Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KhalifaTaluqdar Which words do you need help with? Our NGO in Rio is now designing after-school classes to teach community residents English, so I've been working with the teachers a lot, and would be happy to walk you through whichever words you're struggling to comprehend. Bro. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Here again is the marriage between neocons and left-liberals so relevant, central even. This has always been the defining tactic of neocons: accuse anyone who opposes their war policies of being traitors. So of course their liberal allies now do the same https://t.co/5AwSJq9Y9W — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And again: these are the same people who want Big Tech to censor their critics because "disinformation" is so harmful. They whine in columns and on MSNBC if a random tweeter says something mean to them. Then they lie and smear with impunity, and their in-group thinks it's noble. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Neoliberal elites who casually, publicly and with *no evidence* accuse dissenters of being "Russian agents" or "Kremlin assets" should pay for that, should be sued. A fund to enable lawsuits over this by their victims would be useful. Defamation is not protected by the 1 Am. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

People like @AVindman are absolute scumbags. They should be sued. Hillary Clinton, who never served anyone but herself, did it to @TulsiGabbard. And, of course, these career liars are the ones who want to censor the internet to stop "disinformation": as they smear reflexively. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Anyone who questions US foreign policy or the bullshit premises of Russigate has been labelled a "Russian agent" or "Kremlin asset." I don't mean by random Twitter trolls. The NBC/CNN/DNC crowd does it routinely, along with their CIA and FBI colleagues. No evidence needed. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This shit has been going on for years. DC neoliberal elites have assigned themselves license to lie and defame anyone who dissents from neoliberal orthodoxy as "Russian agents" or "Kremlin assets." At least McCarthy and Hoover would hold hearings to do this. They just assert it. https://t.co/rwrRtPLWMA — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The marriage between neocons and left-liberals (meaning the areas where leftists and liberals align: now most places) began with Russiagate. But this was always the key: Russiagate wasn't just a dumb domestic scandal but also, way more importantly, a foreign policy/CIA campaign. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

One of the most significant Trump-era developments was the re-migration of neocons back to the Dem Party. This did not happen because neocons changed. They haven't changed. The Dem Party - and their liberal-left followers - just became fully aligned with neocons on most issues. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Speaking of which, read this good and important Newsweek essay from @DavidSacks on the full-scale marriage between neocons and the cultural liberal-left. They pretended for awhile it was just an anti-Trump coalition; it's far more enduring than that: https://t.co/5AwSJq9Y9W — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That was the point of this thread. Dissent on the US role in Ukraine comes only from right-wing media and the populist parts of the GOP caucus (with the exception of a few left-wing writers), because there is no "US left" separate from the Dem Party: https://t.co/zddcVtcqgW — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The view Chomsky is expressing here is the standard one for the international left (and the populist right) in most of the world. But in the US, you'll almost never hear any left-liberal of prominence say this because the US really doesn't have "a left": it just has Democrats. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ketchmeifucan @kennardmatt Ciro and his party both endorsed Lula. My husband said in an interview in June: if the run-off were between Lula and Bolsonaro, he'd be on the street every day campaigning for Lula dressed in red (PT's color). Do you see how you're opining on things about which you know nothing? https://t.co/D1TsR6aa1h — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And these events highlight the surreal part of my work: for all the endless claims of how I've chaaaanged, things like this article (👆) and creating @FreedomofPress for WL show I've been working against the same authoritarian threats for years. What changed is who supports them https://t.co/UtAed2K2II — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is why we created the @FreedomofPress Foundation in 2012: me, @DanielEllsberg, Laura Poitras, @trevortimm, others: to circumvent this extra-judicial punishment and allow WL to keep getting donations. In 2011, I warned how dangerous this scheme was: https://t.co/VyDo2hsmcF — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

On Paypal's leading censorship role, this is key history many have forgotten. In 2010, Joe Lieberman pressured banks and financial services companies to cut off WikiLeaks after it published docs on US war crimes. They all complied, starting with Paypal: https://t.co/JQ4DGAQKjc — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ketchmeifucan @kennardmatt If the Economist is "the voice of billionaires," why are they endorsing Lula to be President of Brazil? Also, if you were only referring to the Economist, not to me, why did you link to a thread that was all about me but had nothing to do with the Economist? That seems weird. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@NcbraskyJed @aaronjmate @MacaesBruno Do you know what his job is? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@aaronjmate @MacaesBruno My strong belief is that @MacaesBruno is destined one day to be named the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. https://t.co/RbEPVzrCDV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It continues to be the height of dark irony that the very same people who can't stop glorifying themselves as the courageous vanguards against "fascism" are those cheering this union of state and corporate power to punish dissent. That's what Big Tech censorship is, too. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is absolutely one of the new frontiers of state/corporate censorship: punishing dissidents in the West through exclusion from the financial system. Justin Trudeau froze the bank accounts of trucker protests with no due process. This is their future: https://t.co/TneuEPMOsZ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I believe Paypal's claim that it was an "error" to publish a policy saying they'd steal $2,500 from anyone whose opinions it disliked -- only because they weren't ready to publish it yet and weren't ready for the backlash that harmed their stock price: https://t.co/zgbmfaRprs — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Paypal has been leading this truly dangerous effort to banish people from the financial system for expressing dissent from neoliberal orthodoxies. They partnered with @ADL - a standard DNC/liberal group - to identify "extremists" who deserve to be banned. https://t.co/kHZwHHqZgw — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@vidrrv Should people paid by the CIA also be imprisoned at the Hague? Should David Frum, Jeffrey Goldberg, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have been imprisoned at the Hague for advocating for the invasion in Iraq? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's urgent that we take everyone who sees the war in Ukraine differently than @MacaesBruno does and imprison them as war criminals at the Hague -- so that he can succeed in his heroic, world-historic fight for freedom and democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KentuckianaJonz @jonbinstead @kennardmatt @declassifiedUK Did you tell the Brazilian government that I had nothing to do with this reporting when they were trying to imprison me for the reporting? Or when Bolsonaro was threatening me with prison over the reporting? https://t.co/D9qi8xUoVI — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ketchmeifucan @kennardmatt The Economist endorsed Lula. They also have been condemning Bolsonaro for years. They're on your side. Why would you think they would fabricate polling data to help a candidate they hate? And what does anyone of that have to do with me? https://t.co/VCy3nNKMzT — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@jonbinstead @kennardmatt I'm an adviser to @declassifiedUK. Beyond that, you check to see why Lula is able to run this year. But how can you be so stupid as to realize that he's not citing me as the source, but the Economist's polling data as the source? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ketchmeifucan @kennardmatt Yeah, I probably altered the charts published by the Economist and they don't realize that I did this. The charts really show Lula winning by 23 points, but I was able to hack into the Economist's data base, move it to 50/50, and nobody but you realized this. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AntiWarParty1 @TheEconomist I'm sorry that what you were taught to believe is in conflict with reality, but the Economist has been vocally anti-Bolsonaro going back to 2018. Here, from 2018: "Jair Bolsonaro, Latin America’s latest menace He would make a disastrous president." https://t.co/LyUHHz2Gcq https://t.co/hSdhMgK0NB — PolitiTweet.org