Greg Palast writes of repeated US attempts to overthrow the government of Venezuela to steal its enormous oil reserves.
He also compares Maduro, an election cheater like the corrupter, with Chavez, who won honestly.
Greg Palast writes about helping to rescue people from the wreckage caused by Hurricane Katrina. FEMA was debilitated at the time because Dubya and the Republicans did not treat it as a priority. FEMA employees recently published an open letter warning Americans that the saboteur in chief has weakened FEMA, and this could turn the next disaster into a super-disaster.
Greg Palast: Dubya fed the disaster of Hurricane Katrina by privatizing the development of emergency evacuation plans. As often happens, the contractors increased their profit by skimping on the job.
The saboteur in chief is simply following the standard privatize-and-screw-the-public, in a more blatantly contemptuous way.
*DNC threatens to sue North Carolina elections board over [Republican] plan to purge 100,000 voters.*
Republican candidates occasionally win legitimately, but usually they win by rigging the election. Voter suppression is a big part, and Greg Palast presents evidence that that's how the bully "won" in 2024, but they have other methods too, such as gerrymandering.
Greg Palast: Tesla stays afloat as a seller of greenhouse gas offsets.
*So, my dear green friends, when you buy a Tesla, you're not reducing your carbon footprint by a quarter inch, because Musk is selling your good intentions to General Motors so they can pollute more.*
The saboteur's henchmen in the Justice Department have sabotaged the defense of Americans' voting rights.
The attorney general has just fired the whole of the team that was supposed to defend Americans' voting rights.
Or course they would do this — they are the ones attacking our voting rights. Republicans can only "win" an election through voter suppression.
Greg Palast has documented their latest methods from 2024.
The saboteur tried to seize personal control over who is allowed to vote in the US.
It follows the latest magat fashion of using a small federal power for leverage to bully lesser governments and institutions into repression: in this case, into requiring voters to show ID cards. The range of ID cards to be accepted would be so limited that many poor voters would do without them, and be disenfranchised.
Greg Palast estimates that 21 million eligible voters would be barred from voting, if states obey this.
It would also take the US another bit step towards having a national ID card — which is, itself, oppression.
This list of suggested nonviolent ways of sabotaging an organization from within.
was published by the US government during World War II. People are suggesting it may be useful against the fascists who took over the US government by attacking its election system.
*With 47% approval rating [the wrecker] is only president to have sub-50% reading at start of term, Gallup poll indicates.*
This makes sense given that, according to Greg Palast's investigation, less than half of the votes that US voters tried to cast were for the wrecker.
Greg Palast: *Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes.*
*Harris cheated out of 3,650,000 votes by these Jim Crow tricks. 4.7 million voters purged. 3.2 million registrations rejected. 2.1 million mail-in ballots tossed.*
Greg Palast reports the details: if not for aggressive Republican voter-suppression, Harris would have won the popular vote and the electoral college.
The current US government is fraudulent and illegitimate at multiple levels.
Special counsel Jack Smith believes that the corrupter would have been convicted of various crimes related to trying to steal the 2020 election, if his grabbing the presidency had not got him off the hook.
Greg Palast claims that the corrupter would have lost in 2024 if not for new efforts at voter suppression.
Will we get our democracy back?
Greg Palast reports on the views of attendees at the fascist's rally: they are convinced that they will rebel if he loses.
I think they are nerving themselves to start shooting.
I hope that, if they start actually pointing guns at people, US troops will not hesitate to use guns to vanquish them. In their way of thinking, they are entitled to shoot people who won't support them, and if you aren't ready for a gunfight, that implies they should bully you. They will bully the US army if commanders seem hesitant to order "Fire!"
But if they see that the Army is prepared to return fire if they shoot, they may still hesitate to start actual shooting.
Greg Palast: Texas Republicans are threatening to jail Houston's election officials for facilitating voter registration.
They fear that the Democrats will win Texas if disprivileged groups find it easy to vote.
RFK Jr abandoned his campaign for president and endorsed the corrupter. In my book, that endorsement makes him an enemy of democracy.
Greg Palast talks of investigative journalism with RFK Jr, and how the latter subsequently forgot all about what the two had done.
Some examples of RFK Jr's promotion of wild disinformation.
Another analysis of the danger of a Republican coup by arbitrarily rejecting vote count results.
See also Greg Palast's warning.
Greg Palast: Republicans in Georgia's state government gave themselves the power to reject, arbitrarily, the vote of any county. It is already looking at canceling Atlanta's votes in the next election.
How can the US prevent this method of stealing the election?
Greg Palast reports that The (original) Keystone oil pipeline ruptured in 2022 (and caused a substantial oil spill) because of improper construction, which was not detected because the safety inspection tool's software had been modified so as to overlook "small" flaws in pipelines.
Palast says that such modification is a common practice. It seems that pipeline companies they have decided to ignore flaws that, although "small", can lead eventually to oil spills.
Greg Palast warns that the bullshitter's campaign to make it hard for blacks to vote is working very effectively, and Republicans are still working hard at it.
Former Texas governor Connally talked with Middle Eastern leaders in 1980 trying to convince Iran to hold on to the US embassy hostages, so that Reagan would win the 1980 election.
This is according to Ben Barnes, who worked for him and accompanied him on the trip.
Officials of various countries have affirmed, over the years, that Reagan made a deal with Khomeini to refuse to free the US embassy hostages before the 1980 presidential election. Here is Greg Palast's report on Ben Barnes.
It accuses him of a lot of nastiness, but doesn't answer the questions it raises: why did Barnes not say this before, and why does he say it now? But, it doesn't cast much doubt on his recent statement.
As for calling "Dubya" a "draft-dodger". that term should not be used. I rebuke Dubya for many wrongs, including the crime of starting a war of aggression against Iraq. But there is nothing wrong in trying to escape from being conscripted into an unjust war.
That includes the Vietnam War, which the US ramped up based on fabricating the fictitious "incident" in the Gulf of Tonkin.
And it includes Putin's invasion of Ukraine. We should support Russians who are doing whatever it takes to avoid fighting in the Putin forces.
