Greg Palast, investigative reporter, author "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"

Air Dates: October 29-31, 2016

Greg Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author and a freelance journalist for the BBC as well as the British newspaper The Guardian and the American publication Rolling Stone Magazine. Greg Palast has been called the "most important investigative reporter of our time – up there with Woodward and Bernstein" (The Guardian).

Palast has broken front-page stories for BBC Television Newsnight, The Guardian, Nation Magazine, Rolling Stone and Harper's Magazine. His books, “Billionaires & Ballot Bandits,” “Armed Madhouse”, “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” and the highly acclaimed “Vultures' Picnic” have been New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into two dozen languages. Palast is best known for exposing how Florida purged thousands of innocent Black people from the voter rolls in 2000 to steal the election for George W. Bush.

In his Rolling Stone investigation Greg Palast has revealed that a program to prevent alleged voter fraud, “Interstate Crosscheck,” has wrongly tagged voters listing them as registering in two states or voting in two states, a felony crime. The suspect list of potential criminals contains the names of an astonishing SEVEN MILLION AMERICANS—naming ONE IN SEVEN voters of color in the Crosscheck states.

“Meet the New Jim Crow. Fifty years ago, African-Americans were kept from the polls by the threat of beatings and lynchings. Today, Jim Crow has traded in his white sheets for spreadsheets. He’s Dr. James Crow, systems analyst. His method is lynching by laptop.” Greg Palast “From White Sheets to Spreadsheets”

This interview features clips with Willie Nelson, Rosario Dawson, and “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit detectives Ice-T and Richard Belzer.

"Greg Palast is one of my heroes. The last investigative reporter in America." – Robert F Kennedy Jr. – Rolling Stone

“Greg Palast upsets all the right people." – Noam Chomsky

"An American hero." Martin Luther King III.