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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07 March 2007

BBC Television had exposed 2004 voter attack scheme by appointee Griffin, a Rove aide.

Greg Palast

Black soldiers and the homeless targeted

There's only one thing worse than sacking an honest prosecutor. That's replacing an honest...

12 January 2007

Waist deep in the big muddy

Greg Palast

George W. Bush has an urge to surge. Like every junkie, he asks for just one more fix: let him inject just 21,000 more troops and that will win the war....

12 December 2006

Tinker Bell, Pinochet and the fairy tale miracle of Chile

Greg Palast

Chile’s former military dictator General Augusto Pinochet died today at the age of 91.

Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, Tinker Bell and General...

08 December 2006

The Baker Boys: stay half the course. Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?

Greg Palast

James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the "Iraq Study Group" have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.

Baker's Two Big Ideas...

06 December 2006

Found: Saddam's weapon of mass destruction

Greg Palast

Washington - This photo of condemned Iraqi ex-strongman Saddam Hussein amid...

07 November 2006

How they stole the mid-term election

Greg Palast

Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.

Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding.

And shoot me for saying this, but it won'...