Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The easiest, surest way to rise in US corporate media is to be an unvarnished cheerleader for US wars. Jeffrey Goldberg was the leading Iraq War liar at @NewYorker in 2002. Rather than being run out of the profession, they made him Editor of the Atlantic. https://t.co/sCFFN62mkD — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Punishing *political dissent* by excluding people from the financial system is now a common tactic of Western power centers. Trudeau radically escalated this with due-process-free bank account freezes for those "associated" with a protest he disliked. But it's way beyond that. https://t.co/nRAVMJ3Swa — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The war in Ukraine has elevated the West's online censorship regime to all new levels of extremism. Anyone who deviates or dissents from the US/NATO consensus isn't just being banned by Big Tech but also excluded from the financial services network: banned by Paypal, Venmo, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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😂 I will believe, in an attempt to maintain some residual faith in humanity, that the state officials forced to write blatant absurdities like this -- still calling Juan Guaido the "interim President" of Venezuela -- have to suppress laughter and embarrassment as they do it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jrcrawley Adam can meet up and fly with one of his heroes: the Ghost of Kyiv. — PolitiTweet.org

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I volunteer Max Boot for the job. Imagine how bizarre the universe would be if Max Boot -- who has built his tawdry career vocally cheering every single US war: actual and imagined -- finally got near one of those wars he obsessively wants to send other Americans to fight in: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tomphillipsin: Hundreds of indigenous citizens marching through Atalaia do Norte now to demand justice for Bruno and Dom https://t.co/6… — PolitiTweet.org

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There's some conflicting reports now about whether there's confirmation of their bodies being found. Dom's wife said police informed her they were. Indigenous activists say it's not confirmed. I hope there's still hope, but the news is clearly grim: https://t.co/wk4zDejHzt — PolitiTweet.org

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There will be indignation and demands for justice, but it's hard to be hopeful. If someone had told me in 2018 that Marielle Franco's assassination would remain largely unsolved 4 years later, I wouldn't have believed it. And yet. Read about Dom here: https://t.co/0mmc5Iq19A — PolitiTweet.org

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Dom was one of those journalists who began working in Brazil, fell in love with the country, married a Brazilian woman, then devoted himself to dangerous, intrepid reporting on illegal exploitation of the Amazon: a stark reminder of the value and danger of real journalism. #RIP — PolitiTweet.org

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Incredibly sad - and infuriating - news. The bodies of the British journalist @domphillips, and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, have reportedly been found. They were reporting in a remote Amazon region on illegal invasions by mining/logging interests. https://t.co/PUpgkTCUkQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattBruenig @OsitaNwanevu To me the issue is how limited and homogenized US left-wing discourse is. Everywhere else, opposition to vaccine mandates was at least a permissible if not widespread left view. In the US, almost no prominent leftist got near it: was deemed right-wing. This happens repeatedly.👇 https://t.co/vCrkAHZNFf — PolitiTweet.org

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@luxepunk @Baechugo @thiccontologist @OsitaNwanevu There's a small faction of US leftists who remain principled and DNC-free. I respect those. I co-host a weekly podcast with a "pan-African Communist," Q Anthony of @RZNWAMedia, who's an example. Some DSA factions are, too. But the mainstream Bernie/AOC left are DNC soldiers. — PolitiTweet.org

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@OsitaNwanevu Because generally people on the left don't like seeing workers in low-wage jobs fired in the middle of a pandemic for failure to obey central health authorities regarding what they can do with their own bodies. Listen to Corbyn, UK unions and Mélenchon (leftists) explain it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Baechugo @thiccontologist @luxepunk @OsitaNwanevu I can't think of anything "sadder" than having your political identity be tied to and shaped by the shitty, rotted, corrupt neoliberal filth of the US Democratic Party. And yeah: it's super sad to have to speak to millions of people at will on the most-watched political TV show. — PolitiTweet.org

