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Senators Demand Investigation Into Vote Caging
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 9:57 am | Greg Palast
Senators Demand Justice Dept. Investigation Into Tim Griffin, RNC 2004 Vote Caging Allegations Sens. Kennedy and Whitehouse Send Letter to DoJ Inspector General’s Office Seeking Probe into RNC Voter Supression Tactics More >>
Boo-hoo! I made Tim Griffin cry
Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 11:35 am | Greg Palast
You remember Tim. Karl Rove's right hand (right claw?) man. The GOP's ragin' cagin' man. More >>
Stayin' Alive: Palast Madhouse Rave
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:05 am | Greg Palast
Missed the Armed Madhouse tour? Then catch it, the horrific and the humorous -- one hour of pure Palast, laying it out live in Tampa, with stories from the New York Times bestseller and more. More >>
USA Resigns Following Conyers’ BBC Docs. Request
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 3:01 pm | Greg Palast
Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement in ‘caging ... More >>
Greg Palast On 'Greg Palast Is Dangerous'
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 2:37 pm | Greg Palast
Saturday morning, when most sensible folks were unfurling flags or taking their setters and children for a Memorial Day frisbee toss on the beach, someone using the nom d’puter of “DRATIONAL” was in his big sister’s bedroom furiously ... More >>
Greg Palast: The Goods on Goodling
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 10:40 am | Greg Palast
BBC Television’s Newsnight has 500 “missing” Rove office emails including a series of self-incriminating notes which provide “the keys to the kingdom” behind the prosecutor firings. [1] More >>
Greg Palast: An Army of Rove-Bots
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 11:06 am | Greg Palast
“The wheels have come off, the engine is on fire and no one is driving,” Captain David Iglesias told me yesterday. I’d asked the Naval Reserve officer, heading off to duty in Norfolk, why he didn’t want his old job back, United States Attorney ... More >>
Amy Goodman & Greg Palast Mom's Day Broadcast
Monday, 14 May 2007, 12:57 am | Greg Palast
Amy and Greg have a couple of neo-cons for lunch - recorded live at the LA Book Fest. Want a taste? Read the Interview with Palast from the Dollars & Sense magazine spring issue about to hit the streets … "I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding." More >>
Naked Neo-Cons: Perjury & The Big, Bad Wolfowitz
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 12:13 am | Greg Palast
George Bush is trying to save Paul Wolfowitz' job as President of the World Bank even after the vulpine neo-con was caught slipping a load of World Bank loot to his love interest, Shaha Ali Riza. More >>
RFK: Rove And Rove's Brain, 'Should be in jail'
Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 11:07 am | Greg Palast
NEW YORK -- Voting rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called for prison time for the new US Attorney for Arkansas, Timothy Griffin and investigation of Griffin's former boss, Karl Rove, chief political advisor to President Bush. More >>
Greg Palast: Hillary’s Mother-F’ing Tour Business
Tuesday, 8 May 2007, 11:10 am | Greg Palast
Before his untimely death in a plane crash, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown said, “I’m not Hillary’s mother-f****** tour guide!” That wasn’t a nice thing for a member of the President’s cabinet to say about the First Lady, now my Senator, Hillary ... More >>
Greg Palast: 18 Missing Inches in New Orleans
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 11:41 am | Greg Palast
Since the initial release of Armed Madhouse in June 2006, much has changed in America. The Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year hunt for Osama, finally brought charges against... Greg Palast. More >>
Palast: US Media Have Lost the Will to Dig Deep
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 9:58 pm | Greg Palast
In an e-mail uncovered and released by the House Judiciary Committee last month, Tim Griffin, once Karl Rove's right-hand man, gloated that "no [U.S.] national press picked up" a BBC Television story reporting that the Rove team had developed an elaborate ... More >>
Greg Palast: Don’t Fire Gonzales
Monday, 30 April 2007, 2:24 pm | Greg Palast
Before President Bush fired his sorry ass, US Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico, in a last sad attempt to suck up to his Republican padrones, allowed his chief mouthpiece, Norm Cairns, to speak with me. He shouldn’t have. More >>
Greg Palast: The New Armed Madhouse Out Today
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 8:03 pm | Greg Palast
If you have ANY plan to grab a copy of my book, Armed Madhouse, I’m asking you, please: do it THIS WEEK. The new edition, in paperback, totally updated with two new chapters, is out today. More >>
Sundance George, Butch Reid & the VA Tech Massacre
Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 1:30 pm | Greg Palast
He had accomplices. Don't kid yourself: 23-year-old Cho Seung-hui didn't forge his two little pistols in his smithy shop. He had a dealer, a guns-and-bullets pusher-man who put the heat in his hand, took the kid's money and pocketed it with a grin. More >>
Rove Tries to Bury A White House Gone Wild
Wednesday, 11 April 2007, 10:41 am | Greg Palast
The House Judiciary Committee just released two emails, dated February 5 and 7, from inside Karl Rove's office, in which the Rove-bots gloat that no US media have picked up the investigations of "that British reporter Greg Palast" found in my book Armed ... More >>
It's STILL the oil: Secret Condi Meeting on Oil
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 11:52 am | Greg Palast
Four years ago this week, the tanks rolled for what President Bush originally called, " Operation Iraqi Liberation " -- O.I.L. I kid you not. And it was four years ago that, from the White House, George Bush, declaring war, said, "I want to talk to ... More >>
Harriet Miers' History of Purges to Protect Bush
Thursday, 15 March 2007, 7:09 pm | Greg Palast
The Mister Big behind the scandal of George Bush's firing of US Attorneys is not a 'mister' at all. The House Judiciary Committee has released White House emails indicating that the political operative who ordered the hit on prosecutors too honest ... More >>
Greg Palast: Bush's New US Attorney a Criminal?
Thursday, 8 March 2007, 3:16 pm | Greg Palast
There's only one thing worse than sacking an honest prosecutor. That's replacing an honest prosecutor with a criminal. There was one big hoohah in Washington yesterday as House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers pulled down the pants on George Bush's firing ... More >>