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. His full-length feature, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, was released in 2016. His new film, Vigilantes: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitmen—from Acade ...
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Trump raided, in part, because of law he signed to ensnare Clinton
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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…
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Contents of Alex Jones’ phone set to implicate Trump
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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…
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Could Georgia DA Fani Willis turn Donald into Little “RICO” Trump?
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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…
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Election Crimes Bulletin: Nullification is the Name of the GOP’s Game
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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
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#2000Mules: Why not show the perps? They even blur the face of a dog!!!
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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…
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The Jack Blood Show: Censorship, cognitive dissonance & bullsh*t hypocrisy
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“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…
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Insurrectionist Disqualification: Marjorie Taylor Greene v. 14th Amendment
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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…
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West Virginia protest calls out Joe Manchin’s dirty coal profits
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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…
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We have to cutoff Putin’s ability to make money off oil
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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…
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Election Crimes Bulletin: How an axis of awful is blocking oil from Venezuela
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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…
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As long as the tanks roll, Koch Industries will be rolling in it
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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
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The Fight for Democracy in Ukraine and the United States
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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
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The Price of Russian Oil with Josh Fox & Ben Judah
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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
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How to Stop Putin’s War Windfall by Ending Our Embargo of Venezuelan Oil
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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…
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Fact Injection [2:22:22] — Ukraine Hysteria & CRT
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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…
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A little-known story about how activists beat Raffesnperger’s mass purges in Georgia
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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…
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Jan 6th: ”You can smell the mendacity and the subpoenas”
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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 …
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Fact Injection: Special grand jury impaneled in Georgia to investigate election fraud
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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…
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FlashPoints: There were 29 phone calls between Trump and Raffensperger
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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.…
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How Trump and the GOP could steal the election in 2024 — unless we act NOW!
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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…
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FlashPoints: Analysis of Biden’s Speech in Georgia on Voting RIghts
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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…
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Drive Time: The tyranny of the extraction industry
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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
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Strangling of John Lewis Voting Rights Act could be death blow for democracy
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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…
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Senate Republicans Continue Assault On Voting Rights
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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
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FlashPoints: Hate goes on trial in Charlottesville
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[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
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The Extraordinary Case of Chevron v. Steven Donziger
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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…
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Reality Check: Palast with Steven Donziger & John Perkins
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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
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Manchin’s Freedom to Vote Act Ain’t Going Nowhere!
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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
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Take a listen to learn why Asner was recognized as the best voice actor on the planet. This is his reading of Greg Palast's investigation of Walmart, “What Price a Storegasm?” from the 2002 edition of The Best Democracy Money Can BuyGreg Palast による
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North Carolina Court Rules To End Ex-Con Con-Job
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On Monday, a state Superior Court in Raleigh, North Carolina ruled to allow ex-cons to vote — even if they haven’t paid old fines. The GOP is freaking. Here’s why: a University of Minnesota study found 89% of ex-cons vote Democratic, no matter their color. Too bad the Democrats are MIA on registering ex-cons. I’ve calculated that over 9 million ex-…
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Palast on Drive Time: “I let the Chevron lawyers hang themselves.”
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Chevron set out to destroy Steven Donziger, to make an example of a human rights lawyer that dares take on the petroleum pirates. But the oil giant also went after journalists, in one case, filing a complaint against the BBC Television reporter that broke the story that Chevron had destroyed key evidence in the case. I was that reporter — and survi…
Calling in to the FlashPoints News studio from his new New York home, where he is currently under house arrest, rights attorney Steven Donziger talks about his Kafkaesque case with host Dennis J. Bernstein and investigative reporter Greg Palast.Palast has been reporting on this outrageous tale of oil, power, corruption, corporate murder and ecocide…
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Haiti: The Trail of Blood That Leads Back to The U.S.
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In this edition of The Critical Hour, hosts Garland Nixon and Wilmer Leon talk to Greg Palast about the recent assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, and the trail of blood that leads back to the United States. The trio also discuss the socio-economic background against which this murder happened, and how the economy of this mineral and…
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The Devastating SCOTUS Ruling Against Voting Rights
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On Thursday, July 1, the Supreme Court gave states new latitude to impose restrictions on voting, using a ruling in a case from Arizona to signal that challenges to laws being passed by the Republican legislatures that make it harder for minority groups to vote would face a hostile reception from a majority of the justices. This was a six to three …
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Uncovered: Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters
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A little-noticed provision in Georgia’s new voting restriction law, SB202, threatens the rights of 364,000 voters. The new provision signed into law in March allows private citizens to challenge an “unlimited” number of other voters’ ballots. The result is that hundreds of thousands of voters individually targeted by a conservative group from Texas…
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Election Crimes Bulletin: Is it time we made Manchin a verb?
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Who would have ever thought that it would be one lone Democratic Senator that would finally put an end our democratic voting system? The one person, one vote ideal we've been trying to achieve in this country. Maybe it's time now to make Joe Manchin’s name into a verb, as in “Manchining” — as in crippling a structural system of voting. As in, he “M…
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Texas: Are the Republicans going to sweep back in next year?
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If you let Texans vote, and you stop gerrymandering them, it's not even a purple state, it's a deep blue state, but...Greg Palast による
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Deepwater Horizon: The Lies & Bribes That Keep Big Oil Flowing
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The poisoning of the environment can only happen because of the poisoning of politics.Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/deepwater-horizon-corporate-homicide/Greg Palast による
#SB202: Follow the money… It's not just about letting black people vote, it’s about letting a progressive agenda advance. Jim Crow has been a profit center for corporate America for generations, and we're calling it out.Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors-in-the-georgia-vote-law/Greg Palast による
The only person who’s safe under Georgia’s new anti-voting law is Jim Crow. The bill’s 95 pages long and every page is a new horror show — it’s like Stephen King wrote it.Greg Palast による
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Why Asian-Americans were the main target of GOP vote suppression in Georgia
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Even before this act of terror happened, I can’t overemphasize how brutal the voter suppression was aimed at the Asian-American community — particularly in Georgia. And when you don't have political power, you don't have protection. The intimidation factor is very high — and it's coming from the top.Learn More: https://www.gregpalast.com/voting-gan…
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Election Crimes Bulletin: It’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.
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The Asian-American community is the fastest growing community in Atlanta and it’s the one that put Warnock and Ossoff over the top — and that scares the out of Georgia Republicans. So the Asian-American community are the prime target of their vote suppression attacks — it’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.…
The FBI is congratulating themselves on finding and arresting Capitol rioters — BUT WHY DID THEY LET THEM OUT OF THEIR CUSTODY IN THE FIRST PLACE?The FBI manual REQUIRES sealing off a murder crime scene — and arresting or at least getting the names and CELL PHONES with incriminating photos. Instead the rioters were given a f#@!ing police escort out…
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GOP Trail of Tears: Giving Thanks to Indigenous Voters
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For those of you who wanted to see Donald Trump skedaddled from the White House, this is the week you should be celebrating Thanksgiving giving thanks to Indigenous peoples for giving Biden the White House. The Native People’s vote provided the margin for Biden in Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.In Arizona, for example, the Tohono O’odham nation vot…