Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Animals are sentient. They feel pain, loss, love and happiness. They're one of the things that make the earth beautiful, and improve human lives. The factory farm industry - a perversion of family farms which tortures them by the billions - is one of the worst moral atrocities. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScottChalleen @julie_kelly2 The vast majority of those charged with crimes were non-violent, as even the DOJ and its prosecutors admit. — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, the EU just enacted yet another law *requiring* social media companies to censor more in accordance with their demands. The use of state power to force private companies to ban the expression of particular views is tyrnanical: https://t.co/a1WZmSQGd1 — PolitiTweet.org

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The sector of the media ecosystem that continues to grow -- and rapidly -- is the one devoted to allowing all views to be heard, including/especially those which diverge from establishment pieties and which resist government demands to censor. Lots more coming from @rumblevideo: — PolitiTweet.org

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The prosecutions of 1/6 defendants have used extremist theories to convert even peaceful protesters into felons. @julie_kelly2 has been one of the few journalists covering all this, along with the FBI's plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer. I interviewed her here: https://t.co/UYQg284Qoh — PolitiTweet.org

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@muckrakerearth @AymanM There are few things more "fascist" than wanting to imprison someone for life under ancient espionage laws because you don't like the strategy they used to publish authentic documents and reporting about a powerful political figure during an election. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ianbremmer I agree with you that the US would be unlikely to invade, but it could of course inflict great suffering and harm on the Solomon Islands without a full-scale invasion, and that's what it's threatening: in direct violation of the principle it uses for Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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Kudos to @AymanM for using his MSNBC show to cover the Assange case and the grave threat to press freedom it poses. Given how hungry establishment liberals are to see Assange imprisoned - for the crime of publishing docs on Hillary - that deserves credit: https://t.co/PNQT1Bm8vx — PolitiTweet.org

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Just as happened in the US, press freedom and civil liberties groups in the UK -- led by Reporters Without Borders -- sent a letter "urging UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to reject the US government's request to extradite Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange." — PolitiTweet.org

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It appears that the sacred principle that a sovereign country has the right to do whatever it wants -- enter into military alliances, invite foreign troops onto their soil, etc. -- is not a universal principle but rather one that is applied quite selectively. — PolitiTweet.org

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Solomon Islands, a sovereign nation with largely democratic governance, voluntarily entered into a security agreement with China to help preserve civil order. The US threatened it with punishment if it leads to a Chinese military base in the Pacific. https://t.co/zml8EVlXiu — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BillieJeanKing: My thoughts on the ban of Russian and Belarusian players from competing in Wimbledon. https://t.co/QX28SRzZFJ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidmirandario: Galera, estive hoje no Jacarezinho para plantar as mudas. Plantamos na margem do rio. Um rio que tinha muita enchente… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mtaibbi: Andrea, I know you often disclose this kind of thing on the air, but shouldn't you mention here that Panetta works at Beacon G… — PolitiTweet.org

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@LizMair @mattklewis Obama didn't care either. He kept Clapper as his senior national security official to the last day of his administration, and then Clapper got hired by CNN to help deliver the "news." He thrived after he got caught lying to the Senate. Zero "embarrassment" shown. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattklewis Yeah? What "embarrassment" did those who lied about the Gulf of Tonkin manifest after it started the Vietnam War? Or Iraqi WMD? Or Bill Clinton's lies about Lewinsky? Or the lies told about the Vietnam War as revealed by the Pentagon Papers? Or this: https://t.co/Vmv14lGeEz — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh my god. Imagine being a journalist and believing this. This is how DC elites need Trump to whitewash everything that came before him, absolving themselves: we may have been wrong sometimes, but everyone in DC used to be noble, honorable and full of integrity: until 2017! — PolitiTweet.org

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@kirino_imouto @SF_Moro I've never taken a position on Lula's ultimate guilt or innocence. That's something that - for everyone - can only be determined after a fair trial, something that Lula, due to Moro and Deltan's misconduct, has yet to receive. — PolitiTweet.org

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Some have been dreaming of a so-called "third way" candidacy that would provide an alternative to a deeply polarizing Lula/Bolsonaro run-off. It's been clear for some time that, while quite unlikely, only @cirogomes has that chance. He's risen to 10%: better but still not enough. — PolitiTweet.org

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Latest Brazil presidential poll: 1st and 2nd round voting. First round of voting is October 2. Lula with a still-sizable lead, but Bolsonaro has gained with the withdraw of his former Justice Minister: the disgraced judge @SF_Moro, who oversaw the corrupted conviction of Lula: https://t.co/X6P1Z836pI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SubstackInc: In each edition of What to Read, we ask the featured writer to recommend another Substack. Kwame recommends @ggreenwald'… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SubstackInc: Today we're reading Cocoa Diaries Newsletter by @asamoahpeters, a publication that looks critically at the global cocoa-ch… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bleacherscreech I'm a US citizen, required to pay taxes to the US Government, and have all the same rights and duties of every other US citizen, like the 9 million other US citizens who live outside the US. Therefore, I'll participate in debates about what the US should do whenever I want. — PolitiTweet.org

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Worth reading this analysis of Obama's speech on disinformation from the always-smart @JameelJaffer. Just as he doesn't agree with everything Obama said, I don't agree with everything Jameel says here, but it's a worthwhile perspective: — PolitiTweet.org

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"CNN+, the streaming service hyped as one of the most significant developments in the history of CNN, will shut down April 30...Executives had touted [it] as the most significant launch since Ted Turner founded CNN in 1980" CNN+, dead at 22 days old #RIP https://t.co/xp6jFUX78W — PolitiTweet.org

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@borzou Yes, and anyone who does gets called a traitor and a Kremlin agent. So people are "allowed" to say it in the sense that agents of the state won't physically stop you (though Big Tech will) but many people will have their careers and reputations destroyed: https://t.co/VV7JcWSOXO — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's Part 2, questioning not only the likely outcome of having the US pour endless amounts of cash and weaponry into Ukraine, but what the real objectives of this policy are: https://t.co/Mm3T1RDwFu — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm glad there are still a few places one can go on television to question US war policy toward Ukraine: https://t.co/Nq1fjFYWmp — PolitiTweet.org

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It's astonishing. Every relevant metric shows that corporate journalism is held in widespread contempt. Nobody likes it, trusts it, or values it. Employees of media corporations complain about this, but *never* ask what they've done to cause it. https://t.co/lxvSjiUFvy — PolitiTweet.org

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Has a single CNN journalist asked why so few people are interested in their product (hence their collapsing, miniscule ratings) and even less willing to pay for it (hence the death at 22 days of CNN+)? Every failing industry looks in the mirror. Note how journalists never do. — PolitiTweet.org