Greg Palast's Blog, page 23

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

How to Stop Putin’s War Windfall by Ending Our Embargo of Venezuelan Oil

The mayhem in Ukraine is a profit center for Putin. 43% of the federal Russian budget was provided by oil and gas revenues and royalties. Russia lives and dies, literally, on its oil revenues, and this ... READ MORE

White nationalists gather with GOP officials

[Feb 25, 2022: Orlando, FL] On Friday night, around 1,000 Christian white nationalists and neo-Nazis gathered in the Cypress Ballroom at the Marriott Orlando World Center. Just hours before, down the road at The Rosen Shingle Creek, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference was finishing up its ... READ MORE

Venezuela Can Bring Putin to his Knees

I’m sure Putin is laughing when he hears Biden list his new so-called “sanctions” which are as serious as canceling Putin‘s Walmart discount card. Want to stop Putin‘s tanks? Lift the cruel, crazy, unjustified embargo of Venezuela. That nation is capable of pumping... READ MORE

7 Facts about UkraineDeadly Men in Funny Hats

Like most conflicts over the past 2000 years, this is, at heart, a religious war. Most of the people who live in the tiny eastern province of Donbas and surrounds, including the Crimea, are followers of... READ MORE

The new vote-fixing game in Georgia

Once again, it's down to Georgia in the November 2022 midterm elections. Senator Reverend Warnock is running for reelection, and Stacey Abrams is running for governor against the incumbent Brian Kemp. It's not a question of who's going to win. The GOP’s decided it can't win, so it's figuring out how to not let the voters vote ... READ MORE

On the Line: The Fight for Abortion Rights

On December 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest case that seeks to chip away at abortion rights across the country. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the state of Mississippi urged the Supreme Court to ban abortions after the first fifteen weeks of pregnancy, which would essentially ... READ MORE

A little-known story about how activists beat Brad Raffesnperger’s mass purges in Georgia

Here's a little-known story about how groups like Rainbow PUSH, Black Voters Matter Fund, and the Transformative Justice Coalition defeated Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s mass vote disqualification campaign. ... READ MORE