The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades.For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller-a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman-to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil.With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write-and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process.

Product Description: The world and characters of the DMZ -- a futuristic, war-torn Manhattan -- are expanded and enriched in this sixth volume of the acclaimed series as journalist Matty Roth. The United States has decided to resume reconciliation talks with the Free States, but a major new player in the Free States political world could destroy any hope of a unified state...read more

Product Description: Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, this startling documentary travels the world to not only look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity in this radical collection of investigations, analysis and on-the-ground video from across four continents...read more

Product Description: Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, this startling documentary travels the world to not only look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity in this radical collection of investigations, analysis and on-the-ground video from across four continents...read more

Product Description: Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, this startling documentary travels the world to not only look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity in this radical collection of investigations, analysis and on-the-ground video from across four continents...read more

Product Description: Armed with over fifty classified documents, confidential memos, and secret plans, Greg Palast cuts through the TV news baby-talk. It was he who first uncovered how Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris stole the 2000 election. Harris calls him "twisted," but here's the new twist revealed in this CD: John Kerry won in 2004, and 2008 is already fixed...read more

Product Description: Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war conservatives, and corporations are waging against America's middle class?a war that's reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor...read more

A six-time winner of the Project Censored Award draws on his work as a BBC undercover journalist to discuss such topics as the War on Terror, the Republican agenda for the 2008 election, and media practices that are keeping the Bush Administration's practices from getting reported by the mass media. Reprint.

A six-time winner of the Project Censored Award draws on his work as a BBC undercover journalist to discuss such topics as the War on Terror, the republican agenda for the 2008 election, and media practices that are keeping the Bush Administration's practices from getting reported by the mass media. Simultaneous.

A six-time winner of the Project Censored Award draws on his work as a BBC undercover journalist to discuss such topics as the War on Terror, the republican agenda for the 2008 election, and media practices that are keeping the Bush Administration's practices from getting reported by the mass media. 125,000 first printing.

Argues that the rise of Islamic terrorism is based not on religious fervor but on the desire for financial gain, a wish to separate the Muslim world from the Western economic system, and opposition to corrupt Arab governments.

Offers an irreverent, trenchant study of mainstream news media that explains why such news sources frequently withhold information from the American public, examining some of the key issues and behind-the-scenes stories in the areas of the war on drugs, the Iraq conflict, environmental abuses, and more. Original.

Exposes major news stories ignored by the press in 2003 and 2004.

Product Description: Created "for progressive voters with a sense of fury and humor," this book lists the top 50 reasons to vote the Republicans out of the White House in the upcoming election. The writing style is forthright and provocative, with incendiary allegations backed up by numerous quotations and rigorous statistics...read more

An investigative journalist provides a fascinating exposé of intrigue, financial misdeeds, and other machinations at the highest level of American politics, revealing how the Bush family stole the Florida election, how Enron swindled its way into an energy monopoly, and other provocative reports on the IMF, World Bank, WTO, and more. Book available.

An investigative journalist provides a fascinating exposé of intrigue, financial misdeeds, and other machinations at the highest level of American politics, revealing how the Bush family stole the Florida election, how Enron swindled its way into an energy monopoly, and other provocative reports on the IMF, World Bank, WTO, and more. Book available.

Product Description: In Information War, former United States Information Agency employee Nancy Snow describes how U.S. propaganda efforts and covert operations are expanding more rapidly today than at any other time in U.S. history, as the Bush administration attempts to increase U...read more

An investigative journalist provides an exposâe of intrigue, financial misdeeds, and other machinations at the highest level of American politics.

Product Description: Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal interest is raising prices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal interest is raising prices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)