"Han condenado a muerte a la gente", el ex-tecnócrata me dijo. Era como una escena de una novela de espías. El brillante agente deserta, pasa para nuestro lado, y después de horas de interrogación, vacía su memoria de los horrores cometidos en nombre de una ideología política que ahora él mismo reconoce como podrida.
Sin embargo, aquí en mi presencia, tenía una presa mucho más grande que cualquier espía de la Guerra Fría. Joseph Stiglitz fue Economista en Jefe del Banco Mundial. En gran parte, el nuevo orden mundial económico es su teoría hecha realidad. (Show me more...)
JOE STIGLITZ: TODAY'S WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
by Greg Palast
The World Bank's former Chief Economist's accusations are eye-popping - including how the IMF and US Treasury fixed the Russian elections
"It has condemned people to death," the former apparatchik told me. This was like a scene out of Le Carre. The brilliant old agent comes in from the cold, crosses to our side, and in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of a political ideology he now realizes has gone rotten. (Show me more...)
Inside Corporate America
by Greg Palast
There's two people you ought to know: Greg O'Neill and Clinton Davis. They are exceptionally important because, according to Rana Kabbani, writing in my British sister paper The Guardian, they are "two symbols of American hegemony." Technically, she was referring to the two towers of the World Trade Center. But it was not American hegemony which fell 50 floors into horrid, crushing oblivion. Nor was it just some architectural artifact which was instructed with the "painful lesson" about US foreign policy described by Kabbani with unapologetic glee. (Show me more...)
by Greg Palast
George W, of all people, has called for making a few million immigrants into citizens of the US of A. A few of his business buddies have figured out that what comes across the Rio Grande is free 'human capital,' brown gold. But even the grating profiteering off the business of citizenship doesn't take away the rare chance to say something almost nice about America -- if only by contrast to Britain's swivel-eyed fear of the strangers in their strange land...
So here's me, using one of the lowest tricks in journalism -- asking a London cab driver to give his salt-of-the-earth opinion on one of the great issues of the day: asylum seekers. He couldn't wait. (Show me more...)
por Greg Palast
Las noticias recientes acerca de America del Sur son que Argentina murio, o al enos lo hizo su economia. Uno de cada seis trabajadores estaban desempleados incluso antes del comienzo de este sombrio invierno austral. Y ahora que la produccion industrial -- que ya venia con un descenso del 25 por ciento en este ano -- entro en una especie de coma, millones de argentinos mas perdieron su trabajo. La crisis se desencadeno por una medida que disparo las tasas de interes a más del 90 por ciento sobre los prestamos denominados en dolares. (Show me more...)
by Greg Palast
And news this week in South America is that Argentina died, or at least its economy. One in six workers were unemployed even before the beginning of this grim austral winter. Millions more have lost work as industrial production, already down 25% for the year, fell into a coma induced by interest rates which, by one measure, have jumped to over 90% on dollar-denominated borrowings. (Show me more...)
Following a landmark libel case ruling, an investigative journalist has warned other reporters not to put their faith in human rights organisation Amnesty International as a reliable source of stories.
The warning was made by investigative journalist Greg Palast, following a libel case concerning an article originally published in UK Sunday broadsheet The Observer, in which certain allegations were made against the multinational mining company Barrick. (Show me more...)
by Greg Palast
Here's a hot idea: Why don't we send 10,000 tons of high level uranium waste to Russia? You'd rather not? Not until you buy your lead suit?
OK then, how about we send 10,000 tons of radioactive garbage to Russia and throw in $15 billion for Vladimir Putin. For the cash, Putin must solemnly promise to store the potential bomb-making material safely and not let any of it slip into the hands of the Iranians or the IRA. (Show me more...)
by Greg Palast
Mmmmm. Ahhhhh.
In a hot tub somewhere just outside New York on a humid summer night, your correspondent sinks down into the bubbles in the mood for a True Life detective story.
Here's a good one: Four men on a boat, a cruise ship to Bermuda, July 1994. Back on shore they fell ill, one with a fever so fierce his brain was damaged. One died. (Show me more...)
Britain's two leading editors and a reporter face jail for printing a story embarrassing the government - but objections to this assault on freedom of the press were slow and timid.
GREG PALAST reports on how Britain's journalists learned to love the censorship that lashes them. (Show me more...)
