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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23 September 2006
Chavez' comments: strategy or ravings of a madman?
Greg Palast
"I've known Hugo Chavez for years, let me tell you that man knows a diablo when he sees one." -- Greg Palast

From The Progressive By Greg...
17 September 2006
The brilliantly profitable timing of the Alaska oil pipeline shutdown
Greg Palast
For The Guardian (UK) -- Is the Alaska Pipeline corroded?  You bet it is.  Has been for more than a decade.  Did British Petroleum shut the pipe yesterday to...
11 September 2006
Palast charged with journalism in the first degree
Greg Palast
It's true.  It's weird. It's nuts.  The Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year hunt for Osama, has finally brought charges against … Greg Palast. ...
29 August 2006
The year the levees broke
Greg Palast
New Orleans -- What is the unreported cause of the majority of the 2,000 deaths that occurred after the levees broke last year on August 29?  Catch Greg Palast...
14 August 2006
So Osama walks into this bar, see?
Greg Palast
So, Osama Walks into This Bar, See? and Bush says, "Whad'l'ya have, pardner?" and Osama says...

But wait a minute. I'd better shut my mouth. The...
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...

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