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When you corrode and corrupt democracy, it has consequences
How an axis of awful is blocking the oil we need from Venezuela to replace Russian oil and stop Putin

by Greg Palast
for FlashPoints
March 24, 2022March 24, 2022

Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil on the planet. If you look at OPEC, they put Saudi Arabia as number two. Venezuela’s producing very little oil, not even enough for its own needs at this moment, when it was producing 3.2 million barrels of oil a day. If we unleash oil from Venezuela, then Putin’s profit … READ MORE

7 Facts about Ukraine
Deadly Men in Funny Hats

by Greg Palast
with update contributed by Yuriy Kushnir in Lviv, Ukraine. Photos by Zach D. Roberts in Kyiv
February 15, 2022February 20, 2022

Like most conflicts over the past 2000 years, this is, at heart, a religious war.

Most of the people who live in the tiny eastern province of Donbas and surrounds, including the Crimea, are followers of… READ MORE

Tiki-torch Nazis ordered to pay more than $25 million by Charlottesville jury

by Greg Palast
November 23, 2021February 1, 2022

Jury finds Charlottesville neo-Nazis and not-so-neo-Nazis liable for the deaths and mayhem caused by the Unite the Right rally in 2017, ordering payment of more than $25 million to the injured. This should put a financial knife into the Alt-Right and drain the pockets of… READ MORE

My own Forever War: Afghanistan and 9-11

by Greg Palast
for Buzzflash
September 11, 2021September 11, 2021

Last week, Fawad Andarabi, a well-known folk singer in Afghanistan, invited the new Taliban leaders to his home to show his compliance and respect.
Taliban don’t approve of folk singing. But they enjoyed his luncheon, then took him out and shot him in the head. The same day I heard of Fawad’s execution, I got an email from… READ MORE

Thousands Rally in D.C. for Voting Rights

by Zach D. Roberts
— an exclusive photo essay for GregPalast.com
August 30, 2021September 2, 2021

[Aug 28, 2021: Washington, D.C.] On Saturday, thousands marched and rallied in Washington, D.C. in support of voting rights. The day also marked the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s seminal March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, during which he gave his iconic “I Have A Dream” speech. On one side of the National Mall, Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III… READ MORE

Deepwater Horizon: The Untold Story
Excerpt from Vultures' Picnic

by Greg Palast
April 19, 2021April 20, 2021

Las Vegas The two-grand-a-night call girls are wandering lonely and disconsolate through the Wynn casino, victims of the recession. Badpenny, dressed full-on Bond Girl, is losing nickels in the slots and humming Elvis tunes. Badpenny’s assigned job here is to look good and get information.…

Deepwater Horizon: Accident — or Negligent Homicide?
BP's cover-up aided by Bush State Department

by Greg Palast
April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

On April 20, 2010, eleven men on the Deepwater Horizon were incinerated when the BP/Transocean oil rig blew out and exploded.
“Accident”?
Just 17 months before the Deepwater Horizon destroyed 600 miles of Gulf Coast, BP covered up a nearly identical blowout in… READ MORE

Why were Capitol Rioters Allowed to Leave a Murder Crime Scene?

by Brian Ross
for Brian Ross Investigates
January 21, 2021February 11, 2021

On January 6, during the riots and the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. a police officer was murdered when he had his head crushed by a fire extinguisher. In the aftermath, it was astonishing that the police did not seal and secure the Capitol and identify, if not arrest, everyone leaving. Why were criminals allowed to simply … READ MORE

Why did the Georgia GOP team up with a Riot Instigator?
“WE’LL LIGHT THE WHOLE SH*T ON FIRE!”

by Greg Palast
January 8, 2021February 11, 2021

The star of the GOP’s get-out-the-vote door-knocking program in the Georgia Senate run-off, standing next to Alex Jones, was blasting his threat through a megaphone in front of the Governor’s home. “We’ll light the whole sh*t on fire!” Ali Alexander’s threat in December would become… READ MORE

Superhero Palast fights the evil election supervillians

by Bob Fitrakis
for Columbus Free Press
October 23, 2020October 28, 2020

Less than two weeks to go until Election Day – what can you do? Begin by reading Greg Palast’s How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters and then go out and stop the theft.
Not only is Palast one of our premier investigative reporters he is also a great storyteller, and the best part, the stories are all factual. This latest tome reads like a rogue’s gallery of… READ MORE

Georgia, do I really have to sue you again?
Palast legal counsel demands purge list review - NOW

by Greg Palast
| Director, Palast Investigative Fund
October 19, 2020October 19, 2020

[October 19] Today, our legal counsel for the Palast Investigative Fund wrote a letter to the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
“Your office over the past six years has conducted a virtual ethnic cleansing of the voter rolls, capturing victims such as,… READ MORE

ACLU, GA Releases Palast Fund ‘Georgia Voter Purge Errors’ Report
State Likely Removed Nearly 200,000 Citizens from the Voter Rolls

by ACLU of Georgia
September 2, 2020October 28, 2020

ATLANTA – Today, the ACLU of Georgia released a report by the Palast Investigative Fund titled Georgia Voter Roll Purge Errors that concluded the State removed the voter registrations of nearly 200,000 Georgians on the grounds… READ MORE

Kris Kobach Fights the Alien Invasion

by Greg Palast
from his new book How Trump Stole 2020
August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

When we last parted, Kobach was screaming, “Liar! Liar!” while backing away to escape from me, the plastic spoon from the vanilla ice cream still in his mouth.

I had hired a combat-trained … READ MORE

Let’s End the Vote Challenge Game
Palast on Ralph Nader Radio Hour

by Greg Palast
| Ralph Nader Radio Hour
August 7, 2020March 8, 2022

“We must outlaw challenges to signatures unless there is a report filed that the ballot has been stolen,” writes Greg Palast, in his new book, How Trump Stole 2020. Palast is greatly concerned that signatures on mail-in ballots will prove to be “an easy target for nitpickers with a partisan agenda to challenge” and could… READ MORE

1,913,369 Ballots Thrown Away
How Trump did—and will—Disqualify your Vote

by Greg Palast
July 23, 2020July 25, 2020

Here’s what you know: In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan by 10,704 votes. Officially.
Here’s what you don’t know: 75,355 ballots were never counted. That’s official, too. Just “spoilage,” that is, ballots that were, for some technical reason, un-tallied. But not just anyone’s vote “spoiled.” Most of these vanished votes were cast in… READ MORE

22% of Mail-In Votes Never Get Counted
Jim Crow is Hiding in the Mailbox

by Greg Palast
July 20, 2020February 3, 2022

“Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.”

I’ve been singing that Animals’ tune for a month. I move my lips, but I’m not sure my words are understood.
It begins with a stone-cold fact: Mail-in ballots are lost by the millions—especially the ballots of … READ MORE

Mary Trump won’t tell you…

by Greg Palast
July 18, 2020July 20, 2020

Mary Trump’s book tells you how little Donald was a whiny grifter even as a toddler.
That’s history. This is now: How Trump Stole 2020 tells you how Trump’s minions have already erased 16.7 million from the voter rolls (guess their color)—I show you how to … READ MORE

You Can’t Rely on Political Parties to Save Your Vote

by Greg Palast
for Act TV
July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

It’s been a rough primary season, and the presidential election is going to be even worse if thousands of voters can’t vote because their names have been wiped off the rolls. Voters are going to have to learn how to… READ MORE

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