The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. 
This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades.
For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller-a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman-to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil.
With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write-and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process.

Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores

Business & Money

Greg Palast

Economics

Dutton/Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Armed Madhouse

History

Americas

ALLEN LANE (PENG)

A six-time winner of the Project Censored Award draws on his work as a BBC undercover journalist to discuss such topics as the War on Terror, the republican agenda for the 2008 election, and media practices that are keeping the Bush Administration's practices from getting reported by the mass media. Simultaneous.

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

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Simon & Schuster Audio

Sterling (editor of the online publication The Konformist) offers a concise polemic on why George W. Bush "has something to anger everyone." He distills his reasons into 50 short sections declaring everything from "he stole the election" to he's a "wimp" and a "dumbass." Many of the separate topics could conceivably have been grouped under single headings, such as the various corporate scandals, different aspects of the 2000 election theft, attacks on civil liberties, separate pieces of the Iraq war, and charges of complicity with 9-11. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

50 Reasons Not to Vote for Bush

Sam Smith

Sterling, Robert

Lydia Lunch

Robbie Conal

Matt Taibbi

Feral House

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