Staying While Saying Good-Bye: A Personal Note from Greg Palast

Don't Leave Without Saying Good-Bye: A personal note from Greg Palast

by Greg Palast

Saturday, May 24, 2014

I wish my enemies to take note that my quadruple by-pass heart surgery three weeks ago was quite successful. My doctors say I can suit up for dragon-slaying in about six weeks. Bless you all for your thousands of healing notes and thoughts.

The day before going under the knife, I was reminded that, "You can't take it with you” – because the insurance company will take it first. (Bada-bing!) So, I invited my attorney to the cardiac unit (no kidding) to tweak my last will and testament – insuring that royalties to my books and films will continue to go the Palast Investigative Fund.

I truly wish you a long, happy and healthy life. But, alas, one day we all must shunt our mortal coils.

I am pleased to announce my new association with Al Jazeera for a series of in-depth globe-spanning investigative reports. It is a great honor to join with journalists whose inestimable courage I cannot hope to replicate, but whose high standards we will dignify with our best work. Al Jazeera: “Journalism is not a crime.”

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And, boy, can we use the help. Right now, our team is heading down to a state we can't name to dig into the latest in vote-theft shenanigans. A gaggle of secretaries of states, a bunch of Katherine Harris wannabes, have cooked up a devious scheme to knock out the votes of some 700,000 Asian-Americans. And it gets worse from there.

I am temporarily barred from pre-dawn stake-outs and hunts up the Congo River. But bad guys won't get a vacation: Zach, Nicole, Anthony, Lilly, Ms. Badpenny and the whole crew are taking up the sword while I recover and thank them.

And bless you all for keeping us clothed, fed and armed over the decade since our founding.

Live long and give'm hell,

- Greg Palast

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Greg Palast is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic.

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