Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone. You can read/watch his reports at GregPalast.com. He is the author of the NY Times bestsellers The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse, and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic. You can stream his new film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman — introduced by Martin Sheen and narrated by Rosario Dawson — for a limited t ...
As things heat up for Donal Trump on the legal front, we take a look at the possible indictments heading his way from New York and Georgia. Though it looks like New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg might pip Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis to the post with his case involving Trump’s payoff to adult film star Stormy Daniels, it’s perhaps the…
“It’s in front of him” may be the words that finally send Donald Trump to the hoosegow. The focus of Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis' Grand Jury investigation was on the scheme to present a fraudulent slate of Electors to Congress (which VP Mike Pence was supposed to select for the Electoral College). And, according to the January 6th …
The 800-page gorilla of a report from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the Capitol seems strangely silent on a few matters that, apparently, were a bit too uncomfortable for the Committee to take on. So, buckle up for a discomfiting ride with our investigative team that has been tracking the insurrectionists for yea…
G
Greg Palast


1
Santos, spiked stories, and the mainstream media’s fear of real news
20:07
20:07
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
20:07
In the latest edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, investigative journalist Greg Palast and FlashPoints News host Dennis J. Bernstein discuss the mainstream media’s fear of real news, and what's missing from their headlines on stories ranging from the George Santos scandal to the recently released transcripts from the January 6 Committee. Talki…
G
Greg Palast


1
DOJ takes on ’True the Vote’ Vigilantes — finally!
24:53
24:53
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
24:53
Finally. The Department of Justice has finally taken on ‘True the Vote’, the right-wing group behind the wrongful challenge of hundreds of thousands of legal Georgia voters. True the Vote challenges were the central subject of the film Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman created by the Palast Investigative Fund team. I know what you’re thi…
As control of the Senate hangs in the balance, once again, the balance of power may be decided in Georgia. And once again, as in 2020, Reverend Raphael Warnock [D] is headed for a runoff race — but this time the rules of the game have been changed. In March 2021, Brian Kemp signed a 98-page voter-suppression bill, SB202, which places severe restric…
G
Greg Palast


1
Armed and Masked Vigilantes Intimidate Voters in Arizona
12:34
12:34
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
12:34
Vigilante voter strikes are not just happening in Georgia, where Greg Palast centered his new documentary, Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman. But the vigilantes are using different tactics in different states. In states with open carry laws, like Arizona, they’re actually showing up at early voting stations and dropbox sites with guns an…
G
Greg Palast


1
It was Brian Kemp’s family that first brought enslaved Africans to Georgia.
14:12
14:12
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
14:12
Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, signed a law saying you can’t teach Critical Race Theory. Why? As we revealed in the film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman, it was his family that first brought enslaved Africans to Georgia. This was just before the Revolutionary War, when Georgia was a free territory. Slavery was prohibited in Geor…
G
Greg Palast


1
Georgia Voting Rights attorney: We are in a voter suppression state
19:11
19:11
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
19:11
Atlanta attorney CK Hoffler serves as counsel to civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson and is Chairwoman of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s board. She’s the former President of the National Bar Association and has been at the forefront of the fight for voting rights in Georgia and beyond. In this week’s Election Crimes Bulletin, Hoffler talks about…
On Thursday, Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, appeared before the January 6 Committee to testify about her role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Ginni sent 29 text messages that we know about, and possibly more, to Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the weeks after the election encouraging him to sub…
On National Voter Registration Day, investigative journalist Greg Palast and Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein ponder the big question: Why do we even have voter registration? We didn't always have registration of voters in America. It started pretty much in Pennsylvania when they were trying to stop Black people who had been moving up from the Sou…
It all comes down to Georgia. Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, just laid out her case against Donald Trump. Reverend Warnock is running for reelection in a race that will determine who controls the United States Senate. Stacey Abrams is having a rematch with Governor Brian Kemp, who's been attempting to tip the scales in his favor …
If Donald Trump and Brian Kemp succeed in using electioneering as an excuse to wriggle out of indictments and grand jury subpoenas, then running for office will become the ultimate get out of jail free card, which will open up a whole new can of worms.Greg Palast による
The idea of ERIC was to expand voter registration. If you moved, they would follow you and say, hey, would you like to register in your new state? That's very good. That's very progressive. In fact, a bunch of liberals from the Pew Trust and Brennan Center came up with it. But now a number of Republican Secretaries of State have taken it over and i…
G
Greg Palast


