The BLOG BOOK CLUB

Written by: ChrisNYC on Jun 19, 2006 7:36 PM EDT

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THE BLOG BOOK CLUB

WHAT: Armed Madhouse, by Greg Palast

WHEN: Wednesday JUNE, 28th, 7:00pm

GUEST BLOGGER: Greg Palast

WHERE: www.BlogForAmerica.com

HOW: Just go on BlogforAmerica.com and go to the comments section in the Blog Book Club blog Post from Greg Palast. Greg will be answering our questions in the comment section. Remember to refresh so you don't miss anything. Also, please post a comment NOW in this DFA Link section to suggest our next book, and let us know you will be joining us for the June 28th event. Note, if you can't swing the cost of the book, email me and I can send you a free copy.

IMPORTANT: If you haven't read Armed Madhouse yet, Join Us anyway, we will be posting relevant sections of the book that you can read and thus join in the conversation :-)

Thanks- ChrisNYC ( Christy)
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Greg Palast the BBC investigative reporter, and author of 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy', has an important new book out 'Armed Madhouse, Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Class War'. Just as his last book kicked open the debate on the manipulation of US elections, this book, currently on the New York Times Best Seller list, can do the same duty and more with expanded exposes on topics including this administrations education, energy, corporate fraud and war policies.

The information in Armed Madhouse identifies and explores crucial issues we can use to raise awareness and to frame the most important issues of today and tomorrow.

What People are Saying About Armed Madhouse...

"Everyone must read this book"-- Jesse Jackson, Jr. Rainbow PUSH

"Greg Palast taught me how they are going to try and steal this election"-- Gregory Moore, Exec. Dir. NAACP, newly appointed Director of Voting Rights Institute, DNC

"This book is our Weapon of Massive Instruction. Read it and use it. Armed Madhouse is subtitled, 'Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War' -- For all its humor, I find the book a serious resource of information for action and organizing, covering war, oil, economic struggle and globalization."-- Medea Benjamin, Founder CODE PINK

"The top investigative journalist in America and the funniest"-- Randi Rhodes, Air America Radio

"When I was under attack, and lies piled on lies, BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast defended me and the truth. His new book, Armed Madhouse, is more truth to throw in the face of their lies."--Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

"Gripping, provocative, inspiring"--John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

ARMED MADHOUSE,
Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Class War

This is an autopsy of what happened to the American dream"¦
Greg Palast tells us how elections manipulations, Social Security chicanery, oil wars, Hurricane Katrina and Chinese yuan are interlinked, all pieces of the same puzzle: Class Warfare -- the war of the movers and shakers on the moved and shaken. Those with wealth and power have the ability to control--and do control our democracy, our economy and all too often our government. And it doesn't stop at our borders....

Voting Fraud Looking back at 2004, and forward to more tricks for 2006 and 2008. How two million of John Kerry's votes were stolen, the plan in '08 for four million ballots to go missing, and how it will be done.

Iraq Greg Palast reveals two secret plans he obtained that explain the battle between neo-cons and Big Oil that keeps our troops under fire. Why Saddam had to go. An historic perspective on the suppression of Iraq's oil for the last 80 years and its continuation to the present day.

The Great Voucher Hoax from "No Child's Behind Left". The class war in the class room rages on. According to No Child Left expert Scott Young, 76% of the money handed out for Arizona's voucher program has gone to children already in private schools. In other words, the $1,000 check from the state turned into a $1,000 subsidy for wealthy parents, a $1,000 discount on private schools for the privileged. How astonishing: A program touted as a benefit for working-class kids that turns into a subsidy for rich ones.

Nightmare of NAFTA How 95% of Americans are being left behind in this new world order run like a company town. The decimation of autoworkers and General Motors and how it's just the beginning. The truth about globalization, straight from the vaults of the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO.

Hurricane Katrina 1927 revisited. How the great flood of 1927 led to FDR's "New Deal", how it was taken away, and New Orleans drowned again. The privatization of the New Orleans' evacuation and Palast's search for the elusive plan.

Economics 101 The complex economics of how the threat to your social security relates to the ballooning trade deficit with China. How Bush needs to remain best friends with Saudi Arabia to finance his trillion dollar debt.

Hugo Chavez How the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is sitting on the largest pool of oil in the world and is refusing to play by America's petro-dollar rules. Bypassing Wall Street, Chavez is setting himself up as a Latin American mini IMF, and why Chavez has good reason to take Pat Robertson's

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Greg Palast, says Britain's Tribune Magazine, "is the most important investigative reporter of our time." His investigative reports for BBC Television's prestigious Newsnight, his reports for the Guardian papers and, in the USA, for Harper's Magazine have earned him journalism's top prizes abroad; however, notes Asia Times, "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." Best known in the states for the investigations behind Michael Moore's film 9-11, his book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the Eminem video "Mosh," Palast is recipient of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Freedom of Expression Prize -- and a record six Project Censored awards from California State University -- for crucial stories that appear worldwide but not in the USA.

Palast, author of a seminal United Nations study of energy prices, combines academic credentials, satire and hard, old-fashioned investigative reporting. As the Baltimore Chronicle says, "No one has investigated the Bush clan like Greg Palast -- and lived to write about it."

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