The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - By Greg Palast

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The Best Democracy

Money Can Buy

Greg Palast is an internationally recognized expert on the control of corporate power working

with labor unions and consumer groups in the USA, South America and Europe. In America,

among his more noted cases, he directed government investigations and prosecution of

racketeering by nuclear plant builders and, for the Chugach Natives of Alaska, probed charges of

fraud by oil companies in the grounding of the Exxon Valdez.

Five years ago, Palast turned his investigative skills to journalism. His 1998 undercover exposé

of corruption at the heart of Tony Blair’s cabinet, “Lobbygate,” earned him the distinction of

being the first journalist in memory berated personally on the floor of Parliament by a prime

minister—as well as an award for Story of the Year. His column for Britain’s Observer

newspaper, “Inside Corporate America,” and other writings, have won him the Financial Times

David Thomas Prize (1997) and nomination as Business journalist of the Year (1999).

In America, Palast broke the story of how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush removed thousands of

Black and Democratic voters from registration roles prior to the presidential election. The series

of revelations appeared in The Nation, the Washington Post, Harper’s, the Guardian—and in

Salon.com which named the exposé Politics Story of the Year. Palast’s investigative reports can

also be seen on BBC Television—“Newsnight’s own Sam Spade.”

Publication of Democracy and Regulation, Palast’s lectures at Cambridge University and the

University of Sao Paulo, coauthored by Theo MacGregor and Jerrold Oppenheim, is

forthcoming. He divides his time between London and New York.

Some comments on Greg Palast’s writings:

“The journalist I admire most. His amazing work puts all the rest of us journalists to shame. I’m

an avid reader of everything Palast writes—can never get enough of it.”

George Monblot, Guardian

“Hearsay and misinformation.” Official spokesman, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

“Great writing on the Evil Empire of the IMF.”

Jude Warmiski, former editorial page editor, Wall Street Journal

“The world’s greatest investigative reporter you’ve never heard of.” Cleveland Free Times

“To Americans who cannot read his stories printed in Britain’s Observer, he is America’s

journalist hero of the Internet.” Alan Colmes, Fox Television

“Intrepid investigative reporter who first broke the news that tens of thousands of likely

Democratic voters were disenfranchised in Florida before the 2000 election.”

US journalism Hall of Fame

“The Most Evil Man in the World.” Private Eye

“Amazing reporting. I can’t wait for the next installments.” David Ruppe, ABC News

“The Liar! Sleaze Reporter!” Mirror

“[Palast’s reports) have not one shred of evidence!” Prime Minister Tony Blair

“Tony Blair’s nightmare.” Harper’s & Queen

“George Bush’s nightmare.” Laura Flanders, Working for Change Radio

“The information is a hand grenade.” John Pilger, New Statesman

“Rubbish... rubbish.” Official spokesman, World Trade Organization (WTO)

“Courageous writing (on the WTO)—when no one else will do it.”

Maude Barlowe, Council of Canadians

“The type of investigative reporter you don’t see anymore—a cross between Sam Spade and

Sherlock Holmes.” Jim Hightower

“All power to Palast’s pen!” Will Hutton, author, The State We’re In

“Should be read all over America.” Andrew Tobias, author, The Invisible Bankers

“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

“Your Bullshit axe to grind with Bush is just another example of how far a punk ass loser will go

to slander our president.” (Signed) “A Real American.”

THE BEST

DEMOCRACY

MONEY CAN BUY

An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about

Globalization, Corporate Cons and High Finance Fraudsters

Greg Palast

First published 2002 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA and 22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA 20166-

2012, USA

www.plutobooks.com

The right of Greg Palast to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,

Designs and Patents Act 1988.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 0 7453 1846 0 hardback

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Palast, Greg.

The best democracy money can buy: an investigative reporter exposes the truth about globalization, corporate cons, and high

finance fraudsters / Greg Palast. p. cm.

ISBN 0-7453-1846-0 1. Political corruption. 2. Corporations-Corrupt practices. 1. Title.

JF1081 P35 2002

364.1’323-dc2l

2001008116

We cannot trust some people who are non-conformists.

Ray Kroc, chairman, McDonald’s Corp, deceased

The thing about the Golden Straitjacket is, the tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.

Thomas Friedman on globalization

I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the Anti-Christ. Dr (“Reverend”) Pat Robertson

Contents

Forewords by Joe Conason and Will Hutton............................................................................ ix

Who Gives a Shit? An Introduction.............................................................................................1

1 Jim Crow in Cyberspace: The Unreported Story of How They Fixed the Vote in Florida.6

In the days following the presidential election, there were so many stories of African-

Americans erased from voter rolls, you might think they were targeted by some kind of

racial computer program. They were.

2 Sell the Lexus, Burn the Olive Tree: Globalization and its Discontents..............................44

A cache of secret documents from inside the IMF, World Bank and World Trade

Organization explains the inner workings of the iron triangle of globalization.

3 Small Towns, Small Minds.......................................................................................................76

I live in one of those lovely little rural villages in America that still preserve good old

American small town virtues. So why has our local newspaper written two editorials

requesting I get the hell out?

4 Pat Robertson, General Pinochet, Pepsi-Cola and the Anti-Christ: Special Investigative

Reports..............................................................................................................................84

Award-winning investigative reports.

5 Inside Corporate America......................................................................................................115

Fifteen thousand stockholders believe they hear Sam Walton speak months after he

died—and other strange tales from Planet Dollar.

6 The Best Democracy Money Can Buy ..................................................................................140

Who owns America? How much did it cost? Cash, check or credit card? The Bushes, the

Clintons and the billionaires who love them.

7 Cash-for-Access—“Lobbygate”: the Real Story of Blair and the Sale of Britain............152

My bald head took up the entire front page of the Mirror under the headline, ‘THE

LIAR!’ Did I upset someone? When Tony Blair came to power, I set up an undercover

sting exposing the kasbah influence in 10 Downing Street.

8 Kissing the Whip.....................................................................................................................182

When the TV infotainment hypnosis wears off, when “Have a nice day” is an insufficient

answer to getting screwed by the powers that be, Americans can surprise themselves, rise

up, and say, “No thanks, we won’t kiss the whip that beats us.” Thoughts in exile.

9 Victory in the Pacific—A Conclusion ...................................................................................197

Index ..........................................................................................................................................201

Forewords

Joe Conason and Will Hutton

When I first knew Greg Palast years ago in New York, he was an extraordinarily determined and

talented investigator, toiling away for a consortium of labor unions. Among the frustrations of

his job was the necessity of explaining complex financial issues to doltish journalists. At some

point since then, very much to the public benefit, he decided to pick up the pen himself and take

on the world.

This fascinating book is really a world tour with Palast as guide. Those who join him will learn

the previously unrevealed secrets of globalization, a term which really is a new “brand name” for

very old forms of international investment and exploitation.

Joining the techniques and values of investigative journalism with his background in economics,

Palast scrutinizes the global marketplace in ways that enlighten readers and frighten corporate

chieftains. It is a salutary occupation that brings a touch of moral hygiene to institutions that

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