BBC Newsnight Interviews Dan Rather who gives us a revealing insight about the post September 11 climate in the US media rooms. (Show me more...)

Greg Palast reporting for BBC Newsnight
First Broadcast 13 May 2002

by Congresswoman Cynthia A. McKinney

Authorities tell us that the world changed on September 11. As a result, university professors must watch what they say in class or be turned in to the "speech" police. Elected officials must censor themselves or be censured by the media. Citizens now report behavior of suspicious-looking people to the police. Laws now exist that erode our civil liberties. Americans now accept these infringements as necessary to win America's New War. (Show me more...)

GREG PALAST is a breath of fresh air in the world of journalism. He began as an investigator, working on behalf of trade unions and consumer groups in the US, highlighting the abuse of corporate power and the destruction of people's lives and planet. His work led to the prosecution of nuclear power plant builders for racketeering, and the revelation of how the Exxon Valdez crash was allowed to happen because the shipping company cut costs by turning the radars off! (Show me more...)

Discussing Jeb Bush, Exxon Valdez and Bush-bin Laden
We are honored to post our second interview with Greg Palast, an investigative reporter for the BBC and the Observer (sister paper of the Guardian). (Show me more...)

by Lloyd Hart

On one of the best trips I have ever taken to New York City in which I started the filming of a documentary on globalization, I had no idea what to expect from the protests that were about to take place over the arrival of the World Economic Forum as it made it's hasty retreat from it's mountain hideaway in Switzerland to what it thought was sacred corporate ground in New York City. I did however have a good idea what I could expect from Gregory Palast (Show me more...)

Transcribed by Necco27

[Bob] Thank you all for joining us for our chat with Greg Palast! Greg has just published an outstanding book, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" You can buy it on Amazon.

[GP] Have you read it, Bob, or are you just pulling my...

[Bob] As an Enron executive, I take the 5th!

[GP] It's a hit in Dublin!

[David] Europeans have an endless appetite for American foibles. (Show me more...)

(Courtesy of A Great Listener)

AJ: This is earth shattering. Can you break it down for us and tell us what the economists have done?

GP: Well, I'll tell you two things. One, I spoke to the former chief economist, Joe Stiglitz who was fired by the (World) Bank. (Show me more...)

Greg Palast. Periodista. Marzo 2002

En este reportaje imperdible a un tecnico del FMI se describe nuestra historia, pasado,
presente y futuro?
"Han condenado a muerte a la gente", el ex-tecnocrata me dijo. Era como una escena de
una novela de espias. El brillante agente deserta, pasa para nuestro lado, y despues de
horas de interrogacion, vacía su memoria de los horrores cometidos en nombre de una
ideología política que ahora él mismo reconoce como podrida. (Show me more...)

by Greg Palast

In November the U.S. media, lost in patriotic reverie, dressed up the Florida recount as a victory for President Bush. But however one reads the ballots, Bush's win would certainly have been jeopardized had not some Floridians been barred from casting ballots at all. Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protegees of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (Show me more...)