Stories by Greg Palast
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." View Palast's reports for BBC TV and Democracy Now! at gregpalast.com.
Posted on Nov 18, 2011, Source: Penguin Books
In this excerpt of investigative journalist Greg Palast's new book "Vulture's Picnic," Palast tracks the mess wrought by the oil industry in Alaska.
Posted on Nov 18, 2011, Source: Penguin Books
In his new book, journalist Greg Palast talks about his encounter with Etok, an Inupiat Alaskan fighting oil companies and their government backers.
Posted on Oct 5, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
Stealing oil from Indian reservations, cheating dying workers out of compensation for asbestos-exposure claims, voter-roll purging -- just some of the work of these kingmakers.
Posted on Mar 14, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
Obama recently asked Congress for a $4 billion loan guarantee for two new nuclear reactors on the Gulf Coast of Texas -- involving Tokyo Electric Power.
Posted on Feb 15, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
Mr. President, will you stand by your words and tell this renegade, deadly US corporation to pay for the damage they have done?
Posted on May 6, 2010, Source: GregPalast.com
As a fraud investigator hired to dig into Exxon Valdez, I can see that BP's role in the devastation in Alaska is exactly the way BP is now sliming the entire Gulf Coast.
Posted on Apr 28, 2010, Source: GregPalast.com
Arizona Republicans know their party will soon be electoral toast without preventing the exploding number of legal Hispanics from voting.
Posted on Jan 22, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Court's decision is far, far more dangerous to U.S. democracy. Think: Manchurian candidates.
Posted on Dec 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet
I'm biting my nails waiting for the Supreme Court's ruling in 'Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission' -- here's why you should be too.
Posted on Nov 6, 2009, Source: GregPalast.com
It's the latest hit from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant, Saddam = WMD.
Posted on Jun 4, 2009, Source: GregPalast.com
Stevie the Rat has a sinister plan for GM: grab its worker pension funds to pay off $6 billion in loans to the likes of JP Morgan and Citibank.
Posted on Jan 27, 2009, Source: Suicide Girls
Maybe John Thain, the guy who demanded $30 million after screwing up Merrill Lynch, should be our Secretary of Treasury.
Posted on Dec 11, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
Joel Klein is being considered for secretary of education, which would make as much sense for our schools as Michael Brown did for disaster relief.
Posted on Mar 9, 2007, Source: GregPalast.com
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 Jul 26, 2006, Source: The Progressive
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 22, 2006, Source: GregPalast.com
The NAACP never expected much from George Bush, and his speech at its convention did nothing to change that.
Posted on Jun 23, 2006, Source: AlterNet
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 14, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Did the U.S. invade Iraq to tap its oil reserves or to make sure they stayed under the sand?
Posted on Jul 15, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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 Mar 17, 2005, Source: GregPalast.com
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 Jan 13, 2005, Source: GregPalast.com
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 Oct 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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 Sep 20, 2004, Source: GregPalast.com
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 3, 2004, Source: AlterNet
It starts with an invasion of our Social Security trust fund.
Posted on Aug 12, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Will the gang that fixed Florida fix the vote in Venezuela where Hugo Chavez is expected to win this Sunday?
Posted on Jun 21, 2004, Source: AlterNet
One million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential election; this year it could be worse.
Posted on Apr 30, 2004, Source: The Nation
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 26, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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 Jan 29, 2004, Source: GregPalast.com
The Hutton Inquiry let the Blair government off the hook and trained its guns on the real enemy: independent journalism.
Posted on Dec 9, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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 Oct 5, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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 Sep 19, 2003, Source: GregPalast.com
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 Aug 19, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The tale of the Brits who swiped 800 jobs from New York, carted off $90 million and turned off our lights.
Posted on Jul 31, 2003, Source: WorkingForChange.com
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 Jun 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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 18, 2003, Source: AlterNet
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 May 13, 2003, Source: GregPalast.com
Today, there is a new and real threat to minority voters, this time from cyberspace: computerized purges of voter rolls.
Posted on Jul 24, 2002, Source: The New Internationalist
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, Source: The New Internationalist
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 Mar 19, 2002, Source: AlterNet
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.
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