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Znet Article Palast: Still Unreported: The Pay-off In Bush Air Guard Fix

Znet Article, September, 03 2004 Greg Palast
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In 1968, former Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas, fresh from voting to send other men's sons to Vietnam, enlisted his own son in a very special affirmative action program, the 'champagne' unit of the Texas Air National Guard. Ther...

Znet Article Palast: Venezuela Floridated

Znet Article, August, 11 2004 Greg Palast
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Hugo Chavez drives George Bush crazy. Maybe it's jealousy: Unlike Mr. Bush, Chavez, in Venezuela, won his Presidency by a majority of the vote. Or maybe it's the oil: Venezuela sits atop a reserve rivaling Iraq's. And Hugo thinks the US and Bri...

Znet Article Palast: Johnnie Been Good?

Znet Article, July, 30 2004 Greg Palast
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Johnnie Been Good?

Znet Article Palast: Kerry Discovers Black Voters!

Znet Article, July, 20 2004 Greg Palast
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Like Christopher Columbus blinking in shock at first seeing an American Indian, John Kerry has just discovered African-American voters. On Thursday afternoon, Kerry landed at the NAACP convention, stepped off his slow-moving campaign boat and an...

Znet Article Palast: Give it Back, George

Znet Article, July, 09 2004 Greg Palast
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Give it Back, George

Znet Article Palast: Lost Votes

Znet Article, June, 20 2004 Greg Palast
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In the 2000 presidential election, 1.9 million Americans cast ballots that no one counted. "Spoiled votes" is the technical term. The pile of ballots left to rot has a distinctly dark hue: About 1 million of them -- half of the rejected ballots --...

Znet Article Palast: Reagan and Osama

Znet Article, June, 15 2004 Greg Palast
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Vinnie the Chin had a great alibi.  The New York mob cap...

Znet Article Palast: Killer, Coward, Conman

Znet Article, June, 08 2004 Greg Palast
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You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer. In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in Nicaragua n...

Znet Article Palast: Muzzling Michael

Znet Article, May, 08 2004 Greg Palast
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Muzzling Michael

Znet Article Palast: BBC Whitewash

Znet Article, January, 31 2004 Greg Palast
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He did not say, "hello," or even his name, just left a one-word message: "Whitewash." It came from an embattled journalist whispering from inside the bowels of a television and radio station under siege, on a small island off the coast of Irelan...

Znet Article Palast: No Child's Behind Left

Znet Article, January, 24 2004 Greg Palast
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Go ahead, George, and lie to me. Lie to my dog. Lie to my sister. But don't you ever lie to my kids. Deep into your State of the Siege lecture tonight, long after sensible adults had turned off the tube or kicked in the screen, you came after ou...

Znet Article Palast: Jessica Lynch Captures Saddam

Znet Article, December, 14 2003 Greg Palast
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Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken into custody yesterday at 8:30p.m. Baghdad time. Various television executives, White House spin doctors and propaganda experts at the Pentagon are at this time wrestling with the question of whether...

Znet Article Palast: baker Takes The Loaf

Znet Article, December, 13 2003 Greg Palast
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Well, ho ho ho! It's an early Christmas for James Baker III. All year the elves at his law firm, Baker Botts of Texas, have been working day and night to prevent the families of the victims of the September 11 attack from seeking information fro...

Znet Article Palast: Baker Takes the Loaf

Znet Article, December, 09 2003 Greg Palast
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Well, ho ho ho! It's an early Christmas for James Baker III. All year the elves at his law firm, Baker Botts of Texas, have been working day and night to prevent the families of the victims of the September 11 attack from seeking information f...

Znet Article Palast: Chavez Versus The Free Trade Zombies Of The Americas

Znet Article, December, 03 2003 Greg Palast
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Caracas. It's as if they were locked in a crypt for the last ten years. The finance ministers of every Latin American nation last week signed on to a resolution in principle to join the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the hemispheric expan...

Znet Article Palast: Arnold Unplugged

Znet Article, October, 03 2003 Greg Palast
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It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office obtained today, it's his dalliance with the boys in a hotel room just two years ago that's the real scan...

Znet Article Palast: Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders

Znet Article, September, 12 2003 Greg Palast
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[Washington] The surprise resignation of the forty-third President of the United States, George W. Bush, on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, was hailed by chiefs of state throughout the world. Mr. Bush announced that afte...

Znet Article Palast: Power Outage Traced To Dim Bulb In White House

Znet Article, August, 15 2003 Greg Palast
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I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters -- the Niagara Mohawk Power Company -- some years back. You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living, as an investigator o...

Znet Article Palast: Bush And The Saudis Sittin' In A Tree

Znet Article, August, 01 2003 Greg Palast
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Bush And The Saudis Sittin' In A Tree

Znet Article Palast: California Reamin'

Znet Article, April, 23 2003 Greg Palast
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;See also Palast's book description and interview (at http://www.zmag.org/bookwatch.htm) for more on The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, from which this article is excepted.] On April 10, 1989, Jacob "Jake" Horton, senior vice president of Southern...

Znet Article Palast: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Znet Article, April, 08 2003 Greg Palast
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1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, is about? What is it trying to communicate? It's about the Bushes and the billionaires that love them. It's about a War Hero President who got the 'top gun' job i...

Znet Article Palast: A Tale Of Two Coups

Znet Article, June, 29 2002 Greg Palast
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Blondes in revolt On May Day, starting out from the Hilton Hotel, 200,000 blondes marched East through Caracas' shopping corridor along Casanova Avenue. At the same time, half a million brunettes converged on them from the West. It would all se...

Znet Article Palast: Opec Chief Warned Chavez About Coup

Znet Article, May, 13 2002 Greg Palast
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The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, had advance warning of last month's coup attempt against him from the secretary general of Opec, Ali Rodriguez, allowing him to prepare an extraordinary plan which saved both his government and his life, an i...

Znet Article Palast: Here's what we read this week:

Znet Article, April, 19 2002 Greg Palast
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On Friday, Hugo Chavez, the unpopular, dictatorial potentate of Venezuela, resigned. When confronted over his ordering the shooting of antigovernment protestors, he turned over the presidency to progressive, democratic forces, namely, the military...

Znet Article Palast: Eyes-only memos show who done it

Znet Article, February, 07 2002 Greg Palast
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In Buenos Aires, the Paris of Latin America, police gunned down two dozen Argentines in December after they chose to face bullets rather than starvation. The nation's currency had crumbled and unemployment had shot up from a grim 16 percent t...

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