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Razor sharp research shows why every US citizen should be quaking in their boots Metro, Books of the Year Bill Hicks with a press pass The ListAward-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about the haves and have-mores who rule our world America. Here he reports from behind enemy lines to reveal just how bad it s got in a dangerous regime: how elections are bought and free speech comes at a price. How citizens are ruled by fear. And how our brave new globalized world means the poor get hammered, while corporations silently buy up the planet. It s not pretty but it s all true Palast is one of the few journalists writing who has both the anger and the wit to offer himself up as a persuasive and more importantly, readable voice of the left Observer A rollercoaster ride from Baghdad to New Orleans and Osama bin Laden s cave to the back rooms of the Pentagon Big Issue Very funny For anyone who thinks that no-one from the US knows what s going on, Palast is the perfect riposte Guardian