Greg Palast

The Election Crimes Bulletin returns with a special extended edition. KPFA host Dennis J. Bernstein and investigative journalist Greg Palast discuss the dumpster fire that is Graham Platner's candidacy in the Senate election in Maine. With so much on the line, and Platner’s qualifications for the job being conspicuous by their absence, Palast agues it shows a severe lack of political acumen and fo...

Trump's cage fight genius: He's the Distractor-in-Chief.   Forget the UFC fight, here’s what you should be focusing on instead.   The Election Crimes Bulletin returns with investigative reporter Greg Palast and KPFA host Dennis J. Bernstein.   Get the full story: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/trumps-cage-fight-genius   For more from Palast, subscribe to his Substack: https://gregpa...

It’s kind of embarrassing. Donald J. Trump was my business and character reference for my investigations firm, Union Associates, when, in the 1980s, I applied for government contracts. But Frank Sinatra put an end to it.   Get the full story: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/frank-sinatra-donald-trump-and-my   For more from Palast, subscribe to his Substack: https://gregpalastinvestig...

This explosive interview between investigative journalist Greg Palast and KPFK Solartopia host Harvey Wasserman dives deep into the shocking hidden realities of nuclear power. Palast has led investigations of multi-billion-dollar frauds in the nuclear power industry, while Wasserman, is an author, activist and expert on all things nuclear. Between them, the pair have insider knowledge on the indus...

Gregg Phillips’ group, True the Vote, challenged over 300,000 voters in 2024, crucial to Trump’s victory.   How can they do that? True the Vote is using old Jim Crow laws that allow any voter to challenge another voter’s ballot.   And now, ahead of the next election, Phillips is training literally 40,000 MAGA vote challengers who’ve exchanged white sheets for spreadsheets.   Get the full story: ht...

Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out through my nose. But I’m not laughing anymore. Mr. Colbert, Phillips may choose our next president. Here's how. Get the full story: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/mr-colbert-im-not-laughing-anymore For more from Palast, subscribe...

There is nothing new under the sun. Five centuries ago, the Portuguese conquistadors imposed a toll (“cartaz”) for ships trying to get through the Strait of Hormuz. Yet Trump and Hegseth didn’t know what every ship captain has known for centuries: the importance of securing the Strait. And the wee problem with Trump’s plan to collect passage tolls in partnership with Iran is that it violates inter...

In one of my most elaborate undercover operations for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump's attack on Iran. It was 2004 and the plan was secretly drafted BEFORE George W. Bush invaded Iraq. I’m only bringing up 20-year-old history to tell you that, while Bush’s hidden plan for the oil fields of Iraq evidenced greedy secret scheming to grab Iraq’s oil...

Investigative Journalist Greg Palast talks to Rick Smith. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, passed away on February 17, 2026, at age 84, surrounded by family. On The Rick Smith Show, host Rick Smith welcomed longtime friend and investigative journalist Greg Palast for an emotional tribute. Palast, a New York Times bestselling author known for exposing v...

For 50 years, the Reverend and I fought side-by-side, and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed, a year ago, when I kissed him goodbye.  Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson (1941-2026): Investigative journalist Greg Palast talks to WCPT’s Joan Esposito.

You are watching the theft of 2026 before your eyes. The FBI raid on Fulton County is NOT, as the media seems to think, about Trump’s attempt to prove he won the 2020 race. The  warrant  says the FBI wants the envelopes from the 2020 election to hunt for crimes. But that’s just the legal excuse for the storm trooping. This is all about 2026 and 2028. Look at a map. Fulton County is the heart of “B...

Palast discusses his latest report on Venezuela with Thom Hartmann The Acting President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez and Donald Trump desire the same thing: to send Venezuelan oil to the US. But Donald, we already had Venezuelan oil…until YOU embargoed imports of their crude. Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez enjoyed taunting George W. Bush. I remember when Chavez spoke at the UN Genera...

