Greg Palast's Blog

RFK fils, my (former?) friend and co-author is, no doubt, threatening my life, your life and your not-yet-born great-grandchildren’s lives by blocking mRNA vaccine research. MRNA was our best hope for an anti-cancer vaccine. I need you to ... READ MORE

The brilliant historian-cum-journalist Thom Hartmann has torn back the curtain on the corporate lock-up of America which, in Trump 2.0, is reaching its armed conclusion ... READ MORE

Be afraid. The Trump Administration has “put on leave” — effectively fired — 35 experts from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for signing a letter to Trump saying that his mass elimination of emergency experts is threatening the lives of Americans. Another 130 signed but masked ... READ MORE

I need you to read this before Friday, the 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  It’s by a Coast Guardsman assigned to pull the dead from the waters. Now, as Supervisor in a small town in Illinois, he’s concerned that Trump will ... READ MORE

Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans.  He told me about recovering the bloated bodies of pregnant women, or pieces of pregnant women, out of the water. He tried to pull one corpse from the flood, but the... READ MORE

The flood in Kerrville, Texas, was not an Act of God, it was an Act of Trump.  Our investigation shows the horrific connection between the drownings in Texas and in New Orleans — 20 years ago this month — and the Trump/DOGE scheme to sell off FEMA ... READ MORE

Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated to service, and perhaps most tragically, a victim of the incompetence that characterized the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” state. EXCEPT. EXCEPT if the GOP can come up with a way to stop those un-white voters from voting. And they have... READ MORE

It’s all over but the official count. Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” state with non-whites predominant.  EXCEPT. ... READ MORE

Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson, the city that does not fear. The film exposes one of the most horrifying aspects of ... READ MORE