How do we defeat voter suppression tactics?
How do we defeat voter suppression tactics when they’re fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won over 50 years ago… READ MORE
How Trump and the GOP could steal the election in 2024 — unless we act NOW!
The 12th Amendment is one of the horror shows of our Constitution. If you think that the Electoral College is unfair and a bad idea, that ain’t nothing compared to the 12th Amendment. What the 12th Amendment says is that if… READ MORE
New laws alone won’t save voting rightsAnalysis of Biden's Georgia voting rights speech
Our action partner, Black Voters Matter, boycotted Biden’s speech in Georgia on the voting rights bills, refusing to act as a photo op prop. Understand the frustration: we’ve been screaming about Georgia as Jim Crow central for 8 years. Laws alone won’t help: we need the … READ MORE
Kazakhstan Uprising against Rulers Bribed by Exxon, BP
In 2013, I was thrown out of Kazakhstan by its President, former KGB chief Nursultan Nazarbayev. Today, January 6, it was Nazarbayev who was tossed out of Kazakhstan — the result of an uprising by a public fed up with a kleptocratic murder-ocracy cosseted by the bribery of Western oil companies, the oil-philic Bush, Clinton and Obama State Departments and Putin’s … READ MORE
What Do You Call a Failed Insurrection? PRACTICE
Forget the whack-jobs who invaded the Capitol one year ago today. These “insurrectionists” were schmucks with no chance of overturning the election. (I don’t dismiss the gravity of their actions–they crushed the skull of a policeman and threatened other murders in the hall of the people.) But truly, the real danger was in the Oval Office when, two days earlier, Trump peddled a… READ MORE
Georgia’s Original Sin and the 2022 Secret Vote-Crushing Scheme:My Most Important Investigation Ever
280 years ago, two Georgia dynasties, the forebears of Governor Brian Kemp and (defeated) Senator David Perdue, overcame George’s prohibition of slavery and convinced King George to grant them powers to bring Africans in… READ MORE
Oath Keepers, Proud Boys sued by D.C. Attorney General
After the success of the Integrity First for America-led civil suit, brought against the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, the Attorney General of the District of Columbia has filed a similar case. D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine’s complaint brings action against the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and dozens of individuals for “conspiring to terrorize the District by planning, promoting, and participating in the violent January 6… READ MORE
Ali Alexander throws fellow Capitol insurrection instigators under bus
Ali Alexander, founder of the Stop the Steal organization, is today giving testimony behind closed doors to the January 6th Commission. As was suspected, he’s throwing everyone else under the bus (except his Stop the Steal accomplices), saying in a memo leaked… READ MORE
Ali Alexander to be deposed (but not “disposed”)
Ali Alexander, the founder of the far-right Stop the Steal organization, has announced that he will submit to a deposition by the January 6th Commission.
Alexander and his Stop the Steal group spent months spreading ‘The Big Lie’ that Trump won the election and organized the march on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, with the intention of disrupting the… READ MORE
Tiki-torch Nazis ordered to pay more than $25 million by Charlottesville jury
Jury finds Charlottesville neo-Nazis and not-so-neo-Nazis liable for the deaths and mayhem caused by the Unite the Right rally in 2017, ordering payment of more than $25 million to the injured. This should put a financial knife into the Alt-Right and drain the pockets of… READ MORE
Alex Jones, Roger Stone subpoenaed by Jan 6 Committee
Roger Stone and Alex Jones, key planners of the January 6 Stop the Steal rally and illegal march that led to the deadly storming of the US Capitol, have been subpoenaed by the US Congressional committee investigating the attack. At the heart of the Jones subpoena is… READ MORE
Hate in America: Dispatches from the Courtroom Wars“I’m glad he shot him.” — Mark Richards, Kyle Rittenhouse’s defense lawyer
Right now, there are multiple trials and judicial reckonings happening simultaneously across the US. Let’s do a quick update on each … READ MORE
US Media Cowers not Covers Chevron’s Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer Donziger
Famed indigenous human rights lawyer, Steven Donziger, had been under house arrest for over 800 days when he reported to prison on October 27, 2021 to begin a six-month sentence. His crime: winning the largest single pollution judgment in history, $9.5 billion, for… READ MORE
Strangling of John Lewis Voting Rights Act could be death blow for democracy
The strangling of the John Lewis Act by filibuster, unlike the overhyped For the People Act, could be the death blow to a democratically elected Congress. Even with its limitations, the John Lewis Act would’ve been a very powerful weapon. For example, the act would absolutely have prevented … READ MORE
Biden refuses to use political capital to bust the filibuster and save voting rights
Palast joins the By Any Means Necessary crew to discuss the blocking of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act by Senate Republicans, the history of the filibuster as a tool of racist disenfranchisement, Biden’s refusal to use political capital to bust it, and how Democrats’ inaction on issues such as voting rights contributed to their recent electoral defeats. … READ MORE
They can imprison Steven Donziger, but they cannot silence him
On the morning of Steven Donziger’s sentencing hearing, I spoke extensively with the human rights attorney about his extraordinary case. Donziger was sentenced to prison for 6 months — punishment for winning a $9 billion judgment against Chevron for destroying the Amazon with oil sludge. Denied bail, while awaiting his appeal, Donziger began his sentence on October 27th, 2021 at the federal prison in Danbury, CT. While he’s incarcerated… READ MORE
Hate goes on trial in CharlottesvilleJury selection begins in civil suit against instigators of far-right violence, which resulted in serious injury and a death
[Oct 25, 2021: Charlottesville, VA] Jury selection began today for the civil trial of the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The rally ended with the murder of Heather Heyer and injuries to dozens of … READ MORE
The darkness is falling on Afghanistan, and we are responsible
Just Peace‘s Heather Gray and Ernest Dunkley talk to Palast about his article, “My Own Forever War: Afghanistan and 9-11”. The trio also discuss the culpability of the United States for the current situation in Afghanistan and what we should do to help the people of this troubled nation who now find themselves living under Taliban rule. … READ MORE
