"Armed Madhouse" - A Review

by Mick Jackson
http://www.opednews.com

Greg Palast is a national treasure. A hidden, an exiled, an ignored national treasure, but a national treasure, nevertheless.

In his latest book "Armed Madhouse" he continues the dissection of the way America is governed that he had exposed in his earlier New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. His latest book is replete with humor, probably on the grounds that in a situation where the choice is laughter or tears, well, go with the former.

The book opens with future dystopia of Jeb Bush presiding over a country with Wal-Mart churches (Show me more...)

Reprinted from April 2002

Take my advice, dear readers, and spare yourself a couple of days like I've just had--days of anxiety, frustration and even a bit of despair.

If you see the new Pluto Press title on your bookseller's shelves, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," by former Chicagoan Greg Palast, don't pick it up.

If someone directs you to gregpalast.com to watch the BBC-TV "Newsnight" report in which the director of the Florida Department of Elections rips off his lapel microphone and scurries away from an on-camera interview with Palast, don't touch that mouse.

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