Greg Palast conjectures that Putin grabbed Ukrainian children and gave them to Russians to raise in order to boost the fraction of Russians that will be white orthodox Christians.
Greg Palast reports on evidence about the Jan 6 insurrection that was not followed up, or not collected. Why didn't the state identify every rioter and search their cell phones?
It is especially disturbing (though not surprising) that some capitol thugs showed their support to the insurrectionists, before the actual insurrection.
Greg Palast asserts that Putin was chosen by the oligarchs, then winning public support (while he needed it) through the Chechen war that killed lots of civilians and lots of Russian soldiers.
I think Palast can be trusted, but I would be more certain of the claims if they came with references to demonstrate some of the cited points.
Greg Palast's take on the Ukraine situation.
Greg Palast reports on how Exxon bribed Nursultan Nazarbayev, and an individual pleaded guilty, but was then let go by the judge.
A rally for the wrecker and his Big Lie was widely announced, but under a hundred people joined in.
Author Greg Palast points out that larger rallies by progressives are often ignored.
Greg Palast: *Power outage in New Orleans: Is Ida or Entergy to blame?*
Greg Palast says that the lasting blackout of much of New Orleans was the result of malingering by the power company, Entergy. He says that the company profits from the losses caused by hurricanes, so it has stubbornly refused to take the necessary precautions to reduce damage.
Greg Palast describes the conspiracy of oil companies to turn off the expensive precautions that they had agreed to, in order to get permission to ship oil out of Valdez, Alaska.
More about the frauds that led to the oil spill.
I am very interested what Greg Palast has to say, but I would prefer if the articles were shorter, and more focused on the crucial facts and the crucial conclusions they demonstrate.
*To Stop an Electoral Coup, Study What Went Wrong in the 2000 Florida Recount.*
Keep in mind that the only reason this recount was necessary is because the Republicans had cheated massively through voter suppression, as revealed by Greg Palast.
Georgia kicked over 310,000 voters off the registration list on the grounds that they had moved. Supposedly it did this based on data from the USPS. Greg Palast's team checked properly with the USPS and found out that 197,000 of them should not have been deleted.
This is an example of voter suppression. The current governor of Georgia stole the election in 2018 by voter suppression like this.
Greg Palast: Republicans may be planning to refuse to certify the elections in some states, using uncounted postal ballots as an excuse. Use early voting instead of postal voting.
That is what I did for the Massachusetts primary on Sept 1, and that is what I plan to do for the general election too.
ACLU of Georgia and Greg Palast: *…the State had likely removed in 2019 the voter registrations of nearly 200,000 Georgia citizens on the grounds that they had moved from the address on their voter registration application. However, none of these citizens had moved,…*
When mail-in ballots make it through the USPS, the gauntlet is not finished. Many localities and states are not prepared to handle large quantities of postal ballots.
In addition, as Greg Palast has informed us, local officials have opportunities to discriminate in rejecting postal ballots, and they use them.
I decided to use early voting rather than postal voting.
Greg Palast inquires why the US indicted Steve Bannon but not his co-conspirator Kris Kobach.
Greg Palast's suggestions for how to stop Republicans from taking away your vote this year.
Greg Palast: if your state permits it, bring your postal ballot to an authorized election office, and bypass the post.
I have been supporting calls to Congress to give the USPS enough funds to deliver ballots with the usual speed. But Democrats in Congress have no way to do that if Republicans are determined to block it, and they are.
But even if it were possible to provide extra funds, that might not help.
The supposed shortage of funds was the excuse, not the cause, for the mail slowdown. We now know that Republican saboteurs have planned other ways of slowing down mail delivery ever since May. Giving the USPS more funds would not stop them from sabotaging it. Indeed, I don't see how anything could stop them from intentionally mismanaging mail delivery except to replace them with honest people. The wrecker will not allow that, and Democrats cannot force it.
I think the only solution is to bypass the post office. I have decided to do early voting, not postal voting.
A friend of mine plans to go to Florida and join organized efforts to pick up voters' ballots and bring them to the election authority.
Can anyone point me at a list of which states permit non-postal delivery of ballots?
Greg Palast's recommendations for ensuring your ballot does get counted.
The first step is now: make sure you have not been "purged" from the voter's list, while there is still time for you to register again if necessary.
Greg Palast explains several ways that Republicans have blocked people from voting in recent elections.
That in addition to gerrymandering, which affects the election of legislative bodies but does not function through voter suppression.
Greg Palast covers the protests, including one in LA in which a thug threatened to kill him, but perhaps didn't really mean it.
The Supreme Court found a strained excuses in 2000 to hand supposed victory in Florida to Dubya. It could do the same sort of thing this year.
It was only later that Greg Palast showed how the Republicans had stolen the election before election day, by systematically preventing elegible black voters from voting.
Greg Palast reports on corruption by Mnuchin, corruption by the Koch brothers, and corruption by the conman, as well as others.
Greg Palast: Absentee ballots in the US place many obstacles in the voter's way, and the votes of people from marginalized groups are more likely to be blocked.
Thus, switching to voting by mail will not automatically assure that all registered voters get to vote.
Greg Palast warns that Mueller seems to be targeting Wikileaks for publishing real and important news — bona fide Democratic National Committee emails that show it was corrupt.
The left candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, won the presidential election in Mexico.
What he says is good, but people tell me he hasn't gone much into details. Meanwhile, some of the deals described here may play into the hands of business.
His acknowledged victory demonstrates that the right wing didn't rig the election. That in itself is a step forward for Mexico, since several presidential elections have been stolen in the past 20 years, including once from López Obrador.
Greg Palast says that right-wingers are stealing elections for the Mexican Senate, though.
Greg Palast: A Koch-funded company tracks people's everyday actions through other companies' digital surveillance, to determine how to influence them politically.
This company would not be able to use that data if the other companies did not collect it. We must legislate to prohibit collecting data about people's daily activities.
Ralph Nader explains how the Democrats have weakened themselves by not fighting for important ideas.
Dubya's campaign leader in Florida, Katherine Harris, arranged to rig the election in Florida.
