Armed Madhouse By Greg Palast

[Robbien]

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.

Here is our new world of militarized greed, where America's panic over lunatics with box-cutters has metastasized into a billion-dollar fear industry; where Republicans sucking on Super-sized Slurpies(r) are hunting dark-skinned voters to eliminate their rights; where James Baker's fixer in alligator boots sets up the grab for Iraq's oil on her way to the rodeo; where miners are suffocated by the same investment bankers who are siphoning off auto workers' pensions. I add 50 illustrations, including those intriguing ones marked 'secret' by the State Department and the World Bank, plus a brilliant recipe for shrimp curry -- and Dick Cheney.

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I'm writing to ask you to order the book right NOW for delivery the week of its release, June 6. Here's why. These early sales are crucial to convincing mainstream media that America really wants to know what the hell is going on. My last book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, helped open the forbidden topic of vote theft in America. Now, we need break the media's omerta, the silencing of talk of class war.

I'm asked again and again, What can we DO? The answer is, we can't do anything until we're INFORMED. We can't prevent the theft of the '08 election until you know the crazy details of the theft of '04. We can't stop the coming war in Venezuela until we learn the weird story of how Big Oil mapped out Iraq's petroleum destiny. We can't shield ourselves from economic onslaught until we have the hard, if hidden, facts of class conflict from the Sino-dollar panic to the privatization of hurricane planning. That's why I wrote this book.

And if you're of a mind to buy it, please do so now via local or 'Net bookstore or through our website at: http://www.gregpalast.com/armedmadhouse/preorder.html

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[acmejack]

1. KnR!

Palast rocks! I know this will be a great book, his previous books have been very revealing!