It was a mere 500 years ago that Europeans realized that the Strait of Hormuz was a trade choke point, when Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque seized the Island of Hormuz to control trade in and out of the Persian Gulf. It was the first armed European conquest of Arabia meant to … READ MORE
Pam Bondi, Trump-dumped yesterday as US Attorney General, was a highly paid lobbyist for Qatar and Kuwait, not to mention Geo Group, the nation’s top operator of immigrant detention centers (I think we used to call them “prisons”), the cruelty profiteer I exposed years ago in an investigation for The Guardian titled, “Free Market In Human Misery.”… READ MORE
It’s 1931 again. Not 1933, with Hitler still just a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1931, America was in deep pain. Holding our breath. Today, we’re holding our breath again. Can we hold it until… READ MORE
How did the mullahs win? Even that flower child Jimmy Carter said the US must use military force to keep open this outlet for the world’s flow of oil. Carter said… READ MORE
In one of my most elaborate undercover ops for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump’s attack on Iran. It was 2004 and the plan was drafted BEFORE Bush invaded Iraq. I’m only bringing up 20-year-old history to tell you that, while Bush’s hidden plan for the oil fields of Iraq evidenced greedy scheming to grab Iraq’s oil, at least we could say: EVEN GEORGE BUSH HAD A PLAN. … READ MORE
How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it’s fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 60 years ago… READ MORE
For Greg Palast, it began with a simple instinct: to look closer. He explains how investigative journalism is not about speculation, but rather about observation, persistence, and evidence. It is about recognizing patterns others overlook and asking questions others stop asking. But… READ MORE
For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He’s the only man, other than my dad, I’ve ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed him goodbye, he was holding… READ MORE
It was a mere 500 years ago that Europeans realized that the Strait of Hormuz was a trade choke point, when Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque seized the Island of Hormuz to control trade in and out of the Persian Gulf. It was the first armed European conquest of Arabia meant to … READ MORE
Pam Bondi, Trump-dumped yesterday as US Attorney General, was a highly paid lobbyist for Qatar and Kuwait, not to mention Geo Group, the nation’s top operator of immigrant detention centers (I think we used to call them “prisons”), the cruelty profiteer I exposed years ago in an investigation for The Guardian titled, “Free Market In Human Misery.”… READ MORE
It’s 1931 again. Not 1933, with Hitler still just a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1931, America was in deep pain. Holding our breath. Today, we’re holding our breath again. Can we hold it until… READ MORE
How did the mullahs win? Even that flower child Jimmy Carter said the US must use military force to keep open this outlet for the world’s flow of oil. Carter said… READ MORE
In one of my most elaborate undercover ops for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump’s attack on Iran. It was 2004 and the plan was drafted BEFORE Bush invaded Iraq. I’m only bringing up 20-year-old history to tell you that, while Bush’s hidden plan for the oil fields of Iraq evidenced greedy scheming to grab Iraq’s oil, at least we could say: EVEN GEORGE BUSH HAD A PLAN. … READ MORE
How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it’s fueled by billionaires’ cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 60 years ago… READ MORE
For Greg Palast, it began with a simple instinct: to look closer. He explains how investigative journalism is not about speculation, but rather about observation, persistence, and evidence. It is about recognizing patterns others overlook and asking questions others stop asking. But… READ MORE
For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He’s the only man, other than my dad, I’ve ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed him goodbye, he was holding… READ MORE
