Armed Madhouse
By Greg Palast
04/29/06 "ICH"
-- -- 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.
There are five sections:
THE NETWORK: The World as a Company Town. The weird and
frightening facts about the tidal flow of international currency
-- the real story of China's rise and the death of Detroit. Plus
a report from the future on the assassination of Hugo Chavez --
and explain why it had to be done.
THE CON: Kerry Won -- but two million of his votes were never
counted. They can't take away your Social Security until they
take away your vote. In the 2008 race, four million ballots will
go missing. Here's how it will be done.
THE FEAR: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? Turning Ground Zero into a
Profit Center. Why does Southold, New York, have machine guns on
SUVs at the casino ferry? Investigations of health insurance and
suicide bombings -- in other words, the fun chapter.
THE FLOW: Trillion Dollar Babies. If you thought George Bush had
a secret plan to seize Iraq's oil -- you're wrong. He had TWO
plans, and Armed Madhouse has both of them.
THE CLASS WAR: I go deeper into George Bush's crude system of
educational terror ("No Child's Behind Left"), Ken Lay's REAL
crimes for which he won't be tried and the story of New Orleans
you won't get on Fox Schnews. Here you'll get some complex
economics and a free ticket to the circus -- and the core issue
of the book: the war of the movers and shakers against the moved
and shaken.
Asia Times says, "Greg Palast, the man widely considered as the
top investigative journalist in the United States, is persona
non grata in his own country's media." But it's not ME that's
'non-grata' -- it's the information about the Washington regime
that is shut out of the mainstream press in the USA.
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.
Soon you can
download Jim Hightower, Larry David, Randi Rhodes, Amy Goodman
and other friends reading from Armed Madhouse at
www.GregPalast.com
When the inmates are running the asylum, arm yourself with the
facts.
Greg Palast & Team - New York | London
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