Forget George Santos’ monstrous lies. Follow the money. Santos, who couldn’t pay his $1,800 apartment rent and whose last verified job was in a call center, somehow lent his campaign over $700,000. Supposedly, Santos started a… READ MORE
Finally. The Department of Justice has finally taken on True the Vote, the right-wing group behind wrongful challenge of hundreds of thousands of legal Georgia voters. The True the Vote challenges were the central subject of the film Vigilante, Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman created by the Palast Investigative Fund team.… READ MORE
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp does not want you to know that it was his family that first brought enslaved Africans to Georgia. The original settlers in Georgia had outlawed slavery until James Habersham — Kemp’s ancestor — won a… READ MORE
[April 9, 2022: Grant Town, WV] A group of more than 50 activists convened on a West Virginia coal power plant, which burns pricey waste coal bought from Sen. Joe Manchin’s company. Calling for the polluting plant’s closure, 16 people were arrested after … READ MORE
Vladimir Putin did not arrive from outer space on an abalone shell. He went from the virtually unknown Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg to Russia’s President and potentate by winning a weird competition organized by Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky who sought a “Russian Pinochet” to succeed … READ MORE
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
Why We Occupy, my talk for Pacifica Radio, is my detailed J’accuse against the 1%. It’s as fresh and relevant today as 10 years ago — a summary of eight of my most crucial investigations into the war between Them and Us. And to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street’s occupation of Zuccotti Park, in New York’s financial district, we’re offering … READ MORE
Calling in to the FlashPoints News studio from his new New York home, where he is currently under house arrest, attorney Steven Donziger talks about his Kafkaesque case. This outrageous tale of oil, power, corruption, corporate murder and ecocide … READ MORE
This is the first ever case in which we have a corporation acting as a criminal prosecutor — a prosecution that is blatant retaliation for a successful lawsuit against them. This, by itself, is deeply, deeply, dangerous. And if you think I take this personally … READ MORE
Critical Hour hosts Garland Nixon and Wilmer Leon talk to Palast about the recent assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, and the trail of blood that leads back to the United States. The trio also discuss the socioeconomic background against which this murder occurred, and how the economy of this mineral and agriculturally rich Caribbean nation has been systematically… READ MORE
The U.S. media is aghast that Colombian mercenaries were hired to assassinate Haiti’s president, but this is the same operation that was hired by a U.S. company to murder Hugo Chavez — a story which got … READ MORE
Just when you think the world of electioneering couldn’t get more bizarre, armies of Cyber Ninjas and mythical Voting Pandas come to the fore to remind us that they can.
Palast and Rick Smith team up to dissect the crazy. … READ MORE
