The best democracy money can buy: an investigative reporter exposes the truth about globalization, corporate cons, and high finance fraudsters

Some comments on Greg Palast’s writings:......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Joe Conason and Will Hutton......Page 5
Who Gives a Shit? An Introduction......Page 6
Silence of the Lambs: American journalism Hears No Evil, See......Page 9
Florida’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Voter Rolls......Page 13
A Blacklist Burning for Bush......Page 17
The missing statistician......Page 25
Hunting the Black voter......Page 28
The pre-clearance deception......Page 29
Cover-up and counterspin......Page 30
The ultimate measure......Page 31
Sell the Lexus, Burn the Olive Tree: Globalization and its D......Page 33
New British-American Empire of the Dammed......Page 40
Bolivia vanishes: see Style section......Page 42
Who Shot Argentina? The Fingerprints on the Smoking Gun Read......Page 43
Bad Trips at the WTO......Page 46
Dr Dre Guards Sony’s Plantation House......Page 48
Secret trade treaty documents reveal the shark hidden in the......Page 49
My Mother Was a Hypnotist for McDonald’s......Page 55
Things Like That Don’t Happen Here......Page 57
Insane about Asylum......Page 59
Pat Robertson, General Pinochet, Pepsi-Cola and the Anti-Chr......Page 61
Afterword......Page 66
The Cola-Nut Coup: Pinochet, Nixon and Pepsi......Page 67
And the Ignoble Prize in Chemistry Goes to.........Page 70
A Well-Designed Disaster: The Untold Story of the Exxon Vald......Page 72
Coda: Nanwalek Rocks......Page 74
Gilded Cage: Wackenhut’s Free Market in Human Misery......Page 81
What Price A Store-Gasm?......Page 84
How the Filth Trade Turned Green......Page 86
Neither Bodies to Kick nor Souls to Damn......Page 88
Heartbreaker......Page 90
War on Corruption? Not Quite, Minister......Page 92
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot......Page 94
September 11, 2001......Page 97
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy......Page 98
Ah, the Smell of Texas in the Morning......Page 99
Did Bush spike the investigations of Bin Laden?......Page 101
Bush Family Finances: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy......Page 102
Republicans and Democrats, Hand in Hand, to Save the Billion......Page 104
Cash-for-Access—”Lobbygate”: The Real Story of Blair and the......Page 106
Complete and uncut......Page 108
A kind of schizophrenia......Page 109
Lunch at Number 10......Page 110
The Nigerian connection......Page 111
Message to Murdoch......Page 112
Mr Liddle’s offer......Page 113
Phone call from Tony......Page 114
The curtain comes down......Page 115
And inside the newsroom.........Page 116
From the New Statesman......Page 117
Ubermensch of the New Labour order......Page 118
Kissed Not Loved: Tony Blair, Globalization’s Toy-Boy......Page 121
Principles of the Project......Page 122
Buying Brazil......Page 124
The Transatlantic Business Dialogue......Page 125
Blood on the Volvo......Page 127
Ni Tuya, Ni Mia, De Todos......Page 130
Kissing the Whip......Page 132
Self-censorship is in the breeding......Page 134
Victory in the Pacific—A Conclusion......Page 136