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Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?
by Greg Palast
They're kidding, right?
James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the "Iraq Study Group" have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.
Baker's Two Big Ideas are:
1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq is a disaster getting more disastrous. The Baker Boys' idea: cut the disaster in half -- leave 70,000 troops there.
But here's where dumb gets dumber: the Bakerites want to "embed" US forces in Iraqi Army units. Question one, Mr. Baker: What Iraqi Army? This so-called "army" is a rough confederation of Shia death squads. We can tell our troops to get "embedded" with them, but the Americans won't get much sleep. (Show me more...)
By Greg Palast
[Washington]
This photo of condemned Iraqi ex-strongman Saddam Hussein amid exotic weapons of mass destruction, taken just before the liberation of Iraq, was released Saturday by the White House. 
Proclaiming that the long-awaited evidence of Saddam's deadly weaponry was now irrefutable, Presidential spokesman Tony Snow displayed the picture of Saddam with bow and arrows [read the original NY Times article] at a special briefing for the Washington press corp.
"These are 'dirty' arrows, capable of delivering radioactive materiel wherever shot," said Snow. (Show me more...)
Just released today: Big Easy to Big Empty DVD-- the real story of how the White House drowned New Orleans and holds it underwater today. Donate at least $30 (tax-deductible) to our investigative reporting foundation and I'll send you, signed, the one-hour-plus broadcast. The DVD includes Amy Goodman and me on New Orleans as the front line of the class war.
On August 22, my producer and I were charged by the Department of Homeland Security with violating anti-terror laws -- we upset them for filming the bad guys. While the charges were dropped (whew!) we still have the film -- originally made for Democracy Now! and LinkTV. (Show me more...)
Can't decide what to give for Xmas or Xanukkah? Why not, IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT?
Get this brilliant compendium of articles, Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney, introduced by Howard Zinn -- with the complete investigation of high crimes and hijinks compiled by America's top investigative journalists -- including my own list of indictable offenses: "The OTHER Downing Street Memos."
Donate at least $40 (tax deductible!) to our not-for-profit Investigative Fund and I'll send you a signed copy (shipping included).
I'll even personalize it: in the "message box," tell me the name of the lucky soul getting the gift, and I'll sign it to them.
Order it this week to receive it well before the holidays.
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Winston Smith has reproduced the inside of our President's skull with this extraordinary collage -- based on Greg Palast's bestselling book, "Armed Madhouse."
Winston is the "best collage artist in the Universe ... best-kept secret of the underground" (writes Ivan Stang). His work is seen on albums put out by the Dead Kennedys, Green Day, Tijuana No, Lard and other bands -- his collages can also be seen inside the pages of Playboy, the New Yorker, Spin and other magazines.
Through special arrangement with the artist, the Palast Investigative Fund is offering a limited number of this killer full-color frame-worthy 18" x 24" poster for a tax-deductible donation of at least $25.
On Thursday, November 16, Hollywood came out in support of the Palast Investigative Fund, the
not-for-profit foundation that supports the research team behind the writings and films of investigative reporter Greg Palast.
The evening at the Beverly Hills home of Jodie Evans, a Code Pink founder and Max Palevsky, was sponsored by Norman Lear, founder of People for the American Way, Alec Baldwin, Bonnie Raitt, Ed and Cindy Asner, Larry David and other film and music luminaries to raise funds for the Palast team's new work, including "The Theft of 2008," the continuation of the investigation into the manipulation of US elections.
Rocker Jackson Browne ["Lives in the Balance"], who has helped fund Palast's work, said that everyone in his recording studio had read his copy of Palast's bestseller, "Armed Madhouse: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War." Browne did not say if the others were forced to read it under duress.
by Greg Palast
Friday, November 3, 2006 for The Guardian (London)
It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times yesterday splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic who'd retrieved it from the brain of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith.
There was a 40 column-inch profile of the medic. There were photos of the platoon, guns over shoulders, praying for the fallen buddy. The Times is careful not to ruin the heroic mood, so there is no photograph of pieces of corporal Smith's shattered head. Instead, there's an old, smiling photo of the wounded soldier. (Show me more...)
by Greg Palast
Why doesn't George Bush just throw a virgin into a volcano? Or Dick Cheney? Or Lynn Cheney?
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One million Democrats attempting to vote in this year’s primaries found their names missing from voter rolls. WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO?
Out now! Live from the Armed Madhouse
