The 1% who get the gold mine (we get the shaft)
October 23rd, 2011Published on Greg Palast, by Greg Palast, October 20, 2011.
… No one here in Zuccotti Park is protesting Wall Street. Wall Street is just an address, just a street sign on a post. The 99% Movement is about Them:
- the 1%. The 1% who own Wall Street and all our streets and have posted a foreclosure notice on the entire planet.
- The 1% who get the gold mine while we get the shaft.
- For five years, I’ve been quietly working on a four-continent investigation about Them, the 1%.
- I’ve put it all in a new book.
I could have called it Lives of the Rich and Shameless, but I’ve chosen this: Vultures’ Picnic — in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores … (full text and more).
Links:
Vultures’ Picnic on amazon for pre-order;
Behind every official story … is the secret history, two non-fiction blockbusters;
The Narco News Bulletin, reporting on the Drug War And Democracy from All America.