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King Koch is GoneDavid Koch Dead at 79

King Koch is gone. He made his billions the old-fashioned way, stealing from Native Americans. Watch my two minute investigative report on the Kochs.

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Tee Jay McNichols, our Producer’s Cousin, Murdered in Dayton Massacre

Thomas “Tee Jay” James McNichols Jr., 25, the cousin of our assistant producer Jevin Lamar, was one of the 9 people murdered Saturday in Dayton, Ohio, by a racist gunman.

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Palast & Badpenny: An Announcement

High in the thin, cold air where the ridge of the Alps marks the border with Italy, by local tradition, weddings are announced by leaving a small purse of candied almonds with the names of the betrothed at the doors of village homes. The ribbons announce that on July 31, Leni Badpenny will marry Greg Palast at

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New Orleans will drown again, maybe in the next few days

In 2005 I explained exactly how New Orleans drowned and would drown again, maybe in the next days.

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How Katrina Took the Rap for Destroying New Orleans, the Real Culprit was Big Oil

Mother Nature took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was the surge up MR-GO and the missing marshes. MR-GO was Katrina’s

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How Katrina took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was Big Oil

Mother Nature took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was the surge up MR-GO and the missing marshes. MR-GO was Katrina’s welcome mat to the city — a "Hurricane Highway.”

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Ross Perot tried to save Democrats from ThemselvesHow Democrats’ NAFTA-love lost the Working Class

Ross Perot (1930-2019) was a bit of a flake. But he also tried to save the Democratic Party from itself by attempting to warn it away from NAFTA. Clinton wouldn’t

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Ross Perot tried to save Democrats from themselves.How Democrats’ NAFTA-love lost the Working Class.

Ross Perot (1930-2019) was a bit of a flake. But he also tried to save the Democratic Party from itself by attempting to warn it away from NAFTA. Clinton and Gore wouldn’t listen to him — nor would

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My friend Stephanie Blumenthal needs a kidney

My friend Stephanie Blumenthal needs a kidney within the year. (BTW no one needs two.) I know we’d like to save the world. Let’s start with Stephanie.

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Greg Palast Incites Riotat Memorial for Art Kunkin of LA Free Press

Art Kunkin founder of the Los Angeles Free Press, was the most visionary, most influential journalist in the history of of Southern California. In 1965, Art founded the Free Press as an antidote to the Enslaved

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