The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

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"MUCH OF THE GUTS FOR [MICHAEL] MOORE'S OPENING SCREED ON HOW BUSH 'STOLE' THE 2000 ELECTION CAME FROM INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GREG PALAST, WHOSE OWN BOOK, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, HAS FAST BECOME A CULT FAVE AMONG PROGRESSIVES." —The Village Voice
Greg Palast, "the greatest investigative reporter of our time" (Tribune Magazine) and a legend among journalists on four continents, has single-handedly broken some of the most scandalous stories of the past decade, including:
• How Bush killed the FBI's Investigation of the financing of terrorist organizations by Saudi Arabia
• How the Bush family stole the election in Florida
How Enron cheated, lied, and swindled its way into an energy monopoly
These iconoclastic exposés—along with groundbreaking reports on the World Bank, the IMF, the World Trade Organization, Wal-Mart, Pat Robertson, and more—are included in this provocative collection of Palast's most incendiary stories. Delivered in Palast's acerbic wit, these reports... Tovább

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"MUCH OF THE GUTS FOR [MICHAEL] MOORE'S OPENING SCREED ON HOW BUSH 'STOLE' THE 2000 ELECTION CAME FROM INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER GREG PALAST, WHOSE OWN BOOK, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, HAS FAST BECOME A CULT FAVE AMONG PROGRESSIVES." —The Village Voice
Greg Palast, "the greatest investigative reporter of our time" (Tribune Magazine) and a legend among journalists on four continents, has single-handedly broken some of the most scandalous stories of the past decade, including:
• How Bush killed the FBI's Investigation of the financing of terrorist organizations by Saudi Arabia
• How the Bush family stole the election in Florida
How Enron cheated, lied, and swindled its way into an energy monopoly
These iconoclastic exposés—along with groundbreaking reports on the World Bank, the IMF, the World Trade Organization, Wal-Mart, Pat Robertson, and more—are included in this provocative collection of Palast's most incendiary stories. Delivered in Palast's acerbic wit, these reports offer a shocking portrait of corrupt power and politics in today's global economy, which have made Palast public enemy #1 among magnates and money-poisoned politicians. In this expanded election edition, you'll find ail new investigations on the theft of the election 2004, secret documents from the War on Terror, and the confidential "Iraq Strategy" you're not supposed to see.
"THE TYPE OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE— A CROSS BETWEEN SAM SPADE AND SHERLOCK HOLMES."
—Jim Hightower
"PAINSTAKINGLY RESEARCHED DISTINGUISHED DISTURBING MAY CAUSE EXCESSIVE TEETH CLENCHING." —Chicago Tribune
"TWISTED." -Katherine Harris,
Florida Secretary of State,
on Greg Palast's 2000 election reports Vissza