Episode 47 Greg Palast Returns! 5.4.07

This episode welcomes back our friend New York Times bestselling author and master muckraker Greg Palast, author of �Armed Madhouse� (Penguin Paperback 2007). When Palast, an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism, he was quickly recognized as, �The most important investigative reporter of our time� [Tribune Magazine] in Britain, where his first reports appeared on BBC television and in the Guardian newspapers.

Author of another New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast is best known in his native USA as the journalist who, for the Observer (UK), broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George. His reports on the theft of election 2004, the spike of the FBI investigations of the bin Ladens before September 11, the secret State Department documents planning the seizure of Iraq�s oil fields have won him a record six �Project Censored� for reporting the news American media doesn�t want you to hear. �The top investigative journalist in the United States is persona non grata in his own country�s media.� [Asia Times.] He returned to America to report for Harper�s Magazine.

Palast�s Sam Spade style television and print exposé�s about elections manipulations, War on Terror and globalization, as seen on BBC �s Newsnight and Amy Goodman�s Democracy Now! His writings have won the Financial Times David Thomas Prize�and inspired the Eminem video, Mosh. �An American hero,� said Martin Luther King III. In the BBC documentary, Bush Family Fortunes, Palast exposed George Bush Jr.�s dodging the Vietnam War draft. Greg Palast, says Noam Chomsky, �Upsets all the right people.�

Palast won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.

He has appeared on the SoonerThought Show previously. 

A transcript of this episode will be posted soon.

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