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Title: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast ISBN: 0745318460 Publisher: Pluto Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.66
Rating: 5
Summary: Read It and Weep
Comment: What's gone wrong with our "free press"? Greg Palast, an American investigative journalist who had to go to Britain to be published, shows us--in spades. Our media, bent on profit-making, are pathetically risk-adverse. Nobody's telling the media directly to "stand down," but that's what our newspapers and TV and radio "news" reporters have been doing. Read this book for the sorry truths our media should be reporting, but aren't. Remember: thanks to this book, we cannot have the excuse of "I didn't know." We have here the opportunity to get wise and take action. Our failure to do so will mean we are complicit in the theft of our democracy.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Truth Hurts
Comment: Greg Palast is not your typical journalist. He doesn't varnish the truth based upon ideology, political leaning or who's paying his salary. His background as an investigator shines through in his writing. Unlike a vast majority of so-called investigative reporters, Greg does his homework by scouring sources and providing evidence, not by rewording what's already been dictated to the media.
Greg reveals what really happened in Florida. Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris fixed the election. Plain and simple. The proof is in the book....This book doesn't spare the Clintons or Gore. If you've wondered why the Democrats didn't jump on the Palast bandwagon during the election fiasco and publicize the voter purge of primarily black Democratic voters, Greg's got the answers. You may not like them.
The chapters on the WTO and IMF may bring tears to your eyes when you stop and think about what they've done in the name of progress. The wholesale destruction of economies and people seems to be the new definition of progress, with the US leading the pack. Ever really wonder why America is so despised? Here's one answer.
Media myths are destroyed in this book. Read about Walmart, Tony Blair, Pat Robertson, the Exxon/Valdez coverup, Volvo, etc. This is the most explosive and accurate portrayal of our new globalized society that you can find in America. No fluff, only substance. If you care about civilization, read the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: How Florida Profiled Blacks and Stole the 2000 Election
Comment: In a time when fiduciary responsibilities and concern for stockholders have reduced most American newsrooms to ghost towns populated only by cut and paste journalists, Greg Palast, an American working for the Observer in London, still does what reporters used to do. He digs through the evidence, particularly the emails, the government records and the financial reports to get the hard evidence.
His evidence on the 2000 Florida Presidential election voting process is both astonishing and terribly troubling.
Palast also offers clear documentary evidence that Blacks were racially profiled to be eliminated from voter rolls by Florida's voter/felon purge. Essentially, at the behest of Katherine Harris, under Jeb Bush's close watch, Florida systematically and intentionally denied voting rights to approximately 90,000 voters whose right to vote in Florida was legally unquestionable--and over 54% of them were Black. Since Florida Blacks voted 93% for Al Gore, Palast's remarkably detailed book makes it perfectly evident that illegally purged Black votes prevented Florida from voting overwhelmingly for Al Gore and giving Gore the presidency.
Palast also demonstrates that the issue is not one of Black incompetence. Voting machines were set to accept double voted, and therefore uncountable, ballots in Black districts, while they were set to reject double voted ballots in White districts, so Whites could recast their ballots. In other counties with heavily Black populations, the automatic protection systems which reject double voted ballots were simply turned off to "reduce costs."
So while Bush "won" the presidency on a 5-4 Supreme Court vote which said, essentially, that Americans don't have the Constitutional right to vote for the President, something far more sacred was lost in the Florida voting process--the right of every eligible, adult American to have his or her vote counted and to have that vote determine who will lead our country.
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Title: Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore ISBN: 0060392452 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative by David Brock ISBN: 0812930991 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: 9-11 by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1583224890 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal ISBN: 156025405X Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press / Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden by Jean-Charles Brisard, Guillaume Dasquie, Wayne Madsen, Lucy Rounds ISBN: 1560254149 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press / Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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