Who put out the hit on van Heerden? Ivor van Heerden is the professor at Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center who
There’s an easy way to find oil. Go to some remote and gorgeous natural sanctuary, say Alaska or the Amazon, find some
Last week, you may have caught the story on “60 Minutes” about Chevron crapping all over the Amazon in
Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay
In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map
This excerpt is taken from Greg Palast’s book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
A Conversation with Ecuador’s New President
George of Arabia: Better Kiss Your Abe “Goodbye”
Fear of Chavez is Fear of Democracy
Before The Lord spoke unto Pat Robertson and told him to endorse Rudy Giuliani, family man
Listen to Palast explain the oil game in Iraq
He is the Sam Spade of investigative journalism. His exposes of the dirty dealings going on inside America’s politics are covered around the world
Four years ago this week, the tanks rolled for what President Bush originally called, “Operation Iraqi Liberation” ”“ O.I.L. I kid you not.
And it was four years ago that
As George W. Bush visits Latin America this week the war of words between Chavez and Bush continues. For BBC Newsnight, Greg Palast investigated what is really behind all the rhetoric and headlines.
Watch the BBC Report:
Chavez rules out return to cheap oil
Tuesday, 23 January, 2007
There was that tongue again. When the President lies he's got this weird nervous tick: He sticks the tip of his tongue out between his lips. Like a little boy who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat.
In his State of the Union tonight the President did his tongue thing 124 times — my kids kept count.
Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League?
They're kidding, right?
James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the “Iraq Study Group” have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not.
Baker's Two Big Ideas are:
1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in Iraq is a disaster getting more disastrous. The Baker Boys' idea: cut the disaster in half — leave 70,000 troops there.
But here's where dumb gets dumber: the Bakerites want to “embed” US forces in Iraqi Army units. Question one, Mr. Baker: What Iraqi Army? This so-called “army” is a rough confederation of Shia death squads. We can tell our troops to get “embedded” with them, but the Americans won't get much sleep.
Guest Column By Antonia Juhasz
Upon his return from Iraq on October 5, Senator John Warner, Republican of Virginia, remarked “There is progress being made in certain areas, but you just find that so many communities don't even have drinking water. It seems to me that the situation is simply drifting sideways.”
Many of us have been saying since before the war began that corporate interests have taken precedence over those of the Iraqi and American public. Reconstruction – that is, the lack thereof, has become an increasingly recognized cost of the Bush administration's corporate agenda.