1
Brian Kemp: From witness to unindicted co-conspirator?
27:06
27:06
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
27:06
It seems a mystery. Why is Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia playing hide and seek with the Atlanta grand jury investigating whether Trump and associates attempted to tamper with the 2020 election results? Why is the Governor resisting the subpoena? After all, the national press has played Kemp as some kind of hero for allegedly standing up to Trump, …
G
Greg Palast


1
Brian Kemp resists Georgia grand jury subpoena
22:07
22:07
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
22:07
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is resisting a grand jury subpoena from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 election by Donald Trump and his cronies. The question is why? Indeed, we wouldn’t even have known that Kemp had been subpoenaed for the closed-door hearing if wasn’t for the 1…
G
Greg Palast


1
Trump raided, in part, because of law he signed to ensnare Clinton
16:42
16:42
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
16:42
In this week’s edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, host Dennis Bernstein and investigative reporter Greg Palast discuss the recent FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Separate from the investigation being undertaken by the January 6th Committee, the raid on Trump’s Florida home was done at the request of the National Archives, who were…
G
Greg Palast


1
Contents of Alex Jones’ phone set to implicate Trump
19:01
19:01
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
19:01
In this week’s edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin we reveal how the contents of Alex Jones’ cellphone — which were accidentally handed over to the prosecution in their entirety by the shock jock’s own lawyers during the Sandy Hook defamation trial, and will now likely end up in the hands of the January 6 Committee — could provide proof that Tr…
G
Greg Palast


1
Could Georgia DA Fani Willis turn Donald into Little “RICO” Trump?
18:06
18:06
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
18:06
About a month ago, I would’ve said there’s no chance Donald Trump will be indicted, and I still think that you’re not gonna see that on a federal level. But Trump may yet see the inside of a prison cell, thanks to the efforts of Fani Willis, the first woman to hold the office of District Attorney in Fulton County, Georgia.Because of the Georgia Rep…
G
Greg Palast


1
Election Crimes Bulletin: Nullification is the Name of the GOP’s Game
26:24
26:24
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
26:24
Nullification, as Martin Luther king called it, is a continuing theme in the fight against the right to vote. And it wasn't just the January 6, 2021 insurrection. In 1877 you had a successful overturning, a nullification of the vote, so it can happen again.Greg Palast による
G
Greg Palast


1
#2000Mules: Why not show the perps? They even blur the face of a dog!!!
31:53
31:53
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
31:53
In Dinesh D’Souza’s new film #2000Mules — which claims to prove the 2020 election was stolen by an army of mules that stuffed ballot drop-boxes with fraudulent votes — they don’t show the face or give us the name of a single perp. Why not? They even blur the face of a dog that went to a drop-box with one of these so-called mules! Nice of D’Souza to…
In his film 2000 Mules, Dinesh D’Souza sets out to prove a giant criminal conspiracy to stuff ballot boxes with fraudulent votes. The proof? Well, you can see it with your own eyes: There’s a BLACK man and he is dropping off BALLOTS in a ballot drop box. Case closed! You can laugh now. But crying time is coming. I predict that 2000 Mules will creat…
G
Greg Palast


1
The Jack Blood Show: Censorship, cognitive dissonance & bullsh*t hypocrisy
45:16
45:16
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
45:16
“I don't want anyone censored, whether you're supporting Democrats, Republicans, or whatever. And I don't support any freaking candidate, because they all end up going rotten, I don't care who they are.” — Greg Palast“It's a victim's parade, send in the clowns, theater of the mass, whitelist for everybody.” — Jack Blood…
G
Greg Palast


1
Insurrectionist Disqualification: Marjorie Taylor Greene v. 14th Amendment
22:23
22:23
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
22:23
In this week's episode of The FlashPoints' Election Crimes Bulletin, John C. Bonifaz of Free Speech for People talks to hosts Greg Palast and Dennis J. Bernstein about his group’s lawsuit, which challenges Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s candidacy for re-election under the 14th Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause…
G
Greg Palast


1
West Virginia protest calls out Joe Manchin’s dirty coal profits
26:46
26:46
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
26:46
More than 50 activists convened on a power plant in West Virginia last weekend, calling for its closure. By the end of the day, 16 people were arrested. The plant the protesters targeted in Grant Town is one where Sen. Joe Manchin makes nearly $500,000 per year selling a dirty coal waste called “gob.” Gob is short for “garbage of bituminous,” which…
G
Greg Palast


