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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01 August 2006
Bush heir cut: Awards tax break to son of an Astor
Greg Palast
East Hampton, New York -- Anthony Marshall, the tabloids tell us, wouldn't buy his elderly mother her prescribed medicine, locked her poodles in the pantry and...
22 July 2006
They don't call it the "White" House for nothing
Greg Palast
Bush at the NAACP Convention

God lost this time. I counted: Bush mentioned God only six times in his speech to the NAACP today. The winner...
16 July 2006
Why Democrats don't count: lessons from the un-Gore of Mexico
Greg Palast
The Exit polls said he won, but the "official" tally took his victory away.  His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls.  Violence and...
01 July 2006
Ignore that man behind the screen, Dorothy
Greg Palast
There are good reasons why the Lord wrote down the Ten Commandments on stone tablets and not on a computer chip. He didn’t want Moses choosing just his...
11 June 2006
Unreported: The Zarqawi invitation
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...
09 June 2006
"Godless" is gutless
Greg Palast
Anne Coulter says we’re “Godless” — we “liberals.”  And by “liberals,” she means anyone who wants to keep the government out of our underpants, out of Iraq,...

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