This was reported by Greg Palast.
His article was published in London in January 2001, but appeared in the US only on September 12, when most Americans were distracted by a more blatant but not as ruinous attack on the US.
Greg Palast explains why the recounts are essential: so many ways that ballots can be counted wrong, or rejected entirely.
Why it is very important to vote for Jill Stein for president.
One additional point that this article could have made is that Dubya wouldn't have even come near winning Florida in 2000 if not for disenfranchizing around 50,000 blacks, as revealed by Greg Palast.
Greg Palast's suggestions for Bernie Sanders and his movement for a political revolution.
Azerbaijan has denied entry to Emma Hughes because the human rights organization she works for has criticized the regime's association with BP, and the use of the European Games (which Azerbaijan is hosting in conjunction with BP) to distract attention from repression.
Greg Palast has reported on that relationship.
Amnesty International has been totally excluded from Azerbaijan before these games.
It seems absurd to permit Azerbaijan to be a candidate for hosting "European" games, even if its government were a beacon of freedom. It is no more part of Europe than neighboring Iran is. Would they allow Japan to host the European Games? South Africa? Brazil?
An official investigation legitimized the shooting of Darrien Hunt by thugs.
I don't trust what the thugs say about the events, but if Hunt indeed posted a message saying he was going to get shot, it's possible this was "suicide by cop".
On the other hand, why should cops question someone for carrying a sword in a place with no one else, when they would not question someone for carrying a gun there? Was that racism?
The failure of Atlantic City casinos illustrates the dead-end that gambling is, as an economic base.
The other local casinos authorized over the past 20 years by various states mainly took away some of Atlantic City's revenue, adding nothing. Given that the income does not "trickle down" to the local residents, governments should not make any concessions to keep casinos operating or to help them start. Such concessions are "beggar thy neighbor" tax-cuts.
Instead, governments should increase the minimum wage, so that workers will spend more money and promote businesses that make things that are good for people.
The West Is Silent as Libya Falls into the Abyss.
It isn't obvious what could save Libya or what to propose.
The UK's proposed "mansion tax" is a small substitute for proper taxation of expensive houses.
Who's Buying the Midterm Elections? A Bunch of Old White Guys.
Worse, they are a bunch of rich right-wing old white guys, and they want to buy policies to help them get richer at other Americans' expense.
Brisbane airport bans "political" ads aimed at the G20 delegates, except for those in favor of fossil fuel.
The G20 is considering a plan of action against global heating disaster, but all it requires is that they consider taking some action.
Ghoncheh Ghavami's trial shows that the idea of justice is absent from the Iranian state.
This is aside from the fact that the charges against her could only be made by a bigoted regime.
Abbott insists that coal is the future, directly opposing UN efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
What he means is that the destruction of civilization is the future.
UN Refugee Agency Launches Global Campaign to End Statelessness.
Perhaps the deepest problem is the practice of excluding stateless people from usual activities and human rights. It's one thing to deport someone, and another to deny that person schooling, health care, driving, banking, and so on.
Alaska's mad experiment with internet voting is an invitation to fraud.
Republicans cite the danger of fraud when they impose laws to block poor, old and minority people from voting. Why, we must ask, aren't they up in arms against internet voting?
In the US: join a protest against the FCC's plan for phony net neutrality.
(Sorry that I don't know a site to point to.)
No, We Don't Need a Law Against Catcalling.
I have not yet seen the Hollaback video. It is not easy for me to see any video from YouTube, since I won't connect to that site from my own computer. I am looking for a chance to see it, because I want to see the range of actions in question. Do they include physical attacks? Threats? Intimidation? Insults? Pressure? Invitations? Praise? Silent gaze?
I want to find out what sorts of things women typically experience on the street, and also where this movement draws the line in its criticism.
To make insults a crime is injustice; calling the insults "harassment" does not excuse banning them. However, insults may deserve a rebuke.
Not everything that someone takes offense at is wrong. A woman once rebuked me, as we were riding on BART, for looking at her. I responded that people moving about in public must expect to be looked at. Nobody has a right to order people in a public place to avert their eyes. When I got off, a few stops later, I told her, "I'm leaving, so you can now proceed to your destination unobserved." (By me, at least.)
Soot and ozone pollution in India are cutting crop yields — in some areas, by as much as 50%.
The UN accused Britain of spying on delegations during UN climate summits.
Aside from the scandal of infiltrating spies into a UN meeting to spy on other delegations, the UK government's goal since 2010 has been to slow down renewable energy and keep consumption of fossil fuels high. In other words, to kill you (supposing you are young enough to live 50 more years) through global heating disaster. This spying furthers that goal.
Since July, Israel has imprisoned 900 Palestinians from East Jerusalem.
Only 300 have been charged with crimes; the rest are imprisoned arbitrarily.
Organized Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale.
"It almost seems as if the Israeli state has mapped the entire Palestinian economy in terms of input-output relations, right down to the capillary level of the individual, the household, the small firm, the large firm, the school, the university, so as to find all possible choke points, which Israeli officials can tighten or loosen at will."
Australian thugs say that ending domestic violence against women requires teaching men to stop despising women.
I agree that needs to be done, but more funds for support to help women escape from violence would also help.
Russia's puppets in Donetsk held a Putinesque election, and are threatening to attack other cities in Ukraine.
Feminist T-shirt Makers' Working Conditions Not Shocking, But the Norm.
Egyptian journalists denounced the editors' plan to give total blind support to the state.
The UK government will send every household a misleading breakdown of how government funds are spent, designed to make people resent those that receive public assistance of any kind.
California farmers are expanding their water-devouring nut farms even though global heating will bring droughts even worse than the present record-breaking drought.
You could say it's nuts.
When women report being trafficked into the UK, thugs and officials often imprison them for lacking a passport.
A destitute Briton decided to protest full time rather than accept forced labor for a pittance.
To change plutocratic capitalism, we need to change the stories that were taught us to sustain it.
The income of the richest 1% of Americans exceeds the cost of all US social programs.
Egyptians were imprisoned for making a video which included a (simulated) gay wedding.
