- Palast Vs Coulter - Battle Of The Books
Begins
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- By Greg Palast
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- Today, Anne Coulter and I both launch
our books -- hers to promote the latest flavor of hate and militant ignorance;
mine -- 'Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, The Scheme
to Steal '08 and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War
-- the investigations, first broadcast on BBC, simply banned from US airways
and print. (There's no truth to the rumor Coulter chose to release
her book on 06-06-06 in honor of her father's birthday.)
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- I'm asking you to buy (or order) 'Armed
Madhouse' THIS WEEK, right NOW in fact.
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- Why right now? Amazon and
the industry have set up this Coulter vs. Palast 'launch week' as the Battle
of The Books: Can progressives match the forces of darkness (they
call them "conservatives")?
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- Coulter has a million-dollar Right Wing
campaign behind her -- thereby allowing her and other hate-salesmen to
control the media and the national discussion. The Coulter crew buys and
dumps massive amounts of books, buying her way onto the bestseller list.
I have only you.
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- Asia Times says, "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." But
it's not ME that's 'non grata,' it's the information about the Washington
regime -- that is shut out of the Fox-ified press. They may not count
ballots, but they sure as hell count sales. That's the blunt, ugly
truth of it: that's how you get the attention of America's media.
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- Pick up Armed Madhouse this week at your
local bookstore or through Amazon or Barnes and Noble You can get
to these from my website www.gregpalast.com/armedmadhouse/preorder.html
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- When my last book, The Best Democracy
Money Can Buy, was released, you made it a bestseller and, that ended the
silence over the theft of the 2000 vote. We broke through the electronic
Berlin wall of the American media.
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- The new book out today, Armed Madhouse,
details the fix of the 2004 election, the Bush Administration's confidential,
and surprising, plans for Iraq's oil, the untold story of the destruction
of New Orleans, the dark, misunderstood economics of the rise of the India-China
colossus, Ken Lay's unindicted co-conspirators and many more tales of the
current regime you won't get on your nightly news.
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- Don't be fooled by the fact that the
book is entertaining -- this is my most serious investigative reporting
yet, connecting Venezuela's petrodollars, 3.6 million missing ballots,
Thomas Friedman, Hurricane Katrina and, the death of General Motors and
the Arnold Schwarzenegger's tawdry little gatherings with Ken Lay.
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- The full title is 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. Welcome to the world of militarized greed, where America's
panic over lunatics with box-cutters has metastasized into a billion-dollar
fear industry, where Republicans sucking on Super-Sized Slurpees hunt dark-skinned
voters on 'caging lists' for elimination, and James Baker's fixer in alligator
boots sets up the grab for Iraq's oil on her way to the rodeo. Plus
50 illustrations, including several marked "secret" by the State
Department and a brilliant recipe for fish curry.
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- Hear excerpts from Armed Madhouse read
by Amy Goodman, Randi Rhodes, Larry David, Janeane Garofalo and others
at http://www.gregpalast.com/section/podcasts
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- Randi Rhodes calls it the "best
investigative reporting in America -- and the funniest." And
deadly serious at the same time. Please get their attention -- and
get it today. Yes, this is a hard sell for this book -- and for good
reason: I'm asked again and again, What can we DO? The answer
is, we can't do anything until we're INFORMED. We can't prevent the
theft of the '08 election until you know the crazy details of the theft
of '04. We can't shield ourselves from economic slaughter until we
have the hard, if hidden, facts of class conflict from the Sino-dollar
panic to the privatization of hurricane planning. That's why I wrote
this book: as a class war defense course.
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- And that's why Code Pink, Operation PUSH,
Ohio Citizens for Secure Elections, Democracy for America affiliates and
a score of other front-line organizations are sponsoring the Armed Madhouse
book tour.
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- The ARMED MADHOUSE TOUR BEGINS TONIGHT.
I will be traveling to twenty cities across the US to meet with you during
teach-ins, which will expose economic piggery so deep and devious you'll
just have to scream or cry - or laugh.
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- For a list of cities and locations, see
the end of this email or go to: http://www.gregpalast.com/madhouse/index.php/tour/tour-dates/
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- For sponsors and sponsorship info, go
to: http://www.gregpalast.com/armedmadhouse/madhousesponsors.html
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- Armed Madhouse Table of Contents here:
http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=495
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- Read an excerpt from Armed Madhouse:
http://www.gregpalast.com/madhouse/index.php/category/excerpts
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- Armed Madhouse Tour:
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- Tue. June 6. San Francisco
- Wed. June 7. Berkeley
- Wed. June 7. Santa Rosa
- Thurs. June 8. Seattle
- Fri. June 9. San Francisco
- Fri. June 9. Los Angeles
- Sat. June 10. San Diego
- Sun. June 11. Chicago
- Mon. June 12. Washington D.C.
- Tue. June 13. NYC
- Wed. June 14. NYC
- Thur. June 15. Boulder
- Fri. June 16. Denver
- Sat. June 17. Albuquerque
- Sun. June 18. Austin
- Mon. June 19. Houston
- Tue. June 20. Columbus
- Thur. June 21. Albany
- Fri. June 23. Atlanta
- Sat. June 24. Tampa
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- Details at http://www.gregpalast.com/madhouse/index.php/tour/tour-dates/
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