Greg Palast provides his own version of Season’s Greetings with a Tiny-Tim-size message of hope.

Good and Evil at the Center of the Earth:
A Quechua Christmas Carol
by Greg Palast
December 24th, 2007

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I know this is an incredibly simple story. Indians in white hats with their dead kids and oil millionaires in black hats laughing at kiddy cancer and playing musical chairs with oil assets.

But maybe it’s just that simple. Maybe in this world there really is Good and Evil.  Read more 

Here’s an interesting tidbit from a Josh Holland article of Alternet, where he really takes Palast to task. He says:

Imagine for a moment that you’re Felipe Calderón, a conservative trying to become the next president of Mexico, and you want to rig the election. To pull off your plan, you need a list of Mexican voters.

Here’s a simple question: would you want an accurate list of all registered voters that’s kept up-to-date by the federal election authorities, or would you want an old list from your buddy George W. Bush that’s at least 6 million voters short?

I know which one I’d want, but Greg Palast thinks it’s a toss-up.  Read more