Greg Palast
145 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsGreg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone. You can read/watch his reports at GregPalast.com. He is the author of the NY Times bestsellers The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse, and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic. You can stream his new film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman — introduced by Martin Sheen and narrated by Rosario Dawson — for a limited time at: VigilanteMovie.com
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How to Stop Putin’s War Windfall by Ending Our Embargo of Venezuelan Oil
March 08, 2022 12:11 - 11 minutes - 21 MBThe mayhem in Ukraine is a profit center for Putin. 43% of the federal Russian budget was provided by oil and gas revenues and royalties. Russia lives and dies, literally, on its oil revenues, and this mayhem has caused the price of oil to rise to over $100 a barrel, so he has a war-windfall of a half billion dollars a day. So the question is, what can we do to bring down the price of oil? Putin's a powerful man at a hundred bucks a barrel, but he's pretty weak at thirty bucks. So how do we d...
Fact Injection [2:22:22] — Ukraine Hysteria & CRT
February 23, 2022 16:45 - 8 minutes - 15.6 MBPutin claims he is attacking to eliminate Ukraine’s ““ government… headed by a Jewish president! sanctions, Putin only cares about the price of oil. If Biden would end the insane embargo of Venezuela, oil prices would collapse and so would Putin‘s killing spree.
Fact Injection: 7 Facts About Ukraine
February 16, 2022 21:06 - 13 minutes - 24 MBWhatever peace there is in Ukraine is the result of the Minsk agreements of 2015 signed by Ukraine, Ukrainian Separatists, France and Germany and endorsed by Russia. The Minsk accords gave the eastern region protection from attack and some measure of autonomy — but not independence. On the basis of the agreement, Russia moved out of the Donbas. However, the Ukrainian government has never implemented the agreements under which Russian troops left the border area. From Putin’s view, by breachi...
The new vote-fixing game in Georgia
February 12, 2022 11:58 - 3 minutes - 5.91 MBOnce again, it's down to Georgia in the November 2022 midterm elections. Senator Reverend Warnock is running for reelection, and Stacey Abrams is running for governor against the incumbent Brian Kemp. It's not a question of who's going to win. The GOP’s decided it can't win, so it's figuring out how to not let the voters vote. And here's a whole new game that, hopefully, doesn't spread from Georgia. They are changing state law to allow the removal of election board officials. So, for example...
A little-known story about how activists beat Raffesnperger’s mass purges in Georgia
February 04, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute - 3.48 MBHere's a little-known story that people don't know about what happened in Georgia. Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger’s no hero. He thought that he had disqualified enough votes to give Trump the win, because they disqualified so many. But what they didn't expect was groups like Rainbow PUSH, Black Voters Matter Fund, and the Transformative Justice Coalition, who manned phone banks. When a ballot is disqualified in Georgia, you have the right as a voter to go in and “cure” it — fix it. S...
Jan 6th: "You can smell the mendacity and the subpoenas"
February 03, 2022 14:27 - 19 minutes - 35.3 MBThe January 6th committee has subpoenaed 14 GOP operatives from seven states to ask them who is behind their very strange, and very dangerous attempt to overturn the election, by providing seven sets of phony electors. What are electors? Those are the people who actually vote for president of the United States. Look high and low in the Constitution and you will not find the right to vote in our Constitution. Rather, the president is picked by the electors and the electoral college. But there...
Jan 6th: ”You can smell the mendacity and the subpoenas”
February 03, 2022 14:27 - 19 minutes - 35.3 MBThe January 6th committee has subpoenaed 14 GOP operatives from seven states to ask them who is behind their very strange, and very dangerous attempt to overturn the election, by providing seven sets of phony electors. What are electors? Those are the people who actually vote for president of the United States. Look high and low in the Constitution and you will not find the right to vote in our Constitution. Rather, the president is picked by the electors and the electoral college. But there...
Fact Injection: Special grand jury impaneled in Georgia to investigate election fraud
January 28, 2022 17:02 - 10 minutes - 19.2 MBNow that a special grand jury is being impaneled at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to investigate interference in the 2020 election, I don’t think it’s just Donald Trump that’s in trouble. There were 29 phone calls between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — twenty-nine — not just one. The Republicans are claiming it's a political hit job. However, there was a panel of 20 Atlanta Superior Court judges — every one of them Republican appointees ...
