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Anti-Abortion Threats From GOP's Favorite Leftist
Monday, 19 September 2005, 2:10 pm | Greg Palast
During his debate with Salman Rushdie at the recent Edinburgh TV Festival, someone asked George Galloway if television should broadcast an adaptation of Rushdie's novel, "Satanic Verses." According to Rushdie, Galloway replied, "If you don't respect religion, ... More >>
Galloway Vs Hitchens; Progressives Vs Ourselves
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 10:18 am | Greg Palast
Man, it just felt so good watching George Galloway rip Senator Coleman an extra exit hole. In May 2005, you'll remember, while most American politicians were mincing and cowering, the Honorable Member of the British Parliament, George Galloway, told ... More >>
Greg Palast: Terror In Tiny Town
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 12:31 am | Greg Palast
In the War on Terror, we are all on the front lines. Now Southold has apparently been targeted by Al Qaeda. I'm not surprised. Southold, if you look at a map, is situated at the ass end of nowhere. We are known for our Strawberry Festival and ... More >>
Bush Strafes New Orleans - Where Is Our Huey Long?
Monday, 5 September 2005, 12:58 am | Greg Palast
The National Public Radio news anchor was so excited I thought she'd piss on herself: the President of the United had flown his plane down to 1700 feet to get a better look at the flood damage! And there was a photo of our Commander-in-Chief taken looking ... More >>
Armstrong Bikes With President Over Sheehan Grave
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 11:16 am | Greg Palast
Crawford, Texas - Celebrity bike champ Lance Armstrong joined President George W. Bush this weekend at the Crawford Ranch to celebrate the thirtieth day of the President's vigil against Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in action in Iraq. More >>
Greg Palast: China Floats, America Sinks
Monday, 25 July 2005, 1:53 pm | Greg Palast
In case you haven't the least idea what the heck it means for China to "float" its currency, let me put it in the language we economists use: China's float don't mean squat. More >>
Greg Palast: It Didn't Take Long, Did It?
Monday, 18 July 2005, 3:23 pm | Greg Palast
Well, it didn't take long, did it? In the USA, the curtain opened on new anti-terror follies Wednesday when three Senate committees, in blustery response to the London bombings, voted to extend the power of the FBI under the Patriot Act to obtain library ... More >>
Greg Palast: George & Tony Get their al-Qaeda Fix
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 11:46 am | Greg Palast
The tooth fairy, Santa Clause, WorldCom profits, the Easter Bunny, al-Qaeda. The cruel, evil jerks who blew up the London subway last week, despite appropriating al-Qaeda's name for their website and T-shirts, have about as much to do with al-Qaeda ... More >>
Greg Palast: Mr. Rove And The Access Of Evil
Wednesday, 13 July 2005, 12:20 am | Greg Palast
The only thing more evil, small-minded and treacherous than the Bush Administration's jailing Judith Miller for a crime the Bush Administration committed, is Judith Miller covering up her Bush Administration "source." More >>
Greg Palast: Testimony On Downing Street Memos
Friday, 17 June 2005, 12:13 am | Greg Palast
It's official: The Downing Street memos, a snooty New York Times "News Analysis" informs us, "are not the Dead Sea Scrolls." You are warned, Congressman, to ignore the clear evidence of official mendacity and bald-faced fibbing by our two nations' ... More >>
Greg Palast: French Fried Friedman
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 12:24 am | Greg Palast
Vicente Fox got a well-deserved boot in the derriere for saying Mexicans come to America for taking jobs "not even Blacks want to do." But Thomas Friedman earns plaudits and Pulitzers for his column which today announces that East Indians are taking jobs ... More >>
Greg Palast: Washington Post Still Sucks
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 12:11 am | Greg Palast
I've been gagging all morning on the Washington Post's self-congratulatory preening about its glory days of the Watergate investigation. More >>
Palast: Cowardice in Journalism Award for Newsweek
Friday, 20 May 2005, 12:43 am | Greg Palast
"It's appalling that this story got out there," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on her way back from Iraq. What's not appalling to Condi is that the US is holding prisoners at Guantanamo under conditions termed "torture" by the Red Cross. More >>
Greg Palast: Ecuador Gets Chavez'd
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 12:13 am | Greg Palast
[Quito] George Bush has someone new to hate. Only twenty-four hours after Ecuador's new president took his oath of office, he was hit by a diplomatic cruise missile fired all the way from Lithuania by Condoleezza Rice, then wandering about Eastern ... More >>
Greg Palast: Impeachment Time - Facts Were Fixed
Friday, 6 May 2005, 12:10 am | Greg Palast
The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam ... More >>
Greg Palast: Tony Blair Can't Win
Thursday, 5 May 2005, 1:44 pm | Greg Palast
Mark my words: Tony Blair won't be re-elected on Thursday. However, he will remain in office. That's because Brits don't vote for their Prime Minister. They've got a "parliamentary" system there in the Mother Country. More >>
Greg Palast: Ground Zero-Zero-Zero
Tuesday, 3 May 2005, 12:56 am | Greg Palast
The equator is far more tacky than I imagined. I'd taken time out from the state of siege in the capitol to take the twins on a quick holiday further up the Andes (or down, I don't know which). More >>
Palast: Give It Back, George - Wyly Coyotes' Loot
Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 10:07 am | Greg Palast
When the feds swoop down and cuff racketeers, they also load the vans with all the perp's ill-gotten gains: stacks of cash, BMWs, hideaway houses, whatever. Their associates have to cough up the goodies too -- lady friends must give up their diamond rocks. ... More >>
Greg Palast: Secret U.S. Plans For Iraq's Oil
Friday, 18 March 2005, 10:41 am | Greg Palast
The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed. More >>
Greg Palast: I'd Rather not say Good-bye, Dan
Thursday, 10 March 2005, 10:53 am | Greg Palast
Without his make-up, Dan looked like hell warmed over: old, defeated, yet angry. And he told our television audience something that just blew me away. Dan Rather said that American reporters may not ask tough questions about George Bush or his ... More >>
