Greg Palast

Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures' Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review. His books have been translated into two dozen languages. Palast is known for complex undercover investigations, spanning five continents, from the Arctic to the Amazon, from Caracas to California, using the skills he learned over two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud.

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07 August 2012
Colonels in mirrored sunglasses
Greg Palast
Here are the facts, ma'am:In the 2008 election, no fewer than:
  • 767,023 provisional ballots were cast and not counted;
  • 1,451,116 ballots were...
19 March 2012
Cops beat our cameraman ZD Roberts
Greg Palast
[New York Monday March 19] Our photographer ZD Roberts was beaten by New York City cops with nightsticks while covering Occupy Wall Street's attempt to re-take...
11 March 2012
"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"
Greg Palast
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...
24 December 2011
My declaration of war on Christmas
Greg Palast
Click on the image to watch the segment I don't usually watch Today or any American TV because my reports appear on the British Broadcasting Corporation, a...
20 November 2011
Before the beginning: Raven, that Lying Little Bastard
Greg Palast
"If I had a machine gun, I'd kill every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka didn't say, "white." He used the unkind Alutiiq phrase, isuwiq-something,...
10 November 2011
Escape from Lady Baba-land:Getting the hell out of the Islamic Republic of BP with the Deepwater Horizon evidence
Greg Palast
[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,...

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