Greg Palast's Blog

Forgive me, but I have to send a little thank you to Jeffrey Epstein. The latest cache of the predator’s memos have finally brought down Lawrence Summers, once President of Harvard University, once US Secretary of the Treasury and the dark eminence behind banking deregulation and mass home foreclosures. And worse. The newly released emails revealed that Epstein agreed to be Summers’ “wing man,” advising... READ MORE

Palast tears open the newly uncovered emails between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein — emails in which the very-married Summers leans on the convicted predator as his “wingman,” seeking tips on how to seduce a young economist he was mentoring.Palast lays out how Summers helped engineer the global deregulation spree and returns to the infamous secret “End-Game” memo he first exposed in ... READ MORE

The US housing market is melting. Trump’s solution: 50-year mortgages instead of 30-year loans. As an economist, I can tell you 50 years or 30 years don’t mean squat. This is Trump the Distractor at his best. Here’s what it comes down to. To save ... READ MORE

No Kings in San Diego was a helluva party, 50,000 celebrating — while at the same time fearing for — that delicate thing called democracy. A thousand American flags fluttered. America at its best. Hell, it could turn you into a patriot. But what was is our demand? What did we want to get from the march of seven million? What would we recognize as a victory? ... READ MORE

I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit to my New York office. But first, you must know three things about Venezuela to understand why Donald Trump has ordered a covert operation to overthrow their government. .... READ MORE

Greg Palast joins Thom Hartmann to take the crown off King Donald’s comb-over. Three chances to catch their act.... READ MORE

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