Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I would like to note that -- shortly before the 2020 election -- numerous large media outlets ratified the CIA lie that the documents on Hunter Biden's laptop were "Russian disinformation." Even today -- after the NYT & WPost both authenticated them -- not *one* has retracted it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LBJtheGreat_ They're not "mistakes." The idea of supporting despots and tyrants to better serve US interests has been explicitly policy for decades, and still is, and has been carried out on almost every continent on the planet. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SandBlastr09 Here 1) https://t.co/mjgY0kf9rr and: 2) https://t.co/yuZ44aWFHQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@brunostern Sinceramente, não entendo por que alguém iria querer negar que o isolamento social causa problemas mentais. Isso não é controverso. Todos os estudos mostram isso. A reportagem da Folha de hoje cita esse estudo da OMS que tem ainda mais dados sobre ele. https://t.co/CLaY06KMP3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@brunostern https://t.co/NtGx7sE2wm — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The US Government does not seek to spread democracy and combat despotism in the world. That's the propaganda used to sell every new war. The opposite is true: a staple of US foreign policy since the end of WW2 has been - still is - to *prop up* tyrannies to serve US interests. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is what was most maddening to me about the media narrative of the Trump years: how often things he did that were totally normal for all presidents was falsely depicted as an evil he pioneered. It wasn't just MbL but also Sisi. Remember this? https://t.co/fgrttwo1jT — PolitiTweet.org

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Did Joe Biden set a new record this week for most savage dictators embraced and praised by any one President in a single trip? Remember: these are not tyrants the US just "encounters". They're ones the US helped install and whose rule they work to preserve. https://t.co/Nk0pV4nVOS — PolitiTweet.org

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@scubas84 @Marco26981647 That has absolutely nothing to do with the argument I advanced, which was about speed limits, and how we are willing to accept higher speed limits even knowing that doing so will result in more deaths than if we substantially lowered the speed limit, which would save many lives. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brunostern Novamente, talvez seja um problema de linguagem, mas eu disse explicitamente que existem várias causas. Mas a pesquisa mostra que o que causou grande parte foi a interrupção da vida. Os humanos precisam de comunidade e conexão para serem saudáveis, e foram privados por 2 anos. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Marco26981647 You posted this comment within seconds after I posted the article, proving you didn't read it. I'd bet anything that you are incapable of summarizing even in the most basic manner the argument I made, and that would be true even if you had read the article you're condemning. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lachlan Of course. The reason I cited the West is because the pre-pandemic mental health trends I referenced, from the interviews and other reporting I did, was in the West. There's something about Western society that is failing to provides humans with what they need for mental health. — PolitiTweet.org

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@romulinotv Talvez seja um problema de idioma para vc em inglês, mas o ponto principal do que escrevi e das minhas próprias entrevistas foi que o problema de saúde mental já estava piorando antes da pandemia, mas que o isolamento e os bloqueios eram o que mais perigoso para torná-los piores. https://t.co/4Jg6cKHUlV — PolitiTweet.org

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What both Solomon and Hari stressed in that interview at the start of the pandemic was mental health pathologies in the West were skyrocketing before COVID. But one of the key treatments -- connection, community, purpose -- were those most at risk through isolation and shutdowns. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brunostern Talvez seja um problema de linguagem, mas eu disse explicitamente que os problemas estavam piorando muito antes do COVID. Mas o artigo da Folha e os especialistas que eles citam deixam claro o quanto as coisas pioraram com os últimos dois anos de isolamento por causa do COVID. https://t.co/NDMRthXRd4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@romulinotv Este é um artigo da Folha, não meu. E os especialistas em saúde mental são todos especialistas em saúde, não em ideologias de direita. A visão de que os problemas de saúde mental são triviais é doentia e perigosa. Destrói a vida das pessoas com suicídio, depressão e coisas piores — PolitiTweet.org

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In April, 2020, I interviewed 2 mental healths experts, the authors Andrew Solomon and @johannhari101. They both warned mental health in the West was already in severe crisis. Any sustained isolation or disruption of connection would radically worsen it. https://t.co/YA3gZVGeE9 — PolitiTweet.org

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This, by itself, does not prove lockdown and quarantines were wrong. A cost-benefit analysis of the risks and harms of each policy was required. But in the west generally, that analysis was largely off-limits, where the only cognizable cost was COVID. https://t.co/aaMBBRaTj6 — PolitiTweet.org

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As in so many other places, Brazil has seen a dramatic and tragic increase in mental health pathologies due to the COVID lockdowns: depression, anxiety, suicides. "We are moving out of the coronavirus pandemic and into a mental health pandemic." https://t.co/2ezP5XfipS — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/AvgM8i0qBa — PolitiTweet.org

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The tweets: https://t.co/LLva2CMmKY — PolitiTweet.org

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@PETEKEELEY Al Qaeda's justification for 9/11 was that American citizens deserve to die for the violent and aggressive acts of their government: the same argument you're using to justify calls for the deaths of all Russians. Good company. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PETEKEELEY The Hollywood Reporter sends its copy editor to justify genocide. — PolitiTweet.org

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Genocide advocate is the real victim. https://t.co/Oy6xFsRN6s — PolitiTweet.org

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@StreamLIVE_in4D Indeed: Rush Limbaugh was well known for accusing the US Security State of constantly lying. Criticizing the CIA and the corporate media means you're a right-wing fanatic. To be a liberal requires reverence for those entities. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Disinformation" is what liberal corporate media spreads, not what they combat. They -- and their allies in the US Security State -- use the term to mean: anything that questions or deviates from our decreed beliefs. That's the functional definition of the term. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/laOBFn4JA6 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

There was a mid-20th-Century ideology that also called for the extermination of all Russians and the destruction of Russia as a country. It's the same ideology that current-day Ukrainian national hero Stepan Bandera supported. https://t.co/kpirogK3o1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a nice tweet advocating the death of 144 million people by one of our inspiring democracy-loving Ukrainian partners.🇺🇦 Good thing Big Tech - always aligned with US foreign policy - changed its "content moderation" rules to allow advocacy of violence against Russians. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ComfortablySmug: Lmao https://t.co/TRmMoXngOT — PolitiTweet.org