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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30 August 2007
"They wanted them poor niggers out of there." -- New Orleans two years after
Greg Palast
"They wanted them poor niggers out of there and they ain't had no intention to allow it to be reopened to no poor niggers, you know? And that's just the...
24 August 2007
Hurricane George: how the White House drowned New Orleans
Greg Palast
It's been two years.  And America's media is about to have another tear-gasm over New Orleans.  Maybe Anderson Cooper will weep again.  The big networks will...
05 July 2007
John Perkins:  jerk, con-man, shill
Greg Palast
I remember John Perkins.  He was a real jerk.  A gold-plated, super-slick lying little butthole shill for corporate gangsters; a snake-oil salesman with a...
03 July 2007
What's keeping you here, punk?
Greg Palast
Another Fourth on the North Fork.  Time to pick the new Strawberry Queen, shine the fire trucks, put out the collection jar for the un-insured and beat up the...
25 June 2007
Randi Rhodes and Greg Palast hunt Giuliani's favorite vulture
Greg Palast
"Can't he make a living in a more reputable, less disgusting way, say, in child pornography?"

Randi Rhodes is asking you, Mr. Singer.  And we're...
18 June 2007
The tears of a clone: Conyers closes in on Karl and his Rove-bots
Greg Palast
Boo-hoo! I made Tim Griffin cry.

He cried. Then he lied.

You remember Tim. Karl Rove's right hand (right claw?) man. The GOP's ragin...

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