Greg Palast's Blog

Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was tele-transported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out through my nose.  But I’m not laughing anymore. Mr. Colbert, Phillips may choose our next president, he’s that powerful. In fact, he chose our current one. The Palast Investigations… Read More...Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore

It was a mere 500 years ago that Europeans realized that the Strait of Hormuz was a trade choke point, when Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque seized the Island of Hormuz to control trade in and out of the Persian Gulf. It was the first armed European conquest of Arabia meant to ... READ MORE

Pam Bondi, Trump-dumped yesterday as US Attorney General, was a highly paid lobbyist for Qatar and Kuwait, not to mention Geo Group, the nation’s top operator of immigrant detention centers (I think we used to call them “prisons”), the cruelty profiteer I exposed years ago in an investigation for The Guardian titled, "Free Market In Human Misery."... READ MORE

Trump has good reason to claim he’s won regime change in Iran.  From our deep files, we have discovered that the new Ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei, far from being a... READ MORE

It’s 1931 again. Not 1933, with Hitler still just a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1931, America was in deep pain. Holding our breath. Today, we’re holding our breath again. Can we hold it until... READ MORE

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How did the mullahs win? Even that flower child Jimmy Carter said the US must use military force to keep open this outlet for the world's flow of oil. Carter said... READ MORE

In one of my most elaborate undercover operations for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump's attack on Iran. It was 2004 and the plan was secretly drafted BEFORE George W. Bush invaded Iraq. I’m only bringing up 20-year-old history to tell you that, while Bush’s hidden plan for the oil fields of Iraq evidenced greedy secret scheming to grab Iraq’s oil industry, at least we could say this: EVEN GEORGE BUSH HAD A PLAN. So no, I have not uncovered Trump’s secret ... READ MORE

How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it's fueled by billionaires' cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 60 years ago... READ MORE

For Greg Palast, it began with a simple instinct: to look closer. He explains how investigative journalism is not about speculation, but rather about observation, persistence, and evidence. It is about recognizing patterns others overlook and asking questions others stop asking. But... READ MORE