FlashPoints: There were 29 phone calls between Trump and Raffensperger
January 27, 2022 15:54 - 31 minutes - 57.6 MBI don’t think it’s just Donald Trump that’s in trouble now that a special grand jury is being impaneled at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to investigate interference in the 2020 election. The Republicans, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, were playing fast and loose with accusations of voter fraud. I wouldn’t be surprised if Raffensperger gets cuffed. And, if there is justice, he should be breaking rocks in a chain gang. There were 29 phone ...
How Trump and the GOP could steal the election in 2024 — unless we act NOW!
January 14, 2022 14:17 - 7 minutes - 6.58 MBIn the days between the November 3rd, 2020 presidential election and January 6th, 2021, the day Congress was scheduled to certify Joe Biden as winner and next occupant of the White House, Donald Trump and his inner circle were working to subvert the will of the American people. The plot that proceeded the pro-Trump violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, involved conservative lawyer and Trump advisor, John Eastman, who argued that the Constitution’s 12th Amendment gave then Vic...
FlashPoints: Analysis of Biden's Speech in Georgia on Voting RIghts
January 13, 2022 15:01 - 35 minutes - 65.5 MBOur action partner, Black Voters Matter, boycotted Biden’s speech in Georgia on the voting rights bills, refusing to act as a photo op prop. Understand the frustration: we’ve been screaming about Georgia as Jim Crow central for 8 years. Laws alone won’t help: we need the Justice Department to stomp on the new "voter fraud vigilante" challenge system we uncovered. We need enforcement of the laws we have, Joe. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/georgias-original-sin-and-the-2022-secret-vo...
FlashPoints: Analysis of Biden’s Speech in Georgia on Voting RIghts
January 13, 2022 15:01 - 35 minutes - 65.5 MBOur action partner, Black Voters Matter, boycotted Biden’s speech in Georgia on the voting rights bills, refusing to act as a photo op prop. Understand the frustration: we’ve been screaming about Georgia as Jim Crow central for 8 years. Laws alone won’t help: we need the Justice Department to stomp on the new "voter fraud vigilante" challenge system we uncovered. We need enforcement of the laws we have, Joe. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/georgias-original-sin-and-the-2022-secret-vo...
Drive Time: The tyranny of the extraction industry
December 14, 2021 11:30 - 41 minutes - 75.4 MBDrive Time host Dave Glover and investigative journalist Greg Palast discusses the tyranny of the extraction industry, plus the latest on the Steven Donziger and Julian Assange cases.
Strangling of John Lewis Voting Rights Act could be death blow for democracy
November 09, 2021 15:05 - 30 minutes - 55.6 MBThese are the only states that would be policed under the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the requirement to “pre-clear” new, racially biased, voting procedures, such as limitations on early voting: Alabama Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Texas Virginia Don’t get me wrong, the strangling of the John Lewis Act by filibuster, unlike the overhyped For the People Act, could be the death blow to a democratically elected Congress. In 2013, Justice Kennedy sai...
Senate Republicans Continue Assault On Voting Rights
November 05, 2021 18:56 - 13 minutes - 24.8 MBThis week, the Senate Republicans filibustered the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and stopped it from being voted into law in the Senate, even though there was a majority of 51 votes. A filibuster is just, literally, talking a bill to death so that the Senate cannot get on with its work. To close off that trick, to stop a filibuster, you need 60 votes, and only one Republican, Lisa Murkowski, crossed the line to vote for the bill. Now, understand, the filibuster was specifically created by So...
Reality Check: The Vaxhole Epidemic
November 03, 2021 16:24 - 57 minutes - 106 MBThis is not about vaccinations, this is about STUPID. There’s a pandemic of pin-heads, an epidemic of stupid.
FlashPoints: Hate goes on trial in Charlottesville
October 27, 2021 23:01 - 30 minutes - 55.8 MB[Oct 25, 2021: Charlottesville, VA] Jury selection began today for the civil trial of the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The rally ended with the murder of Heather Heyer and injuries to dozens of other activists. The case was brought by a group of individuals that were attacked during the tiki torch march across the University of Virginia’s Charlottesville campus on August 11, 2017 and the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville the next day. If successful,...
My Own Forever War: Afghanistan and 9-11
October 21, 2021 15:43 - 48 minutes - 88.3 MBRight now, the darkness is falling on Afghanistan, and we are responsible.
