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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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Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Dec. 20 (Investigative Report) - Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors: the military police still wearing their old Russian puke-green uniforms, the MSN (the dictator's secret police) in windbreakers without ID, and BP's own corporate police force in black tunics, sashes and full hats who look like toy soldiers from the Nutcracker ballet. They weren't dancing.

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Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GOP Game to Swipe the November Election

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Apr. 26 (Investigative Report) - Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, signed last week, requiring every person in the state to carry papers proving they are US citizens. I don't buy it. Anti-Hispanic hysteria has always been as much a part of Arizona as the Saguaro cactus and excessive air-conditioning. What's new here is not the politicians' fear of a xenophobic "Teabag" uprising. What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote -- and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one. Unless this demographic locomotive is halted, Arizona Republicans know their party will soon be electoral toast. Or, if you like, tortillas.

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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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Steal Back Your Vote!

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Oct. 20 (Cartoon) - STEAL BACK YOUR VOTE, the investigative comic book voter guide by Bobby Kennedy and me is now available to download for free free free at StealBackYourVote.org. (That's thanks to your generous donations to date.) And now you can get packs of the full-color print edition for the cost of printing and shipping. Less than a buck a book. And we'll shoot it to you right now by priority mail. Officially, 2.7 million voters have been purged from the voter rolls since the last election. And those voters weren't vanished by ACORN or Mickey Mouse. 'The Purge'n General," "Nuns on the Run" and "Votes Gone Rotten." What's so funny about the death of Democracy? Would you rather CRY?

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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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Chewing the Buddha

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - That May, we left just as the streets were filling with Tibetans demonstrating for freedom. They would never be seen on US TV. Not then, not now. NBC will interrupt the Beijing Summer Olympics only to broadcast its millionth ad for McDonald's. George Bush is there; says he was thrilled that the Chinese dictator, Hu Jintao, invited him and Laura and the kids to lunch. I doubt if they dined on a barley Buddha.

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Eliot's Mess

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Mar. 14 (Special Report) - While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an 'escort' $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush's new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was secretly handing over $200 billion in a tryst with mortgage bank industry speculators. Both acts were wanton, wicked and lewd. But there's a BIG difference. The Governor was using his own checkbook. Bush's man Bernanke was using ours.

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Eliot's Mess Greg Palast

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Mar. 14 (Opinion) - Instead of regulating the banks that had run amok, Bush's regulators went on the warpath against Spitzer and states attempting to stop predatory practices. Making an unprecedented use of the legal power of "federal pre-emption," Bush-bots ordered the states to NOT enforce their consumer protection laws.

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One Bush Left Behind

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - Jan. 29 (Opinion) - In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20. Here's your second question. The President also demanded that Congress extend his tax cuts. The cost: $4.3 trillion over ten years. The big recipients are millionaires. And the number of millionaires happens, not coincidentally, to equal the number of poor kids, roughly 15 million of them. OK class: what is the cost of the tax cut per millionaire?

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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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George of Arabia

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - Let's begin by stating why Bush is not in Saudi Arabia. Bush ain't there to promote 'Democracy' nor peace in Palestine, nor even war in Iran. And, despite what some pinhead from CNN stated, he sure as hell didn't go to Riyadh to tell the Saudis to cut the price of oil. What's really behind Bush's hajj to Riyadh is that America is in hock up to our knickers. The sub-prime mortgage market implosion, hitting a dozen banks with over $100 billion in losses, is just the tip of the debt-berg.

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Space Invaders: Five Million Aliens for Hillary

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - State Representative Russell Pearce of Mesa Arizona has warned us: "There is a massive effort under way to register illegal aliens in this country."

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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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Bush's New US Attorney a Criminal?

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:40:48 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Mar. 07 (Special Report) - There's only one thing worse than sacking an honest prosecutor. That's replacing an honest prosecutor with a criminal. Griffin, according to BBC Television, was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.

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Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:43:57 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Pallast - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - They're kidding, right? James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the "Iraq Study Group" have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.

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How They Stole the Mid-Term Election

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:47:58 -0800

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Nov. 06 (Special Report) - 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't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means. For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of US elections. We've found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted. Here's how they'll do it, in three easy steps:

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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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The power and the pay-off

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:09:54 -0700

Greg Palast - By Greg Palast - Jun. 21 (News Analysis) - They finally put Dan Rather out of his misery. Today, CBS finally terminated him and sent him to the electronic glue factory — all for reporting the truth. But not all of it.

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