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Summary: The Best Pure Reporter on the Planet
Review: What can I say? Along with Alexander Cockburn, Robert Fisk,
John Pilger, Alain Nairn, Amy Goodman, Russ Mokhiber, Greg Palasat is on the Planet Earth pure hard news reporting all star team. His reporting on Team Bush's theft of the American presidency was as ground breaking as it was censored in America.
His analysis of how the U.S. mainstream media works evokes Chomsky and Herman's Manufacturing Consent. Palast tells the facts and names the names in the tradition of George Seldes and I.F. Stone. ...
If you want to know just how intellectually bankrupt the conservative philosophy is read this book. If you still think that capitalism is the best economic policy, read this book.
I can tell you one thing about Greg Palast: he will not get his own show on CBS or NBC or ABC or CNN or FOX telling the facts and naming the names. But not because he's not accurate; not because he's boring; not because he wouldn't get ratings. It's because Palast tells citizens the truth that corporations and their political allies do not want us to think about or even know.
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Summary: A Must Read To Emergent Economies.
Review: Excellent journalism. Greg Palast loves challenges.Bold and sarcastic. Now you can understand why emergent countries will always remain in the third world for the benefit of big corporations and corruptous politicians. Not surprising that all the info provided by Palast was never shown on the america's news. The Bush gang negotiations, Oil companies, ENRON, Bin Laden etc.
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Summary: Good Journalism
Review: Mr. Palast has been sued because he did too good a job of reporting. That says all I need to know about the quality of any journalist. If your reportage results in the subject filing an action to shut you up you are on the right track.Mr. Palast wrote an article in The Observer on November 26, 2000 exposing the connections between the Bush family and the interests of Barrick Gold Mining. Peter Monk (the head of Barrick Gold) sued The Observer and The Guardian (the same paper--The Observer is the Sunday edition) and Mr. Palast in London alleging libel. Palast and his papers were cowed by the formidable costs of litigation. . .but not defeated... buy this book and take heart...it is only a few short years until GW Bush gets voted out of office.
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Summary: The best investigative reporting I've seen
Review: Greg Palast is a street-smart investigative reporter who does sting operations. He has an economics PhD from the U. of Chicago. (He studied under Milton Friedman). And he seems to have a fair number of insiders sneaking him key documents. Put it all together and you have a damn good book. This book is only 200 pp. long but Palast packs in more information in ten pages than most writers can put in fifty. Almost everything is new material discovered by Palast -- he isn't pasting up other people's work. Topics include the stolen Presidential election, influence-peddling in Blair's Britain, the bloodthirsty IMF action plans for third world nations, Pat Robertson as a businessman, the fraud of "tort reform", and more. On every topic he provides important new information. And yeah, he does have a point of view, just like everyone. People who dislike his point of view still are going to have to deal with the facts he's uncovered.
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Summary: Scales fell from my eyes.
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Greg Palast has written a book that weaves together his journalism investigations into a variety of government/corporate issues. He's hard-hitting and relentless when on the trail, judging by what he's collected in this book. I am very imprerssed with what he's uncovered in these pages, and I've come away wondering why we didn't read more of it here in the US media. He offers an explanation - - that the profit/cost-cutting motives of media corporations can hinder someone devoting much time to a single story, but these stories are so shocking, one has to question the efforts of our media. The format is a little frustrating, however, which is why I've only given it 4 stars. Each story is told in a succession of column reprints, and they overlap in their content, so there are times where you have a sense of deja vu. Also, as a result, the book comes off not just about the stories, but also how Palast covered them and peeled away the layers of the onion. So at times it sounds a bit self-serving. However, there is a value to Palast choosing this method. Because we see -how- Palast covered it step by step, the news is more credible and less 'from Mars.' It would be easier to read a single summary of all he learned, but less believable. Oh, and it's NOT just about Florida and the 2000 Presidential election. Palast covers a number of other topics, among them: problems with the IMF/World Bank and their stipulations to countries, many of which are outrageous; corporate America; presidential access for the wealthy; and the UK's Prime Minister Blair and lobbyists.
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Summary: REQUIRED READING FOR THOSE WHO LOVE DEMOCRACY
Review: This well-written and well-researched book attests to the opinion that I have repeatedly expressed that the media failed America in its reporting of the 2000 election. Sadly, America did not have the benefit of this in-depth investigative reporting PRIOR to the 2000 election! Now the question is why the author is not now appearing on ALL commerical network channels sharing the results of the investigative processes.
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Summary: Read It and Weep
Review: What's gone wrong with our "free press"? Greg Palast, an American investigative journalist who had to go to Britain to be published, shows us--in spades. Our media, bent on profit-making, are pathetically risk-adverse. Nobody's telling the media directly to "stand down," but that's what our newspapers and TV and radio "news" reporters have been doing. Read this book for the sorry truths our media should be reporting, but aren't. Remember: thanks to this book, we cannot have the excuse of "I didn't know." We have here the opportunity to get wise and take action. Our failure to do so will mean we are complicit in the theft of our democracy.
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Summary: Greg Palast Proves Bush is responcibal for 9/11
Review: Greg Palast is one of the last INVESTIGATIVE reporters left. His book is both fascinating and frightening! He proves that GWB called off all investigations of the Taliban, the Saudi Royal Family, and Osama Bin Laden right after he took office! The head of the CIA, John O,Neil quit in protest. Mr.Palast has documentation of this, and ever other fact he reports. He says the Bush administration was dealing with the Taliban to get a pipeline through Afghanistan, so they could have access to the estimated $5-6 Trillion worth of oil and natural gas located in the Caspian Sea. Many members of the CIA have filed a law siut against the Bush administration because they were prevented from doing their job !!! In August 2001 the Bush administration told the Taliban they would be attacked if they did not comply- "A carpet of Gold, or a Carpet of BOMBS". Then Bush went on the longest Vacation in presidential history. Within weeks of this threat we were attacked!! Our media is not telling us any of this. Brave reportes like Greg Palast and a few others are our only chance to get real news. Read the book befor it is banned like "Fortunate Son"....
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Summary: Excellent book on the corruption in our political system.
Review: This is a book that all americans should read if we are to save our democratic form of government from being a third rate banana republic. The trashing of our constitution is only the beginning.
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Summary: How the Republican Party Sold America
Review: We don't have a legal executive branch of government anymore and Civil Rights is not something in the distant past. The US government has become a oligarchy. A shadow government operating in secret where the constitutional values of "we the people" are long gone. The people have nothing to do with American government anymore. Only power and money mean anything. The political right wing has sold out the nation. It's not simply a difference of political opinion the country is controled by a corporate elite. Television media talking heads feed the public what their CEO's want them to or they look for work elsewhere. Reagan sold us out, but it took the Bush family for money to completely dominate American life in a way that hasn't been seen since the era of the robber barons. So welcome to McAmerica and a government bought and paid for by Enron, but watch out, like with Arthur Anderson where change management means how many people can we fire, when financial empires are built on fantasy instead of real goods and services the trip down can be fast and unpleasant. How many people really feel safe trusting the corporations they work for with their medical care and retirement. There is a cancer growing on America and it's systemic. We live in a country that will reward someone if they can think of a way to screw someone else. We are on the slippery slope of fascism. I hope people wake up soon enough to do something about it before it's too late. More books like this should be written as education is the only weapon against today's corporate scams.
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