The Extraordinary Case of Chevron v. Steven Donziger
October 07, 2021 11:29 - 34 minutes - 62.3 MBHuman rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who led a $9.5 billion suit against chevron, sentenced to six months for contempt. Learn more about this extraordinary case: https://www.gregpalast.com/facing-prison-for-fighting-chevron/ Stand with Steven at: https://FreeDonziger.com. #FreeDonziger #BigOil #Pollution #Environment #Amazon #HumanRights #StevenDonziger
Reality Check: Palast with Steven Donziger & John Perkins
September 29, 2021 14:06 - 56 minutes - 103 MBOn this week's Reality Check, Greg Palast stands in for regular host Cary Harrison and interviews human rights lawyer Steven Donziger and "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" author John Perkins. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/fact-injection-donziger-v-chevron/
Manchin's Freedom to Vote Act Ain't Going Nowhere!
September 20, 2021 15:14 - 17 minutes - 31.1 MBShould we pass laws against bank robbery by asking the bank robbers? Manchin's talking about asking the vote thieves to agree to end their crime wave — that ain't going to happen! #FreedomToVoteAct
Manchin’s Freedom to Vote Act Ain’t Going Nowhere!
September 20, 2021 15:14 - 17 minutes - 31.1 MBShould we pass laws against bank robbery by asking the bank robbers? Manchin's talking about asking the vote thieves to agree to end their crime wave — that ain't going to happen! #FreedomToVoteAct
Ed Asner read - Mr. Beale, Meet Mr. Palast
August 30, 2021 00:03 - 5 minutes - 4.68 MBListen to The Network soliloquy that Ed Asner gamely voiced to a techno dance beat for Greg Palast's bestselling book Armed Madhouse
Ed Asner reads - Mr. Beale, Meet Mr. Palast
August 30, 2021 00:03 - 2 minutes - 2.17 MBListen to The Network soliloquy that Ed Asner gamely voiced for Greg Palast's bestselling book Armed Madhouse
Ed Asner reads What Price A Storegasm
August 29, 2021 23:28 - 5 minutes - 1.32 MBTake a listen to learn why Asner was recognized as the best voice actor on the planet. This is his reading of Greg Palast's investigation of Walmart, “What Price a Storegasm?” from the 2002 edition of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
North Carolina Court Rules To End Ex-Con Con-Job
August 25, 2021 14:56 - 8 minutes - 14.8 MBOn Monday, a state Superior Court in Raleigh, North Carolina ruled to allow ex-cons to vote — even if they haven’t paid old fines. The GOP is freaking. Here’s why: a University of Minnesota study found 89% of ex-cons vote Democratic, no matter their color. Too bad the Democrats are MIA on registering ex-cons. I’ve calculated that over 9 million ex-cons are ELIGIBLE to vote — but need help and guidance getting through the berzerko rules for ex-cons to register — which ain’t so easy for non-con...
Palast on Drive Time: “I let the Chevron lawyers hang themselves.”
August 16, 2021 11:22 - 43 minutes - 80 MBChevron set out to destroy Steven Donziger, to make an example of a human rights lawyer that dares take on the petroleum pirates. But the oil giant also went after journalists, in one case, filing a complaint against the BBC Television reporter that broke the story that Chevron had destroyed key evidence in the case. I was that reporter — and survived with my job after a year of hearings. But Chevron’s prosecution did a good job of scaring off other journalists. Some were scared off; some bo...
FlashPoints feat. Steven Donziger
August 12, 2021 16:59 - 28 minutes - 52.5 MBCalling in to the FlashPoints News studio from his new New York home, where he is currently under house arrest, rights attorney Steven Donziger talks about his Kafkaesque case with host Dennis J. Bernstein and investigative reporter Greg Palast. Palast has been reporting on this outrageous tale of oil, power, corruption, corporate murder and ecocide since 2007, when he first met one of Donziger’s clients, Emergildo Criollo, Chief of the Cofan people, deep in the Amazon rainforest. With the h...
Haiti: The Trail of Blood That Leads Back to The U.S.
July 14, 2021 17:30 - 14 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this edition of The Critical Hour, hosts Garland Nixon and Wilmer Leon talk to Greg Palast about the recent assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, and the trail of blood that leads back to the United States. The trio also discuss the socio-economic background against which this murder happened, and how the economy of this mineral and agriculturally rich Caribbean nation has been systematically stripped — and, to this end, its stability and security systematically undermined — b...
