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Greg Palast

Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, “ARMED MADHOUSE: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War,” just released from Penguin/Dutton, from which this is adapted. He can be contacted at gregpalast.com/.

3 pieces

Commentary

Today’s Pig Is Tomorrow’s Bacon – So Happy Labor Day

By Greg Palast

Some years from now, in an economic refugee relocation “Enterprise Zone,” your kids will ask you, “What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?” The trick of class war is not to let the victims know they’re under attack. That’s how, little by little, the owners of the planet take away what little we…

Some years from now, in an economic refugee relocation “Enterprise Zone,” your kids will ask you, “What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?” The…

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Commentary

The Lynching of Dan Rather

By Greg Palast

Mr. Palast wrote this piece for publication on September 21. We believe the subsequent CBS News disavowal of one document among an ever-mounting pile of evidence, does not in the least diminish the case against Texas Air National Guard Lt. George Bush – a story of privilege, dishonesty and hypocrisy that Greg Palast has covered…

Mr. Palast wrote this piece for publication on September 21. We believe the subsequent CBS News disavowal of one document among an ever-mounting pile of evidence,…

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Commentary

Black Americans Discovered by Democratic Party

By Greg Palast

Like Christopher Columbus blinking in shock at first seeing an American Indian, John Kerry has just discovered African-American voters. Last Thursday afternoon, Kerry landed at the NAACP convention, stepped off his slow-moving campaign boat and announced that he was exploring for one million missing Black voters. Let me explain – because the New York Times…

Like Christopher Columbus blinking in shock at first seeing an American Indian, John Kerry has just discovered African-American voters. Last Thursday afternoon, Kerry landed at the…

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