Even in right-wing capitalist terms, the UK's austerity is a failure: it has not paved the way for important economic growth.
These right-wing capitalist terms ignore important forms of harm: dooH niboR, forcing millions into poverty, and strengthening plutocracy.
The UK parliament has destroyed all expense records from before 2010, blocking investigation of accusations of unjustified reimbursements.
A Georgia judge upheld the failure to process
40,000
voters' registrations.
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The US and Iraqi governments did not resupply the Sunnis of Zawiyat
who were resisting PISSI. PISSI
massacred
them after defeating them.
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The thugs in Ferguson asked for a ban on overflights mainly to keep news copters from making video of the protests.
Richard Branson's Space Tourism Shows What Today's Obscene Inequality Looks Like. And also the way being a consumer dulls the mind.
I am strongly in favor of space exploration and eventually space settlement. I don't see anything inherently wrong with space tourism, either, if people were going to visit a place of some interest — but that won't be possible in the near future.
Commercial attackware is being sold to many governments, few of which can be trusted not to use it to violate human rights.
I think it is legitimate to use such methods in cases where planting a listening device would be allowed — when ordered specifically by a judge. The hard part is to make the thugs accountable and keep these orders very specific.
US courts are chipping away at accountability for many kinds of illegal searches.
Everyone: Tell Bank of America not to invest in Australia's new coal port.
Oxfam's recommendations for ending dooH niboR.
The head of IPCC says, avoiding global heating disaster is still possible, but we don't have much time.
This means that wreckers such as Abbott, Harper and Cameron need only hold out a little more before they can hammer in the last nails in the coffin of human technological civilization.
Beware the Fear Industrial Complex.
US billionaires have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed in IRAs so as to avoid taxes.
It makes sense to encourage the non-rich to save. With the rich, however, this is just another dooH niboR give-away.
Tiny Cuba is contributing more to the fight against Ebola than the grand United States.
There is good and bad in the Cuban revolution. The good is that Cuba has thrown off the foreign plutocracy and done wonders for the people in the areas of health care, education, and organic farming.
The bad is that Cuba does not recognize freedom of speech or freedom of travel. Dissident Oswaldo Payá, who campaigned for those principles, was reportedly killed by the state which arranged a car crash and blamed his driver.
Payá, who impressed me more than anyone else in Cuba, wanted to maintain the social advances of the Cuban revolution.
The US boycott of Cuba makes no sense except as a sop to the exiles who have a lot of influence in Florida.
Afghan women disguise some daughters as sons, so the daughters can experience a little freedom, and so the mothers themselves won't face condemnation for sonlessness.
US citizens: call on your state's election officials to count every vote.
A UK professor criticized how thugs dealt with her mother's accidental death, so they investigated her political background and listed her as mentally ill.
US citizens: Oppose the plan to build a highway through a designated roadless area in the Tongass national forest.
The IPCC's stern warnings about the pressing danger of global heating are an understatement.
How to ramp up the sense of danger? For one thing, stop using the bland term "climate change" that was imposed by Dubya's global heating denialists and start talking about "global heating".
Meanwhile, efforts to direct politicians' attention towards the necessary action face censorship.
Under great pressure, Abbott agreed that the G20 meeting statement can include a token paragraph about global heating.
As long as he prevents any substantive action to reduce use of fossil fuels, he considers it a victory.
Fast-growing cities correlate with high levels of violence.
Humans must have fewer children — and those with wealth must provide the poor with the effective painless means to limit their reproduction.
Uri Avnery debunks false US accusations against Netanyahu, and explains why Netanyahu thinks it safe to insult Obama.
(Digital) Surveillance Begins at Home.
In Hungary, an Independent Website Defies Censorship And Pressure.
Because many US nuclear power plants are getting older, the EPA proposes to increase radiation exposure standards.
US democracy is being crushed by voter-suppression and gerrymandering.
A leaker reports on the dirty tricks PR plans of the frackers.
Twitter is using Verizon's phone-ID tracking code.
A bill to reduce criminal penalties for libel in Italy does not go far enough.
California thugs consider it a "game" to collect and share nude photos from the phones of women they arrest.
A large study found that occasional use of marijuana by teenagers is not associated with any school or intellectual problems, after controlling for other activities known to be harmful.
Airline security idiots delayed overnight because someone had made a wifi hotspot called "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork."
Theater of Security Agency agents confiscated a belt buckle that looks like a fictional raygun, calling it a "replica" of a weapon.
Those whose job is theater anyway may not recognize the significance of the difference between a real weapon and a fictional one.
The UK government regards dissent in itself as criminal, a reason to infiltrate informers into a person's life and record everything.
Life Is Getting Harder For Objective Journalists in Turkey, Says Cartoonist Sued by Erdogan.
If publishers want to compete with Amazon and Netflix, they should try ditching DRM.
They should also stop imposing unfair contracts (EULAs) and stop making purchasers identify themselves. Then the copies they sell would be no less ethical than a typical CD or printed book.
Angela Davis: US racism is visible in not only when thugs kill innocent people but also when they frame anti-racist campaigners and label them as "terrorists".
Russia and China blocked creation of a marine conservation zone in the Southern Ocean.
Spain adopted a law for DMCA-style takedowns, but even more strict. (That's the second issue in the article; I don't think the "Google tax" is very important.
Is Ireland the new Detroit? Citizens say they will go to jail rather than pay water charges.
It is important to charge businesses for water use, but everyone is entitled to water in a reasonable quantity for personal use.
A Canadian court fined Google for publishing a photo of a woman sitting on the steps of her house. People could tell who she was even though Google blurred out her face.
This decision is fundamentally wrong and dangerous, because the right to take a photo outdoors and publish it must be respected.
The plaintiff received nasty criticisms because the photo showed her wearing revealing clothing. However, Google was not to blame for this. She wasn't to blame either, since there is nothing wrong about wearing revealing clothing. The blame falls on the people who attacked her.
Australia has replaced "polluter pays" with paying some companies to (perhaps) pollute less.
The crucial difference is that the new policy will do nothing to impede the extraction and combustion of coal.