The Devastating SCOTUS Ruling Against Voting Rights
July 04, 2021 15:14 - 14 minutes - 26.7 MBOn Thursday, July 1, the Supreme Court gave states new latitude to impose restrictions on voting, using a ruling in a case from Arizona to signal that challenges to laws being passed by the Republican legislatures that make it harder for minority groups to vote would face a hostile reception from a majority of the justices. This was a six to three vote, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent. The decision was among the most consequential in decades on voting rights. And it was the ...
Uncovered: Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters
June 25, 2021 17:07 - 20 minutes - 36.8 MBA little-noticed provision in Georgia’s new voting restriction law, SB202, threatens the rights of 364,000 voters. The new provision signed into law in March allows private citizens to challenge an “unlimited” number of other voters’ ballots. The result is that hundreds of thousands of voters individually targeted by a conservative group from Texas may not have their ballots counted in next year’s crucial US Senate race and the expected re-match for the Governorship between Stacey Abrams and ...
Election Crimes Bulletin: Is it time we made Manchin a verb?
June 09, 2021 10:33 - 29 minutes - 53.7 MBWho would have ever thought that it would be one lone Democratic Senator that would finally put an end our democratic voting system? The one person, one vote ideal we've been trying to achieve in this country. Maybe it's time now to make Joe Manchin’s name into a verb, as in “Manchining” — as in crippling a structural system of voting. As in, he “Manchined” the voting system, and can you believe it, he's a Democrat? In this week's edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, Greg Palast and Denn...
Texas: Are the Republicans going to sweep back in next year?
June 01, 2021 23:50 - 5 minutes - 9.57 MBIf you let Texans vote, and you stop gerrymandering them, it's not even a purple state, it's a deep blue state, but...
Deepwater Horizon: The Lies & Bribes That Keep Big Oil Flowing
April 23, 2021 19:11 - 16 minutes - 29.3 MBThe poisoning of the environment can only happen because of the poisoning of politics. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/deepwater-horizon-corporate-homicide/
SB202: Follow The Money – FlashPoints ECB
April 06, 2021 16:42 - 36 minutes - 66.9 MB#SB202: Follow the money… It's not just about letting black people vote, it’s about letting a progressive agenda advance. Jim Crow has been a profit center for corporate America for generations, and we're calling it out. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors-in-the-georgia-vote-law/
Fault Lines: SB202 — Jim Crow Horror Show
March 30, 2021 16:33 - 10 minutes - 19.6 MBThe only person who’s safe under Georgia’s new anti-voting law is Jim Crow. The bill’s 95 pages long and every page is a new horror show — it’s like Stephen King wrote it.
Why Asian-Americans were the main target of GOP vote suppression in Georgia
March 23, 2021 16:40 - 14 minutes - 26 MBEven before this act of terror happened, I can’t overemphasize how brutal the voter suppression was aimed at the Asian-American community — particularly in Georgia. And when you don't have political power, you don't have protection. The intimidation factor is very high — and it's coming from the top. Learn More: https://www.gregpalast.com/voting-gangnam-style-the-rise-of-kim-crow/
Election Crimes Bulletin: It’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.
March 18, 2021 18:34 - 22 minutes - 41.1 MBThe Asian-American community is the fastest growing community in Atlanta and it’s the one that put Warnock and Ossoff over the top — and that scares the out of Georgia Republicans. So the Asian-American community are the prime target of their vote suppression attacks — it’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.
#DCRiots: Why Did They Let The Perps Go?
March 13, 2021 15:20 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBThe FBI is congratulating themselves on finding and arresting Capitol rioters — BUT WHY DID THEY LET THEM OUT OF THEIR CUSTODY IN THE FIRST PLACE? The FBI manual REQUIRES sealing off a murder crime scene — and arresting or at least getting the names and CELL PHONES with incriminating photos. Instead the rioters were given a f#@!ing police escort out of the crime scene. The investigation of January 6 must include the decision to let killers walk away — and FBI/police sympathy or even in...
GOP Trail of Tears: Giving Thanks to Indigenous Voters
November 28, 2020 12:11 - 7 minutes - 6.73 MBFor those of you who wanted to see Donald Trump skedaddled from the White House, this is the week you should be celebrating Thanksgiving giving thanks to Indigenous peoples for giving Biden the White House. The Native People’s vote provided the margin for Biden in Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. In Arizona, for example, the Tohono O’odham nation voted 98% Democratic! If it were up to White folk, Trump would have walked away with Arizona, but Indigenous precincts in Navajo Nation lands repo...
