Greg Palast
Greg Palast is an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering turned journalist. He is the author of New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, as well Democracy and Regulation and Armed Madhouse; he also made the BBC documentary Bush Family Fortunes. His latest book is Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores (2012)
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How Barack Obama could end the Argentina debt crisisUS president need only inform a federal judge that vulture fund billionaire Paul Singer is interfering with the president's sole authority to conduct foreign policy. He hasn't. But why not?
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Greg Palast: For the architect of the euro, taking macroeconomics away from elected politicians and forcing deregulation were part of the plan
Robert Mundell, evil genius of the euro
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Greg Palast: Nowhere are the ill-gotten gains of the 1% more grossly apparent than in the activities of 'debt vulture' hedge funds
Occupy Wall Street comes home to roost with Congo's 'debt vultures'
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Vultures feed when economies are turned into rotting carcassesGreg Palast: The vulture funds circling the debts of poorer countries are feeding after economies have been looted at the behest of the World Bank, IMF and privateers
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Financial 'vultures' poised to swoop on Africa through Jersey's offshore loophole - video
Twenty-six hedge funds are demanding over £1bn debt repayments from Africa's poorest countries - more than twice the International Red Cross budget for Africa this year.
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Greg Palast: When Goldman got huffy at a credit union honouring OWS and pulled its anniversary dinner funding, much more was at stake
Goldman Sachs and Occupy Wall Street's bank: the real story
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Liberian leader urges MPs to back action against vulture funds
Liberia's president calls on MPs to support bill that would bar vulture funds from pursuing debts of poorer nations in UK courts
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Greg Palast: There's a problem with the recommendations put forward by the Iraq Study Group: they won't work.
Staying half the course
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Greg Palast: In US reports, Iraqis are little more than dark shapes glimpsed through the slots of a speeding Humvee.
The unknown soldier
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Greg Palast: If this war was taking a bite out of Exxon or the House of Saud, a ceasefire would have been imposed.
It's all about oil -
As fragrant as FloridaGreg Palast argues that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from electoral lists in Latin America. In Mexico City, ruling party operatives carried registration lists normally in the hands of election officials only, he says
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Greg Palast: There is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin America.Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat
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Greg Palast: The election race south of the US border is officially too close to call. Now, where have we heard that before?
Grand theft Mexico
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Greg Palast: US Republicans are planning to change the law to stop black, Hispanic and Native American voters going to the polls in 2008.
Democracy in chains
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Greg Palast: The secretary of defence may be a duplicitous chickenhawk, yellow-bellied bully-boy - but he didn't appoint himself.
Why Rumsfeld must stay


The US government told me Bin Laden read my book. But what is it not telling us?