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.

Articles by Author

14 March 2011
Tokyo Electric to build U.S. nuclear plants: The no-BS info on Japan's disastrous nuclear operators
Greg Palast
I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering...
20 December 2010
Palast arrested: Busted by BP in Azerbaijan
Greg Palast
BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010 "Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR...
25 August 2010
Five years and still drowning: The New Orleans CNN would never show you
Greg Palast
It's been five years already. In New Orleans, more than half the original residents have not, cannot, return.

"They don't want no poor niggers...
05 February 2010
Kvetcher in the Rye
Greg Palast
In the sixth grade, the Boys' Vice-Principal threatened to suspend me from school unless I stopped carrying around The Catcher in the Rye I think because it...
07 August 2009
Grand theft auto: how Stevie the Rat bankrupted GM
Greg Palast
Screw the autoworkers.

They may be crying about General Motors' bankruptcy today. But dumping 40,000 of the last 60,000 union jobs into a mass...
05 January 2009
Bill Richardson - Kissinger-American
Greg Palast
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....

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