1
We have to cutoff Putin’s ability to make money off oil
46:47
46:47
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
46:47
Russia got 45% of its national budget — that’s all its social programs, everything — from oil and gas royalties, and the price of gas hit the floor during COVID. Russia was broke. Russia was bankrupt before Putin’s war in the Ukraine. Thanks to this invasion, the price of oil has completely reversed the bankruptcy of the Russian state, and now they…
G
Greg Palast


1
Election Crimes Bulletin: How an axis of awful is blocking oil from Venezuela
27:08
27:08
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
27:08
Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil on the planet. If you look at OPEC, they put Saudi Arabia as number two. Venezuela's producing very little oil, not even enough for its own needs at this moment, when it was producing 3.2 million barrels of oil a day — 2 million barrels a day for export. If we unleash oil from Venezuela, then Putin's profit…
G
Greg Palast


1
As long as the tanks roll, Koch Industries will be rolling in it
14:49
14:49
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
14:49
As long as the tanks roll, Koch Industries will be rolling in it — in this edition of the FlashPoints, Election Crimes Bulletin, Greg Palast explains why.Greg Palast による
G
Greg Palast


1
The Fight for Democracy in Ukraine and the United States
54:27
54:27
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
54:27
Journalist Larisa Alexandrovna gives us a report on the war on democracy currently being waged in Ukraine and Russia, and Major Gamaliel Turner Sr., a victim of Georgia’s new vigilante voter law, tells us about the legal battle to make his vote count in the United States.Greg Palast による
G
Greg Palast


1
The Price of Russian Oil with Josh Fox & Ben Judah
57:48
57:48
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
57:48
Greg Palast hosts this week's Reality Check on KPFK. His guests are filmmaker, playwright and activist Josh Fox (Gasland), and journalist and author Ben Judah (Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin).Greg Palast による
G
Greg Palast


1
How to Stop Putin’s War Windfall by Ending Our Embargo of Venezuelan Oil
11:30
11:30
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
11:30
The mayhem in Ukraine is a profit center for Putin. 43% of the federal Russian budget was provided by oil and gas revenues and royalties. Russia lives and dies, literally, on its oil revenues, and this mayhem has caused the price of oil to rise to over $100 a barrel, so he has a war-windfall of a half billion dollars a day. So the question is, what…
G
Greg Palast


1
Fact Injection [2:22:22] — Ukraine Hysteria & CRT
8:32
8:32
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
8:32
Putin claims he is attacking to eliminate Ukraine’s ““ government… headed by a Jewish president! sanctions, Putin only cares about the price of oil. If Biden would end the insane embargo of Venezuela, oil prices would collapse and so would Putin‘s killing spree.Greg Palast による
Whatever peace there is in Ukraine is the result of the Minsk agreements of 2015 signed by Ukraine, Ukrainian Separatists, France and Germany and endorsed by Russia. The Minsk accords gave the eastern region protection from attack and some measure of autonomy — but not independence. On the basis of the agreement, Russia moved out of the Donbas.Howe…
Once again, it's down to Georgia in the November 2022 midterm elections. Senator Reverend Warnock is running for reelection, and Stacey Abrams is running for governor against the incumbent Brian Kemp. It's not a question of who's going to win. The GOP’s decided it can't win, so it's figuring out how to not let the voters vote.And here's a whole new…
G
Greg Palast


1
A little-known story about how activists beat Raffesnperger’s mass purges in Georgia
1:54
1:54
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
1:54
Here's a little-known story that people don't know about what happened in Georgia. Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger’s no hero. He thought that he had disqualified enough votes to give Trump the win, because they disqualified so many. But what they didn't expect was groups like Rainbow PUSH, Black Voters Matter Fund, and the Transformative Jus…
G
Greg Palast


1
Jan 6th: ”You can smell the mendacity and the subpoenas”
19:17
19:17
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
19:17
The January 6th committee has subpoenaed 14 GOP operatives from seven states to ask them who is behind their very strange, and very dangerous attempt to overturn the election, by providing seven sets of phony electors.What are electors? Those are the people who actually vote for president of the United States. Look high and low in the Constitution …
G
Greg Palast


1
Fact Injection: Special grand jury impaneled in Georgia to investigate election fraud
10:28
10:28
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
10:28
Now that a special grand jury is being impaneled at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to investigate interference in the 2020 election, I don’t think it’s just Donald Trump that’s in trouble. There were 29 phone calls between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — twenty-nine — not just one. The Republica…
G
Greg Palast


