Greg Palast's Blog, page 30

Cyber Ninjas and Voting Pandas?The skullduggery doesn't take a break!

Just when you think the world of electioneering couldn’t get more bizarre, armies of Cyber Ninjas and mythical Voting Pandas come to the fore to remind us that they can.Palast and Rick Smith team up to dissect the crazy. ... READ MORE

Deepwater Horizon: The Untold StoryExcerpt from Vultures' Picnic

Las Vegas The two-grand-a-night call girls are wandering lonely and disconsolate through the Wynn casino, victims of the recession. Badpenny, dressed full-on Bond Girl, is losing nickels in the slots and humming Elvis tunes. Badpenny’s assigned job here is to look good and get information. She’s good at her job. A tipsy plaintiffs’ lawyer is… Read More...Deepwater Horizon: The Untold StoryExcerpt from Vultures' Picnic

Deepwater Horizon – The Untold StoryExcerpt from Vultures' Picnic

Las Vegas The two-grand-a-night call girls are wandering lonely and disconsolate through the Wynn casino, victims of the recession. Badpenny, dressed full-on Bond Girl, is losing nickels in the slots and humming Elvis tunes. Badpenny’s assigned job here is to look good and get information. She’s good at her job. A tipsy plaintiffs’ lawyer is… Read More...Deepwater Horizon – The Untold StoryExcerpt from Vultures' Picnic

Deepwater Horizon: Corporate HomicideBP's cover-up aided by Bush State Department

On April 20, 2010, eleven men on the Deepwater Horizon were incinerated when the BP/Transocean oil rig blew out and exploded.“Accident”?Just 17 months before the Deepwater Horizon destroyed 600 miles of Gulf Coast, BP covered up a nearly identical blowout in... READ MORE

Deepwater Horizon: Accident — or Negligent Homicide?BP's cover-up aided by Bush State Department

On April 20, 2010, eleven men on the Deepwater Horizon were incinerated when the BP/Transocean oil rig blew out and exploded.“Accident”?Just 17 months before the Deepwater Horizon destroyed 600 miles of Gulf Coast, BP covered up a nearly identical blowout in... READ MORE

Deepwater Horizon: Accident — or Negligent Homicide?BP's cover-up aided by Bush State Department

On April 20, 2010, eleven men on the Deepwater Horizon were incinerated when the BP/Transocean oil rig blew out and exploded.“Accident”?Just 17 months before the Deepwater Horizon destroyed 600 miles of Gulf Coast, BP covered up a nearly identical blowout in... READ MORE

Wisconsin Court Win Stops Purge of 129,000 VotersBlack Voters Matter, Palast found list "wrong and racist"

On Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 5-2 to block the removal of 129,000 voters from the rolls. The Justices rejected a lawsuit brought by a right-wing group. On September 23, 2020, Black Voters Matter issued a report by... READ MORE

Wisconsin court win stops purge of 129,000 votersBlack Voters Matter, Palast found list "wrong and racist"

On Friday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled 5-2 to block the removal of 129,000 voters from the rolls. The Justices rejected a lawsuit brought by a right-wing group. On September 23, 2020, Black Voters Matter issued a report by the Palast Investigative Fund which proved that... READ MORE

What we need are more Alcee Hastings(September 5, 1936 – April 6, 2021)

What we need are more Alcee Hastings. In 2016, Congressman Hastings called me. He'd given Attorney General Loretta Lynch a copy of my Rolling Stone exposé of the Jim Crow "Interstate Crosscheck" voter purge program. But he wasn’t fooling around: Despite pushing 80, he walked across the Potomac bridge to the Justice Department to put it directly into... READ MORE

Hidden Horrors in the Georgia Vote Law

When we first reported that handing a slice of pizza to a voter waiting three hours in a line is now a felony in Georgia, other media ate it up (forgive me my puns). But there are greater horrors than pizza prohibition hidden in the 95 pages of Georgia’s new... READ MORE