Greg Palast, the BBC investigative reporter who busted open the theft of the election in Florida, is back with a new book, Vultures' Picnic. He will be speaking in Burlington, Vermont on December 12, 2011.
Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City, Occupy Los Angeles began on October 1st with a massive rally in the downtown of the city. Yet after more than two months demonstrating on the lawns of City Hall, Occupy LA was raided by police and shut down last week.
Greg Palast, who chronicles investigations of corporate crimes in Vultures’ Picnic, discusses the Gulf disaster, nuclear safety, and how financial predators destroy nations -- and get away with it.
It’s all my fault, because I’m such a cheap bastard. I was told to rent a white van, something nondescript that painters or a handyman might use and wouldn’t be noticed parked at dawn on a road where only BMWs and Carrera 95s play. - Excerpted from Greg Palast's new book.
After a decade of gradually taking the Thanksgiving holiday away from the lowest-paid employees, a backlash is finally rising against the American retail industry.
A report from the occupation at St Paul’s Cathedral in London suggests that the wave of evictions are a sign of the Occupy movement's success .
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