Greg Palast and Ted Rall on their Latest Work and Ted's New Book "Snowden"

Continuing a Membership Drive tradition guest host Dave Mazza interviews investigative reporter Greg Palast and syndicated cartoonist and comics journalist Ted Rall about their latest work and Ted's new graphic biography "Snowden." The book is a portrait of a brave young man standing up to the most powerful government in the world and, if not winning, at least reaching a stand-off. His actions can inspire us all to measure our courage and listen to our consciences in asking ourselves what we might have done in his shoes.

Ted Rall  will be in Portland on Thursday, October 1st at 7:30 pm - Powells, 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse , The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures' Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review.
His film of his documentary reports for BBC Newsnight and Democracy Now! is called Vultures and Vote Rustlers.
Palast is known for complex undercover investigations, spanning five continents, from the Arctic to the Amazon, from Caracas to California, using the skills he learned over two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud.

Ted Rall, cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times, is America’s most widely-syndicated alternative editorial cartoonist. Twice the winner of the RFK Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Rall’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice and hundreds of other publications and websites. He is a regular contributor to MAD magazine.
Rall is also a ground-breaking comics journalist (an artist who reports the news using cartoons). He has filed award-winning comics journalism from Cuba, Myanmar, Kashmir, Afghanistan and recently the student protests that rocked Quebec during 2012.