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Greg Palast: Keeping Iraq's Oil in the Ground
Thursday, 15 June 2006, 11:09 am | Greg Palast
World oil production today stands at more than twice the 15-billion a-year maximum projected by Shell Oil in 1956 - and reserves are climbing at a faster clip yet. That leaves the question, Why this war? More >>
Greg Palast Interviews The Real Randi Rhodes
Tuesday, 13 June 2006, 2:40 pm | Greg Palast
Greg Palast interviews the high school troublemaker turned troublemaker in uniform turned troublemaker on the air. An exclusive podcast -- listen to it here More >>
Greg Palast: Unreported - The Zarqawi Invitation
Monday, 12 June 2006, 3:32 pm | Greg Palast
They got him -- the big, bad, beheading berserker in Iraq. But, something's gone unreported in all the glee over getting Zarqawi … who invited him into Iraq in the first place? More >>
Palast vs. Coulter - Battle of the Books begins
Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 11:43 am | Greg Palast
TODAY, ANNE COULTER AND I BOTH LAUNCH OUR BOOKS -- hers to promote the latest flavor of hate and militant ignorance; mine -- 'Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, The Scheme to Steal '08 and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War ... More >>
Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse Tour Begins Monday
Thursday, 1 June 2006, 11:31 am | Greg Palast
The ARMED MADHOUSE TOUR BEGINS NEXT MONDAY, June 5th. I will be traveling to twenty cities across the US. More >>
Lay Convicted, Bush Walks (Ahnold Got Lay'd)
Friday, 26 May 2006, 3:14 pm | Greg Palast
Don't kid yourself. If you think the conviction of Ken Lay means that George W. Bush is serious about going after corporate bad guys, think again. More >>
Greg Palast: The Al Capone Of Electricity
Thursday, 25 May 2006, 11:15 am | Greg Palast
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 -- Al Capone cut throats, machine-gunned people to build his gang and went to jail -- for not filing his taxes properly. Likewise, Ken Lay, buccaneer of the power industry, will go down -- if the jury doesn't buy his alibi ... More >>
Palast: Big Brother Tries To Fool Randi Rhodes
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 10:19 am | Greg Palast
I smell mendacity! The sticky-sweet Atlanta drawl of the PR flack for America's private KGB was dancing in rhetorical circles with Randi Rhodes, Air American, on her broadcast yesterday. Unfortunately for the Bush-friendly Spies-R-Us contractor, Randi also ... More >>
Greg Palast: The Spies Who Shag Us
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:15 am | Greg Palast
I know you're shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that George Bush is listening in on all your phone calls. Without a warrant. That's nothing. And it's not news. This is: the snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the pig of a strange, lucrative link-up ... More >>
Audio: Larry David On How Kerry Won In '04
Thursday, 11 May 2006, 11:58 am | Greg Palast
WARNING! There are cranks and kooks and crazies out there on the Internet who say that George Bush lost the 2004 election, like one titled, "Kerry Won" published on the TomPaine.com web site two days after the election. I wrote it. More >>
Immigrants "Must Learn To Misinterpreate English"
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:33 am | Greg Palast
OK, I made that up. The quote may be fabricated, but, for Cinco de Mayo, our President did really, truly demand that, "Those who come here to our country have a responsibility to learn the English language." More >>
Palast: Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign
Saturday, 15 April 2006, 1:35 pm | Greg Palast
Well, here they come: the wannabe Rommels, the gaggle of generals, safely retired, to lay siege to Donald Rumsfeld. This week, six of them have called for the Secretary of Defense's resignation. More >>
Greg Palast: Loser Nation
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 4:36 pm | Greg Palast
America is a nation of losers. It's the best thing about us. We're the dregs, what the rest of the world barfed up and threw on our shores. More >>
A Leaky President Runs Afoul Of 'Little Rico'
Monday, 10 April 2006, 2:12 pm | Greg Palast
It's a crime. No kidding. But the media has it all wrong. As usual. 'Scooter' Libby finally outed 'Mr. Big,' the perpetrator of the heinous disclosure of the name of secret agent Valerie Plame. It was the President of United States himself -- in conspiracy ... More >>
Greg Palast: The New World Oil Order
Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 11:25 am | Greg Palast
In an exclusive interview with GREG PALAST, Hugo Chavez declares a new oil order. Venezuela officially demands OPEC recognize his nation's reserves as largest. More >>
Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 9:51 pm | Greg Palast
Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong. More >>
Greg Palast: Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools
Tuesday, 21 March 2006, 11:05 am | Greg Palast
Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong. On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who ... More >>
Greg Palast: No Child's Behind Left - The Test
Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 12:22 am | Greg Palast
New York -- Today and tomorrow every 8-year-old in the state of New York will take a test. It's part of George Bush's No Child Left Behind program. The losers will be left behind to repeat the third grade. Try it yourself. This is from the state's ... More >>
Chomsky, "Greg Palast upsets all the right people"
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 1:13 pm | Greg Palast
Donate at least $45 (tax-deductible) to my research foundation and I'll send you a signed copy of the just-released book, "Project Censored 2006" -- with three guaranteed-to-upset stories: The Theft of 2004, Iraq for Sale and The Lynching ... More >>
Greg Palast: Opec & The Economic Conquest Of Iraq
Monday, 31 October 2005, 1:06 pm | Greg Palast
TWO AND A HALF YEARS AND $202 BILLION into the war in Iraq, the United States has at least one significant new asset to show for it: effective membership, through our control of Iraq's energy policy, in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting ... More >>