Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the FrontLines of the
Greg Palast
Language: English
Pages: 275
ISBN: 2:00063206
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The “top journalist in America and the funniest” (Randi Rhodes, Air America), takes his previous New York Times bestseller a step further with hot undercover dispatches— hanging out the dirty underpants of the “armed and dangerous clowns that rule us.”
A White House spokesman said, “We hate that sonovabitch.” They’re not alone: From corporate suites to Osama’s cave, they fear what Britain’s Guardian calls “investigations up there with Woodward and Bernstein—and a lot funnier.” But Greg Palast’s fanatic following (nearly two million readers of his Web column) has made him “a cult fave among progressives” (Village Voice) who can’t wait for his next release.
Palast’s old-style gum-shoe detective work to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed- dripping schemes to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep it unreported are the meat and bones of this BBC television reporter’s new book. Armed Madhouse is illustrated with dozens of documents marked “secret” and “confidential” that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palast’s hands.
You won’t find Palast in The New York Times (except its bestseller list), but you will read his reports on the hottest Web sites worldwide, hear him regularly on Air America and the Pacifica radio networks, and see his stories reappearing as the basis for Eminem’s hit video “Mosh,” Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, and sampled by a dozen of today’s top platinum rock artists. BACKCOVER: “The greatest investigative journalist in America.”
—ALAN CHARTOCK, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
“The type of investigative reporter you don’t see anymore—a cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes.”
—JIM HIGHTOWER
“Courageous reporting.”
—MICHAEL MOORE
“Upsets all the right people!”
—NOAM CHOMSKY
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Illiterates, and pamper the winner class on the higher floors of the new economic order. Hope I Die Before My Next Refill How did this happen? How did Americans fall backward into the jaws meant to chew the Third World and the Old World. Who took away our New Deal? I was in the drugstore today out here in Southold just down the road from the Terrorism Vulnerability Point. Some old guy in front of me was picking up his little paper bag of prescription medicine. The lady behind the counter.
D”: The right to trade, property rights, these are not to be determined by some democratic election. The lesson of General Pinochet’s Chile was that asset sales and free markets must, Norquist said, “predate” elections. I assumed Garner was unaware of the Pentagon plan’s timetable when he made his 90-days-to-elections commitment. Not so. When we met in his Washington office a year after the invasion, Garner told me he chose to ignore it. He said he had other things on his mind as he.
Assessment Project. He’s less a power in his own right than the semaphore holder who signals what the landlords of our oil supply are thinking. “He works for Saudi intelligence,” said a very close associate of his who gave me Obaid’s cell phone number in Saudi Arabia. Obaid agreed that Ari Cohen and the neo-cons’ bust-OPEC scheme was a no-brainer. It came, he said, from the other end of their thinking system. From the Saudi perspective we’re, like, they’re just crazy talking out of their.
Government became a deadbeat bill payer. He was writing in 1996 when the price of oil was flat on the floor, near $10 a barrel, an all-time low; and Osama cried: People wonder, are we the largest oil exporting country? So much oil, so little cash to show for it. What drove Osama’s declaration of war? The poverty in Islamic nations? Not a mention. Lack of freedom? Forget it. Bin Laden’s causus bellum for war on America: The presence of the U.S.A. Crusader military forces on land, sea.
Were shunted to provisional ballots. An extraordinary 60% of these were effectively dumped in the bin. After Navajo country, the next highest boatload of provisionals were unleashed on Dona Ana County, where two-thirds of the population is Hispanic. Our research team pored through the arcane stats and found that, in the Chicano precincts of Dona Ana, voters were at least 1,200% more likely to be pushed to a provisional ballot than voters in white majority counties. What’s frightening is that New.