* Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller,  "Armed Madhouse" (Penguin 2006). When Palast, an investigator of corporate  fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism, 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 another  New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast is best  known in his native USA as the journalist who, for the Observer (UK), broke  the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from  voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to  his brother George. His 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 have  won him a record six "Project Censored" 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.] He returned to America to report for Harper's Magazine.* Greg Palast, says Noam Chomsky, "Upsets all the right people."* Palast won the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Award for his BBC  documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.* "Greg Palast is one of my  heroes. The last investigative reporter in America. In Armed Madhouse he  has the best inside story of the war inside the White House over the war in  Iraq, the battle between the neo-cons and Big Oil." -Robert F Kennedy Jr.  -Air America Radio* "Twisted and maniacal" -Katherine  Harris* "Doggedly independent, undaunted by power. His stories  bite, they're so relevant they threaten to alter history" -Chicago Tribune