Greg Palast's Blog, page 14

The Fight Between Truth and PowerPalast interviews courageous Pakistani journalist Raza Ahmad Rumi

Investigative journalist Greg Palast interviews Raza Ahmad Rumi, Director of the the Park Center for Independent Media and a courageous Pakistani journalist, who in 2014 barely escaped assassination when Taliban supporters ambushed his car (his driver was murdered)... READ MORE

Powell’s Bag of LeechesHiking interest, the Medieval cure for inflation

See the leeches? When the Federal Reserve announces another interest rate on Wednesday, look for the little bloodsuckers crawling out of the pockets of Chairman Jerome Powell. I’m sure he’s got them, because his cure for inflation has much too much in common with... READ MORE

It’s Book How Trump Stole 2020s not about the voting machinesMost vote theft happens before an election

The real issue in Coffee County, Georgia is not hacking the voting machines, but vicious vote suppression. When I entered Coffee County, I was greeted by Confederate flags. The Courthouse has glorious Confederate soldier statues in front of it. It’s 200 miles from Atlanta and 200 years back in time. In Vigilante we tell the story of Coffee County, and how Brian Kemp ordered the arrest of... READ MORE

It’s not about the voting machinesMost vote theft happens before an election

The real issue in Coffee County, Georgia is not hacking the voting machines, but vicious vote suppression. When I entered Coffee County, I was greeted by Confederate flags. The Courthouse has glorious Confederate soldier statues in front of it. It’s 200 miles from Atlanta and 200 years back in time. In Vigilante we tell the story of Coffee County, and how Brian Kemp ordered the arrest of the one Black elected official, Olivia Pearson. Here’s the real story... READ MORE

The Amnesia MachineChapter 20 from Greg Palast'

I’ll be straight with you. I’m not big on the theories that there’s some guy in a cave who flips a switch and changes Democratic votes on computer touch-screen voting machines to Republican. Most vote theft happens before the voting, by... READ MORE

The Amnesia MachineChapter 20 from Greg Palast's Book How Trump Stole 2020

I’ll be straight with you. I’m not big on the theories that there’s some guy in a cave who flips a switch and changes Democratic votes on computer touch-screen voting machines to Republican.If you get one thing out of this book, it’s that most vote theft happens before the voting, by... READ MORE

Hens in the Fox HouseFox News’ Vote Machine Hack Myth

Where the bloody hell did Fox News mouthpieces Lou Dobbs, Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo, Rudi Giuliani and Donald Trump get the whack-o idea that voting machine software could be hacked to... READ MORE

Election Crimes Bulletin: Dominion v. Fox, et al.

What happened in the Dominion case against Fox? What about Smartmatic, the voting machine company which Hugo Chavez helped launch that’s also suing Fox? Why has Fulton County DA Fani Willis filed a motion to remove the attorney representing 10 of the Georgia fraudulent electors? And what’s happening with... READ MORE

My Apologies to the Family of Mrs. Thatcher

10th Anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's death.I strenuously object to the dissemination of this scurrilous doggerel, falsely attributed to me, on the passage of... READ MORE

Trump indictment, even conviction, won’t bar him from Presidency

I hate to rain on the parade, but Trump’s indictment — even felony conviction — will not bar Trump from holding office. While I’ve reported on Trump as a one-man crime wave, the cold truth is, if convicted, it will be his first offense for low-level felony — so forget jail time.... READ MORE