I know I'm supposed to be grateful that The Paper of Record, The New York Times itself, wrote an article warning of the dangers of electronic voting. But if you read the thing, and listen to its author, Clive Thompson, you'd want to barf. Listen to my response, on the Palast Report, on Air America's Clout with Richard Greene.
Many long treatises have been written on the need to move America in a new direction- few have ever written on how to do that though. Now someone finally has. Air America host Thom Hartmann has sent us an excerpt from his new book Cracking the Code and we can't put it down.
Hartmann using his experience as a psychotherapist tells progressives how to use communication to effectively to get the message across.
Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds and Restore America's Original Vision is in book stores now, or you can pick it up at Amazon.com though here.
Thursday, December 27
Palast on Democracy Now!
Greg Palast gets the exclusive interview with President Correa of Ecuador only on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. From the makers of The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, Greg Palast and cameraman Richard Rowley.
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Have a Happy New Year from everyone in the Palast Office!
Impeach the President by Greg Palast and a host of journalists with smoking guns and good aim. It's the new book introduced by Howard Zinn from the folks who bring you the Project Censored collection. Donate at least $60 for a signed copy. Donate $100 and we'll include Censored 2008.
And, before President Huckabee requires Bible study for a driver's license, pick up and memorize the latest vote-snatching tricks in my new film, Election Files: The Theft of 2008, taken from the original BBC broadcasts you won't find on the US boob tube. $50 minimum donation, tax-deductible, to the Palast Investigative Fund. Watch the trailer.
Also: The Assassination of Hugo Chavez, my filmed interviews with Chavez, his opponents, even the man who took Chavez hostage. Watch the trailer.
You choice: kiss off the annis horribilis with the gift of Impeachment with Zinn and Palast. Or, roast W's chestnuts on an open fire with my guided tour of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Armed Madhouse - from Baghdad to New Orleans. Sordid secrets and strange tales of a White House Gone Wild. The hardbound and paperback bestsellers.
I am writing this to you on my flight back to Ecuador on my continuing investigation of Condi's old oil company, Chevron/Texaco and its chemical war on the Cofan Indians. BBC, bless'm, paid my ticket down. No one has paid to get me back with the film. I kid you not. Please make a donation so I can bring back the story you won't see on CNN.
A Rove-arian cancer on the Presidency
by Greg Palast
December 14th, 2007- If you read US papers, you'd barely note that Karl Rove was just charged with contempt of Congress by the Senate Judiciary Committee, and you sure as hell as wouldn't know why. The Washington Post mentions that it was Rove's failure to supply documents to the Committee regarding the firing of US Prosecutors. What you won't get is what Rove is hiding in those documents.
Well, I'll tell you. Better yet, I'll let one of the fired prosecutors tell you. For BBC TV I spoke with David Iglesias, former US Attorney for New Mexico. Iglesias told me that Rove engineered his firing, part of a grand scheme to disenfranchise voters.
The job of the Justice Department is to protect voters. Rove's scheme was, instead, to harass them - especially those colored brown and blue - i.e. Hispanic Democrats.
Watch the interview with David Iglesias and law professor Robert F. Kennedy Jr in excerpts from The Election Files. Watch the trailer for the film here.
Also listen to the SoonerThought Show Podcast with Greg Palast for more on the charges.
by Joe Garofoli
Greg Palast may be the only journalist with a New York office who works, as he says, "in journalistic exile." There, with a team
of a half-dozen researchers largely supported by $50 donations from readers, Palast ferrets out documents and smoking-gun-toting insiders from Washington to Ecuador and uses them to gird his bitingly sardonic investigative essays that most American mainstream outlets won't touch.
Why? Palast figures it's because he mercilessly attacks the status quo. He was one of the first (Show me more...)
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Bush: If it's our oil, why do Venezuelans get to vote on it?
GOP panicked that counting votes in Venezuela will spread to Florida
by Greg Palast
Monday December 3, 2007
The Family Bush can fix Florida. They can fix Ohio. But it's just driving them crazy that they can't fix the vote in Venezuela.
[Note: Watch the reports taken from the Palast BBC investigations in Venezuela in the newly released DVD, "The Assassination of Hugo Chavez."]
The Bush Administration and its press puppies - the same ones who couldn't get enough of the purple thumbs of voters of Iraq - are absolutely livid that this weekend the electorate of Venezuela had the opportunity to vote.
Typical was the mouth-breathing editorial by the San Francisco Chronicle, that the referendum could make Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's President, "a constitutional dictator for life." And no less a freedom fighter than Donald Rumsfeld, from the height of the Washington Post, said that by voting, Venezuela was "receding into dictatorship." Oh, my!
Given that Chavez' referendum was defeated at the ballot box, we now know that, as a dictator, Chavez is a flop. Of course, without meaning to gainsay Secretary Rumsfeld, maybe Chavez is not a dictator.
Let's get clear exactly what this vote was about. Firstly, it was a referendum to change the nation's constitution to end term limits for President.
Oh, horror! Imagine if we eliminated term limits in the US! We could end up stuck with a president - like Franklin Roosevelt. Worse, if Bill Clinton could have run again, we'd have missed out on the statesmanship of Junior Bush. While US media called Chavez a "tyrant" for suggesting an end to term limits, they somehow forgot to smear the tyrant tag on Mr. Clinton for suggesting the same for the America.
We were not told this weekend's referendum was a vote on term limits, rather, we were told by virtually every US news outlet that the referendum was to make Chavez, "President for Life." The "President for Life" canard was mis-reported by no less than The New York Times. (Show me more...)
Catch Greg Palast on Robert F. Kennedy's "Ring of Fire." Topic: The Rainforest versus Condi's oil company. Chevron, which named a
super-tanker after the Secretary of State, has barfed crude oil all over the Amazon river's source in Ecuador, home of the Cofan Indians.
Environmental crusader Kennedy talks about his own investigations there - and Palast's latest report from the jungle for BBC Television. Watch the report then catch RFK and GP on Air America stations nationwide.
Plus: "The Palast Report" on Air America's "CLOUT!" with Richard Greene. This weekend: "George Bush is un-American. And that's why he lost the election. Twice."
Boasted £11 million donated by Tesco cut tax bill by £20 million
by Greg Palast
It was a stunning admission. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's crony explained to the U.S. businessman, in evil detail, exactly how the fix is done in Britain.
Unfortunately, for Jon Mendelsohn and his partners, the "businessman" was, in fact, an undercover reporter for The Observer of London. (Show me more...)
One million Democrats attempting to vote in this year’s primaries found their names missing from voter rolls. WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO?
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