Greg Palast

Greg Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author and a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British newspaper The Observer.

Attributed

• "A couple of years ago, Mike Isikoff passed me truly disturbing information on President Clinton, not your usual intern-under-the-desk stuff. I said, Mike, why don't you print this?' And he said, 'Because no one gives a shit.' Where are you, America? Don't you want to know how your president was elected? How the IMF spends your money?"
• "Come by my town today and count the strip malls and fluorescent signs directing you to, 'Bagels Hot! Cars Like NEW No Down-Payment! Dog Burger!', where corn once grew."
• "Every landlord of fenced-in intellectual real estate began life as a thief. As Isaac Newton would say now, 'If I see further than others, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants too dumb to patent their discoveries!'"
• "Multinational corporations, many you've never heard of, may soon have extraordinary control of your health, your culture, and your freedom."
• "One in eight American adults has worked at a McDonald's. This acts as a kind of moral instruction for the working class, as jail time does for ghetto residents."
• "In the deregulated market, profits are privatized and losses are socialized."
• "The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap."
• "Quietly tucked into Bush's budget is a big fat zero for the key EPA civil enforcement team. This has no connection whatsoever to the petrochemical industry dumping $48,000,000 into the Republican campaign."
• "The spiky-haired protesters in Seattle believe there's some kind of grand conspiracy between the corporate powers, the IMF, the World Bank, and agencies which work to suck the blood of Bolivians and steal the gold from Tanzania. But the tree-huggers are wrong; the details are far more stomach-churning than they imagine."
• "Who owns America? How much did it cost? Was the transaction cash, check, or credit? Or a donation? Or a consulting contract? What do you give a billionaire who has everything? A gold mine? Immunity from prosecution?"
• "The world's 300 richest people are worth more than the world's poorest 3,000,000,000. Between 1983 and 1997, 85.5% of the increase in America's wealth was captured by the richest 1%. Overall US income rocketed - of which 80% of Americans saw 0%. The market's up, but who is the market?"
• "The good ol' boy cracker-crats of the Republican party are having themselves a regular hootenanny over allegations that congresswoman Cynthia McKinney landed a punch on a security guard at the Capitol."

Quotations regarding Greg Palast

• White House Spokesman - "We hate that sonovabitch."
• Cleveland Free Times -- "The world's greatest investigative reporter you've never heard of."
• Daily Mirror -- "The Liar! Sleaze Reporter!"
• Will Hutton -- "All power to Palast's pen."
• George Galloway -- "Crawl back under your rock, Mr Palast."
• Katherine Harris -- "Twisted"
• Noam Chomsky -- 'Upsets all the right people'