by Greg Palast

Bill O'Reilly is fighting a war for Christmas, against the dark, Satanic forces arrayed against St. Nick and Yuletide logs and Jingle Bells.
He doesn't want anyone saying, "Happy Holidays" or "Happy Hanukkah" or "Happy Kwanzaa." He wants everyone to say, "Merry Christmas" -- OR ELSE. O'Reilly is Santa's little hit-man. (Show me more...)

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by Prof. Greg Palast

New York Times, page 1:

"American commanders said 38 service members had been killed and 275 wounded in the Falluja assault."

New York Times, page 11:

"The American military hospital here reported that it had treated 419 American soldiers since the siege of Falluja began."

Questions for the class:

1. If 275 soldiers were wounded in Falluja and 419 are treated for wounds, how many were shot on the plane ride to Germany?

2. We're told only 275 soldiers were wounded but 419 treated for wounds; and we're told that 38 soldiers died. So how many will be buried?

3. How long have these Times reporters been embedded with with military? Bonus question: When will they get out of bed with the military?

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2006 PROJECT CENSORED AWARD WINNER

by Greg Palast

From the newly released 2006 Project Censored Year-Book

In his article “Adventure Capitalism,” Greg Palast exposes the contents of a secret plan for “imposing a new regime of low taxes on big business, and quick sales of Iraq’s banks and bridges—in fact, ‘ALL state enterprises’—to foreign operators ... especially the oil.” This economy makeover plan, says Palast, “goes boldly where no invasion plan has gone before.”

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Why Iraq Still sells its oil à la cartel
Twilight of the neocon gods

By Greg Palast

By special arrangement with Harper's magazine, we are reproducing here for the first time the entire updated article on the US government's secret schemes for seizing control of the oil fields of Iraq.

On Saturday, October 22, the Greg Palast investigative team received a Project Censored award, the "alternative Pulitzer Prize," for uncovering the State Department's confidential pre-war plans for the economic conquest of Iraq. (Show me more...)

On Saturday, October 22, the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Greg Palast shared a Project Censored award for the article they co-authored on the non-count of the African-American vote in the 2004 election. Known as "the alternative Pulitzer Prize," the award was presented by the University of California school of journalism at a ceremony at the Sonoma campus in Northern California.

Greg Palast's investigative team, reporting for BBC Television Newsnight (London), Harper's Magazine and TomPaine.com, also received a second award for their investigation uncovering the State and Defense Department secret plans for US control of Iraq's economy. The team had reported on previously confidential documents, one obtained exclusively by the Palast team, that secretly planned to sell off all of Iraq's state assets, "especially in the oil and supporting industries."

This is the fourth consecutive year of awards for the Palast investigative team. The prize is chosen by the journalism school from among more than one-thousand submissions.

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By Greg Palast

There are conspiracy nuts out there on the Internet who think that John Kerry defeated George Bush in Ohio and other states. I know, because I wrote "Kerry Won" for TomPaine.com two days after the election.

"Kerry Won" was the latest in a series coming out of a five-year investigation, begun in November 2000, for BBC Television Newsnight and Britain's Guardian papers, dissecting that greasy sausage called American electoral democracy. (Show me more...)

Al Franken, Amy Goodman, and Janeane Garofalo read 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy,' Greg Palast's New York Times bestseller. Also joining Palast on this 5-CD audio version of the book are trouble-makers Jim Hightower, Ed Asner, Alec Baldwin, Alexandra Paul, Shiva Rose, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and the man who made the Dead Kennedys come to life, Jello Biafra.

Rip a sample here of Ed Asner reading true tales of the Evil Empire (Wal-Mart) in "What Price a Store-gasm?"

Or listen to Jim Hightower read, "The Smell of Texas"

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Debut CD (and it's Enhanced!) release by best-selling author, investigative journalist and all-around good ol' muckraker, Greg Palast. This is a lecture in Boulder, Colorado from 2003 and it covers lots of subjects from his best-selling book: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Enhanced part provides first-hand looksies at Secret Documents and other things the public (that's you!) wasn't supposed to know about!! Artwork by Winston Smith!

Support the Palast Investigative Fund and get your own copy of the CD signed by Greg.

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Last weekend in Portland, Matt Pascarella, chief elections researcher for Greg Palast, gave a presentation to the National Summit to Save Our Elections. He presented his research to-date on the privatization of centralized voter registration databases under Section 303 of the Help America Vote Act. Special thanks to Kat L'Estrange (pictured to the right with Matt) and Beth Hahn as well as all of the organizers who put together the conference. The article below is a brief write-up from Scoop about his talk. (Show me more...)