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Palast Hunts the Real Life Goldfinger for BBC
Thursday, 22 February 2007, 1:16 pm | Greg Palast
Palast Hunts the Real Life Goldfinger for BBC - watch it on Democracy Now! "Vulture Fund” Company Wins $20 Million Payment from Zambia on $4 Million Debt Thursday, February 15th, 2007 More >>
Palast: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the SOTU
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 11:11 am | Greg Palast
There was that tongue again. When the President lies he's got this weird nervous tick: He sticks the tip of his tongue out between his lips. Like a little boy who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. More >>
Palast: Big Oil Wins Big in the State of the Union
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 9:06 am | Greg Palast
There was that tongue again. When the President lies he's got this weird nervous tick: He sticks the tip of his tongue out between his lips. Like a little boy who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. More >>
Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
Friday, 12 January 2007, 9:45 am | Greg Palast
George W. Bush has an urge to surge. Like every junkie, he asks for just one more fix: let him inject just 21,000 more troops and that will win the war. More >>
Signed Copies of Armed Madhouse (and Other Gifts)
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 2:10 pm | Greg Palast
Give some fun for the Holidays and the New Year with a hardbound copy of Armed Madhouse . I'll sign it to you (a friend or a loved one, just tell me their name) for a tax deductible donation of $75 to our foundation for investigative reporting. More >>
Tinker Bell, Pinochet And The Miracle Of Chile
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 2:40 pm | Greg Palast
Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, Tinker Bell and General Augusto Pinochet had much in common. All three performed magical good deeds. In the case of Pinochet, he was universally credited with the Miracle of Chile, the wildly successful experiment ... More >>
st: Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:24 pm | Greg Palast
They're kidding, right? James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the "Iraq Study Group" have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not. More >>
Found: Saddam's Weapon of Mass Destruction
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 6:14 pm | Greg Palast
This photo of condemned Iraqi ex-strongman Saddam Hussein amid exotic weapons of mass destruction, taken just before the liberation of Iraq, was released Saturday by the White House. More >>
Greg Palast: Get the Film that Got Us Busted!
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 9:42 pm | Greg Palast
Just released today : Big Easy to Big Empty DVD —the real story of how the White House drowned New Orleans and holds it underwater today. On August 22, my producer and I were charged by the Department of Homeland Security with violating anti-terror ... More >>
Greg Palast: How They Stole The Mid-Term Election
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 2:34 pm | Greg Palast
Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen. Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding. And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic ... More >>
Greg Palast: I Want To Hurt Somebody
Monday, 6 November 2006, 8:22 pm | Greg Palast
It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times today splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic who'd retrieved it from the brain of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith. More >>
Greg Palast: Cut And Run - It's Fun!
Monday, 30 October 2006, 11:51 am | Greg Palast
Imagine this: You're tied to a stake and savages are about to light the logs under your feet. So, class, what do you do? Cut and run! More >>
Chavez' Comments: Strategy Or Ravings Of Madman?
Friday, 22 September 2006, 12:23 am | Greg Palast
You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez's behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina. ... More >>
Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree
Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 10:49 am | Greg Palast
It's true. It's weird. It's nuts. The Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year hunt for Osama, has finally brought charges against … Greg Palast. I kid you not. Send your cakes with files to the Air America wing at Guantanamo. More >>
Palast Faces Police Inquiry For Filming Exxon Site
Monday, 11 September 2006, 12:25 am | Greg Palast
Yes, the rumor’s true. Greg Palast is facing a criminal complaint from the Department of Homeland Security stemming from his filming the Hurricane Katrina investigation for Link TV and Democracy Now. The film’s producer, Matt Pascarella, is also facing ... More >>
Greg Palast: Today's Pig Is Tomorrow's Bacon
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 11:35 am | Greg Palast
Some years from now, in an economic refugee relocation "Enterprise Zone," your kids will ask you, "What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?" The trick of class war is not to let the victims know they're under attack. That's how, little by little, the ... More >>
Hurricane Expert Threatened For Katrina Warnings
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 12:53 am | Greg Palast
DON'T blame the Lady. Katrina killed no one in this town. In fact, Katrina missed the city completely, going wide to the east. It wasn't the hurricane that drowned, suffocated, de-hydrated and starved 1,500 people that week. More >>
Greg Palast: The Year The Levees Broke
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:34 am | Greg Palast
What is the unreported cause of the majority of the 2,000 deaths that occurred after the levees broke last year on August 29? Catch Greg Palast's investigative exposé this Monday on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! And on Tuesday, watch his one-hour Special ... More >>
Your Chance To Chop Greg Palast - Into Pieces
Sunday, 20 August 2006, 7:45 pm | Greg Palast
Slice up Palast, win a prize for it, or vote on the best hack-job -- in the absolutely fantabulous re-mix contest sponsored by Creative Commons and Air America Radio. Win immortal glory in the first-ever competition to mash up an audio book -- Greg Palast's ... More >>
Greg Palast: Osama Walks Into To This Bar, See?
Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 4:21 pm | Greg Palast
So, Osama Walks into This Bar, See? and Bush says, "Whad'l'ya have, pardner?" and Osama says... More >>
