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OverviewPalast, an investigative reporter, spent five years trying to find out what is really going on in politics and big business. In this volume he reveals what PR companies, lobbyists and politicians spend their time keeping hidden. Using sources inside the global institutions he establishes that the IMF and the World Bank serve the interests of the very rich in Europe and America. In a series of sting operations he reveals how far the Labour government was prepared to go in its attempts to gain the support of big business, and his report on the American presidental election makes it clear that the wrong man is in the White House. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Greg TobinPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Robinson Publishing Dimensions: Width: 19.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 13.20cm Weight: 0.290kg ISBN: 9781841197142ISBN 10: 1841197149 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 27 March 2003 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""- 'Those in authority will not agree, but we need more Greg Palasts' Will Hutton - 'The information is a hand grenade' John Pilger - 'The journalist I admire the most. I'm an avid reader of everything Palast writes - can never get enough of it' George Monbiot" Greg Palast is an investigative reporter whose iconoclastic attitude has earned him as many enemies as it has friends. That those whose approval is quoted on the jacket blurb include John Pilger, Will Hutton and his fellow radical American, Michael Moore, gives you some idea of the colour of his politics. Yet, although left-wing, Palast is no stooge for the Labour party. A famous Daily Mirror front page carries his image, with the word 'Liar' emblazoned across it, after he dared to take on the might of the New Labour spin machine. Similarly, although he is merciless in his criticism of the American administration, particularly President George W Bush and his cronies, he is no Anglophile. He may now work for The Guardian and The Observer, but his angry polemic against the censorship laws and Official Secrets Act make it clear that government obfuscation and corporate corruption everywhere are his targets. He is scathing in his attacks on newspapers and television stations that have been too timid to carry his exposes, especially in circumstances when he has later proved to be right. He was the first person to call into question the probity of Andersen, years before the Enron scandal broke, and he did most of the work in uncovering the scandal of the disenfranchised Florida voters whose omission from the electoral register was to lead to the election of George W Bush. If his work sometimes reads like a breathlessly angry polemic, lacking the sorrowful elegance or the sharp analysis of Pilger and Hutton respectively, his strength is in the depth and detail of the material he has uncovered. Accounting statements and memoranda from government departments are quoted in detail, or even reproduced as illustrations, words blacked out in time-honoured manner, to protect his sources. If he occasionally enjoys a little poetic licence - to see spinmeister Alastair Campbell described as a 'pornographer' on the basis of some stories he wrote for soft-porn magazines while a freelance journalist could easily give the wrong impression - no one could doubt his commitment and investigative skills. Whether analysing dodgy contracts that have sent the prices of domestic utilities rocketing; the bleeding-dry of the developing world by government-sanctioned corporate greed or lax regulations that led to children being choked by their own cots, Palast demands to be read. (Kirkus UK) - 'Those in authority will not agree, but we need more Greg Palasts' Will Hutton - 'The information is a hand grenade' John Pilger - 'The journalist I admire the most. I'm an avid reader of everything Palast writes - can never get enough of it' George Monbiot Author InformationGreg Palast's undercover reports and his column in The Observer won the Financial Times David Thomas Prize. Salon.com chose his report on the US elections in 2000 as 'Political Story of the Year'. Greg Palast divides his time between London and New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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