Hungary's government backed down on plans for an internet use tax.
Orban's general strategy is to avoid doing things that make lots of people angry.
The latest proposed way to export tar sands oil is a pipeline to Canada's Atlantic coast. Lots of people are determined to block it.
Canada has adopted
a silly
and gratuitous defense against Ebola.
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If someone was exposed to Ebola a whole month ago, there is no chance he would have a contagious case of Ebola today. Either he has recovered already or he didn't catch it at all.
Deforestation in the Amazon may be causing the drought in Sao Paulo.
The US government got more power with the PAT RIOT act in the name of "protecting us" from terrorism, but uses that power mainly for the insane War on Drugs.
The War on Drugs does far more damage to the US than terrorism.
The UK is high on the War on Drugs: ministers insist on "toughness" even though the people, the press and even most members of Parliament are ready to end it.
Interviews with makers of "fair-trade" porn.
I have always been puzzled by those who assume that "porn" means "violent" or "cruel". The arbitrary exclusion of kind, nonviolent sex from the category of porn seems perverse to me.
IPCC Report: Six Graphs That Show How We're Changing the World's Climate.
Corporations demand "free markets" while rigging markets in their own interests.
Violent video games don't make people kill, but they do tend to make people more aggressive and less empathetic.
An ex-thug in Miami says that other thugs talked about how they were framing Krishna Maharaj.
Social Security figures show that US workers are getting worse off, making the US like a third-world country.
Not coincidentally, the number of billionaires in the world has doubled in recent years.
Peter Young gets harassed by the Theater of Security Agency every time he flies
, because he has been convicted of a "terrorist" crime.His "terrorism" consisted of freeing minks from farms. Labeling this as "terrorism" was the first step in the distortion of that term by the US.
I wish this were a mere bureaucratic mistake, but it something much worse: obstinacy for obstinacy's sake, on the part of bureaucrats who think that obstinacy for obstinacy's sake is what the public deserves.
The US government estimates that only 20 or 30 Americans have gone to Syria to fight for various anti-Assad groups, and only some of them are in PISSI.
Such a small number are insignificant, thus no reason for any change in laws or any denial of Americans' human rights.
Why do thugs want armored vehicles? To intimidate people who are not even accused of a crime.
Massive resistance to tar sands oil has done tremendous harm to the oil extraction companies' profits.
Will Coal Or Solar Power Fuel India's Drive to Bring Electricity to Its Villages?
Greg Palast's full report on a secret Republican scheme to block 2 million minority group members from voting by falsely accusing them of registering in two states.
The trick is being sloppy and treating false matches (nearly all of them) as real matches.
Many Republican-dominated states are using other measures to stop college students from voting.
Unidentified drones have been flying over French nuclear plants.
Facebook threatens to take control of many commercial publications; they may publish only through Facebook.
I will probably not read them if they do that.
Although there is some interesting analysis in this article, it suffers from a superficial business-minded outlook framed by referring to publications as "content" and viewing them as "consuming". It assumes that publishers are motivated by nothing except profit. It is interesting as an analysis of what such publishers might be led to do.
As for other publishers — my home page is not dead, and neither is gnu.org's.
You can't trust a server to maintain your anonymity.
The only way to be anonymous is to stop servers from knowing anything about you.
In the US: tell NPR not to cut its climate reporting.
Greg Palast: oil companies destroyed the swamp that protected New Orleans from hurricanes, and an oil company shut down the research center that tried to warn people of the danger.
Greg Palast reports Chris Christie's financial connections with the Koch brothers.
Greg Palast: the Nelson Mandela Barbie doll.
Greg Palast: How Larry Summers and Geithner bullied 165 countries into eliminating their equivalents of Glass-Steagall through the WTO.
And Obama is closely connected to their gang.
Greg Palast explains the dishonest scheme that triggered the financial crisis, and the small part in it played by the only participant that is being prosecuted.
I see no need to use the smear term "frog" to refer to someone who is French. And what's wrong with garlic, anyway?
Greg Palast: My big fat Greek minister.
Greg Palast interviews Karzai's advisor, Yahya Maroofi, about the prospect of peace with the Taliban.
There is no reason why the Taliban and the US have to be enemies. They are likely to continue oppressing Afghan women, and if I imagine myself magically transformed into an Afghan women, I would be thinking about how to kill Taliban. However, the other parties in Afghanistan are not much better, not enough to continue the bloodshed over.
Democracy activists in Azerbaijan get little support from the West.
Greg Palast has described how the government of Azerbaijan works hand in hand with international oil companies. That's why the US cooperates with Azerbaijan's dictator, and tries to destabilize Venezuela.
Greg Palast says that oil companies blocked the privatization of Iraq's oil in order to keep the price up.
If so, it was probably a good deed. If oil were cheaper, we would be burning more of it. However, no war was required to achieve this goal.
US citizens: you can
get
Greg Palast's last book in PDF, with no EULA,
and pay whatever amount you wish.
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Romney made 15 million from the rescue of the automobile companies.
Greg Palast presents what the Democratic presidential candidate ought to have said in reply to Romney.
How John Paulson arranged with Goldman Sachs to swindle other banks and got away with it, and now is paying millions of those winnings to help Romney.
If you want to buy the book, please don't get it from Amazon. Other links include
http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781609804787
but even better, you can ask a local independent bookstore to order it.
Chicago teachers have gone on strike because
the
city is planning to fire them if they teach in schools where students do badly
(because they are poor).
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Greg Palast explains
how
the scheme works.
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Greg Palast: the euro was conceived so as to provoke a crisis which would be an opportunity to roll back social and workers' protections across Europe.
Greg Palast describes how BP financed a coup in Azerbaijan to take control of the country's oil, and what life there is like under the corrupt Aliyev family that is allied with BP.
Compare this with Iran's history, the overthrow of Mossadegh which led to the oppressive Shah — whose oppression inspired the reaction that led to the even more oppressive Islamic Republic.
The Unlearned Lessons of the BP Disaster.
