Warren’s Post Office Proposal: Palast Aims at the Wrong Target

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Mar 13, 2014 Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually pretty good at peering behind the rhetoric and seeing what is really going on. But in tearing into Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s support of postal financial services, he has done a serious disservice to the underdogs -- both the underbanked and the U.S. Postal Service itself. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Brains Lost in Mail — Postal Bank Bunkum

By Greg Palast, Reader Supported News Mar 10, 2014 As a card-carrying progressive, I’m told I must never write about Sen. Elizabeth Warren unless I first shout, “Warren akbar!” -- Liz is Great! -- while bowing reverentially toward Boston. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Is Elizabeth Warren Stepping Into Sharkskin?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 1, 2014 The respected Massachusetts senator wants "to turn post offices into loan-sharking bodegas in low income neighborhoods," investigative reporter Greg Palast writes at Reader Supported News. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Greg Palast

BLANK Sep 22, 2013 Noam Chomsky once said that Greg Palast "upsets all the right people." Did the independent investigative reporter halt Lawrence Summers' charge to the head of the Fed?Did the independent investigative reporter halt Lawrence Summers' charge to the head of the Fed? Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross Hairs

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Sep 5, 2013 Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the cross-hairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Larry Summers and the ‘End-Game’ Memo

BLANK Aug 26, 2013 A 1997 memo retrieved from the filing cabinet of investigative reporter Greg Palast shows the involvement of Lawrence Summers -- Obama's current favorite for chairman of the Federal Reserve -- in a successful plan to help big bank CEOs "rip apart financial regulation across the planet." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Greg Palast: Between Two Vultures

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 6, 2013 International gumshoe reporter Greg Palast tells RT's Max Keiser how the fate of the Argentinian economy will be decided by a legal battle between the White House and Paul Singer -- "the great vulture speculator in America" and "probably the top donor, or organizer of donors for the Republican party" -- over the profits of big banks. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Thinking About Terrorism? Think Twice

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 15, 2013 Why did President Obama order the death of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old American son of radical American imam Anwar al-Awlaki? Investigative reporter and VICE correspondent Greg Palast thinks he knows. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama’s ‘Fairy Godmother’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 5, 2013 Obama was an inconsequential lawmaker in the Illinois Senate when his future pick to be U.S. secretary of Commerce introduced him to titans of the finance industry and raised three-quarters of a billion dollars toward his presidential election, investigative reporter Greg Palast tells us. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

UAW to Hit Romney With Bailout Profiteer Accusation

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 2, 2012 The United Auto Workers is expected to file a complaint that accuses Mitt Romney of violating the federal Ethics in Government Act by concealing a multimillion dollar windfall he received in the auto industry bailout, journalist Greg Palast reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

No Denial: ‘Son of Detroit’ Profited From Bailout — and Jobs Shipped to China

Joe Conason / Truthdig Oct 25, 2012 The neglect of the Delphi story by mainstream and even progressive outlets such as MSNBC has been remarkable, particularly because neither Romney nor his campaign has denied it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Billionaires & Ballot Bandits’: Going Postal

By Greg Palast, Seven Stories Press Oct 23, 2012 In 2012, it is expected that about 26 million votes will be mailed in. And, in the name of preventing voter fraud, about one in 14 will be tossed out. That’s nearly 2 million votes tossed in the gotcha! dumpster. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )