Bush Sr. Made a Killing – 50 Miners Buried Alive

Greg Palast 

While pundits are falling all over themselves spewing about the "civility" of the patrician George H. W. Bush, l must honor the memory those 50 men who were buried alive in a gold field in Africa so Bush Sr. could cash in.

To me, this is the most important story of my career — and almost ended it when Bush’s gold mining company (I bet you didn’t know he had one) sued my paper, The Guardian, threatening it with bankruptcy for telling the truth.

But ultimately, the truth was also buried alive, as US papers refused to cover the story, fearing the gold company’s wrath. (Salon.com was the exception.)

I dedicate this story to those miners, buried without pomp, buried by bulldozers while still alive. And to Tundu Lissu the Tanzanian lawyer, father of twins, who risked his life to provide me the corroborating evidence.

Tundu has taken twelve bullets, but survives.

Here is the story as originally published in the first U.S. edition of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. ...more

The Truth Buried Alive

Greg Palast 

Of the thousands of bless you and f— you messages that arrived at The Guardian papers after we broke the Florida vote swindle story in November 2000, none ruffled my editors’ English reserve but one: a letter demanding we ...more

How Brian Kemp Illegally STOLE The Georgia Election
Cenk Uygur talks to Palast on The Young Turks' Rebel HQ

Greg Palast 

Brian Kemp purged half a million voters in 2017 ahead of his race for the governor's office against the Democratic Party's candidate, Stacey Abrams. He said they left the state. (There must have been moving vans everywhere!) Our experts went through the list name by name and found at least 340,134 voters had never moved. You’re talking a third of a million voters who were canned — with no notice. They showed up in mass and they were either handed provisional ballots, which were thrown in the garbage — and about 50,000 people were simply denied a provisional ballot in violation of federal law.

It's as evil as it is brilliant, because Abrams was prepared to fight over the provisional ballots. She even got a judge to say count them — but you can’t count provisional ballots which were never handed out. It was a pure steal. And the trick that Kemp used ...more

Mississippi: Ugly Old Trick Targets Espy Voters

Greg Palast 

Mike Espy, US Senate candidate, reveals the return of an outlawed vote suppression tactic aimed at elderly voters.

[Jackson, Mississippi] In the vote-stealing biz it’s called "push polling" in which a fake pollster cons a voter out of their vote.

Espy said they would not have known about this game except, ...more

Georgia Senator Nikema Williams: Black, Female and Under Arrest

Zach D Roberts 

Georgia state Senator Nikema Williams didn't plan on being arrested last week. She certainly didn't think she'd be zip-tied by cops and asked to submit to a strip search. But that's what happened when she was in the Georgia State Capitol witnessing a 'Count Every Vote' protest on Tuesday, November 13, 2018.

"It was horrific experience," Williams told our reporter, Zach D. Roberts, the day after her arrest. "They patted me down, like worse than you would get at a TSA pre-check, but then she told me to lift up my dress so they could make sure that I was not carrying something in my vaginal cavity. I am a sitting state senator, that you brought off the rotunda of the capital, and you’re searching me and wanting me to take my dress off to strip search me. And then they wanted me to ...more

Here’s how Brian Kemp is Stealing the Georgia Election

Greg Palast in Atlanta, Georgia for Salon

Half a million Georgia voters were purged with no notice — and their provisional ballots likely won’t be counted. Brian Kemp, who until this week was Georgia’s secretary of state, is stealing the gubernatorial election from Stacey Abrams. It begins with ...more