Economic Hit Men and the Next Drowning of New Orleans
Ivor van Heerden is the professor who warned the levees of New Orleans were ready to blow -- months and years before Katrina did the job. For being right, he was rewarded with ... getting fired.
Ivor van Heerden is the professor who warned the levees of New Orleans were ready to blow -- months and years before Katrina did the job. For being right, he was rewarded with ... getting fired.
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
I encourage everyone to freely review all speech from everywhere, and then reach their own independent, informed decisions about how big of an embarrassment John Ziegler really is.
Greg Palast | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
You'd think the studious Senator from Illinois would avoid repeating the Bush regime's horror show of unqualified appointments, of picking politicos over professionals. But here we go again.
Greg Palast | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
I'm going to say something that I know the Obama campaign will just hate; but that many others are feeling but won't say out loud. We must vote for Barack Obama because he's Black.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
The only ray of hope that will overwhelm flagrant attempts to render democracy dead and inert forever, is for a pro-democratic revolution in a massive turnout of Americans demanding their right to vote.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
You can have all the paper ballots in the world, but if you don't demand to look at them, publicly, in a recount, you might as well mark them with invisible ink. Democracy requires vigilance.
Michael Carmichael | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
The sheer momentum of the Obama-Biden ticket has triggered frantic and massive Republican vote-rigging operations in key battleground states designed ...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
The issues of ACORN and voter fraud are a smokescreen designed to cover a much more serious issue with a long and ugly history: the suppression of the vote of groups that tend to vote Democratic.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home
In an exclusive interview, the two men explain at breakneck pace what they're afraid of this year and what they hope voters will do to make sure the 2008 election is fair, open, and small-d democratic.
Greg Palast | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I have been following the Rove-arian tactics of vote theft for years, frankly we're tired of covering it after the election. This year we're telling you how they're doing it beforehand.
Greg Palast | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics