Greg Palast

Rodney Ellis forged 750,000 ballots in an attempt to steal the election away from Donald Trump — or so say the MAGA-nauts.

Ellis supposedly did this dastardly deed all while running Harris County, which includes Houston.

I asked the alleged perp himself, County Commissioner Ellis, how he could possibly forge three-quarters of a million absentee ballots. At eight seconds per signature, it would take a normal human about 200 years to sign them all....

In one of my most elaborate undercover operations for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump’s attack on Iran. It was 2004 when I conned the Heritage Foundation and a James Baker operative into handing over the elaborate 323-page plan to keep the oil flowing from Iraq. The plan was secretly drafted BEFORE George W. Bush invaded.

In 2004, The State Department had told me that no plan existed for handling Iraq’s oil. I didn’t buy it. If we invaded California, we’d certainly have a plan for oranges and action films.

With lots of luck, with lots of bluff and BS, I got my hands on the confidential scheme. Here it was, the smash-and-grab plan for Iraq’s oil written in secret at the direction of oil industry bigshots headed by Baker, Bush Sr’s Secretary of State who, as a lawyer, represented Exxon and the Saudi monarchy....

For god’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday's FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warrant says the FBI wants the envelopes from the 2020 election to hunt for crimes. But that’s just the legal excuse for the storm trooping.

This is NOT, as the media seems to think, about Trump’s attempt to prove he won the 2020 race, as if he’s some political Captain Ahab trying to chase the Moby Dick of 2020 revenge.

This is all about 2026 and 2028. Look at a map. Fulton County is the heart of “Blacklanta.” And Atlanta is the electoral heart of Georgia. And Georgia is the swingiest of swing states. If Republicans don’t cut down the Black vote in Atlanta, they lose the crucial seat now held by Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff. And in 2028, the GOP, if they don’t suppress the vote in Fulton, they lose the White House. Fulton was the fulcrum of Trump’s loss in 2020 and could spell doomsday for Republicans in 2028....

The US press is confused. Nothing new there. They are confused about the Acting President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez.

The New York Times says Rodriguez “Went From Revolutionary to Trump’s Orbit.”

Oh no, she didn’t....

I’m sure my mom was proud to see me as the closing speaker at the No Kings Day rally in San Diego. While she couldn’t be there physically, she joined me in a symbolic manner: I brought with me the American flag that draped her coffin. I received the flag at her funeral, held with full military honors, recognizing her service as the first woman ever to join the US Coast Guard.

No Kings in San Diego was a helluva party, 50,000 celebrating — while at the same time fearing for — that delicate thing called democracy. A thousand American flags fluttered. America at its best. Hell, it could turn you into a patriot. I’m sure mom, a union organizer, schoolteacher, rights activist, and anti-fascist super-patriot, would have loved it.

Frederick Douglass would not have. I could see his ghost, with that astonishing mane of hair, shaking his head. ...