Vigilantes Inc. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen (New Oct 11 2024)
Listen now
Description
Vigilantes Inc. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen 2 days ago Two family dynasties, one Black, one White, on a 3-century collision course. Operatives of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp secretively challenged Major Gamaliel Turner's right to a ballot, launching an investigative reporter's hunt to uncover and expose an astonishing vote suppression scheme that threatens to overturn the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. Greg Palast and his hat have been seen on over 2000 media appearances. Pacifica Radio Network broadcasts his weekly Election Crimes Bulletin. Palast is known for complex undercover investigations, spanning five continents, from the Arctic to the Amazon, from the Congo to California, using the skills he learned over two decades as an investigator of corporate fraud on behalf of the US Dept of Justice, 20 attorneys general and governments from England to Brazil. Palast, who earned his degree in finance at the University of Chicago studying under Milton Friedman, has led investigations of multi-billion-dollar frauds in the oil, nuclear, power and finance industries for governments on three continents, has an academic side: he is the author of Democracy and Regulation, a seminal treatise on energy corporations and government control, commissioned by the United Nations and based on his lectures at Cambridge University and the University of Sao Paulo. Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. His writings have won him the Financial Times David Thomas Prize. Palast won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC documentary, Bush Family Fortunes. He has received the “Global Editors Award for Data Journalism” and “International Reporter of the Year” from the Association of Mexican Reporters. His bestsellers have been translated into two dozen languages and films broadcast worldwide. He has received the “Global Editors Award for Data Journalism” and “International Reporter of the Year” from the Association of Mexican Reporters. IMDB For movie Rotten Tomatoes Martin Sheen Article Save Your Vote Greg Palast Website Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.
More Episodes
Richard Kerr joins Ed Opperman to talk about Roy Cohn. A name which is vaguely familiar to those outside the political bubble, yet central to politics over six decades, Cohn cut his teeth on the McCarthy trials of the late 50s all the way to the dawning of the age of Trump. A political...
Published 10/16/24
Published 10/16/24