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Greg Palast
@gregpalast
Investigative journalist, author, and filmmaker
Investigative journalist and author of the NY Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse + The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Catch my reports at: https://www.gregpalast.com Watch my new documentary, Vigilante: Georgia’s Voter Suppression Hitman — narrated by Rosario Dawson — which exposes the most brazen, racist attack on voting rights yet: http://vigilantemovie.com
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Don’t write off Florida and Texas
Don’t write off states. Take them all on. And I'm not being partisan about it. I'm saying that you gotta fight for votes and fight for voting rights in every state, because this is not a Red Nation. This is a nation that was built on progressive social ideals. The idea of a commu It’s not the Republican party anymore, it's the Greedy Old Party
Believe it or not, even the ultra free market economist Milton Friedman wanted to give people a universal basic income. Because, at that time, greed wasn’t paramount. Even right wing Republicans thought, you can’t let people die, you can’t have people not be able to hear their ho When Kyle Rittenhouse came to Kent State
A report by Palast Investigative Fund fellow Zach D. Roberts about how the young acquitted murderer is being paraded around campuses to stir up controversy to promote Turning Points USA, an organization that promotes the far right agenda to students across the US. Ukraine: Our soul is on the line here
Who will stand by America if we don’t stand by Ukraine? ▶️ Catch the full Thom Hartmann Program with Palast on Thom.tv #UkraineNeedsAirDefense | #ArmUkraineNow Why are we still dependent on foreign oil?
If the US produces more oil than any country—ever—why are we still dependent on foreign oil? (Including 200,000 - 300,000 barrels a day from Russia!!!) ▶️ Catch the full Thom Hartmann Program with Palast at: Thom.TV And while Putin is laughing at US “sanctions”, which are about as Ukraine: It’s not aid, it’s our obligation under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum
Under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. So, we had an obligation to defend Ukraine if they were ever invaded. And when we say aid to Ukraine, understand a 3 GREAT QUESTIONS!
1. Why don’t challenged voters sue for libel? 2. Why aren’t the SCOTUS judges paying tax on the gifts they receive? 3. Why aren’t Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo in jail for ignoring subpoenas? #AnythingGoesFriday on #ThomHartmann ▶️ Catch the full 3 hour Thom Hartmann Program with Palast We've got a problem with our Constitution, it’s called the 12th Amendment... Catch the full 3 hour Thom Hartmann Program with Palast at Thom.tv 🔊 Listen to the full episode at: gregpalast.podbean.com #Exxon #BigOil #Environment #Pollution #Podcast Don't be fooled by Charlie Koch's "opposition" to Trump. When Trump wins, Koch will control judicial appointments through his Federalist Society and executive policy through the Heritage Foundation. In 1996, I made a documentary about the richest guys you never heard of, the Koch Valdez 35 Years On: Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable Of The Drunken Captain
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez disaster. The official story is, “Drunken Skipper Hits Reef.” Don’t believe it. The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailt GOP 2024 Voter Purge Operation Targets Democratic Voters
In a recent article, the New York Times reports on what they say is an “all but unnoticed effort” by Trump’s allies to challenge voters in critical battleground states. But it's only “unnoticed” because they've previously refused to cover it. These are the same mass challenge tac Killers of the Flower Moon: Before Scorsese’s film, before Grann’s book, there was a poem...
Before Scorsese’s film, before Grann’s book, there was a poem... Osage poet Elise Paschen reads Wi’-gi-e, the poem which gave the title to the film and book, Killers of the Flower Moon . We filmed her special reading of the poem, which she dedicates to Lily Gladstone, who portrays Which will die first, American Democracy or CPAC? Palast Investigative Fund fellow @zdroberts reports. 70-Year Old Russian Oleg Orlov imprisoned for Dissent from Ukraine invasion
This Tuesday, one week after Alexei Navalny’s death, Oleg Orlov, a 70-year-old human rights advocate and co-chairman of the Nobel-Prize winning human rights group Memorial, was convicted under the newly-instituted crime of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces. He re “Die!” Trump reveals his catchy new campaign slogan at CPAC. (Photo: @zdroberts ) Alexei Navalny’s death in Putin’s Arctic prison requires me to remind Putin’s apologists — from Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene to Medea Benjamin — that the ultimate form of vote suppression and election fraud is assassinating your opponents. Navalny's sacrifice follows True the Vote admits it can’t backup dropbox fraud claims featured in 2000 Mules film
In a recent court filing, 2000 Mules gangsters, True the Vote, admitted that they didn’t have any back up whatsoever for their claims that Black people got $10 per ballot to vote several times and stuffed them in dropboxes. True the Vote admit that they don’t know the name of the We need to return to the swing state of Georgia where they've removed 75% of the ballot dropboxes in the Black-majority counties, while increasing the number of dropboxes in white counties. I can’t make this up. But I can expose it. With your help. Read this comic book . Then Pass it This year, the state of Georgia has just purged 189,000 voters from the voter rolls. Overwhelmingly — no points for guessing — voters of color. How do they do it? Read our FREE comic...
