The Best Democracy Money Can Buy ^{2nd Ed.}

Globalization is all about free trade and helping the poor. Big business is a force for good. The candidate with the most votes win. Right?

Wrong on all counts. And Greg Palast has found the documents that prove it. One of the world's most fearless investigative reporters, Palast has spent the last five years finding out what is really going on in politics and big business in Britain and America.

The result is the one book George Bush and Tony Blair don't want you to read. in it he reveals exactly how Bush stole the Presidency, how New Labour has prostituted itself to business, and how an alliance of fixers, criminals and idiot academics are making the world safe for international capital, and very unsafe for human beings. Whatever you know — or think you know — his discoveries make for explosive reading.

• Who Gives a Shit? An introduction to the New British and Commonwealth Edition

1. Jim Crow in Cyberspace: The Unreported Story of How They Fixed the Vote in Florida
   In the days following the presidential election, there were so many stories of African Americans erased from voter rolls you might think they were targeted by some kind of racial computer program. They were.
2. The Democracy Money Can Buy: The Bushes and the Billionaires Who Love Them
   Who owns America? How much did it cost? Was the transaction cash, check or credit card?
3. California Reamin': Deregulation and the Power Pirates
   Jake Horton borrowed the company plane to confront his company's board of directors over accounting games and illegal political payments. Minutes after takeoff, the plane exploded.
4. Sell the Lexus, Burn the Olive Tree: Globalization and its Discontents
   A cache of secret documents from inside the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organization explains the inner workings of the iron triangle of globalization.
5. Inside Corporate America
   Fifteen thousand stockholders believe they hear Sam Walton speak months after he is dead — and other strange tales from Planet Dollar.
6. Pat Robertson, General Pinochet, Pepsi-Cola and the Anti-Christ: Special Investigative Reports
   Award-winning investigative reports
7. Lobbygate: Cash for Access, Blair and the Sale of Britain
   My bald head took up the entire front page of the Mirror under the headline 'THE LIAR'. Did I upset some? When Tony Blair came to power, I set up an undercover sting to expose New Labour's kasbah in influence at 10 Downing Street.
8. Small Towns, Small Minds
   I live in one of those lovely little rural villages in America that still preserve good old American small-town virtues. So why has our local newspaper written two editorials requesting I get the hell out?
9. Kissing the Whip: Reflections of An American in King Tony's Court
   Napoleon said that England is a nation of shopkeepers, but then the Little Corporal never tried to purchase dietary staples (organic milk, Red Bull) from Tesco's in Islington. They'll always be an England, but is that a good idea?

• Appendix: Your Turn — Resources For Action

If this doesn't change your views, you're either an extreme cynic or to stupid to care.