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Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear Plants The no-BS info on Japan's disastrous nuclear operators

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Pallast - Mar. 16 (Investigative Report) - I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations. I don't know the law in Japan, so I can't tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the homicides about to happen.

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Getting into Massa's Drawers: Truly Creepy Details about the Congressman

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Mar. 23 (Investigative Report) - For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his knickers, which have captivated America's peep-show media, but Massa's file drawers where he keeps his dirtier secrets. Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass about Massa's creepy little peccadilloes. But I care an awful lot about creeps that quietly backed him.

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Palast Hunts the Vultures

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Mar. 07 (Opinion) - Mr. Hermann is known in the finance business as a debt "vulture." He and his associates buy up the debt of the poorest nations on the planet, usually for pennies on the dollar, then sue or use other means to squeeze the nations to pay ten times, even a hundred times, what the vulture fund paid for the debt. The effect of Hermann's financial maneuvers earns little applause in Liberia. In that African democracy, diplomat Winston Tubman tells us what he would say to vulture fund operators, "'Do you know you are causing babies to die all over Liberia?'"

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TALIBAN = 9/11?? Afghanistan by Hypnosis

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Nov. 15 (Opinion) - On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And so, in response to the Saudis' attack, America invaded ... Afghanistan. Like, HUH? And here we go again. New York Times headline last Friday: "Pakistani Army, In Its Campaign In Taliban Stronghold, Finds A Hint Of 9/11."

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Obama’s “Way-to-Go, Brownie!” Moment?

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Dec. 11 (Opinion) - Trial balloons lofted in the Washington Post suggest President-elect Obama is about to select Joel Klein as Secretary of Education. If not Klein, then draft-choice number two is Arne Duncan, Obama's backyard basketball buddy in Chicago.

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It’s Already Stolen

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Greg Palast - By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Greg Palast - Oct. 17 (Investigative Report) - "Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics," report Kennedy and Palast, under the cover of fighting fraudulent voting, are "systematically disenfranchis[ing] Democrats."

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George of Arabia: Better Kiss Your Abe 'Goodbye'

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Jan. 18 (News Analysis) - Bush needs the Saudis to charge us big bucks for oil. The Saudis can't lend the US Treasury and Citibank hundreds of billions of US dollars unless they first get these US dollars from the US. The high price of oil is, in effect, a tax levied by Bush but collected by the oil industry and the Gulf kingdoms to fund our multi-trillion dollar governmental and private debt-load.

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The Assassination of Hugo Chavez

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:20:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Nov. 14 (Statement) - Robertson has a tough time separating Church and Hate. But when the vicious vicar declared it was time to take out the President of Venezuela, he was simply channeling the wishes of the Supreme Authority, Dick Cheney. ... Why must they kill Chavez? ... The answer is right underneath Chavez' feet. Oil.

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Bush's Fake Sheik Whacked:

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:03:30 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Sep. 17 (Special Report) - Bush shook Abu Risha's hand two weeks ago for the cameras. Bush can shake his hand again, but not the rest of him: Abu Risha was blown away just hours before Bush was to go on the air to praise his new friend. Here's what you need to know that NPR won't tell you. 1. Sheik Abu Risha wasn't a sheik. 2. He wasn't killed by Al Qaeda. 3. The new alliance with former insurgents in Anbar is as fake as the sheik - and a murderous deceit.

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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Recount

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:33:14 -0700

The Guardian - By Greg Palast - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - In the six years since I first began investigating the burglary ring we call "elections" in America, a new Voting Reform industry has grown up. That’s good. What’s worrisome is that most of the effort is focused on preventing the installation of computer voting machines. Paper ballots, we’re told, will save our democracy. Well, forget it. Over the weekend, Mexico’s ruling party showed how you can rustle an election even with the entire population using the world’s easiest paper ballot.

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Why Democrats Don't Count

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:47:51 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Jul. 14 (News Analysis) - The Exit polls said he won, but the “official” tally took his victory away. His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls. Violence and intimidation kept even more of his voters away from the polls. Hundreds of thousands of ballots supposedly showed no choice for president — like ballots with hanging chads. And the officials in charge of this suspect election refused to re-count those votes in public. Everyone knew full well a fair count would certainly change the outcome. You’ve heard this story before: Gore 2000. Kerry 2004. But Lopez Obrador 2006 is made out of very different stuff than the scarecrow candidates who, oddly, call themselves “Democrats.”

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