg Palast
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy."
In its notorious US Attorney purge, the White House fired an honest prosectuor in Arkansas to be replaced with Timothy Griffin, a former assistant to Karl Rove -- but will allegations of election theft catch up with him?
Posted on Mar 9, 2007
The Venezuelan president predicts that US world influence will wane: before the end of this century, 'We will see the burial of the empire of the eagle.'
Posted on Jul 26, 2006
The NAACP never expected much from George Bush, and his speech at its convention did nothing to change that.
Posted on Jul 22, 2006
CBS canned Rather for his reporting on Bush's questionable military service -- but the BBC had already told that story to millions.
Posted on Jun 23, 2006
Did the U.S. invade Iraq to tap its oil reserves or to make sure they stayed under the sand?
Posted on Jun 14, 2006
As Karl Rove chuckles and Judy does time, what are Miller and The New York Times doing: protecting a source or covering up their conduit to the Bush gang's machinery of deception?
Posted on Jul 15, 2005
A BBC investigation reveals a major policy battle between the neoconservatives and Big Oil over the future of Iraqi oil – long before the 9/11 attacks.
Posted on Mar 17, 2005
Lost in the folly of the 'CBS Report' – and the subsequent purges – is the fact that the story behind it is the truth.
Posted on Jan 13, 2005
If you look at presidential debates the way the media plays it, as something akin to Olympic figure skating, where you score for the competitor's style, you could say Kerry won. But did
we win anything?
Posted on Oct 1, 2004
The CBS news anchor's experience is likely to reaffirm the fear that stops other reporters in the U.S. press from taking on the Bush administration lest it harm their careers.
Posted on Sep 20, 2004
It starts with an invasion of our Social Security trust fund.
Posted on Sep 3, 2004
Will the gang that fixed Florida fix the vote in Venezuela where Hugo Chavez is expected to win this Sunday?
Posted on Aug 12, 2004
One million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential election; this year it could be worse.
Posted on Jun 21, 2004
On October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb.
Posted on Apr 30, 2004
Why does former Secretary of State James Baker, now a lobbyist for the oil industry, have an office in the White House? The answer is in the State Department's secret 'Iraq Strategy' paper.
Posted on Apr 26, 2004
The Hutton Inquiry let the Blair government off the hook and trained its guns on the real enemy: independent journalism.
Posted on Jan 29, 2004
To get around the wee issue that Bush has no legal authority to mess with Iraq's debt, the White House has crafted a neat little subterfuge.
Posted on Dec 9, 2003
If Arnold wins, it's hasta la vista baby, to the $9 billion owed to the state of California by Enron and the other electricity barons.
Posted on Oct 5, 2003
The suggestion by French diplomats that, if the US invaded Iraq to bring democracy, then why not allow Iraqis to vote, has got Thomas Friedman's brain a-boilin'.
Posted on Sep 19, 2003
The tale of the Brits who swiped 800 jobs from New York, carted off $90 million and turned off our lights.
Posted on Aug 19, 2003
This excerpt from Palast's bestselling book explains why the media did not expose Jeb Bush's manipulation of the Florida voter rolls.
Posted on Jul 31, 2003
Well, actually, he's not. How the American media distorted events in Venezuela beyond all recognition is clear to one who reported from there.
Posted on Jun 25, 2003
How the New York Times, NPR and others drove a U.S. congresswoman out of office based on a quote that was never uttered.
Posted on Jun 18, 2003
Today, there is a new and real threat to minority voters, this time from cyberspace: computerized purges of voter rolls.
Posted on May 13, 2003
It's a tale of two coups. In Venezuela, the tale tells of the efforts of one old-style social democrat. In Argentina, it tells of the failure of the World Bank's policies.
Posted on Jul 24, 2002
It's a tale of two coups. In Venezuela, the tale tells of the efforts of one old-style social democrat. In Argentina, it tells of the failure of the World Bank's policies.
Posted on Jul 24, 2002
One of Britain's top investigative journalists interviews Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank, about how corporate globalization has gone horribly wrong.
Posted on Mar 19, 2002
Enron is not the only power company to have pushed hard for and profitted wildly from deregulation -- it's not even the only one to be associated with a mysterious suicide.
Posted on Feb 11, 2002
Over 64,000 Democrats were purged from Florida's voter rolls a few months before the 2000 election, many illegally. This extraordinary news ran on Page 1 -- in Britain.
Posted on Mar 6, 2001
