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Steven Donziger: A corporate criminal prosecution, orchestrated by Chevron

by Greg Palast
April 3, 2022April 3, 2022

On October 1, 2021, human rights lawyer, Steven Donziger, was given a 6 month sentence — punishment for winning a $9 billion judgment against Chevron for poisoning the Amazon. On the day of his sentencing, I spoke extensively with Donziger about his extraordinary case. When he began his sentence at the federal prison in Danbury, CT, we began posting clips from this interview each week to keep his plight in the public eye. As Donziger approaches the end … READ MORE

How Billionaires Picked Putin as “Russia’s Pinochet”

by Greg Palast
for BuzzFlash
March 15, 2022March 16, 2022

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 to Stop Putin’s War Windfall by Ending Our Embargo of Venezuelan Oil

by Aldous Tyler and Greg Palast
for TMI.
March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

The mayhem in Ukraine is a profit center for Putin. 43% of the federal Russian budget was provided by oil and gas revenues and royalties. Russia lives and dies, literally, on its oil revenues, and this … READ MORE

Venezuela Can Bring Putin to his Knees

by Greg Palast
February 24, 2022February 25, 2022

I’m sure Putin is laughing when he hears Biden list his new so-called “sanctions” which are as serious as canceling Putin‘s Walmart discount card. Want to stop Putin‘s tanks?

Lift the cruel, crazy, unjustified embargo of Venezuela. That nation is capable of pumping… READ MORE

Kazakhstan Uprising against Rulers Bribed by Exxon, BP

by Greg Palast
January 6, 2022February 1, 2022

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

US Media Cowers not Covers Chevron’s Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer Donziger

by Greg Palast
for BuzzFlash
November 11, 2021November 15, 2021

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

They can imprison Steven Donziger, but they cannot silence him

by Greg Palast
November 1, 2021February 1, 2022

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

Human rights lawyer sentenced to prison despite UN order to release him immediately

by Greg Palast
October 7, 2021

Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger has been sentenced to prison for 6 months, despite an order to release him by the United Nations Human Rights Commission judicial panel. The prosecution for Contempt of Court is Donziger’s punishment for winning a $9 billion judgment against Chevron for destroying the Amazon with oil sludge — and literally killing Cofan indigenous people, Donziger’s clients … READ MORE

Chevron: A Smoking Gun and a Cover Up

by Greg Palast
October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

In 2011, an Ecuadorian court ordered Chevron to pay $9.5 billion for the poisoning of indigenous lands. The courts found that Chevron’s Texaco operation had illegally dumped 16 billion gallons of deadly oil waste.

The smoking gun? This confidential document, in which the Chairman of Chevron Oil’s Texaco division personally orders that incriminating evidence of oil sludge dumping in Ecuador be “removed…and destroyed.” … READ MORE

Steven Donziger sentenced to six months in prison

by Greg Palast
October 1, 2021October 2, 2021

[Oct 1, 2021: New York] Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger was sentenced to six months in prison today for contempt of court. For the first time in US history in such a case, he was prosecuted not by the US Justice Department, but by a private attorney who worked for Chevron. He received the maximum sentence for… READ MORE

Steven Donziger: Why I Smile
Palast interviews human rights lawyer ahead of sentencing

by Greg Palast
October 1, 2021October 1, 2021

On the eve of his sentencing, human rights lawyer, Steven Donziger, who fought Chevron oil and its destruction of the indigenous lands of the Amazon spoke to me about why, despite being destroyed by the oil company, he is… READ MORE

Fact Injection: Donziger v. Chevron

by Cary Harrison
for Harrison's Reality Check
September 29, 2021September 29, 2021

This is the first time in history that a private corporation has criminally prosecuted a U.S. citizen. In an unprecedented move, a judge asked Chevron’s lawyers to prosecute Donziger for criminal contempt — after the Department of Justice had refused to do so. No jury would convict Donziger, so the judge refused him a jury trial and found him guilty. On October 1 this judge is going to sentence Donziger. He could get six months in jail—on top of the two years he’s already served under house arrest—so I want you to… READ MORE

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