Mexico City: Palast Wins Journalism Award
The Association of Mexican Journalists has awarded Greg Palast their 2019 prize for International Reporter for his exposés on the theft of elections from Georgia to Mexico and his reporting from ...more
My Daughter Didn’t Call on Father’s Day
A dad couldn't ask for more. My daughter wrote an essay, "The Best Dad in the Whole World." It went on, story after story, about the unforgettable things we did together. Here’s a few seconds from
Case Against Georgia Senator Nikema Williams Dismissed
Charges have been dropped against Georgia Senator Nikema Williams, who was arrested at her place of work — the Georgia State Capitol — while observing a Count Every Vote protest last November. “My charges might have been dropped,” says Williams, “but this is ...more
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Faces 17 New Charges Under Espionage Act
WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange faces 17 new charges under the infamous Espionage Act — which was used to imprison Daniel Ellsberg, Emma Goldman, and Socialist Presidential Candidate Eugene Debs. Assange is not ...more
Should we bomb the LA Times again?Beyond Baroque Gallery, LA — 8PM on Sat, May 11
In 1910, labor union militants dynamited the LA Times building. Their lawyer, Clarence Darrow, saved the bombers from hanging. On Saturday, May 11, Clarence Darrow will return from the dead to ask the question ...more
Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, and The Deepwater Horizon
If the U.S. jails Julian Assange, they should jail me, and my colleagues at The Guardian and New York Times. We all used the Manning / Assange / WikiLeaks emails. Shame on ...more
Interstate Crosscheck on the Verge of CollapseKey States Withdraw from the Program
…after six years of investigating Kris Kobach’s Interstate Crosscheck voter purge program, the entire racially biased, violently partisan vote suppression tactic is on the verge of collapse. Unfortunately, nearly a score of states still use Crosscheck. Worse, even those ...more
Trump May Name Kris Kobach New Immigration CzarTheir real agenda: 2020 vote suppression
When the young Kris Kobach created a computer system for the Department of Homeland Security that secretly tracked visiting Muslims, President George W. Bush was so offended that he personally ...more
Stick Your Damn Hand in It:
30th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie
March 24 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez grounding and the smearing of 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline with its oil. It also marks the 30th Anniversary of a lie. Lots of lies... ...more
How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma
How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it's fueled by billionaires' cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 50 years ago. ...more
Venezuela: The Trump Coup And Our Next Oil WarAggressive Progressive Jimmy Dore interviews Palast
The Kochs have giant refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. They can't use Texas oil because it's not heavy and filthy enough, so they have to take almost all their oil from Venezuela. ...more
In Venezuela, White Supremacy is a Key to Trump’s Coup
On January 23, right after a phone call from Donald Trump, Juan Guaidó, former speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly, declared himself president. No voting. When you have official recognition from The Donald, who needs elections? ...more
Report from NYC
In New York City. Robert is spending this Sunday morning asking for spare change from the ladies going into the bodega. He's supplementing his part time job washing patients' food trays at the hospital. But now, at least, he won't have to worry about getting exploited in a job at Amazon. ...more
Trump’s Regime Change in VenezuelaPalast on The Scott Horton Show
Palast explains the situation in Venezuela, where the Trump administration has recently been signaling for U.S.-backed regime change. Although the claim is that ...more
Colorado dumps Crosscheck
Colorado dumps Crosscheck, urges other states to flee the program. The newly elected Secretary of State Colorado, Jena Griswold, slammed the voter list cleansing program controlled by Kris Kobach of Kansas, for taking away the rights of eligible voters. ...more
Roger Stone Indictment: My Friend, “Person 2”
The unnamed "Person 2" in the Roger Stone indictment is my friend: comic and journalist Randy Credico. I've been in constant contact with Credico for two years as Stone tried to bully him into perjury. Trump stooge Stone is a bucket of ...more
The REAL Immigration Fight
While the two parties are playing games with slats on the border, Trump has allowed the backlog of citizenship applications to nearly double to over 730,000. In other words, he's winning the real immigration battle. ...more
Illinois Drops Interstate Crosscheck Purge Program – but our Suit Continues
On an 8-0 vote, the Illinois Board of Elections on Tuesday, January 22 dropped the Interstate Crosscheck voter purge program. Greg Palast and the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. are co-plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Illinois over the use of Crosscheck, a racially biased and ...more