It wasn’t human error that caused America’s greatest environmental disaster, the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, it was inhuman corporate miserliness — the oil industry’s systemic fraud, corruption, and penny-pinching la-di-da view of safety. In this edition of… READ MORE
Days after the Exxon Valdez slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives. The true cause of the catastrophe? The breaking of promises made by the oil giant to the Natives and Congress, cynically and disastrously, in… READ MORE
Today, March 24, the 32nd Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster will be commemorated with the re-telling of lies. The official story is, “Drunken Skipper Hits Reef.” Don’t believe it.
Days after the oil tanker slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives of Alaska. It was their coastline. This story remains… READ MORE
March 24 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez grounding and the smearing of 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline with its oil
We’re All Some Kind of Native Now
Two decades ago I was the investigator for the legal team that sold you the bullshit that a drunken captain was
Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Greg Palast led a four-continent investigation of BP PLC for Britain’s
The two-grand-a-night call girls are wandering lonely and disconsolate through the Wynn casino, victims of the recession. Badpenny, dressed
This is not the first courtroom where I’ve faced off against BP, British Petroleum. But this time, I was
For two decades, investigator Greg Palast has been on BP’s trail. In BP: In Deep Water, Palast takes Dispatches viewers along on his
At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, “If I had a machine gun I’d shoot every one of them white sons of
With the Gulf Coast dying of oil poisoning, there’s no space in the press for British Petroleum’s latest spill
I’ve seen this movie before. In 1989, I was a fraud investigator hired to dig into the cause of
‘Catch Greg Palast with Bobby Kennedy on ‘Ring of Fire’
Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay
The kids were snoozing so I drove along the back roads skirting the Lackawanna River on a dawn hunt for
A Conversation with Ecuador’s New President
Nineteen goddamn years is enough. I’m sorry if you don’t like my language, but when I think about what they did to