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This doesn't include the lessons to learn from BP's concealment of a previous smaller disaster caused by the same corner-cutting practices, which Greg Palast is revealing.
Greg Palast reports on falsified safety records at the Shoreham nuclear power plant on Long Island.
There is some confusion in what he says about the strength of the earthquake in Japan. An earthquake at 9.0 on the Richter scale involves 10 times the shaking amplitude as a 8.0 earthquake. Anyway, it was actually the tsunami that caused the nuclear disaster. (Of course, underwater earthquakes often cause tsunamis.)
But this does not invalidate the overall point. Wikipedia says a study in 2008 warned that Fukushima Daiichi could be damaged even by a 7.0 earthquake, but it was ignored. TEPCO also refused to take precautions against large tsunamis despite being warned. This sustains Palast's main point.
Greg
Palast criticizes the BP settlement.
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The software that oil companies use to inspect pipelines has been rigged to overlook some problems. These problems can cause deadly explosions.
Here's Greg Palast's own statement.
Piers Morgan, as editor of the London Mirror, published fabricated accusations against Greg Palast to undermine his exposé of Labour Party corruption.
Greg Palast: make the Republicans pay the debts they contracted under Bush.
The US has finally killed Osama bin Laden. I don't consider his death any loss, but I don't expect this will do much harm to al Qa'ida. The only way this might have any important effect is psychologically: for instance, if al Qa'ida can use him as a martyr, or if Obama seizes this excuse to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
Greg Palast's book, Armed Madhouse, has the following joke.
So Osama walks into this bar, see, and George Bush says, "Whad'l'ya have, pardner?" and Osama says, "Well, George, what are you serving today?" and Bush says, "Fear," and Osama says, "Fear for everybody!" and George pours it on for the crowd. Then the presidential bartender says, "Hey, who's buying?" Osama points a thumb at the crowd sucking down their brew. "They are," he says — and the two of them share a quiet laugh.
Greg Palast investigated the Chevron-Texaco spills in Ecuador and reports on the dead children — and on proof that the company tried to destroy evidence.
Greg Palast: BP has tremendous influence over the government of Azerbaijan, and probably had a hand in the coup which put the current king/president's father in power. The influence was enough to get Palast arrested for filming BP installations.
Greg Palast: PBS, funded by Chevron, put the blame for the big spill solely on BP, so people won't worry that any other company might be dangerous too.
Greg Palast: BP has a policy of neglecting safety in order to save money. BP's negligence caused the disaster in Prince William Sound, and negligence caused the Gulf of Mexico leak to become a disaster too.
Greg Palast: the undeclared purpose of Arizona's "show us your papers" law is to stop poor Hispanic citizens from voting.
Greg Palast reports: Before "progressive" congressman Eric Massa resigned, he got in bed with a vulture capitalist fund that wants to convert the US into its collection agent. It is vicious when the US government attacks poor countries, but it is not a rare event. (See today's note about the US and Aristide.) Indeed, it's a major part of the US Trade Representative's job. The corruption goes deeper than an individual congresscritter here and a senator there; it is fundamental to the system, as long as business has political power.
Greg Palast explains why associating the Taliban with the 9/11 attacks is stretching the facts. His article only states part of the uncertainty. We can't even be sure that the Saudis accused of carrying out the attack were the real attackers, or that the Bush regime was not involved. Bush tried to block the investigation, then weakened it and corrupted it.
Obama caved in to Big Pharma and presents it as a victory. After secret negotiations — violating his pledge to make them public — he convinced Big Pharma to increase prices by 2% less over the next 10 years. He did this by surrendering the negotiating power that could have saved 40% or more. Palast's article doesn't clearly say that the savings Obama achieved would be spread over 10 years, but but that is asserted here.
Obama cannot achieve meaningful health care reform because he is aiming too small.
Greg Palast: stealing oil from poor Indians is a global practice for oil companies.
US citizens: How to prevent the Republicans from stopping you from voting.
Report: Voting problems in several swing states.
Greg Palast has been saying for years that the Republicans will try to steal this election by any possible means. Problems like these offer easy opportunities
Obama, who wasn't very liberal to begin with, is taking more conservative positions to get elected.
What bothers me most is advocating the death penalty. That is a setback I didn't expect.
If Greg Palast is right, these concessions are all futile, since the Republicans have sewn up the election regardless of how people vote.
19 years after the giant Exxon Valdez spill, which was not a mere accident since it happened because Exxon broke safety regulations, Exxon has defied the court and refused to pay damages. Now it hopes that Bush cronies on the Supreme Court will spare it from ever paying.
Palast mispronounces the digraph "xx". The correct pronunciation is like German "ch" in "ach".
The investigation
of the firings of US attorneys is getting hotter.
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Greg Palast says these firings were part of the Republicans' plan to rig the 2008 election.
Iraqi refugees turn to sex trade in Syria.
Projecting
a future movement to "live unplugged".
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Norway has adopted a law that government information must be distributed in open formats.
Sudan has accepted 2000 Palestinian refugees who were stuck for months at the Iraqi border.
The "Homegrown Terrorism" act would set up a new system of censorship, and set up rules under which
the
heroes of American democracy would have been called "terrorists".
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The Bush regime has a pattern of stretching laws to extend its power. We dare not assume it will not stretch this power too. Nor can we assume a Clinton regime would be any better.
The
occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan are costing 15 billion dollars per month.
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New
York State plans to upgrade and unify its efforts to control invasive species.
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It would be more effective in the long run to increase precautionary measures against introduction of invasive species. But that runs into opposition, because these measures are inconvenient.
In
the short term, this benefits Musharraf, who now has no plausible rival for power.
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If Musharraf declined to provide security for Bhutto, that does seem to make him partly responsible. Even if he did not organize the assassination, he knew there would be more attempts.
Rush Holt's bill to fund a move to paper ballots has revealed disagreements about how to make election vote counting honest.
Meanwhile, Greg Palast says that the way Republicans intend to steal the 2008 election is by systematic fraudulent challenges to Democratic voters, so as to disenfranchise or scare them.
Most
Arab countries, and Iran, severely filter the Internet.
