NEW BOOK AND TOUR BY BBC
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GREG PALAST
Greg
Palast, the award winning BBC Investigative Reporter,
has just come out with a new book, "The Best Democracy Money
Can Buy - An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about
Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance."
In December 2000, Palast published the Salon.com story exposing
how Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris stripped thousands of their
right to vote - 54% of them African-Americans - overwhelmingly
Democrats. See Salon Magazine article: Florida's
flawed "voter-cleansing" program,
and the Nation Magazine article: Florida's
'Disappeared Voters': Disfranchised by the GOP
Since then, Palast has dug deeper - in reports for BBC Television
and for page one of London's Guardian - big news in Europe,
embargoed by US media. Palast
exposes "some of the most egregious cases of political
corruption, corporate fraud, and political manipulation,
globally." Palast has been sounding the alarm on
Enron for seven years (see the "Power Pirates" chapter).
For BBC Television Palast broke the news that Bush quashed
intelligence agencies' investigations into the bin Laden family
prior to September 11. For these and other stories, Palast
was named "Reporter of the Year" by America's Guerrilla
News Network. For review by Marta Steele, click on Palast
Review.
The stories were big around the
globe - but not in the USA. But you'll have it all in the
book - introduced by Joe Conason and Will Hutton - which
will include the never-published stories of ugly doings in
Katherine Harris' office prior to the election. A bit will
be excerpted in the upcoming issue of Harper's Magazine. But
the book goes way beyond the election. Palast follows the
money: from the $13 million payment by Global Crossing Inc to
Poppy Bush, the bin Ladin story, and an award-winning exposé of
the World Bank's mad doings from Tanzania to Argentina
("Globalization and its Discontents").
About the author Gregory Palast
Greg Palast is an internationally recognized expert on the control
of corporate power working with labor unions and consumer groups
in the USA, South America and Europe. In America, among his
more noted cases, he directed government investigations and
prosecution of racketeering by nuclear plant builders and, for the
Chugach Natives of Alaska, probed charges of
fraud by oil companies in the grounding of the Exxon Valdez.
Five years ago, Palast turned his investigative skills to
journalism. His 1998 undercover exposé of corruption at the
heart of Tony Blair's cabinet, "Lobbygate," earned him
the distinction of being the first journalist in memory berated
personally on the floor of Parliament by a prime minister - as
well as an award for Story of the Year. His column for
Britain's Observer newspaper, "Inside Corporate
America," and other writings, have won him the Financial
Times David Thomas Prize (1997) and nomination as Business
Journalist of the Year (1999).
In America, Palast broke the story of how Katherine Harris and Jeb
Bush removed thousands of Black and Democratic voters from
registration roles prior to the presidential election.
The series of revelations, appeared in The Nation, the Washington
Post, Harper's, the Guardian -- and in Salon.com which named the
exposé Politics Story of the Year. Palast's investigative
reports can also be seen on BBC Television - "Newsnight's own
Sam Spade."
Publication of Democracy and Regulation, Palast's lectures at
Cambridge University and the University of São Paulo, co-authored
by Theo MacGregor and Jerrold Oppenheim, is forthcoming. He
divides his time between London and New York.
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"Palast is astonishing, he gets the real evidence no one else
has the guts to dig up."
-Vincent Bugliosi
author of None Dare Call it Treason and Helter Skelter
"Greg
Palast is investigative journalism at it's best. No one has
exposed more truth about the Bush Cartel and lived to tell the
story." Baltimore Chronicle
"Your Bullshit axe to grind with Bush is just another example
of how far a punk ass loser will go to slander our
president." (Signed) "A Real American."
"His stories about Bush's election theft, about intelligence
agency cover-ups, and globalization - backed up with smoking gun
documents, inside sources and on-the-record interviews - will
shock even the most informed readers." Guerrilla News
Network, naming Palast 'Reporter of the Year.'
"The world's greatest investigative reporter you've never
heard of." Cleveland Free Times
"To Americans who cannot read his stories printed in
Britain's Observer, he is America's journalist hero of the
Internet." Alan Colmes, Fox Television
"Intrepid investigative reporter who first broke the news
that tens of thousands of likely Democratic voters were
disenfranchised in Florida before the 2000 election."
US Journalism Hall of Fame
"The information is a hand grenade." John Pilger,
New Statesman
"Rubbish ... rubbish." Official spokesman, World
Trade Organization (WTO)
"The type of investigative reporter you don't see anymore - a
cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes." Jim
Hightower
"Should be read all over America." Andrew Tobias,
author, The Invisible Bankers.
Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast digs deep to
unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the
world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East
Timor to Waco, Karachi to Santiago, he has exposed some of the
most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and
financial manipulation, globally. His uncanny
investigative skills as well as his acerbic wit and
no-holds-barred style have made him anathema among magnates on
four continents and a living legend among his colleagues and his
devoted readership, worldwide.
This exciting new collection brings together some of Palast's most
powerful and influential writing of the past decade. Included here
are his celebrated Washington Post exposé on Jeb Bush and
Katherine Harris's stealing of the presidential election, in
Florida, which made him "a legend and a hero on the
Internet" (Alan Colmes / Fox Radio) when it ran in Salon.com;
his reporting
on the corruption at the heart of the Blair government, which
earned him the distinction of being the first journalist ever to
be personally attacked on the floor of Parliament by a prime
minister; and recent stories on George W. Bush's pay-offs to
corporate cronies ("The Smell of Texas"), the payola
behind Hillary Clinton ("The Evil of Two Lessers") and
the faux energy crisis ("California Reamin'"). Also
included in this volume are new and previously unpublished
material, television transcripts, photographs, and letters.
Voter March is sponsoring or
endorsing various appearances. Check the Voter March
Events Calendar at www.votermarch.org/events.htm
or Palast's
website for a full and updated list of appearances.
Voter March, Ltd (a not-for-profit corporation)
has a
limited number of the book "The Best Democracy Money Can
Buy" autographed by the author Greg Palast from our
various speaker events that we sponsored around the country. The book is a 211 page hard cover which lists for $25.
We are selling these books for the list price of $25
(includes $3
for postage and handling). Please send a check for $25 to Voter March, Ltd., P. O. Box 3275, Grand
Central Station, New
York, NY 10163, or you can make payment by below:
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- Palast Video Tape!
Video presentation of Greg Palast at St.
Joseph the Worker Church in Berkeley, March 15th Greg Palast
follows the money to expose truths about the stolen election,
voter disenfranchisement, and the effects of globalization on
economies around the world. Order your copy today!
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