Greg Palast's Blog, page 12

America’s Osage Natives want you to know their story doesn’t end with Killers of the Flower Moon

This week, director Martin Scorsese releases his film Killers of the Flower Moon: the true story of the mass murder of Osage Native Americans and the plot to steal the tribe’s oil wealth. But the story doesn’t end when the credits roll. For the past 27 years, I have been reporting on what happened afterwards. My documentary Long Knife – produced by George DiCaprio – recounts... READ MORE

Until They Killed Them…100 Crucial Seconds of A Story Buried

The Osage of Oklahoma were the richest people on the planet.Until they killed them.For their oil. Long Knife is an investigation I have worked on quietly for 27 years. And now I’m finally able to give you... READ MORE

EL MARTILLO – THE HAMMER (a.k.a. Greg Palast?)WILL PERFORM "I SHOT THE DONALD"

Is that investigative reporter Greg Palast under that mask? Wednesday night, 7pm, Book Soup bookstore will present El Martillo Press authors Margaret Elvsia Garcia, Ceasar K. Avelar, Donato Martinez and El Martillo – The Hammer (is that really Greg Palast working undercover as a poet?!?!) who will... READ MORE

Can This Anti-Mafia RICO Law REALLY Stop Trump?Palast discusses Fani Willis’ case against Donald Trump with Thom Hartmann

The first count of Fani Willis’ indictment is for Violation of the Georgia RICO Act — that’s the state’s anti-racketeering law. All 19 defendants have been charged with ... READ MORE

Willis has Trump in a hammerlock

Just read through Fani Willis’ RICO indictment. I worked with the Department of Justice on the very first billion-dollar white-collar RICO case in 1988, and also did a Georgia RICO investigation shortly thereafter, so I know the US and Georgia law well. Willis’ case is even stronger than Jack Smith’s — though a state conviction can’t... READ MORE

Georgia announces new purge of 191,473 voters

Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has just announced another “cleansing” of the voter rolls. This time a total of 191,473 voters are set to be purged. Congratulations to Raffensperger for cleaning the voter rolls whiter than white. We’re going back down to... READ MORE

A photo for Bobby

Bill McKibben and I speak today at the Colors of Ostrava Festival; I’m on at 7pm Czech time. My host, John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hitman) suggests I stop on the way from the airport at Auschwitz. My family has already visited. Never returned. Maybe I’ll just ... READ MORE

Declaration of IndependenceOne Paragraph was Removed

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence with only one paragraph removed: Jefferson’s... READ MORE

Confessions of an Affirmative Action BabyHow an “undeserving” kid like megot admitted to Stanford

There’s no way you’d been reading this – and I could not write this – if it weren’t for affirmative action. And there’s no way on earth I could have gotten accepted to fancy-ass schools—without affirmative action. Because I flunked basic... READ MORE

Confessions of an Affirmative Action BabyHow an “undeserving” kid like me got admitted to Stanford

There’s no way you’d been reading this – and I could not write this – if it weren’t for affirmative action. And there’s no way on earth I could have gotten accepted to fancy-ass schools—without affirmative action. Because I flunked basic... READ MORE