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BOOK REVIEW:
 The Best Democracy
Money Can Buy An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth
about Globalization, Corporate Cons,
and High Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast Publisher: Pluto Press Reviewed by bobby jennings Investigative journalist Greg Palast is winner of the Financial Times David Thomas Prize and was Nominated Business Journalist of the Year (UK) for his exposing “Reverend” Pat Robertson’s legally dodgy business scams; he has appeared in Salon.com (“Politics Story of the Year” 2000), Harper’s and The Washington Post ... yet he remains to most Americans, ”The world’s greatest investigative reporter you’ve never heard of.” (Cleveland Free Times) Greg Palast is an American, raised in the inner city of Los Angeles, who writes for the British Observer and Guardian. In this book, he writes about the things he has personally investigated as a reporter. Some of the topics covered are Jim Crow in Cyberspace (the unreported story on how they fixed the vote in Florida), Globalization, Inside Corporate America, Small Towns - Small Minds, the Pat Robertson Empire, Cash for Access in Britain ("Lobbygate" - the story of Blair and the sale of Britain), and Kissing The Whip (that beats you) This book is not, nor was meant to be an overview of topics it covers but mere pieces to the puzzle. While reading this book I could not help but put it into context of growing up in the "old south" with its rallying cry "the South will rise again". You, the reader will have to put it into your own context. Greg Palast's book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy is a shocking exposé of the current American and British political climate. He says that if you think politics is dominated by greedy corporate interests, it's worse than you think. If only a portion of this book proves to be true then it is still a must read for all those who object to singing the equivalent of "Dixie" out of habit. What others are saying about this book: “Greg Palast is investigative journalism at its best. No one has exposed more truth about the Bush Cartel and lived to tell the story.” Baltimore Chronicle "His stories about Bush's election theft, about intelligence agency cover-ups, and globalization -- backed up with smoking gun documents, inside sources and on-the-record interviews -- will shock even the most informed readers." Guerrilla News Network, naming Palast ‘Reporter of the Year.’ "Should be read all over America." Andrew Tobias, author, The Invisible Bankers
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About The Author
 Before taking up the pen for the The Observer and Guardian newspapers, Los Angeles-born Greg Palast traveled the globe as expert investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. For the Chugach Natives of Alaska, he unearthed the doctored safety records that proved the Exxon Valdez disaster was an inevitability, not an accident. In Chicago, he bargained contracts for the United Steelworkers Union in Chicago, in Peru he helped found a consumer rights organization. Years ago, he guided the formation of an alliance linking Enron workers in Brazil and India. In 1988, Palast directed the government’s investigation of a US nuclear plant builder in which the jury awarded the largest racketeering penalty in US history. Greg Palast won Britain’s highest journalism honors for his 1998 undercover investigation of influence peddling within Tony Blair’s cabinet – by Enron and other US corporations. He then turned his sleuthing skills on to the Bush money trail: uncovering for BBC and The Observer the uncomfortable truths of how the Bush Administration quashed investigations of Saudi financing of terror -- and Poppy Bush’s extraordinary methods for stuffing his bank account and his son’s campaign coffers. Visit his website at www.gregpalast.com
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