Greg Palast

Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the book and documentary, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. His latest film is Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman Support The Palast Investigative Fund and keep our work alive. Become a monthly Contributor. Or support us by shopping with Amazon Smile. AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your purchases to the Sustainable Markets Foundation which automatically goes to the benefit of The Palast Investigative Fund and you get a tax-deduction! More info . Subscribe to Palast's Newsletter or his special list for Poems & Stories. GregPalast.com

It’s not about the voting machines
Most vote theft happens before an election

by Greg Palast
April 22, 2023April 23, 2023

The real issue in Coffee County, Georgia is not hacking the voting machines, but vicious vote suppression. When I entered Coffee County, I was greeted by Confederate flags. The Courthouse has glorious Confederate soldier statues in front of it. It’s 200 miles from Atlanta and 200 years back in time. In Vigilante we tell the story of Coffee County, and how Brian Kemp ordered the arrest of… READ MORE

The Amnesia Machine
Chapter 20 from Greg Palast's Book
How Trump Stole 2020

by Greg Palast
April 19, 2023April 23, 2023

I’ll be straight with you. I’m not big on the theories that there’s some guy in a cave who flips a switch and changes Democratic votes on computer touch-screen voting machines to Republican. Most vote theft happens before the voting, by… READ MORE

Hens in the Fox House
Fox News’ Vote Machine Hack Myth

by Greg Palast
April 19, 2023May 2, 2023

Where the bloody hell did Fox News mouthpieces Lou Dobbs, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, Rudi Giuliani and Donald Trump get the whack-o idea that voting machine software could be hacked to… READ MORE

Election Crimes Bulletin:
Dominion v. Fox, et al.

by Greg Palast
for FlashPoints News
April 19, 2023April 23, 2023

What happened in the Dominion case against Fox? What about Smartmatic, the voting machine company which Hugo Chavez helped launch that’s also suing Fox? Why has Fulton County DA Fani Willis filed a motion to remove the attorney representing 10 of the Georgia fraudulent electors? And what’s happening with… READ MORE

My Apologies to the Family of
Mrs. Thatcher

by Greg Palast
April 8, 2023April 23, 2023

10th Anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s death.

I strenuously object to the dissemination of this scurrilous doggerel, falsely attributed to me, on the passage of… READ MORE

Trump indictment, even conviction, won’t bar him from Presidency

by Greg Palast
April 5, 2023April 13, 2023

I hate to rain on the parade, but Trump’s indictment — even felony conviction — will not bar Trump from holding office. While I’ve reported on Trump as a one-man crime wave, the cold truth is, if convicted, it will be his first offense for low-level felony — so forget jail time.… READ MORE

Vote Vigilante Group ordered to
Trial in Georgia

by Greg Palast
Palast Investigative Fund
March 29, 2023April 23, 2023

In May 2022, Donald Trump launched the film 2000 Mules, accusing literally hundreds of Black men (the “mules”) of stuffing ballot dropboxes in Georgia and elsewhere causing Trump his re-election. Problem: Every single person accused by True the Vote, the makers of 2000 Mules, has been proven innocent — every one. Now, True the Vote’s operatives will face civil action in federal court and could pay heavily for their… READ MORE

The Madness of King Powell

by Greg Palast
March 23, 2023March 29, 2023

As a recovering economist, I can tell you that Fed Chair Jerome Powell increasing interest rates yesterday was no more than shooting the wounded. The wounded: working Americans who’ve seen their real wages get clobbered, down by 1.9% in 2022 on top of a 2.1% hit in 2021. Therefore, Mr. Chairman, working Americans are … READ MORE

Reagan’s Treason: October Surprise and the $23 Million Payoff

by Greg Palast
March 20, 2023March 22, 2023

This week, a Texas pol, Ben Barnes, confessed that he was personally involved—and therefore an eyewitness to–high treason: The Ronald Reagan campaign’s successful secret deal with the Iranian government to hold 52 Americans hostages so that Reagan could defeat… READ MORE

Why Putin kidnapped Ukrainian children — despite facing arrest for this war crime

by Greg Palast
March 17, 2023March 17, 2023

The UN’s International Criminal Court in The Hague today ordered the arrest of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin for seizing Ukrainian children from their families and deporting them to Russia for forced adoption. The court charged Putin with the “war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children).” Estimates range from… READ MORE

Two Old Guys and a Bridge
A call from Selma

by Greg Palast
March 5, 2023April 19, 2023

I got a call this morning from Selma, Alabama. It was Reverend. Two old guys with our old-guy ailments and decades to reminisce about. But Reverend Jesse Jackson doesn’t waste time on nostalgia. Before he went off to a service with President Biden, he was pushing me, in the few words at a time his Parkinson’s allows, to get my film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, back out … READ MORE

Selma March Anniversary FREE Movie
Download Film for Free

by Greg Palast
March 5, 2023March 31, 2023

On this Anniversary we are making our Film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy available for FREE. … READ MORE

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