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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...
Palast: Johnnie Been Good?
Znet Article, July, 30 2004
Greg Palast
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Johnnie Been Good?
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...
Palast: Give it Back, George
Znet Article, July, 09 2004
Greg Palast
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Give it Back, George
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 --...
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...
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...
Palast: Muzzling Michael
Znet Article, May, 08 2004
Greg Palast
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Muzzling Michael
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
