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Greg Palast
American journalist
Gregory Allyn Palast (born June 26, )[1] is an author and a freelance journalist who has often worked for the BBC and The Guardian.
Greg Palast was born on June 26, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2016).His work frequently focuses on corporatemalfeasance but he has also worked with labour unions and consumer advocacy groups.
Early life, family, and education
Palast was born in Los Angeles, growing up in the San Fernando Valley community of Sun Valley.
Geri Palast is his sister.
Palast said his desire to write about class warfare is rooted in his upbringing in the "ass-end of Los Angeles," a neighborhood wedged between a power plant and a dump. He said that kids in that neighborhood had two choices: Vietnam or the auto plant.
"We were the losers," he said.
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He was saved from the war by a favorable draft number. "A lot of people didn't make it out. Because I made it out, and my sister (Geri, a former Clinton administration assistant secretary of labor) made it out, I feel I have this obligation to t