Get Your Tix NOW for Saturday's Palast Appearance in ABQ

Greg Palast at Voter Action fundraiser, Corrales NM, 5.20.05

The world renowned investigative reporter Greg Palast will be in downtown Albuquerque this Saturday, June 17, at 7:00 PM, at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 318 Silver Avenue SW. He'll be discussing and signing his powerful new book, Armed Madhouse, and speaking about the latest in BushCo madness. Check out our previous post for background. Democracy for New Mexico is one of the community sponsors for this event, along with the Albuquerque Center for Peace & Justice, KUNM-FM, the League of Independent Voters and Voter Action.

Tickets: Tickets are the price of one book ($25.95 plus tax) purchased from Bookworks or at the event and are going fast, so get yours NOW. You can avoid long lines by purchasing your book/ticket ahead of time by phone from Albuquerque's Bookworks at 505-344-8139. You can then pick it up at the event. Ticket/book purchasers can buy a companion ticket for $10—which can be used for a $5 discount on the book at the event only.

Friday Radio Interview: Greg Palast will be interviewed by Brad Hockmeyer live on KTAO Radio FM 101.9, Taos, NM on Friday, June 16th at 9:30 AM MDT. This has been booked as a generous 25 minute interview. Presently down but possible available on Friday is streaming live video. Armed Madhouse includes discussion of electronic voting machine snafus and other 2004 election problems in New Mexico, and Palast may well discuss some of them during this interview.

And here's a recent interview with Greg published in the Alibi.

 
From Greg Palast: ANNE COULTER AND I HAVE BOTH LAUNCHED OUR BOOKS THIS WEEK -- 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 -- reports the unvarnished truth about today's political climate here and around the world.(There's no truth to the rumor Coulter chose to release her book on 06-06-06 in honor of her father's birthday.)

I'm asking you to buy (or order) Armed Madhouse THIS WEEK, right NOW in fact. 

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")?

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.

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.

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.

Hear excerpts from Armed Madhouse read by Amy Goodman, Randi Rhodes, Larry David, Janeane Garofalo and others at https://www.gregpalast.com/section/podcasts.