"Armed Madhouse" New book ( Greg Pallast )

[k-robjoe]

"For the past two years, I've nearly disappeared from BBC Television screens and from newspapers so my team could focus on our most important investigation yet. I've put it in a book: Armed Madhouse. The book travels from Beijing to New Orleans to Caracas to Baghdad to New Mexico ... a five-part investigation of global economic piggery so deep, dark and devious you just have to scream or cry -- or laugh.

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."

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=494&row=0

( http://www.gregpalast.com/armedmadhouse/aboutthebook.html )

[acmavm]

1. Oh my! (Sometimes that's all I can think to say)

<snip>

There are five sections.

THE NETWORK: The World as a Company Town. The weird and frightening facts about the tidal flow of international currency -- the real story of China's rise and the death of Detroit. Plus a report from the future on the assassination of Hugo Chavez -- and explain why it had to be done.

THE CON: Kerry Won -- but two million of his votes were never counted. They can't take away your Social Security until they take away your vote. In the 2008 race, four million ballots will go missing. Here's how it will be done.

THE FEAR: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? Turning Ground Zero into a Profit Center. Why does Southold, New York, have machine guns on SUVs at the casino ferry? Investigations of health insurance and suicide bombings -- in other words, the fun chapter.

THE FLOW: Trillion Dollar Babies. If you thought George Bush had a secret plan to seize Iraq's oil -- you're wrong. He had TWO plans, and Armed Madhouse has both of them.

THE CLASS WAR: I go deeper into George Bush's crude system of educational terror ("No Child's Behind Left"), Ken Lay's REAL crimes for which he won't be tried and the story of New Orleans you won't get on Fox Snews. Here you'll get some complex economics and a free ticket to the circus -- and the core issue of the book: the war of the movers and shakers against the moved and shaken.

[rman]

13. "In the 2008 race, four million ballots will go missing"

I'm afraid that might happen.

[SeattleRob]

2. I will be looking forward to checking this book out!

I was wondering by Mr. Palast has been so quiet over the last couple years...

[k-robjoe]

3. Big oil

Interesting :

"If you suspected George Bush had a secret plan to control Iraq's oil from the day he took office, you'd be wrong. He had two plans and Palast has them both-the confidential documents from inside the State Department, and the full, hidden story of the titanic battle between neo-cons and Big Oil that keeps our troops under fire in Baghdad."

[k-robjoe]

5. Link

Here´s more about this :

"The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

[k-robjoe]

10. Also

"The top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil companies, pulled in $113 billion in profit in 2005 -- compared to a piddly $34 billion in 2002 before Operation Iraqi Liberation. In other words, it's been a good war for Big Oil."

http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=483&row=0

[Peace Patriot]

4. "Armed madhouse"? Is that Iraq, or the United States?

That's a good description of both of them.

And, with the CIA's counter-proliferation capability deliberately destroyed by the Bush junta, soon, the world.

Bless you, Greg Palast! And double blessings to you for keeping your sense of humor. That may be all the greater universe ever cares to appreciate about the human race. And it may save our skins yet.

The Great Laugh.

[applegrove]

6. I don't know. Books that do well are well informed and come out with

less panache. I hope. But I don't know! This seems juvenille.

[Chimichurri]

8. that's how Greg roles. His reporting is groundbreaking.

[incapsulated]

7. Oh, boy!

I'm buying! :)

[DrDebug]

9. I wondered what happened to Greg

I'm interested. He is a very good investigator. In fact Michael Moore used a lot of his discoveries.

[mod mom]

11. Yep, he'll be in Columbus OH on June 20th for a book signing tour.

Details will be posted on Freepress.org's website but it is tenatively set for 7pm.

pm me if you want to be kept up to date on this event in Columbus.

[k-robjoe]

12. Kick n/t