Greg Palast - Must read!!

[Darth_Kitten]

http://www.gregpalast.com/

Suggested read from a friend of mine, wow!!! :nuke:

[Darth_Kitten]

1. Kick!!

;) it's important. :evilgrin: :kick:

[Imalittleteapot]

2. kick.

[tinanator]

3. what became of the DU Palast 20 questions?

Did I blink and miss it?

[Bozita]

4. Hmmm ... can't get into the website ... Am I alone?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Nope, I can't get there either

Maybe it's overloaded? Or hacked/'denial of serviced'?

Reproduced here: (normally I wouldn't point people to another site rather than Greg's own, since he deserved the hits, but if he's down ...)

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/06/06/2967197

[Say_What]

8. Read it here

<clips>

You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of
the dead. But in this case, someone's got to.

Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was
a killer.

In 1987, I found myself stuck in a crappy little town in
Nicaragua named Chaguitillo. The people were kind enough,
though hungry, except for one surly young man. His wife had
just died of tuberculosis.

People don't die of TB if they get some antibiotics. But
Ronald Reagan, big hearted guy that he was, had put a
lock-down embargo on medicine to Nicaragua because he
didn't like the government that the people there had
elected.

Ronnie grinned and cracked jokes while the young woman's
lungs filled up and she stopped breathing. Reagan flashed
that B-movie grin while they buried the mother of three.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/26821

[keithyboy]

5. He says it ALL very concisely

It should be sent to every friggin radio talk show in the contry and posted on all the EU boards.

[Say_What]

6. "Values" my ass"

The New York Times today, in its canned obit, wrote that
Reagan projected, "faith in small town America" and
"old-time values." "Values" my ass. It was union busting
and a declaration of war on the poor and anyone who
couldn't buy designer dresses. It was the New Meanness,
bringing starvation back to America so that every
millionaire could get another million.

...In Chaguitillo, all night long, the farmers stayed awake to
guard their kids from attack from Reagan's Contra
terrorists. The farmers weren't even Sandinistas, those
'Commies' that our cracked-brained President told us were
'only a 48-hour drive from Texas.' What the hell would they
want with Texas, anyway?

Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were
Ronnie's targets.

In the deserted darkness of Chaguitillo, a TV blared.
Weirdly, it was that third-rate gangster movie, "Brother
Rat." Starring Ronald Reagan.

[Say_What]

9. Palast's site back up...

http://www.gregpalast.com /

[Bozita]

10. Thanks, my eyes are hurtin' from the fine print at the Yahoo link

[Bozita]

11. The articles by Palast and Will Pitt are the best pieces on RR

both are MUST READs.

[indigo32]

12. Wow