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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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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…
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Hormuz Blues
In one of my most elaborate undercover operations for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump’s attack on Iran. It was 2004 when I conned the Heritage Foundation and a James Baker operative into handing over the elaborate 323-page plan to keep the oil…
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Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother
For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He’s the only man, other than my dad, I’ve ever kissed, a year ago. When I kissed him goodbye he was holding our Vigilantes film poster in his wheelchair.Two Old Guys and a Bridge: A call from SelmaThis is something I wrote…
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The real story of the FBI raid on Fulton County, Atlanta
For God’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday’s FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warrant says the FBI wants the envelopes from the 2020 election to hunt for crimes. But that’s just the legal excuse for the storm trooping.This is…