Greg Palast's Blog, page 31

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

The Oil Industry Floats on Lies:The True Story of the Exxon Valdez

It wasn’t human error that caused America’s greatest environmental disaster, the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, it was inhuman corporate miserliness — the oil industry’s systemic fraud, corruption, and penny-pinching la-di-da view of safety. In this edition of... READ MORE

The True Cause of the Exxon Valdez CatastropheVultures' Picnic: Chapter 7

Days after the Exxon Valdez slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives. The true cause of the catastrophe? The breaking of promises made by the oil giant to the Natives and Congress, cynically and disastrously, in... READ MORE

The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastropheVultures' Picnic: Chapter 7

Days after the Exxon Valdez slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives. The true cause of the catastrophe? The breaking of promises made by the oil giant to the Natives and Congress, cynically and disastrously, in the fifteen years leading up to the spill. The full extent of the oil company’s culpability, and the subsequent coverup, is chronicled in Vultures’ Picnic, excerpted here... READ MORE

Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable Of The Drunken Captain

Today, March 24, the 32nd Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster will be commemorated with the re-telling of lies. The official story is, “Drunken Skipper Hits Reef.” Don’t believe it.Days after the oil tanker slimed 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline, I was in Prince William Sound, launching an investigation for the Chugach Natives of Alaska. It was their coastline. This story remains untold: the true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was... READ MORE

Voting Gangnam Style: The Rise of Kim Crow

The Asian-American community is the fastest growing community in Atlanta and it’s the one that put Warnock and Ossoff over the top — and that scares the hell out of Georgia Republicans. So the Asian-American community are the prime target of their vote suppression attacks — it’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow. But the vote suppression of the Asian-American community is not... READ MORE

Fukushima: They Knew

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima tsunami and meltdown.A nuclear plant is built with steel and cement and lies and fraud — and that’s the take-a-way for today.Stacey Abrams has shown REAL courage in Georgia in her opposition to the Vogtle nuclear power plant — the last... READ MORE

Piers Moron aka Piers MorganYes, it’s personal

Recidivist criminal, conman, creep, liar… I’m sure you’ve guessed I’m talking about Piers Morgan, the alias of Piers Moron, who's been given a few days off for spewing vicious, inhuman comments about Meghan Markle’s suicidal depression. I say, "a few days off" because... READ MORE