They also arrest and punish people who criticize the government.
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The Bush forces in Iraq don't filter the Internet, but they have killed a number of journalists.
Two
British diplomats were expelled from Afghanistan
after talking with warlord groups allied to the Taliban.
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The
Hindu fanatics who usually attack Muslims now have attacked Indian Christians.
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There is a serious issue at the root of this. Upper-cast Hindus treat the Dalits (formerly called "untouchables") like trash, and Hinduism openly supports this cruelty. Thus, many Dalits think of converting to some other religion in which all are treated as equals. Often they choose Buddhism, following Dr. Ambedkar, but sometimes they choose Christianity. Either way, they face violent opposition from upper-caste Hindus that want to maintain them in subjection.
It could be easier just to declare themselves Atheists. However, I think they need the support of some larger community to make their rejection of Hinduism effective. And some forms of Buddhism are Atheist.
Lots of companies try to convince you to buy by saying they give some money to charity. But you can't necessarily trust them.
I've always been suspicious of statements that "a portion of what you pay will be given to XYZ". What portion will they give? .0000001 percent?
Greg
Palast interviews President Correa.
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Australia's new government discarded the plan for a national ID card.
J.
Edgar Hoover asked President Truman to imprison over 12,000 Americans without trial.
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Who
should judge the judges?
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The
war in the Congo has killed 7 million people.
Many of them are women who were raped and mutilated as an act of political terrorism.
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Is this war fueled by diamonds? Something must be keeping it going.
The Senate blocked the plan to give phone companies retroactive immunity for illegal spying on Americans.
But Bush will try again.
Novelist Jonathan Lethem writes about how
art
depends on copying and imitating other art, and what that means for copyright.
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This is a good analysis of the basic issue of copyright today. I brought up related points in a more abstract way in another article, but he says it better.
However, the propaganda term "intellectual property" led Lethem to try to involve in patent law in a subject where it is not relevant at all. He recognized and denounced the bias in the term; but he did not recognize the other mistaken supposition it carries: that copyright and patents are similar issues and should be treated together. They are not similar; the points he raises about copyright don't relate to patent law at all.
In an unusual show of wisdom,
fishermen
decided to protect clownfish in Australian reefs where the population
has already been hit by global warming.
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If all fishermen were that rational, we would not have to worry about sweeping the oceans clean of fish.
Israeli
PM Olmert rejected a truce in Gaza
while announcing the intention to keep taking Palestinian land.
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Richard Dawkins will take
the
fight against religious irrationalism to the enemy's home ground.
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Some right-wing Israelis, and a few unusually wealthy and unusually right-wing American Jews, have
great
influence in US politics. How do they respond if you talk about
this? If you say this phenomenon is good, they welcome your approval.
But if you criticize the phenomenon, they say you're making it all
up because you're anti-Semitic.
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The US military is
training
soldiers to be religious fanatics.
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Does this remind you of Al Qa'ida?
Bush continues his War on the Environment by trying to stop California
from enacting stronger emissions standards.
California will sue.
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The Republican Party
used dishonest false-flag phone calls to corrupt the 2002 New Hampshire senate election.
Then the Corruption
Department delayed the investigation, so that Bush and his supporters
would not have to pay the price in 2004.
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Homeless men who have frozen to death sleeping the streets of Paris have ignited a scandal.
I'd expect that lots of homeless men freeze to death in the US, but we don't read about it because our society (or our media?) are more callous. In other words, France has a ways to sink before it reaches our level.
Martin Luther King's family has won a lawsuit against people who
conspired to kill him - vindicating their belief that the
official conclusion that James Earl Ray killed King,
acting alone, was false.
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Cheney is personally responsible for imposing Halliburton's mandatory arbitration policy, which prevents Jamie Leigh Jones from suing that company for rape (or for imprisoning her).
Cheney is probably also partly personally responsible for the law-free zone that protects the Halliburton employees who raped her, and the others who locked her up when she complained, from being prosecuted.
The Paris conference to donate money to the Palestinian economy can't achieve much
unless Israel releases its grip.
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Removing idle functionaries from the public payroll is generally a good thing, when there is a private economy in which people can get work. In a place such as Palestine, where opportunity is very limited, government handouts to those functionaries play the role of a welfare system. Cutting it off might not be an improvement.
The first step towards peace between Israel and Palestine is
to stop the organized crime of the "settlers",
who systematically terrorize and rob Palestinians.
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Greg Palast: Fear of Chavez is Fear of Democracy.
The UK Labour Party's fundraiser is in trouble for accepting possibly illegal contributions. In 1998, Greg Palast caught him on tape proposing to help businesses buy laws.
Help fund Greg Palast's investigative journalism.
Greg Palast presents evidence that Abu Risha was not a real Iraqi tribal leader, just a stooge Bush paid to pretend to be one.
Palast draws the conclusion that Al Qa'ida in Iraq is just a front for extortion by the tribal sheikhs. If that is true, that would mean one additional argument used by Bush to continue the occupation is entirely bogus. However, that argument is misguided even if Al Qa'ida in Iraq is real, because Iraqis will kick it out when the occupation ends.
Greg Palast's investigative fund needs money. Palast informed us about how the Bushmen stole the 2000 election, how they planned in advance to steal the 2004 election, and how they are now planning to steal the 2008 election.
US presidential candidates get away with lies in the debates, because the
mainstream media don't comment on the truth of what they say.
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In the spirit of Krugman's point, we should note that Dubya did not get within "chad-and-butterfly range" of winning the 2000 election. As Greg Palast discovered and published, Katherine Harris stole the election for Bush by disenfranchising tens of thousands of Black voters in Florida.
Krugman doubts that the US can survive four more years of Bush-quality leadership. I don't think that the US has survived 6 years of leadership with Dubya's level of patriotism. The US is not a collection of people, nor its physical infrastructure. The US is a system of government based on human rights. When Bush crushed basic human rights, with the support of most Democrats in Congress, he destroyed the US. The question now is whether the US can be resurrected.
I see little hope for it. The Republican candidates gloat about the destruction of human rights, while the Democratic candidates -- aside from Kucinich -- pay little attention to the question.
