Chile’s former military ruler General Augusto Pinochet has died at the age of 91 – a week after entering hospital in Santiago to receive treatment for a heart attack. En espanol Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, Tinker Bell and General Augusto Pinochet had much in common. All…
Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League? They’re kidding, right? James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the “Iraq Study Group” have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not. Baker’s Two Big Ideas are: 1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in…
[Washington] This photo of condemned Iraqi ex-strongman Saddam Hussein amid exotic weapons of mass destruction, taken just before the liberation of Iraq, was released Saturday by the White House. Proclaiming that the long-awaited evidence of Saddam’s deadly weaponry was now irrefutable, Presidential spokesman Tony Snow…
Just released today: Big Easy to Big Empty DVD— the real story of how the White House drowned New Orleans and holds it underwater today. Donate at least $30 (tax-deductible) to our investigative reporting foundation and I’ll send you, signed, the one-hour-plus broadcast. The DVD includes Amy Goodman and me on New Orleans as the front line of the class war.
On August 22, my producer and I were charged by the Department of Homeland Security with violating anti-terror laws — we upset them for filming the bad guys. While the charges were dropped (whew!) we still have the film — originally made for Democracy Now! and LinkTV.
Winston Smith has reproduced the inside of our President’s skull with this extraordinary collage — based on Greg Palast’s bestselling book, “Armed Madhouse.” Winston is the “best collage artist in the Universe … best-kept secret of the underground” (writes Ivan Stang). His work is seen…
On Thursday, November 16, Hollywood came out in support of the Palast Investigative Fund, the not-for-profit foundation that supports the research team behind the writings and films of investigative reporter Greg Palast. The evening at the Beverly Hills home of Jodie Evans, a Code Pink…
Friday, November 3, 2006 for The Guardian (London)
It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times yesterday splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic who’d retrieved it from the brain of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith.
There was a 40 column-inch profile of the medic. There were photos of the platoon, guns over shoulders, praying for the fallen buddy. The Times is careful not to ruin the heroic mood, so there is no photograph of pieces of corporal Smith’s shattered head. Instead, there’s an old, smiling photo of the wounded soldier.
Why doesn’t George Bush just throw a virgin into a volcano? Or Dick Cheney? Or Lynn Cheney?
Rather than gossip about the dunking of The Don, I’d rather focus on suspicious electoral arithmetic in Virginia.
for The Guardian (UK), Comment is Free Monday November 6, 2006 Here’s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen. Note the past tense. And I’m not kidding. And shoot me for saying this, but it won’t be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though…