by Greg Palast
North Korea and atomic bomb
North, Oliver
Northrop Grumman
Norway
NPR News
Oakley, Robert
Obaid, Nawaf
Observer
Occidental Petroleum
Office of Net Assessment, repairing information not conforming to George W. Bush’s bias
Office of Special Plans
Ohio
oil fields of Iraq (The Flow)
Gulf Wars history
Middle East, competing visions
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)
“Peaking Oil” theory (“Hubbert’s Peak”)
Plan A: In and Out in Three Days
suppressing Iraqi oil production
See also Hussein, Saddam
Oil-for-Food Program
O.I.L. (Operation Iraqi Liberation). See also oil fields of Iraq (The Flow)
oil projections, paying for war in Iraq
oil wars and class war
Okinawa
Oklahoma City bombing
Oliphant, Miriam
“199-I” document (“national security matter”)
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries). See also oil fields of Iraq (The Flow)
“Operation Eagle Eye”
Operation Iraqi Freedom. See also Operation Iraqi Liberation
Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.). See also oil fields of Iraq (The Flow)
Options for a Sustainable Iraqi Oil Industry
O’Reilly, Bill
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). See also oil fields of Iraq (The Flow)
“Ostblock” (Soviet sphere of influence)
outsourcing I.T. to India
overtime pay, losing
“overvotes” uncounted
“ownership” society
Pakistan, aided by U.S.
Palacio, Alfredo
Palestine
Palm Beach, Florida
paper ballots vs. computer voting
Paris, France (Hotel Monceau) 1996 meeting
Parry, Robert
Pascarella, Matt
“Patents” (Order Number 81)
“Peaking Oil” theory (“Hubbert’s Peak”). See also oil fields of Iraq (The Flow)
pensions
Perkins, John
Perle, Richard
Perot, Ross
petro-dollars
Pfizer
Philippines
Pinochet, Augusto
pizza delivery, threats from
Plan A: In and Out in Three Days. See also oil fields of Iraq (The Flow)
Plan B: Especially the Oil
Poland
“poll taxes”
poor
Powell, Colin
power market deals
Prausa, Randall
price-fixing
price increases of oil, economic devastation from
“private rights of action”
privatization
Iraq’s oil reserves
Iraq’s state-owned companies
schools (U.S.)
Social Security
voting system (U.S.)
production limits (“quotas”) as power source of OPEC
productivity vs. wages
profit sharing agreements (PSAs)
profits of Big Oil (record-busting) and Iraq War
Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
protection, paid for by Saudi Arabia
provisional ballots rejected
provisional Democrats
Public Service of New Mexico (PNM)
Public Utility Holding Company Act
Putin, Vladimir
Quanrud, Pam
Quay County, New Mexico
“quotas” as power source of OPEC
race and votes uncounted
Rather, Dan (lynching of)
Reagan-Bush Frankenstein Factory
Reagan, Ronald
recounting votes, impossible with computer voting
“Red Line Agreement”
Redstone, Sumner
“reform,” opposition to
Reform Party
refugees, America as nation of
registration switches to Republican Party
Rehnquist, William
Reich, Otto
Reid, Harry
Reliant
reserves of oil
“restructuring” the debts of Iraq
“revaluation”
Rhode, Harold
Rhodes, Randi
Rice, Condoleezza
rich
Richardson, William
“Ricochet” scam
Rio Arriba County, New Mexico
Robertson, Absalom Willis
Robertson, Pat
Roche
Rodriguez, Ali
Rolling Stone
Romero, Ruben
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Ross, Wilbur
Rove, Karl
Royal Dutch/Shell
global economic conflict (The Network)
OPEC and
“Peaking Oil” theory
profits of Big Oil (record-busting) and Iraq War
suppressing Iraqi oil production
Rubin, Robert
Rumsfeld, Donald
Russia
Safire, William
Sago of West Virginia
Salling, Mark
Sancho, Ion
“Sanctions” program of the West
San Francisco Chronicle, The
San Jose Mercury News
Saudi Arabia
bomb-for-Islam
George W. Bush and
Islamic charities, money from
James A. Baker, III and
oil reserves, increase in value
protection, paid for by
removing U.S. troops from, Osama bin Laden’s mission
Taliban and
See also OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
Saudi National Security Assessment Project
Scandinavia
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Securities and Exchange Commission
Sen, Amartya
September 11 terrorist attacks
Sequoia Voting Systems, Inc.
