ARMED MADHOUSE: Who is Afraid Of Osama Wolf?, The Best Legal Whorehouse In Texas, The Scheme To Steal Election 2008, No Child is Left Behind And Other Investigative Stings

by Palast, Greg

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New. ISBN: 0525949682. Hardcover. . Ships in a sturdy box with delivery confirmation (in US). Free giftwrap upon request. Brand new, not a used item. Multiple copies may be available. The author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy follows his New York Times best-seller with hot undercover dispatches and old-style gumshoe detective "work," illustrated with dozens of documents marked "secret" and "confidential" that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palast's hands. The BBC television reporter offers inside info on the War on "Terror," schemes to seize little nations with lots of "oil," the plan to steal the 2008 "election," and the media biases that keep it unreported.

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Investigative journalist Greg Palast presents a cornucopia of political exposés that go far in proving that Orwell was right. In his report on the ineptness of the War on Terror, Palast reveals how the Bush family discouraged investigations into the House of Saud and how it hired a private firm, Choice Point, to investigate American citizens. His article on the Iraq War argues that oil was the motivating factor in the invasion, and he reports on the disappearance of $8.8 billion under Ambassador Paul Bremer. An extended piece on how the 2004 election was stolen highlights voter suppression in Ohio and Florida, and predicts similar chicanery in 2008. His report on globalization asserts that the world is not flat, as Thomas Friedman would like to think, but that it is tilted to those with wealth and power, and he shows how corporations are getting stronger while workers' rights are eroding fast.