[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
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
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
Boris Johnson’s crushing win in Britain should be seen by progressives as a huge victory for the anti-globalization movement that grew out of the 1999 Battle of Seattle. This election was another referendum on Brexit, on the public’s overwhelming resistance to the massive
Of the thousands of bless you and f**** you messages that arrived at The Guardian papers after we broke the Florida vote swindle story
Eddie Sadlowski was a machine oiler at U.S. Steel Southworks. In 1976, he led a workers’ rebellion to take control of the million-person United Steelworkers
Have Progressives lost their minds? We protested in Seattle against a tariff-free world in which workers in every nation are pitted in a contest to see who will work for lowest wages. The majority of Democratic senators voted against
The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver
If you thought it was “Blood for Oil”– you’re wrong. It was far, far worse.
Because it was marked “confidential” on each page
For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chavez, who passed away today
George Bush told America he’d keep us safe from terrorists by having us take off our shoes
Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of Hugo Chavez
