Greg Palast, MBA Biography
- Title:
- Author and Investigative Journalist
- Position:
- Con to the question "Was Ronald Reagan a Good President?"
- Reasoning:
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“You’re not going to like this. You shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone’s got to.
Ronald Reagan was a conman. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer…In Chaguitillo [Nicaragua], all night long, the farmers stayed awake to guard their kids from attack from Reagan’s Contra terrorists. The farmers weren’t even Sandinistas, those ‘Commies’ that our cracked-brained President told us were ‘only a 48-hour drive from Texas.’ What the hell would they want with Texas, anyway?
Nevertheless, the farmers, and their families, were Ronnie’s targets…
Killer, coward, conman. Ronald Reagan, good-bye and good riddance.”
“Killer, Con-Man, Coward: Good Riddance Gipper,” gregpalast.com, June 6, 2004
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Former Journalist, Harper’s magazine
- Former Journalist, Newsnight, BBC
- Former Investigative Reporter, Guardian
- Former Journalist, U.K. Observer
- Recipient, George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for BBC documentary Bush Family Fortunes, 2003
- Recipient, Peace and Justice Award, Office of the Americas
- Patron of the Philosophical Society, Trinity College
- Recipient, Path Breaking Investigative Journalism Award, Long Island Progressive Coalition
- First Place, Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism, Book Category, National Press Club
- Guerrilla of the Year, Guerrilla News Network
- Politics Story of the Year, Salon.com, 2001
- Recipient, Upton Sinclair Freedom of Expression Award, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Recipient, David Thomas Prize, Financial Times
- Education:
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- MBA, University of Chicago, 1976
- AB, Finance, University of Chicago, 1974
- Other:
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- For the BBC, investigated a “voter caging” operation from within the office of presidential advisor Karl Rove and reported on the disclosure of confidential US State Department pre-invasion plans for the oil fields of Iraq
- Independently uncovered and documented voter fraud in the 2000 presidential election
- Directed a fraud investigation of BP and Exxon for the Chugach Natives of Alaska after the grounding of the Exxon Valdez
- Worked for two decades as an investigator of corporate fraud
- Quoted in:
- Pro & Con Quotes: Was Ronald Reagan a Good President?