Greg Palast's Blog, page 23

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

The January 6th Committee and the 7 sets of phony electors"You can smell the mendacity and the subpoenas”

The January 6th committee has subpoenaed 14 GOP operatives from 7 states to ask them who is behind their very strange, and very dangerous attempt to overturn the election, by providing 7 sets of phony electors. They want to know who was behind this scheme, because it's a fraud upon the government and looks like a crime. Chairman Thompson, I'm going to give you a hint... READ MORE

There were 29 phone calls between Trump and RaffenspergerWhat was said in those other calls?

I don’t think it’s just Donald Trump that’s in trouble now that a special grand jury is being impaneled at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The Republicans, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, were playing fast and loose with accusations of voter fraud. I wouldn’t be surprised if... READ MORE

How do we defeat voter suppression tactics?

How do we defeat voter suppression tactics when they're fueled by billionaires' cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won over 50 years ago... READ MORE