Congress is starting to look at Greg Palast's evidence of felonious disenfranchisement of voters in 2004.
Greg Palast: Monica Goodling testified that Torture Gonzales' chief of staff lied to Congress. He denied his knowledge of a felonious Republican scheme that disenfranchised many Black voters in 2004. And Palast has proof of it all.
Greg Palast: Naked neo-cons: Perjury and the Big, Bad Wolfowitz.
Greg Palast says: Bush's firing of prosecutors is part of an attempt to bias the 2008 elections.
Nigeria's ruling party rigged the elections there.
The opposition has denounced the elections as fraudulent and calls for a new election.
The US elections in 2000 and 2004 were also rigged, and Greg Palast says they are working on rigging the next election already.
As part of Bush's plan to reduce US attorneys to slavish obedience, he appointed a man who helped Bush steal the 2004 election, using a scheme to systematically disenfranchise Black voters who are homeless, away at school, or in the armed forces.
Greg Palast argues that this scheme was a felony: this man should be a defendant, not a prosecutor.
John Murtha, proposing to forbid Bush from sending more troops to Iraq, said on mainstream media: "The invasion itself is what causes the sectarian violence. It's the occupation [that] causes the violence."
I'm really glad that the wall forbidding people to say that the war is wrong has been punctured.
Greg Palast says: instead of letting Bush have one more fix of troops, ask Saudi Arabia and Iran to work out peace in Iraq.
I have recommended similar things.
Greg Palast documents the
government actions that are keeping Blacks from returning to New Orleans
-- political manipulation of disaster.
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The city of New Orleans should not be rebuilt in the same place, because that is asking for future disaster. They can't keep raising the levees as the sea rises. But the city should be rebuilt, on higher ground -- moving the parts that were not flooded this time.
This will cost money, but it will be money well spent.
Greg Palast: The Baker Boys: Stay Half the Course.
palast@gregpalast.com: How They Stole The Mid-Term Election.
It appears that these methods weren't enough to give Republicans victory, but they may have retained several congressional seats that the Republicans would have lost in a fair election.
Greg Palast analyzes US war propaganda. It leads readers to identify with Bush soldiers while dehumanizing the Iraqi civilians they kill.
Greg Palast teaches Americans to recognize situations where the right thing to do is "cut and run".
Hugo Chavez's Address to UN: After Bush speaks, it smells of sulfur.
Greg Palast interviews Hugo Chavez.
Charges against Greg Palast were dropped. He faced possible imprisonment for photographing an oil refinery.
Journalist Greg Palast faces Federal criminal charges--for taking a photo of an oil refinery whose exhaust pollutes the air right next to a camp for New Orleans refugees.
These bans on photography, which have also been applied to public places such as bus stations, are inexcusable acts of tyranny. (They are also unlikely to hinder real terrorists, who could easily arrange to avoid being spotted taking their photos-- but this is a secondary issue.)
Greg Palast reports on how Bush has prosecuted the class war against Americans.
Greg Palast reveals how Republican cronies were paid for producing a "plan" for evacuating New Orleans, but no one can find any copy of it. Louisiana's best hurricane expert complained that poor people without cars were being ignored, so they threatened his job. He refused to be silenced, but they ignored him anyway.
Although I agree with Palast's point that we shouldn't let this "natural" disaster excuse the wrongdoing, I disagree with his way of putting it. It would be more rational to say that a hurricane had to arrive sooner or later, so the lack of preparation (remember that Bush cut funds to strengthen the levies in order to pay for war in Iraq) was sure to cause its harm sooner or later.
Greg Palast speculates that the Bush regime and Iran share an interest in nuclear worries that drive up the price oil.
Greg Palast: Obrador shows what US democrats should have done when Bush stole two elections.
Dan Rather criticized Bush's personal war-avoidance record, and was pilloried. Greg Palast has published even stronger charges, and stronger evidence; Bush refuses even to respond.
Iraqi women are being attacked, even killed, by religious fanatics
for not dressing and acting as the fanatics demand.
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Bush did not plan for this, but it was his conquest, creating a situation where political Islam was a central part of opposition to his occupation of Iraq, that paved the way for it.
Greg Palast traces the rise of Islamic fanatics in the Iraqi resistance to the Bush regime's determination to take Iraq's oil.
Comments on Greg Palast's new book, Armed Madhouse.
Bush is keeping two innocent men prisoner in Guantanamo because they "might face persecution" if they were returned to China. Guantanamo isn't persecution?
Greg Palast: Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign.
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One of Macchiavelli's suggestions for how princes should deal with conquered countries is to appoint a governor who would be nasty, and crush all resistance; then sack him and cast oneself as the friend of the people.
Greg Palast: OPEC and the economic conquest of Iraq
High oil prices encourage conservation and reduction of CO2 output. I don't think they are bad at all.
Greg Palast explains why there is no serious investigative journalism
in mainstream US media. The standard practice is to kill any
investigation based on evidence from a confidential source if a
government representative privately denies the claim.
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E. J. Dionne condemns Bush's assault on media independence.
A previous note has a link to Greg Palast's article about Newsweek's cave-in.
Greg Palast reports that oil companies have beaten out the neocons,
and convinced Bush to drop the plan to privatize Iraq's oil.
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Meanwhile, he presents evidence that Bush began planning the attack--and the privatization--shortly after taking office. More proof that 9/11 was just an excuse for what he wanted to do anyway.
Greg Palast wishes Dan Rather, and American journalism, "rest in peace".
Greg Palast, who broke the story on how Bush blocked some 50,000 Florida voters from voting, now reports on additional voter-suppression practices.
It is clear that the Republican Party hired people to brainstorm every possible way they could block Democrats from voting. By my book, this makes them the enemies of Democracy.
Greg Palast evaluates the Bush-Kerry debate.
I think it's not just Saudis that need to be investigated carefully for connection with the 9/11 attacks, it's the Bushmen's cover-up.
Greg Palast:
Has Johnnie been good?
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Greg Palast reflects
on the capture of Saddam Hussein.
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