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Greg Palast

Born

in Los Angeles, The United States

June 26, 1952

Website

http://www.gregpalast.com/

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Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures' Picnic, named Book of the Year on BBC Newsnight Review.

Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud. Palast directed the U.S. government’s largest racketeering case in history – winning a $4.3 billion jury award. He also conducted the investigation of fraud charges in the Exxon Valdez grounding.

Following the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Palast set off on a five-continent undercover investigation of BP and the oil industry for British television’s top current affairs program, Dispatches.

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Trump bombed…the audienceHe killed it at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

I watched the late night yucksters like Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers get a bunch of cheap guffaws out of Trump’s supposedly inept attempt at comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but his performance was at a level that took him a step above comic geniuses. The audience of not-too-clever journalists didn’t get it, while ... READ MORE Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.03 · 5,993 ratings · 422 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Best Democracy Money Can Buy 3.98 avg rating — 3,461 ratings — published 2002 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild 4.05 avg rating — 1,067 ratings — published 2006 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores 4.12 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps by Greg Palast, Ted Rall (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Introduction) 4.14 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters by Greg Palast, Ted Rall (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.46 avg rating — 85 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits by Greg Palast, Ted Rall (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 48 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Live from the Armed Madhouse 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steal Back Your Vote! by Greg Palast, Ted Rall (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator), Lloyd Dangle (Illustrator) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Democracy and Regulation: How the Public Can Govern Essential Services by Greg Palast, Theo MacGregor, Jerrold Oppenheim 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Joker's Wild: Playing Cards: Dubya's Trick Deck by Greg Palast, Robert Grossman (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized.”
― Greg Palast

tags: capitalism, corporate-bailouts, corporate-power, deregulation, neoliberalism

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“Fear sells better than sex and the iPhone 5 combined.”
― Greg Palast

tags: control, fear

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“I love this book. When other U.S. reporters were licking Ken Lay's loafers, Leopold went for Enron's thieving throat. Leopold is a journalist who insists on real investigative reporting–inside documents, inside sources, hard knife-in-the-gut evidence–detective-style reporting that is just about illegal in the U.S.A. Bravo and my personal Pulitzer to Jason Leopold. Every journalist in America should read this, then quit or riot.”
― Greg Palast

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