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@OsitaNwanevu I don't really care what constitutes "true leftism" in some Platonic sense. I'm describing the views of the most doctrinal leftists in the democratic world - Corbyn, Mélenchon, Lula - to show how out of step the mainstream US "left" is, because it's just a branding arm of the DNC — PolitiTweet.org

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@AllezLesBoulez @OsitaNwanevu Bernie has repeatedly said that by "socialism," he does not mean the authoritarianism of the Soviet Union - which he rejects - but rather the democratic socialism of Scandinavian countries. You can read that right here and pretty much everywhere else: https://t.co/Fi1sKUJuAP — PolitiTweet.org

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@thiccontologist @luxepunk @OsitaNwanevu I've never been paid a penny by Fox or by any of the other cable networks on which I've regularly appeared over the years. So it doesn't seem your point is a very good one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@luxepunk @thiccontologist @OsitaNwanevu https://t.co/YJT92Kt1N6 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@OsitaNwanevu The Soviet Union was one brand of leftist politics, a strain that virtually every modern-day mainstream left-wing leader (including your beloved Bernie and AOC) repudiate precisely because of its excess authoritarianism. Generally, that left is opposed to thinks like NATO & IMF. — PolitiTweet.org

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@thiccontologist @luxepunk @OsitaNwanevu When you're describing vast compounds, you're thinking of the Clintons, Obamas, Pelosis, Bidens, and all the other Good oligarchical multi-millionaire Democrats to whom you pledge your lifelong loyalty. We have security in our home only because of this: https://t.co/fMswTMx3di https://t.co/CZdeSnUpqO — PolitiTweet.org

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@LiberalDem101 @OsitaNwanevu As your name suggests, you're just a Democrat -- a loyal, banal servant to the dreary neoliberals Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer -- and you see everyone who isn't that as "unprincipled" because you can't process politics except through a primitive prism of the US Dems v. US GOP. — PolitiTweet.org

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@3rd_Way_Stinks @OsitaNwanevu The tweet to which your Democratic Party friend is replying is one where I was defending Mélencon and Corbyn. Only a stunted, provincial American Democrat who thinks "leftism" means "VOTE DEM" would think this is "defending the far right." https://t.co/wm9CghaTo6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@luxepunk @OsitaNwanevu US cable news doesn't exist in Brazil and I never watch it unless I'm on it or it appears in my timeline. Removing yourself from the total joke that is the US "left" (just a loyal branding arm of the DNC) and seeing real leftism as it exists elsewhere is incredibly clarifying. https://t.co/Z324ydGEbb — PolitiTweet.org

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@OsitaNwanevu Put another way, that you think Bernie and AOC and their VOTE BLUE ALWAYS loyalty is "real leftism," while Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Jeremy Corbyn are just "libertarians," is why the US "left" barely exists as a viable force and has nothing in common with international leftism. — PolitiTweet.org

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@OsitaNwanevu That you think opposition to Western imperialism and NATO, contempt for globalist institutions of free trade and authoritarianism such as the EU and the IMF, are nothing more than "libertarianism" -- not leftism -- is why the US "left" is a joke. Just vote Dem and cheer NATO.✊ — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattBruenig @xavkoenig @ebruenig @HeerJeet Neither Mélenchon nor Corbyn were opposed to the vaccine itself. They were opposed to the policy that workers should lose their jobs in the middle of a pandemic, or otherwise be denied free movement, for failing to comply. Corbyn was upholding the opposition of UK's largest union https://t.co/bcU7Pc9dZM — PolitiTweet.org

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@ursa_turbo No, my brain just works extremely fast and always has. 🤷‍♂️ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@tiger_snake10 @jeremycorbyn There's no "burgeoning American left." It's a faction that follows and takes direction from Bernie and AOC, whose main/sole purpose is to keep people like you herded within and captive to the neoliberal, authoritarian Dem Party, all while you feel radical cool staying in line. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BadTakeEnjoyer That you don't know who Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Jeremy Corbyn are, and don't understand how they're leftists, is the point. You have a stunted US view where your "leftist" icons are Bernie and AOC whose main function is to keep people like you captive to the neoliberal Dem Party. — PolitiTweet.org