In this edition of The Critical Hour, hosts Garland Nixon and Wilmer Leon talk to Greg Palast about the recent assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, and the trail of blood that leads back to the United States. The trio also discuss the socio-economic background against which this murder happened, and how the economy of this mineral and agriculturally rich Caribbean nation has been systematically stripped — and, to this end, its stability and security systematically undermined — by multinational corporations backed by the IMF, World Bank and the US government. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/mercenary-op-behind-haiti-assassination-tried-this-before/

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Haiti: The Trail of Blood That Leads Back to The U.S.

On Thursday, July 1, the Supreme Court gave states new latitude to impose restrictions on voting, using a ruling in a case from Arizona to signal that challenges to laws being passed by the Republican legislatures that make it harder for minority groups to vote would face a hostile reception from a majority of the justices. This was a six to three vote, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent. The decision was among the most consequential in decades on voting rights. And it was the first time the court had considered how a crucial part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 applies to restrictions that have a particular impact on people of color.

The Devastating SCOTUS Ruling Against Voting Rights

A little-noticed provision in Georgia’s new voting restriction law, SB202, threatens the rights of 364,000 voters. The new provision signed into law in March allows private citizens to challenge an “unlimited” number of other voters’ ballots. The result is that hundreds of thousands of voters individually targeted by a conservative group from Texas may not have their ballots counted in next year’s crucial US Senate race and the expected re-match for the Governorship between Stacey Abrams and incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/uncovered-illegal-attack-on-364000-georgia-voters/

Uncovered: Illegal Attack on 364,000 Georgia Voters

Who would have ever thought that it would be one lone Democratic Senator that would finally put an end our democratic voting system? The one person, one vote ideal we've been trying to achieve in this country. Maybe it's time now to make Joe Manchin’s name into a verb, as in “Manchining” — as in crippling a structural system of voting. As in, he “Manchined” the voting system, and can you believe it, he's a Democrat? In this week's edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin, Greg Palast and Dennis Bernstein talk about this and other insanities happening in the world of elections. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/is-it-time-we-made-manchin-a-verb/

Election Crimes Bulletin: Is it time we made Manchin a verb?

If you let Texans vote, and you stop gerrymandering them, it's not even a purple state, it's a deep blue state, but...

Texas: Are the Republicans going to sweep back in next year?

The poisoning of the environment can only happen because of the poisoning of politics. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/deepwater-horizon-corporate-homicide/

Deepwater Horizon: The Lies & Bribes That Keep Big Oil Flowing

#SB202: Follow the money… It's not just about letting black people vote, it’s about letting a progressive agenda advance. Jim Crow has been a profit center for corporate America for generations, and we're calling it out. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/hidden-horrors-in-the-georgia-vote-law/

SB202: Follow The Money – FlashPoints ECB

The only person who’s safe under Georgia’s new anti-voting law is Jim Crow. The bill’s 95 pages long and every page is a new horror show — it’s like Stephen King wrote it.

Fault Lines: SB202 — Jim Crow Horror Show

Even before this act of terror happened, I can’t overemphasize how brutal the voter suppression was aimed at the Asian-American community — particularly in Georgia. And when you don't have political power, you don't have protection. The intimidation factor is very high — and it's coming from the top. Learn More: https://www.gregpalast.com/voting-gangnam-style-the-rise-of-kim-crow/

Why Asian-Americans were the main target of GOP vote suppression in Georgia

The Asian-American community is the fastest growing community in Atlanta and it’s the one that put Warnock and Ossoff over the top — and that scares the hell out of Georgia Republicans. So the Asian-American community are the prime target of their vote suppression attacks — it’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.

Election Crimes Bulletin: It’s not just Jim Crow, now it’s Kim Crow.

The FBI is congratulating themselves on finding and arresting Capitol rioters — BUT WHY DID THEY LET THEM OUT OF THEIR CUSTODY IN THE FIRST PLACE? The FBI manual REQUIRES sealing off a murder crime scene — and arresting or at least getting the names and CELL PHONES with incriminating photos. Instead the rioters were given a f#@!ing police escort out of the crime scene. The investigation of January 6 must include the decision to let killers walk away — and FBI/police sympathy or even infiltration. Greg Palast on The Chip Franklin Show — March 12, 2021

#DCRiots: Why Did They Let The Perps Go?

For those of you who wanted to see Donald Trump skedaddled from the White House, this is the week you should be celebrating Thanksgiving giving thanks to Indigenous peoples for giving Biden the White House. The Native People’s vote provided the margin for Biden in Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona. In Arizona, for example, the Tohono O’odham nation voted 98% Democratic! If it were up to White folk, Trump would have walked away with Arizona, but Indigenous precincts in Navajo Nation lands reported a 60% to 90% vote for Biden-Harris. The Indigenous vote has been crucial before. In 2004, Native Nations gave John Kerry the votes he needed to win New Mexico and the presidency, but Kerry was never inaugurated… Because those native votes were never counted. That’s right. Never counted. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/gop-trail-of-tears/

GOP Trail of Tears: Giving Thanks to Indigenous Voters

The Trump Treasury has ordered the Federal Reserve to shut down its program backing loans to small business and local government. This is like Hitler in his bunker who ordered his minions to blow up bridges, railways and the electric system when his demise was clear. The difference is, that in Hitler’s case, even his Nazi underlings refused the order to sabotage their nation. This is no joke: it’s a program to push the American economy over a cliff by Inauguration Day. Sick, vindictive, treasonous.

In scorched earth move, Trump Treasury orders Fed to shut down essential loan guarantee program

The fight over what’s left of the soul of the Republican Party has moved from Washington DC to Georgia with the far right continuing to rally for Trump. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/white-power-and-the-recount/

The Far Right Fights for Trump

The Jon Ossoff / David Purdue race looks to me like a straight up steal. For example, in Gwinnett County, which is a suburban county of Atlanta, a staggering 30% of mail-in votes have been rejected, and we know it's overwhelmingly Democratic. There's also a massive number of provisional ballots that weren’t counted. I understand that it's 10,000 — at least — in Atlanta and the surrounding area. And we know 40% of all provisional ballots nationwide are thrown out. URGENT: We need to get ALL the 198,351 voters wrongly purged from Georgia's voter rolls reinstated/re-registered in time to vote in the January 5 run-off elections — registration deadline: Dec 7. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/how-to-stop-the-purge-from-stealing-the-georgia-runoff/

Georgia: Ossoff / Purdue race was a straight up steal

Greg Palast is an investigative reporter, whose news-breaking stories appear on BBC Television, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Rolling Stone Magazine. You can read and watch his reports at GregPalast.com. Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits," "Armed Madhouse," and the highly acclaimed "Vultures' Picnic." He is best known in the US for uncovering Katherine Harris' purge of black voters from Florida's voter rolls in 2000. Greg Palast is currently finishing the final frames of his new film on the upcoming theft of the 2016 election: "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits."

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