A real journalist: Greg Palast - audio clips of new book Armed Madhouse...

[marmar]

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO SNEAK: Greg Palast's New Book Read by Friedman and Asner!
Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2006-05-25 19:30. Media
On 'The Network' and the 'Florida Electoral Scam'...
A Personal BRAD BLOG Scoop from Inside the Bowels of the 'Armed Madhouse'
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Investigative journalist and best-selling author, Greg Palast has given The BRAD BLOG a few exclusive audio clips from the studio sessions of the audio version of his new book (to be released June 6), ARMED MADHOUSE: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.

Last month we wrote about our amusing and completely factual experience in the recording studio laying down one of the chapters for the audio version ourselves (and a few additional characters for elsewhere in the book) along with Ed Asner and Janeane Garafalo. If you missed it, you may want to check out our scandalous reporting from that crazy afternoon.

The exclusive clips Palast has provided to The BRAD BLOG for your listening pleasure including passages by both yours truly and the great Ed Asner. On "The Network" for Asner, and on the Florida Election Scam for me...

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002873.htm



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[babylonsister]

1. This book sounds great; covers lots of issues!

:thumbsup:

[IndyOp]

2. Kicking! I am eagerly awaiting my copy of "Armed Madhouse" --

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

3. Planning to get it

when it comes out (next week, right?) My book budget is a little tight right now, but I think this one will be worth it.

[chat_noir]

4. Comments on Greg Palast's New Book Armed Madhouse - Stephen Lendman

I've known about and followed Greg Palast's important work for some time. I read his eye-opening book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy a few years ago and have mentioned it several times in some of my other writing. Greg is one of the most important and exhaustively thorough investigative journalists anywhere, which is especially important at a time when that kind of effort is needed more than ever. I knew he had a new book in the works, and I looked forward to getting and reading it knowing it would be full of important and explosive material we all should know about. I wasn't disappointed nor did I expect to be.

Living in the US under a rogue administration bent on world conquest and dominance, I can easily understand what Greg might have had in mind by his title. But as he explained, he chose it from his late teacher Allen Ginsberg who wrote: "The soul should not die ungodly in an armed madhouse." He also explained before he became an investigative journalist he was a "forensic economist" meaning he cut deeply into the inner workings of companies like Enron and Exxon-Mobil (my favorite one to pick on because they make it so easy for me to do) to learn what they've really been up to - no good for sure as everyone now knows about Enron which was little more than a crime organization posing as a legal business.

I suspect not enough people know about Greg in the US. That's because the dominant corporate media won't go anywhere near him. Why? Because he uncovers and discloses some of the most important information we should know that gets people upset when they find out about it. That's not the kind of material an empire wants in circulation nor its corporate media. It might interfere with the empire's plans if the public knew what it was up to, and it wouldn't be good for business either as the corporate media and the rest of corporate America profit from its government's antics which are engaged in on their behalf. So to assure it's business as usual, the public is kept uninformed except for the steady stream of propaganda, lies and distortion reported that's called news and information.

Greg does get some air time on BBC Television's Newsnight in the UK. But I'm surprised he gets any as that august organization is as much in bed with its government as our dominant media is with ours. Nonetheless, apparently over there some important information slips between the sheets and manages to come out over the airwaves and into peoples' homes. In the US, it's almost impossible finding any of that. Over here we have a highly controlled system of mass communication and in a nation claiming to have a free press. In the words of a former commentator of a bygone era, the press here is free to anyone who owns one.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_stephen__060609_comments_on_greg_pal.htm

[AnnieBW]

5. Just Started Reading It

I've finished the first chapter, and it's AWESOME so far! Yay, Greg!!!

[nancyr]

6. The book

Started reading this yesterday....mind-boggling. It should be required reading for anyone who knows how to read. This would unfortunately exclude the very people who should be reading it, however. What an eye-opener this book is.

[terrya]

7. I'm reading the book right now.

I went to the library downtown Friday afternoon and I saw a copy of it and checked it out. It's a maddening, informative...and yes, humorous book. Palast is a treasure, period.

Great book. :thumbsup:

[Maud]

8. Fortunate Son

Has anybody read Fortunate Son by J. H. Hatfield? Greg Palast wrote the preface. It provides a great deal of insight into the Bush family and George W. in particular. As Palast says in the preface the "Bush Battalions" went after Hatfield and pressured St. Martin's Press to withdraw the book. Hatfield eventually killed himself and Soft Skull published the book in 2002.