by Greg Palast

On 15 February, for BBC TV, I reported that inside information from the Consortium of newspapers conducting a thorough review of Florida's 180,000 uncounted ballots showed Gore picking up about 20,000 votes. The information came from sources involved with the newspaper group's contractor, National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago.

I'm sure the final was not far off - but understand that NORC did not designate ANY ballot as either a Bush or Gore vote. (Show me more...)

Greg Palast reporting for BBC Newsnight
First Broadcast 9 November 2001

By Greg Palast

LONDON -- Three confidential documents from inside the World Trade Organization Secretariat and a group of captains of London finance, who call themselves the "British Invisibles," reveal the extraordinary secret entanglement of industry with government in designing European and American proposals for radical pro-business changes in WTO rules. (Show me more...)

2001 Project Censored Award Winner

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Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11
by Greg Palast and David Pallister

FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11. (Show me more...)

Greg Palast reporting for BBC Newsnight
First Broadcast 6 November 2001

(BBC TRANSCRIPT)

GREG PALAST: The CIA and Saudi Arabia, the Bushes and the Bin Ladens. Did their connections cause America to turn a blind eye to terrorism? (Show me more...)

Inside Corporate America
by Greg Palast

After the attack on the World Trade Center, some enterprising hucksters here in New York tried to sell little bags of ashes to victims' families, supposedly of their missing kin.

The stomach-churning commercialization of mass murder didn't bottom out there. Barely had the towers hit the ground when U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick proclaimed the way to defeat Osama bin Laden was to grant George W. Bush extraordinary 'fast-track' trade treaty negotiating authority. Ambassador bin Zoellick, speaking from what looked like a cave on Capitol Hill, surrounded by unidentified Republicans, said Americans had to choose: stand up for free trade or for terrorism. (Show me more...)

Joseph Stiglitz: Årets ekonomipristagare

av Greg Palast

"Den har dömt människor till döden", berättade världsbankens förre apparatchik för mig. Det var som en scen från Le Carre. Den mästerlige gamle agenten kommer in från kylan, hoppar över till vår sida, och under några timmars debriefing berättar han om sina minnen av illdåd begågna för en politisk ideologi han nu inser blivit rutten. (Show me more...)