Author Archives: Greg Palast

Trump picks Al Capone of vote rigging

Kris Kobach is the GOP mastermind behind a secretive system that purged 1.1 million Americans from the voter rolls.

Kris Kobach was spooning down vanilla ice cream when I showed him the thick pages of evidence documenting his detailed plan to rig the presidential election of 2016. Continue reading

Cops gun down unarmed journalist’s career

LA Times fires Ted Rall—evidence blows up in newspaper’s face

Ted Rall is a lying, fantasist scumbag. Continue reading

Trojan hearse: Greek elections and the Euro leper colony

Europe is stunned, and bankers aghast, that polls show the new party of the Left, Syriza, will win Greece’s parliamentary elections to be held this coming Sunday, January 25. Continue reading

‘We’re all some kind of Native now’

It was Good Friday, 50 years ago on March 27, 1964, that according to seismologists, the snow peaks of Prince William Sound jumped 33 feet into the air and fell back down. Emergency warnings about an earthquake-spurred tsunami went out to towns from Valdez, Alaska, to Malibu, Calif., but no one thought to send a message to the Chugach Natives in Chenega, Alaska. Continue reading

BP, not Exxon, caused the Exxon Valdez disaster

Two decades ago, I was the investigator for the legal team that sold you the bullshit that a drunken captain was the principal cause of the Exxon Valdez disaster, the oil tanker crackup that poisoned over a thousand miles of Alaska’s coastline 25 years ago on March 24, 1989. Continue reading

Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway?

It’s time to subpoena the Committee for Our Children’s Future

Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie’s secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires––and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following these hidden hugger-muggers. Continue reading