Investigative reporter Greg Palast discusses his latest article, " When Venezuela’s de facto President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM ." Read the report: https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/when-venezuelas-de-facto-presidenta For more from Palast,  subscribe to his Substack :  https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/    Support independent journalism,  buy Greg a coffee : h...

25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. Vigilantes Inc. exposes the real-life hunt for ‘illegal voters’ — and the shocking truth behind who’s actually being targeted. Last month, Vigilantes Inc. was screened as part of the Teaneck International Film Festival, a prestigious human rights event. The sold out screening,...

Trying to force a protégé to sleep with him is the least of Larry Summers sins. I’ve been hunting this toxic asset for three decades, and his victims number in the millions. No kidding. The current charge that finally brought Summers down was the revelation that he was asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to seduce a young mentee, using his position as one of the world’s most powerful economis...

Investigative journalist Greg Palast joins The Rick Smith Show to tear open the newly uncovered emails between Harvard’s Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein — emails in which the very-married Summers leans on the convicted predator as his “wingman,” seeking tips on how to seduce a young economist he was mentoring. Palast lays out how Summers — Clinton’s Treasury Secretary and Obama’s National Econom...

LBC's Matt Frei talks to Greg Palast about the latest madness in MAGA-land in this interview first broadcast on Nov 15, 2025.   For more from Palast, subscribe to his Substack : gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com Support independent journalism, buy Greg a coffee : https://buy.stripe.com/14kdRh1QhgDi34s4gh  

In this edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, first broadcast on Nov 6, 2025, investigative journalist Greg Palast and Flashpoints host Dennis J. Bernstein unpack the results from Tuesday’s election. Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election by 181,000 votes. The early vote in New York was a record-breaking 735,000. That's where Mamdani’s margin came in. When you let people vote, th...

For years, I was BBC Television’s correspondent covering Venezuela and US attempts to overthrow their elected government. Trump invented nothing. This is at least the fourth US-backed attempt at overthrow and assassination of a Venezuelan president. To understand why Trump has ordered a covert operation to overthrow their government, you need to understand three things about Venezuela... Get the f...

"When cowards are ordering around heroes, there could not be anything more dangerous for America." — Greg Palast Greg Palast's full speech from the #NoKings rally in Waterfront Park, San Diego on Saturday, October 18, 2025.   For more from Greg Palast, subscribe to his Substack : https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/ Support independent journalism, buy Greg a coffee : https://buy.stripe.com...

Thom Hartmann’s new book, The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink , is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-Chief, and much more — a disturbing dive into the roiling miasma of self-aggrandizing, self-deluding, psychologically shattered, wailing man-child who is Commander-in-Chief. Don’t read Hartmann’s book twice, as I have. It’s not just the nightmare...

Trump and Hegseth's gathering of the generals wasn’t patriotism — it was theater for authoritarianism. When you tell the military that America's “inner cities” are "a big part of war now” you’re not defending America — you’re declaring war on it.  The question now is stark: when the illegal order comes — to turn U.S. troops with live ammunition on the American people — will these generals follow i...

On Tuesday, Pete Hegseth told our military’s top brass that they must restore the “male warrior spirit” to the armed forces. “Male” spirit, Pete? My Mom would’ve kicked your a** Get the full story on Substack . https://gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/mom-wouldve-kicked-pete-hegseths Support independent journalism, buy Greg a coffee . https://buy.stripe.com/14kdRh1QhgDi34s4gh  

What would Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s father, Robert F. Kennedy, the man who saved Martin Luther King’s life, think of his son now? By endorsing Trump, Bobby Kennedy Jr. has endorsed everything he ever fought against. Trump is undoing all the environmental laws that Bobby fought for. To Bobby, the issue of global warming was paramount. And now he’s joined up with Agent Orange to say let the planet burn....

RFK Jr. is putting lives at risk — I can’t stay silent. His attacks on mRNA research and science funding aren’t politics — they’re threats to our health and future. This is painful. This is horrible and feels a bit like a betrayal. But I have no choice. Bobby Kennedy Jr. was my friend and co-author. We wrote stories together for Rolling Stone. Bobby introduced my New York Times bestseller and wrot...