Greg Palast

Palast on Flashpoints with Dennis J. Bernstein: Assange, Manning, WikiLeaks, Brexit & More....

In this episode of Flashpoints, first broadcast by KPFA on April 11, 2019, Greg Palast and host Dennis J. Bernstein discuss Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks, press freedom, Brexit, and more....
Listen to the full show here: https://kpfa.org/episode/flashpoints-april-11-2019/

Palast on Damage Report with John Iadarola: Why is Kris Kobach so Dangerous?

Kris Kobach has a long history of racism. He started out as a lawyer for a white supremacist group called FAIR, which says its purpose is to maintain a European majority America. He's the author of SB 1070, which the ACLU calls the Driving While Brown law. He's the guy who came up with a racially biased voter purge program called Interstate Crosscheck, which helped elect Donald Trump in 2016, and Brian Kemp over Stacey Abrams in 2018. He came up with the idea of putting the citizenship question on the census. He's also very proud of the fact he came up with the idea for Trump's wall — and that Mexico would pay for it.
Kobach, for all his wacky moves, is a brilliant and dangerous spider in the Right Wing web. He has law degrees from Yale, Harvard, and Oxford, and therefore he’s a master criminal, in the sense that he has violated the law again, and again, and again — particularly a document called The Constitution. But he’s brilliant at coming up with sophisticated and bogus arguments, making stuff sound reasonable and legal, when it’s not even close to it.
The reason Trump wants to create the Immigration Czar job for him is that it doesn’t have to be confirmed by the Senate. The Republican senators from Kansas — Kobach's own state — said they wouldn’t vote to confirm him if he were named for a cabinet post like Homeland Security. And this is worse. This puts him in charge of Homeland Security.
Learn more: https://gregpalast.com/trump-may-name-kris-kobach-new-immigration-czar/

Palast on Drive Time with Dave Glover

Palast on Drive Time with Dave Glover by Greg Palast

Palast on Waking Up with Julianna Forlano

Gerrymandering, voter suppression, a crisis at the border, all these things go together, and that’s why Kobach is so dangerous…The truth is he’s kind of like a Steve Bannon, he’s a very brilliant guy with a very widespread understanding of how all these thing interlock in a most dangerous way. They cannot win in America legitimately because of the demographics, this is a changing nation. It's not about securing the borders, it's not about stopping illegal aliens, it's not about stopping drug traffic, it's about creating hysteria so they can stop certain groups of legitimate voters from voting. That's the real agenda that's being completely missed by the mainstream media. And it’s a way to effectively cut the vote by cutting the census count in Hispanic congressional districts. It’s quite brilliant. If you want to beat Beto O’Rourke out of Texas, take away his voter base by scaring them off. And if you want to take away Democratic control of the House, you simply shrink Democratic districts. You shrink the population in those districts so you can gerrymander them. Learn more at: GregPalast.com
#KrisKobach #VoterSuppression #Gerrymandering #ElectionFraud #Election2020

Palast on News Views with Garland Nixon

Vote theft is class war by other means.

Avoiding Regime Change in Venezuela: Palast on The Scott Horton Show

Palast explains the situation in Venezuela, where the Trump administration has recently been signaling for U.S.-backed regime change. Although the claim is that it’s the U.S.’s duty to support “democracy,” says Palast, the concern is really for Venezuelan oil. Major players like the Koch brothers need reliable access to Venezuela’s particular form of heavy crude oil, and the Maduro government doesn’t play ball the way the Saudis, for example, do. Now Maduro’s political opponent, Juan Guiado, is openly calling for outside military support in his attempt to overthrow Maduro. Palast is adamant that that would be an utter catastrophe both for the U.S. and for the Venezuelan people.

Poppy Strikes Gold: Bush Sr. Made a Killing – 50 Miners Buried Alive

While pundits are falling all over themselves spewing about the "civility" of the patrician George H. B. Bush, l must honor the memory those 50 men who were buried alive in a gold field in Africa so Bush Sr. could cash in.
To me, this is the most important story of my career — and almost ended it when Bush’s gold mining company (I bet you didn’t know he had one) sued my paper, The Guardian, threatening it with bankruptcy for telling the truth.
But ultimately, the truth was also buried alive, as US papers refused to cover the story, fearing the gold company’s wrath. (Salon.com was the exception.)
I dedicate this story to those miners, buried without pomp, buried by bulldozers while still alive. And to Tundu Lissu the Tanzanian lawyer, father of twins, who risked his life to provide me the corroborating evidence.
Tundu has taken twelve bullets, but survives.
Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/poppy-strikes-gold-bush-sr-made-a-killing-50-miners-buried-alive/
[From my spoken word CD, Weapon of Mass Instruction, Alternative Tentacles.]

The Jeff Santos Show feat. Greg Palast

"Have You Checked Your Registration Yet?" asks Palast. Plus tips on how to make sure your vote counts.
Interview first broadcast on September 10, 2018

Let’s Not Celebrate Georgia Victory Too Quick!

Palast on The Thom Hartmann Show: Black officials stop mass closure of polling stations in Randolph County, but Kemp told henchmen to shutter polling stations statewide ahead of election against Abrams.

Why Do Democrats Ignore Voter Suppression?

Palast on KPFA Flashpoints with Dennis J Bernstein: Greg Palast asks why the Democratic party ignores the GOP voter suppression of minority voters and goes after vote suppressor and chief, Kris Kobach, currently a candidate for Governor of Kansas.