1
FlashPoints: There were 29 phone calls between Trump and Raffensperger
31:28
31:28
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
31:28
I don’t think it’s just Donald Trump that’s in trouble now that a special grand jury is being impaneled at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to investigate interference in the 2020 election. The Republicans, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, were playing fast and loose with accusations of voter fraud.…
G
Greg Palast


1
How Trump and the GOP could steal the election in 2024 — unless we act NOW!
7:11
7:11
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
7:11
In the days between the November 3rd, 2020 presidential election and January 6th, 2021, the day Congress was scheduled to certify Joe Biden as winner and next occupant of the White House, Donald Trump and his inner circle were working to subvert the will of the American people. The plot that proceeded the pro-Trump violent insurrection at the US Ca…
G
Greg Palast


1
FlashPoints: Analysis of Biden’s Speech in Georgia on Voting RIghts
35:49
35:49
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
35:49
Our action partner, Black Voters Matter, boycotted Biden’s speech in Georgia on the voting rights bills, refusing to act as a photo op prop. Understand the frustration: we’ve been screaming about Georgia as Jim Crow central for 8 years. Laws alone won’t help: we need the Justice Department to stomp on the new "voter fraud vigilante" challenge syste…
G
Greg Palast


1
Drive Time: The tyranny of the extraction industry
41:12
41:12
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
41:12
Drive Time host Dave Glover and investigative journalist Greg Palast discusses the tyranny of the extraction industry, plus the latest on the Steven Donziger and Julian Assange cases.Greg Palast による
G
Greg Palast


1
Strangling of John Lewis Voting Rights Act could be death blow for democracy
30:25
30:25
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
30:25
These are the only states that would be policed under the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the requirement to “pre-clear” new, racially biased, voting procedures, such as limitations on early voting:AlabamaGeorgiaLouisianaMississippiNorth CarolinaSouth CarolinaTexasVirginiaDon’t get me wrong, the strangling of the John Lewis Act by filibus…
G
Greg Palast


1
Senate Republicans Continue Assault On Voting Rights
13:32
13:32
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
13:32
This week, the Senate Republicans filibustered the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and stopped it from being voted into law in the Senate, even though there was a majority of 51 votes. A filibuster is just, literally, talking a bill to death so that the Senate cannot get on with its work. To close off that trick, to stop a filibuster, you need 60 vote…
This is not about vaccinations, this is about STUPID. There’s a pandemic of pin-heads, an epidemic of stupid.Greg Palast による
G
Greg Palast


1
FlashPoints: Hate goes on trial in Charlottesville
30:30
30:30
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
30:30
[Oct 25, 2021: Charlottesville, VA] Jury selection began today for the civil trial of the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The rally ended with the murder of Heather Heyer and injuries to dozens of other activists. The case was brought by a group of individuals that were attacked during the tiki torch march across th…
Right now, the darkness is falling on Afghanistan, and we are responsible.Greg Palast による
G
Greg Palast


1
The Extraordinary Case of Chevron v. Steven Donziger
34:04
34:04
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
34:04
Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who led a $9.5 billion suit against chevron, sentenced to six months for contempt.Learn more about this extraordinary case: https://www.gregpalast.com/facing-prison-for-fighting-chevron/Stand with Steven at: https://FreeDonziger.com.#FreeDonziger #BigOil #Pollution #Environment #Amazon #HumanRights #StevenDonzig…
G
Greg Palast


1
Reality Check: Palast with Steven Donziger & John Perkins
56:09
56:09
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
56:09
On this week's Reality Check, Greg Palast stands in for regular host Cary Harrison and interviews human rights lawyer Steven Donziger and "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" author John Perkins.Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/fact-injection-donziger-v-chevron/Greg Palast による
G
Greg Palast


1
Manchin’s Freedom to Vote Act Ain’t Going Nowhere!
17:01
17:01
「あとで再生する」
「あとで再生する」
リスト
気に入り
気に入った
17:01
Should we pass laws against bank robbery by asking the bank robbers? Manchin's talking about asking the vote thieves to agree to end their crime wave — that ain't going to happen! #FreedomToVoteActGreg Palast による
Listen to The Network soliloquy that Ed Asner gamely voiced for Greg Palast's bestselling book Armed MadhouseGreg Palast による