Greg Palast
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Investigative reporter and author Greg Palast explains how Bush’s prop Sheikh Abu Risha was a nobody before he got blown up, how the real power among the Sunni tribal leaders operate and the ease with which they dominate the al Qaeda in Mesopotamia types, the horrible ethnic cleansing of Shia by the newly U.S. backed Sunni insurgency in Anbar, the proxy war for control of OPEC, the battle between the neocons and the oilmen, why he thinks there won’t be a war with Iran and the kid that got tasered for asking Kerry questions out of Armed Madhouse.
MP3 here. (40:54)
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse (Penguin 2006). His first reports appeared on BBC television and in the Guardian newspapers. Author of another New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast is best known in his native USA as the journalist who, for the Observer (UK), broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George. His reports on the theft of election 2004, the spike of the FBI investigations of the bin Ladens before September 11, the secret State Department documents planning the seizure of Iraq’s oil fields have won him a record six “Project Censored†for reporting the news American media doesn’t want you to hear. He returned to America to report for Harper’s magazine.
nonhocapito
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:26 am
congratulations, featuring another one who’s building his career with the left (the rulers of tomorrow) by denying any dignity to 9-11 truthers.
El Tonno
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Maybe the 9-11 truthers are actually wrong? Imagine that.
nonhocapito
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:35 pm
maybe. and maybe Kennedy was killed by a single magic bullet, like everybody knows. but there still is dignity and patriotism in asking questions and expecting reasonable answers, instead than incongruent propaganda and disposed of evidence. so why reducing 9-11 truthers to nut cases like Palast does? what is the need? who is he reassuring?
Iodine99
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:33 am
Can you explain this: The White House admits that they had meetings before 9 11 – and the CIA said that “Their hair was on fire” regarding what was going to happen. YET – on 9 11 WE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO AIR DEFENSE. WHY”
Cheney and his group TOOK CIPRO on 9 11. Since there was no Anthrax attacks until a week later – WHY DID CHENEY & GROUP TAKE CIPRO?
Thanks.
david
September 24th, 2007 at 6:24 am
another reason to believe that antiwar.com is runing for big rulers. 9.11 was an inside job and all you people say means nothing, but just exposing yourself as the servant of new world order………
DIANE M. PODLOGAR
September 25th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
i hope the rest of my fellow 911 truthers, realize the evil as__oles running and ruining our country, are building holding facilities for all of us who question. the rest of the dumbasses who believe the government knows best are to ignorant to think for themselves.
WAKE THE F__K UP AMERICA BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
IMPEACH–INDICT–IMPRISON
Cous Cous
September 28th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
The fake sheik was revealed back in June. Apparently no one reads Antiwar.com
Opposition has grown against one of the council leaders, Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, whom Suleiman called a “traitor” who “sells his beliefs, his religion and his people for money”.
Any Iraqi working with the US military is now opposed by most people in the province. “Sattar is well known as a former criminal,” a tribal leader in Anbar who asked to be referred to as Hatam said. “The Americans are now spoiling him like a favorite child.”
A well-respected leader in Fallujah said on condition of anonymity, “Shi’ite leaders had their doubts about him from the beginning, but the desperate Americans thought he was the best solution to their failure in Anbar.”
Abu Risha has been living in Amman, Jordan, for several months. And there is growing doubt how much influence he has.
jack
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:24 pm
wrong about what? that we know the answers to 9/11?
9/11 truthers aren’t all saying they know – or believe – what happened.. they are saying they don’t know, and want to know.. the 9/11 Commission was a joke and there are some very serious questions about 9/11.
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