Greg Palast's Blog, page 22

Burned on the 4th of July

Congress refused to certify the Electoral College victory by the Democrat who had also won the popular vote — so the GOP loser was inaugurated as President.You think it can’t happen here? But it did. The year was 1876.Dr. Deaton of the Georgia Historical Society set the scene... READ MORE

Proud Boys indicted for Seditious Conspiracy

Five members of the leadership of the violent Proud Boys hate gang, which helped plan the January 6th insurrection in 2021, have now been indicted for seditious conspiracy by a federal grand jury. Members of the extremist armed militia group, the Oath Keepers, who co-planned events on January 6th, are already facing ... READ MORE

Warrior on two fronts

Know his name: Maj. Gamaliel Turner. He conceived this weapon that may be Ukraine’s last, best hope of stopping Putin’s cruel armored columns. I’m here in this Soldier’s home near Fort Benning Georgia because his ballot was personally challenged by the county Chairman of the Republican Party. We will... READ MORE

It’s Jim Crow 2.0, gone to a crazy extreme!Palast reports from the frontlines of the Georgia Primary Election

[May 24, 2022: Atlanta, GA] Voting day in Georgia, and this pizza is evidence of a crime. If I walked 10 feet closer to the polling station and handed this slice of pizza to a hungry voter, who’s been waiting in line for hours, I'd get handcuffed and sent to prison under a new Georgia law, which says ... READ MORE

GOP frontrunners — from Jan 6 Riot to Governor’s Mansion?

State Senator Doug Mastriano, Donald Trump’s pick in the Republican Primary for Governor, spent thousands to lead a busload of protesters to the January 6 “protest” at the Capitol in ... READ MORE

2,000 Mules: Belly Laughs, Belly Aches from Film’s “Proof” that Trump Won

In his film 2000 Mules, Dinesh D’Souza sets out to prove a giant criminal conspiracy to stuff ballot boxes with fraudulent votes. The proof? Well, you can see it with your own eyes: There’s a BLACK man and he is dropping off BALLOTS in a ballot drop box. Case closed! You can laugh now. But crying time is coming. I predict ... READ MORE

West Virginia protest calls out Manchin’s dirty coal profits16 people arrested after blocking entrance to Grant Town Power Plant

[April 9, 2022: Grant Town, WV] A group of more than 50 activists convened on a West Virginia coal power plant, which burns pricey waste coal bought from Sen. Joe Manchin’s company. Calling for the polluting plant's closure, 16 people were arrested after ... READ MORE

Steven Donziger: A corporate criminal prosecution, orchestrated by Chevron

On October 1, 2021, human rights lawyer, Steven Donziger, was given a 6 month sentence — punishment for winning a $9 billion judgment against Chevron for poisoning the Amazon. On the day of his sentencing, I spoke extensively with Donziger about his extraordinary case. When he began his sentence at the federal prison in Danbury, CT, we began posting clips from this interview each week to keep his plight in the public eye. As Donziger approaches the end ... READ MORE

When you corrode and corrupt democracy, it has consequencesHow an axis of awful is blocking the oil we need from Venezuela to replace Russian oil and stop Putin

Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil on the planet. If you look at OPEC, they put Saudi Arabia as number two. Venezuela’s producing very little oil, not even enough for its own needs at this moment, when it was producing 3.2 million barrels of oil a day. If we unleash oil from Venezuela, then Putin’s profit ... READ MORE

How Billionaires Picked Putin as “Russia’s Pinochet”

Vladimir Putin did not arrive from outer space on an abalone shell. He went from the virtually unknown Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg to Russia’s President and potentate by winning a weird competition organized by Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky who sought a “Russian Pinochet” to succeed ... READ MORE