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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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20 November 2011
Before the beginning: Raven, that Lying Little Bastard
Greg Palast
"If I had a machine gun, I'd kill every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka didn't say, "white." He used the unkind Alutiiq phrase, isuwiq-something,...
10 November 2011
Escape from Lady Baba-land:Getting the hell out of the Islamic Republic of BP with the Deepwater Horizon evidence
Greg Palast
[Based on a tip from some guy floating in the Caspian Sea in Central Asia, we take off for Baku, Azerbaijan, the "Islamic Republic of BP." Stopping in London,...
10 November 2011
"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" : The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
Greg Palast
I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level.
Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear...
07 November 2011
Chapter Ten of Greg Palast's Vultures' Picnic
Greg Palast
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07 October 2011
Über-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President
Greg Palast
Paul Singer likes to breakfast on decayed carcasses. What he chews down is sickening, but just as nausea-inducing are his new table mates: Ken Langone and the...
21 September 2011
The theft of 2012
Greg Palast
That was nuthin': In 2000, the Palast investigations team uncovered the purge of 58,000 legal Florida voters, most of them African-Americans, by Katherine...

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