- Political corruption, Corrupt practices, Corporations, Corporations, corrupt practices
Investigative journalist Palast digs deep to unearth the ugly facts that few reporters working anywhere in the world today have the courage or ability to cover. From East Timor to Waco, he has exposed some of the most egregious cases of political corruption, corporate fraud, and financial manipulation in the US and abroad.
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- Author
- Greg Palast
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Pluto Press, Plume, Robinson
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841197142
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“You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.”
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