By: Greg Palast
"Gripping, provocative, inspiring... [A] modern Declaration of Independence, this book exposes the abuses of today's global Empire and calls on us to take action. Palast challenges us to replace a system he describes as 'un-American' with one that will create a sane, equitable, and sustainable world for our children." Greg's most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Armed Madhouse brings you the stories not allowed in The New York Times. Using more than fifty classified documents, confidential memos, and secret plans liberated from the Pentagon, FBI, World Bank, and ExxonMobil, Palast cuts through the TV news babytalk. Palast says, "Don't be fooled by the fact that 'Armed Madhouse' is entertaining -- this is my most serious reporting yet -- connecting oil panic, Hurricane Katrina, Chinese currency, Venezuela's petrodollars, disappearing ballots, Thomas Friedman, more oil, and the murder of General Motors. These are dispatches from the front lines of the class war."
ISBN: 9780452288317
Plume / Paperback / 384 pages / $15.00
Available April 24, 2007
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PRAISE FOR GREG PALAST AND ARMED MADHOUSE:
"Gripping, provocative, inspiring... [A] modern Declaration of Independence, this book exposes the abuses of today's global Empire and calls on us to take action. Palast challenges us to replace a system he describes as 'un-American' with one that will create a sane, equitable, and sustainable world for our children."
-John Perkins, New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
"Upsets all the right people."
-Noam Chomsky
"Courageous reporting."
-Michael Moore
"The type of investigative reporter you don't see anymore-a cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes."
-Jim Hightower
"I urge you: read Palast's latest book, Armed Madhouse. The story is like a spy thriller."
-Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Air America Radio
"Palast has returned-relentlessly putting the investigative back into journalism... Beyond being a catalyst for social change, Palast is gifted with the ability to make the stinking truth absurdly funny."
-Melissa Rossi, author of What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World
"The top investigative journalist in America-and the funniest."
-Randi Rhodes
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
What do you get when, through a trick of fate, a kid from the wrong side of L.A. winds up hobnobbing with tomorrow's global power elite and studying economics with neo-con Milton Friedman while at the same time moonlighting as an undercover investigator for the United Steelworker's union?
Winner of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism award for his BBC TV investigations, Greg Palast has spent the last thirty years getting the goods on the corporate con men and political hucksters who would auction off your children's future to the lowest bidder. An eagle-eyed sleuth undistracted by partisan shell games and Big Media's weapons of mass distraction, he follows the money wherever it leads, making enemies (and even more fans) on both the Left and Right.
Greg's most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Armed Madhouse brings you the stories not allowed in The New York Times. Armed with more than fifty classified documents, confidential memos, and secret plans liberated from the Pentagon, FBI, World Bank, and ExxonMobil, Palast cuts through the TV news babytalk:
• Before invading, George Bush didn't have a secret plan to seize Iraq's oil-he had two. Palast shows you both.
• In "Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?," Palast reveals the horror and humor of the War on Terror.
• In "The Network," Palast gives you the skinny on the new global order-and pushes Thomas Friedman over the edge of his Flat World.
• It was Palast, for BBC TV, who first uncovered how Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris stole Election 2000. Here he's got a new twist: Palast tells you that Kerry won in 2004-and that 2008 is already fixed.
• Who drowned New Orleans? Palast names names-and adds some suggestions for fighting the new Class War.
Greg Palast speaks truth to power the only way you can-by letting the facts speak for themselves. Get the straight story on what today's self-appointed Masters of the Universe have in store for you.
Greg Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. A persona non-grata in the United States, Palast's reports have been exiled to BBC's top current affairs show, Newsnight, and England's Guardian newspapers. He is a Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde.
