Bushed Again: New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go
[Greg Palast] Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don’t blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You […]
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No Home Sweet Home: Five Years After Katrina
[Matt Pascarella] Four years ago, on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, I sat with Patricia Thomas. Greg Palast and I had just helped her break into her home at […]
British Petroleum: Addicted to Spills
[Greg Palast] With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill, just this week: Over 100,000 gallons, at its Alaska […]
Emperor Hickel: The Man Who Invented Alaska … and Sarah Palin
[Greg Palast] Wally Hickel invented Alaska and told me he regretted it. He also invented Sarah Palin, and I was hoping, when I travel to Alaska next month, to ask […]
Slick Operator: The BP I Have Known Too Well
[Greg Palast, Truthout] I’ve seen this movie before. In 1989, I was a fraud investigator hired to dig into the cause of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Despite Exxon’s name on […]
Behind the Arizona Immigration Law: GOP Game to Swipe the November Election
[Greg Palast, Truthout] 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 […]
Truly Creepy Details About Congressman Massa
[Greg Palast, BuzzFlash] 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 […]
Vuture Funds Savaged in Liberia
[Greg Palast, Guardian UK] Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, is urging MPs to back a bill banning vulture funds from using British courts to prey on poor countries […]
Kvetcher in the Rye
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] In the sixth grade, the Boys’ Vice-Principal threatened to suspend me from school unless I stopped carrying around The Catcher in the Rye I think because it […]
The Manchurian Candidates
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] In today’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court ruled that corporations should be treated the same as “natural persons”, i.e. humans. […]
The Right Testicle of Hell: Haiti
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] 1. Bless the President for having rescue teams in the air almost immediately. That was President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland. On Wednesday, the AP reported that the […]
Supremes OK Al Qaeda donation for Palin?
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] I thought that headline would get your attention. And it’s true. I’m biting my nails waiting for the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election […]
WTO Partying Like It’s 1999
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] GENEVA — Apparently, one meltdown isn’t enough for the World Trade Organization. They meet today in Geneva on the tenth anniversary of the “Battle in Seattle,” the […]
Afghanistan By Hypnosis
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] 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 […]
Dr. Kevorkian’s Accountant
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Tell me where it hurts, Mr. President. What’s killing you is what’s killing us all: An evil germ called “Medical Loss Ratio.” “Medical Loss Ratio” [MLR] is […]
Someone Change Ben Bernanke’s Drugs
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] I still get a thrill whenever I get my hands on a confidential memo with “The White House, Washington” appearing on the letterhead. Even when—like the one […]
The Next Drowning of New Orleans
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Ivor van Heerden is the professor at Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center who warned the levees of New Orleans were ready to blow — months and years […]
Expert Who Predicted Levee Break Fired
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] There’s another floater. Four years on, there’s another victim face down in the waters of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Ivor van Heerden. I don’t get to use the […]
The Day the President Turned Black
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] He’s in hot water now. For a moment, on national television, the President of the United States turned black! Last week, when his buddy “Skip” Gates got […]
Why An Asshole Is Always In Charge
[Greg Palast] John Thain is the guy that looks like a Clark Kent doll you saw grinning from page one of your paper Friday morning. Thain was just fired by […]
Bill Richardson, Kissinger-American
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Bill Richardson is out: Caught with his hand, if not exactly in the cookie jar, at least you could say his sticky finger was near it. I’m […]
Obama’s “Way To Go, Brownie” Moment
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] Has Barack Obama forgotten, “Way-to-go, Brownie”? Michael Brown was that guy from the Arabian Horse Association appointed by George Bush to run the Federal Emergency Management Agency. […]
How McCain Could Win
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] It’s November 5 and the nation is in shock. Media blame it on the “Bradley effect”: Americans supposedly turned into Klansmen inside the voting booth, and Barack […]
Vote For Obama Because He’s Black
[Greg Palast, Morphizm] No question, Mr. Bruce was my favorite teacher in junior high. I went to this Loser-ville school in the San Fernando Valley. It was all Chicano kids […]
Chewing The Buddha: President Bush At The Olympics
[By Greg Palast, Photo: AP] Lhasa, Tibet — China’s secret police are just terrible at keeping themselves secret. The detective, dressed in her business suit and pumps appropriate to urban […]