In scorched earth move, Trump Treasury orders Fed to shut down essential loan guarantee program
November 22, 2020 18:07 - 6 minutes - 11.6 MBThe Trump Treasury has ordered the Federal Reserve to shut down its program backing loans to small business and local government. This is like Hitler in his bunker who ordered his minions to blow up bridges, railways and the electric system when his demise was clear. The difference is, that in Hitler’s case, even his underlings refused the order to sabotage their nation. This is no joke: it’s a program to push the American economy over a cliff by Inauguration Day. Sick, vindictive, treasonous.
The Far Right Fights for Trump
November 21, 2020 18:17 - 30 minutes - 55.4 MBThe fight over what’s left of the soul of the Republican Party has moved from Washington DC to Georgia with the far right continuing to rally for Trump. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/white-power-and-the-recount/
Georgia: Ossoff / Purdue race was a straight up steal
November 13, 2020 22:09 - 18 minutes - 33.8 MBThe Jon Ossoff / David Purdue race looks to me like a straight up steal. For example, in Gwinnett County, which is a suburban county of Atlanta, a staggering 30% of mail-in votes have been rejected, and we know it's overwhelmingly Democratic. There's also a massive number of provisional ballots that weren’t counted. I understand that it's 10,000 — at least — in Atlanta and the surrounding area. And we know 40% of all provisional ballots nationwide are thrown out. URGENT: We need to get ALL t...
Election Crimes Bulletin: The Purged — The Vanishing Voters of Trump's America
October 31, 2020 15:46 - 11 minutes - 21.5 MBGreg Palast and Dennis Bernstein discuss The Purged — The Vanishing Voters of Trump's America. The Election Crimes Bulletin offers essential election protection in the run up to the big day — and beyond! Tune in at 5PM PT weekdays between now and #ElectionDay for more Election Crimes Bulletins or catch up by visiting the Flashpoints' archives at: https://kpfa.org/program/flashpoints/
Election Crimes Bulletin: The Purged — The Vanishing Voters of Trump’s America
October 31, 2020 15:46 - 11 minutes - 21.5 MBGreg Palast and Dennis Bernstein discuss The Purged — The Vanishing Voters of Trump's America. The Election Crimes Bulletin offers essential election protection in the run up to the big day — and beyond! Tune in at 5PM PT weekdays between now and #ElectionDay for more Election Crimes Bulletins or catch up by visiting the Flashpoints' archives at: https://kpfa.org/program/flashpoints/
Election Crimes Bulletin: The Post Office Has Been Sabotaged
October 30, 2020 21:38 - 12 minutes - 23.4 MBIn light of the fact that the Post Office has been sabotaged, Greg Palast and Dennis Bernstein offer strategies to ensure you don't accidentally sabotage your own vote. The Election Crimes Bulletin offers essential election protection in the run up to the big day — and beyond! Tune in at 5PM PT weekdays between now and #ElectionDay for more Election Crimes Bulletins or catch up by visiting the Flashpoints' archives at: https://kpfa.org/program/flashpoints/
Election Crimes Bulletin: How The Unholy Election Trinity Could Appoint President Trump
October 29, 2020 15:37 - 12 minutes - 22 MBThomas Jefferson didn't imagine that we would have a reality TV show star who would start an insurrection by Twitter. Tune in at 5PM PT weekdays between now and #ElectionDay for more Election Crimes Bulletins or catch up by visiting the Flashpoints' archives at: https://kpfa.org/program/flashpoints/
Election Crimes Bulletin: Wisconsin & Florida
October 28, 2020 22:12 - 12 minutes - 22.6 MBIn the first of a daily series of Election Crimes Bulletins, Dennis Bernstein and Greg Palast discuss the unique problems voters face in Wisconsin and Florida.
Greg Palast on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour — Oct 25, 2020
October 26, 2020 15:27 - 30 minutes - 55.8 MBPalast and Nader discuss the ultimate constitutional crime.
Hard Knock Radio: VP Debate Special with Greg Palast
October 10, 2020 16:39 - 54 minutes - 74.1 MBVice presidential debate analysis with political commentators Pastor Mike McBride and George Galvis and investigative reporter Greg Palast.