Those who cannot choose their own leaders, who are forced by violence to bend to authority, are slaves. In America, we still have, for a moment, a choice: We can be Kings or we will be Slaves. Choose today.… READ MORE
Acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez and Donald Trump desire the same thing: to send Venezuelan oil to the US. But Donald, we already had Venezuelan oil…until YOU embargoed imports of their crude. … READ MORE
It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television reporter, that the US was planning to kidnap, and likely assassinate, the then-president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. … READ MORE
25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. Vigilantes Inc. exposes the real-life hunt for ‘illegal voters’ — and the shocking truth behind who’s actually being targeted. … READ MORE
You can make a difference and already have. Atlanta Public Radio reported that without Greg Palast’s investigation, Raphael Warnock would not have been elected in Georgia’s 2020 Special Election Senate race. The purpose was never to elect anyone. It was to defend the basic idea that voters, not … READ MORE
Donald Trump just announced he will pardon the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, serving time after his conviction for flooding the US with cocaine — while at the same time all but announcing he’s going to murder Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela. Trump has declared a “no-fly zone” over Venezuela and laid siege to the nation, acts of war. … READ MORE
Forgive me, but I have to send a little thank you to Jeffrey Epstein. The latest cache of the predator’s memos have finally brought down Lawrence Summers, once President of Harvard University, once US Secretary of the Treasury and the dark eminence behind banking deregulation and mass home foreclosures. And worse. The newly released emails revealed that Epstein agreed to be Summers’ “wing man,” advising… READ MORE
No Kings in San Diego was a helluva party, 50,000 celebrating — while at the same time fearing for — that delicate thing called democracy. A thousand American flags fluttered. America at its best. Hell, it could turn you into a patriot. But what was our demand? What did we want to get from the march of seven million? What would we recognize as a victory? … READ MORE
The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in the latest installment of Jim Crow Reloaded, “only one side is armed.”… READ MORE
There’s something dangerous happening to American democracy and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. Sometimes it looks like a computer algorithm. Sometimes it looks like a letter telling you that your voter registration needs to be verified. Sometimes it looks like nothing at all. And that may… READ MORE
Yvette Nicole Brown has a secret weapon. But we’re not going to keep it a secret anymore. Because last week, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to Jim Crow the voter rolls, ruling that Donald Trump could make up the list of citizens who can vote. Think about that. America does not… READ MORE
Yes, that’s me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I’m celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert Carl Cohen, who is celebrating his 96th birthday this year. Bob is the legendary history making documentarian, the first… READ MORE
The Senate candidate stole it for Trump, he can do it again. The attack on drop boxes, unseen by the media, will determine the midterms nationwide. In 2020, the Attorney General of Texas confessed to stealing the vote for Donald Trump in Texas. “Confess” is the wrong word, I suppose, because … READ MORE
You’ve seen it in a dozen World War II movies. Some menacing German officer in a Hugo Boss trench coat stops the family / spy / hero / refugee to demand citizenship papers. And now, it’s baaack! Trump’s Executive Order 14399 requires Americans to “show me your citizenship papers” to vote. But you can fight this … READ MORE
This is why I was banned from The Guardian for several years. Beginning in 1997, I was an investigative reporter for The Guardian of Britain and a columnist in its Sunday paper The Observer. Until I was banned.Here’s the story that did it: “Two Symbols of American Capitalist Hegemony“
I was, as far as I know, the only … READ MORE
Since that moment when George W. Bush Jim-Crowed his way into the White House, I’ve been on the racist “vote suppression” beat. “Vote suppression” — a polite term for screwing Black people of their vote. And Hispanic, Asian, students — targets spreading like Covid. And after exposing one vicious voter-blocking trick after another, look where we are: it’s like the 1950s but with AI. Gestapo-style citizenship tests to vote, the Post Office used as … READ MORE
