Author Profile
Greg Palast
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2003) and Armed Madhouse (2007), and the newly released Vultures Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores (2011). Palast has won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award his investigative reporting. His stories have been published in many newspapers and magazines, as well as broadcast on the BBC and Democracy Now! His website is at www.GregPalast.com.
Most Recent Articles
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Culture
The Ice Man, Radioactive
Harold Simmons: the GOP’s $50 million man. more »
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Features
True Crime Finance Stories
Who's to blame for the implosion of Greece—and the global economy? more »
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Act Locally
Debt Vultures Shot for Chanukah
Liberia is saved, but the predators are not done. more »
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Views
Stop Feeding the Vultures
I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn't want to talk to me. When I came to his more »
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Features
The Talented Mr. Griffin
The senators grilling Alberto Gonzales should ask him about Arkansas' new U.S. attorney--and his history of suppressing minority voters Arkansas' new U.S. attorney has a history of suppressing minority more »
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Features
The Ballots at the Back of the Bus
Most voters in Ohio chose Kerry; here’s how the votes vanished. more »
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Features
Fear for Sale
September 11, 2001, was Derek Smith’s lucky day. There were all those pieces of people to collect—tubes marked “ more »
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Features
Education Eugenics
Go ahead, George, and lie to me. Lie to my dog. Lie to my sister. But don’t more »
