Greg Palast's Blog

Thom Hartmann’s new book, The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-Chief, and much more — a disturbing dive into the roiling miasma of self-aggrandizing, self-deluding, psychologically shattered, wailing man-child who is Commander-in-Chief. ... READ MORE

On Tuesday, our newly-dubbed “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth told our military’s top brass that they must restore the "male warrior spirit" to the armed forces. “Male” spirit, Pete? Excuse me, Pete. My mother, Gladys Palast, was ... READ MORE

Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threatening lives across America and even our not-yet-born great-grandchildren. You’ve blocked mRNA vaccine research. Research! Bobby, you know damn well that... READ MORE

RFK fils, my (former?) friend and co-author is, no doubt, threatening my life, your life and your not-yet-born great-grandchildren’s lives by blocking mRNA vaccine research. MRNA was our best hope for an anti-cancer vaccine. I need you to ... READ MORE

The brilliant historian-cum-journalist Thom Hartmann has torn back the curtain on the corporate lock-up of America which, in Trump 2.0, is reaching its armed conclusion ... READ MORE

Be afraid. The Trump Administration has “put on leave” — effectively fired — 35 experts from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for signing a letter to Trump saying that his mass elimination of emergency experts is threatening the lives of Americans. Another 130 signed but masked ... READ MORE

I need you to read this before Friday, the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  It’s by a Coast Guardsman assigned to pull the dead from the waters. Now, as Supervisor in a small town in Illinois, he’s concerned that Trump will ... READ MORE

Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans.  He told me about recovering the bloated bodies of pregnant women, or pieces of pregnant women, out of the water. He tried to pull one corpse from the flood, but the... READ MORE

The flood in Kerrville, Texas, was not an Act of God, it was an Act of Trump.  Our investigation shows the horrific connection between the drownings in Texas and in New Orleans — 20 years ago this month — and the Trump/DOGE scheme to sell off FEMA ... READ MORE

Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated to service, and perhaps most tragically, a victim of the incompetence that characterized the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.