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Greg Palast
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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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Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore
Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was tele-transported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out through my nose.But I’m not laughing anymore. Mr. Colbert, Phillips may choose our next president, he’s that powerful. In fact, he chose…
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Trump, the Pirate of Hormuz
It was a mere 500 years ago that Europeans realized that the Strait of Hormuz was a trade choke point, when Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque seized the Island of Hormuz to control trade in and out of the Persian Gulf. It was the first armed European conquest of Arabia meant to control…
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1931 is here again. We hope.
It’s 1931 again. Not 1933, with Hitler still just a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1931, America was in deep pain. Holding our breath.Today, we’re holding our breath again. Can we hold it until another FDR leads us out of this darkness? Roosevelt comforted us, rallied us. “We have…
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Iran has won, jamming Trump’s bombs right up his Strait of Hormuz
How did the mullahs win? Even that flower child Jimmy Carter said the US must use military force to keep open the Strait of Hormuz, this outlet for the world’s flow of oil.In his 1980 State of the Union, Carter said, “Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain…