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Greg Palast’s investigative reports appear in Rolling Stone, the Guardian and on BBC Television. His latest film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, on how Donald Trump stole the 2016 election, is available on Amazon. Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde.
Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. Palast's reports appear on BBC's Newsnight and in Britain's Guardian, Rolling Stone and Harper's.
Palast is best known as the investigative reported who uncovered how Katherine Harris purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida's voter rolls in the 2000 Presidential Election.
Palast directed the US government's largest racketeering case in history--winning a $4.3 billion jury award. He also conducted the investigation of the Exxon Valdez on behalf of the Alaskan Natives.
Palast is recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.
Greg Palast's newest book, Vultures' Picnic will be released by Penguin Books in November of 2011. Find out more info at VulturesPicnic.org
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 2, 2021 Georgia's New Voting Law Is Rife With Hidden Horrors
The food-in-line prohibition is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to horrific provisions hidden in the 95 pages of Georgia's new anti-voting law.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 16, 2021 "Organized" March to Capitol Was Not Permitted, Rally Organizers Warned White House
Before Donald Trump exhorted the Jan. 6 rally to march on the Capitol, the White House had been warned by the rally sponsor that there was no permit for a march, that the Interior Department's Park Police were promised there would be no march, and that such an unplanned march was dangerous.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 5, 2021 Stealing Georgia: Raffensperger is No Hero
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is exposed for using vote suppression Jim Crow tactics, even misleading a federal court to keep 198,000 Georgians from voting in Tuesday's Senate run-off.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, January 1, 2021 Georgia Closes Black Polling Stations;White Polls Open for Early Voting
"All the polling sites they cut were in Black and Brown neighborhoods," said Arnwine, Founder of the Transformative Justice Coalition, who relocated to Atlanta for the US Senate run-offs. She expressed concern that Georgia leads the nation in new, sophisticated Jim Crow vote manipulation tactics.
SHARE Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Georgia tries to block new voters ahead of runoff
Georgia's Board of Elections is trying to sneak through a new rule that could block new registrations before the Senate runoff to people who don't have a car registered in the state.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Georgia, do I really have to sue you again?
The Palast Investigative Fund wrote a letter to the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanding he obtain the list of over 198,000 voters he and his predecessor, Brian Kemp, wrongly purged from the voter rolls -- and return these voters to the registration rolls before the election.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Greg Palast: Wisconsin "movers" didn't move
On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court may choose our president. That is, justices will hear arguments in a lawsuit that would force the state to remove 129,000 people from the voter rolls on grounds they'd moved from their registration addresses.
SHARE Saturday, August 29, 2020 Why didn't the Justice Dept indict Kobach as well as Bannon?
The wire transfers of $250,000 and $100,000 that Steve Bannon and Brian Kolfage were indicted for would have to be approved by the We Build the Wall foundation's general counsel Kris Kobach, who used the non-profit's donor list to raise money for his Senate run, normally a felony crime.
SHARE Sunday, August 16, 2020 How Safe is Vote by Mail?
the Post Office has imploded with mail-in balloting that we've had before. So this is a huge, huge problem
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, July 27, 2020 Ballot Condom for Safe Voting
Protect the health of your democracy during this epidemic of stupidity, meanness, and misinformation. Follow these simple instructions
SHARE Sunday, April 26, 2020 We Won't Lift the Quarantine on Kemp
Gov. Brian Kemp has decided to "open up" Georgia, extending a nice, warm Georgia welcome to the coronavirus. Even Fox News pundits are rolling their eyes and Trump, finger in the wind, turned on Kemp.