Serono SA
Shia “dogs” (Iranians), removing (bin Laden)
sino dollars
60 Minutes
Smith, Derek
Smith & Wesson
Snow, John
“socialist” states
Social Security privatization
soldiers and “unvotes”
Solomon Smith Barney
Soros, George
Southold, New York
“sovereign debt”
Soviets, removing from Afghanistan (bin Laden)
Soylent Green (movie)
“spoiled” votes. See also election manipulations of 2004 and 2008
Springman, Michael
Sproul & Associates
Stalin, Joe
Standard Chartered Back of London
Standard Oil
Stans (Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan) as model for Iraq
state oil company for Iraq
State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) of Iraq
stealing votes electronically (hacking)
Steen, Willie
Stiglitz, Joseph
Strategic Investor Sales (SIS)
“strategic neglect,” computer voting
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Strauss, Leo
Sulzbacher Center
Súmate
Supplemental Educational Services (SES)
suppressing Iraqi oil production. See also oil fields of Iraq (The Flow)
SYColeman
T
alabani, Jalal
Taliban and U.S.
Tallahassee, Florida
Taos Pueblo (Precinct 13)
tax cut on war profits, George W. Bush
tax on gasoline, indirect
“Tax Strategy for 2003” (Order Number 37)
Ten Minutes from Normal (Hughes)
terror color code and security
terrorist attack in future
Terrorist, speaking
Texas Air Guard
Texas felon voters
Thatcher, Margaret
Thornburgh, Dick
Tierney, John
TomPaine.com
“tort reform”
Total Information Office
touch screens
trade deficit
“Trade Liberalization Policy” (Order Number 12)
Treasury Bills
Trento, Joe
tribal rivalries in Iraq and America
“Turn Ordinary Tap Water Into Hydrogen Fuel,” George W. Bush
$20 dollar bill, details of September 11 terrorist attacks
Ulum, Ibrahim Bahr al-
Ulum, Muhammed Bahr al-
UN-AMERICAN, George W. Bush
uncounted votes. See also “caging lists”; computer voting; election manipulations of 2004 and 2008 (The Con); Election 2008; felon voters; “unvotes”
“undervotes” uncounted
unions
United Auto Workers
United Nations Oil embargo
University of California at Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Nottingham
Unocal Oil
untapped oil fields
“unvotes”. See also election manipulations of 2004 and 2008 (The Con)
upper middle class
“usages” of war
USA PATRIOT act
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
“value-added tax” (VAT)
Venezuela
Verleger, Philip
veterans’ benefits
Viacom Corp.
Vigil-Giron, Rebecca
Virginia-class U-boat to land Marines (“Marines in a Tube”)
visa applications, suspicious issuing of
Voter Action New Mexico
voter ID cards
Voter Outreach
votes, manipulating. See election manipulations of 2004 and 2008 (The Con)
voting-industrial complex
voting machines used
placement, impact
uncounted votes and
“unvotes” and
See also computer voting
Voting Rights Act of 1965
vouchers, school
Wackenhut Inc.
Wage and Hour Law
Wall Street Journal, The
Wal-Mart
Walnut Creek (February 2001) meetings
Walton, Robson
Walton, Sam
Wanniski, Jude
war in Iraq (cost of), paid by oil
War on Terror?
war profiteering
Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies
Washington, George
Washington, Lonnie
Washington Post
Wasserman, Harvey
wealth, flowing to wealthy
Weber, Vin
Whitacre, Mark
White Citizens Council of the Old Confederacy
WhiteHouse.org
White, Joseph
Williams Company
Wilson, Terry
“winding down”
Witt, James Lee
Wohlstetter, Albert
Wolfensohn, James
Wolff, Edward
Wolfowitz, Paul
Wooden, John A.
Wood, Pat, III
Woodward, Bob
working conditions in world
World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) investigation
World Bank
global economic conflict (The Network)
Middle East, competing visions
World is Flat, The (Friedman)
World Privacy Forum
world, tilted. See also global economic conflict (The Network)
Wronowski, John
Wu, Harry
“Yellow Peril” (China)
Young, Scott
yuan, revaluing
Zapolsky, Sarah
Zig-Zag
Zinn, Howard
Zweig, Michael
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
When Greg Palast, an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism in 1997, he was quickly recognized as “the most important investigative reporter of our time” (Tribune magazine) in Britain, where his first reports appeared on BBC Television and in the Guardian newspapers.
Author of The New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast is best known in his native USA as the journalist who broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black citizens from Florida’s voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George. Palast’s reports on the theft of election 2004, the spike of the FBI investigations of the bin Ladens before September 11, the secret State Department documents planning the seizure of Iraq’s oil fields and other exposés have won him a record six “Project Censored” prizes for reporting the news American media doesn’t want you to hear. “The top investigative journalist in the United States is persona non grata in his own country’s media” (Asia Times). In 2005, he returned to America to report for Harper’s magazine.