Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Agree or not with his view, that 2-minute clip above is wiser, more thoughtful, more independent-minded, more earnest and evinces more critical thought than 90% of the content about this war that flows forth from media corporations and professional pundits. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LeeCamp: My goodbye to "Redacted Tonight," plus the most censored story in the War in Ukraine - https://t.co/73eywHiIQw — PolitiTweet.org

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It's often amazing what you hear when you listen to people who don't pay constant attention to politics for a living and therefore don't have their basic values corrupted and perceptions warped by constant propaganda: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MaxBlumenthal: So the US recognizes the elected President Maduro as actual president — PolitiTweet.org

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@BobSaietta I found this specific article of his more insightful, well-researched, informative, thought-provoking and critically minded than 90% - *at least* - of the articles published by the outlets in your bio. I therefore recommended it. Your Twitter clichés for him aren't relevant to me — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BarakRavid: BREAKING: State Department spokesperson: The new Russia-related sanctions are unrelated to the JCPOA and should not have an… — PolitiTweet.org

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@BobSaietta He doesn't even work for the Daily Beast or anything! We can't all have such lofty standards as requiring someone to work for such a prestigious and renowned journal as the DB before we can cite them. I judge the substance of the argument, not the pedigree of the employer. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ZelenskyyUa: Talked to @elonmusk. I’m grateful to him for supporting Ukraine with words and deeds. Next week we will receive another ba… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ianbremmer Prolonging the war was their strategy for both Afghanistan and Syria, so it's not like they're morally above using it and there's no precedent. And besides the Hillary clip, a lot of people in DC are saying they're planning for exactly this. https://t.co/PDJDj5o7ZY — PolitiTweet.org

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@KennethMcDonagh If you think turning Ukraine into Syria or Afghanistan -- as Hillary suggests and the other evidence I provided does as well -- is good for Ukrainians and Ukraine, my guess is you live far away from there. Though that helps the US by draining Russia, I don't think it helps them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChazzenHD @EricSchmittNYT They get really upset if you suggest that the motives of their government might be different from what they have told them is their motives or, worse, if it's not as noble and selfless as they insist. Corporate journalists get very patriotic in wartime. — PolitiTweet.org

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More evidence for this thesis here, from a long-time Russia watcher from former Yugoslavia. I'm sorry if I offended any US journalists with the suggestion that US motives might be different from what they claim (😲) or might be less than fully benevolent https://t.co/rhKQyXp0R0 — PolitiTweet.org

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Some journalists have taken the 2nd tweet out of the context of the thread. Note: 1) I've been noting for two weeks who has been saying this; 2) in this first and third tweets, I provide more evidence for it; 3) Here's what NYT's @EricSchmittNYT said on Daily Podcast this week: https://t.co/JhOxoaXJSR — PolitiTweet.org

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(For those asking, you have to toggle on the subtitles on the YouTube player to see the English subtitles for the Dilma interview) — PolitiTweet.org

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@gladstein @BTCBullALTBear @NatureofG @BTC_Archive One more on the US use of "double tap" in the Obama years: https://t.co/xLn5SZbPqp — PolitiTweet.org

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@gladstein @BTCBullALTBear @NatureofG @BTC_Archive 2012: https://t.co/dnBfQlW3SL — PolitiTweet.org

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@brockm @gladstein I haven't argued the invasion of Ukraine is legally or ethically justifiable. I don't think that argument can be made. But I think it's anti-intellectual and, worse, counter-productive to finding a solution to refuse to inquire into motives, fears and perceptions driving it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gladstein I mean, it remains to me seen the outcome, but sometimes rational people make irrational decisions or have miscalculations. The invasion of Iraq greatly weakened the US and largely benefited China and Iran. Doesn't mean its advocates were entirely bereft of reason. — PolitiTweet.org

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@77rick4 @brasil247 She offers a perspective from a liberal-left viewpoint that I think American liberals should hear. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lcwhitlock14 @EdwardNorton Yes, McCarthyism will always have a lot of support because there will always be authoritarians and fascists like you who want to use the power of the state to criminalize those who think differently. — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the darkest periods for Hollywood was the McCarthy era, when FBI and CIA tried to root out actors and writers who harbored loyalties to Moscow. Today's modern-day liberal actor publicly pleads for the FBI and CIA to hunt down and "tear out" people of suspected loyalties: — PolitiTweet.org

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We translated the interview former Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff of Lula's Workers Party gave to @brasil247 on Russia, Ukraine and NATO. Dilma was a mainstream figure on the global stage, so really worth hearing her views, rarely heard in US discourse https://t.co/kB4HCtvnYK — PolitiTweet.org

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Just last week, Hillary Clinton on MNSBC explicitly invoked the Syria and Afghanistan model when explaining her vision for Ukraine: arm an insurgency that keeps Russia bogged down, fighting for years. Not good for Russia, but worse for those countries: https://t.co/oAPj2J5MkF — PolitiTweet.org

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@Vileblood187 Many Russian specialists and people from the region have said it. I've documented their doing so constantly. Here's one of the better-reasoned and well-documented articles making that case from someone from former Yugoslavia: https://t.co/rhKQyXp0R0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@gladstein In case you haven't seen it, here's what Obama said about Russia/Ukraine when asked by Jeffrey Goldberg in 2016 why he didn't do more to "confront" Putin over Syria and especially Ukraine: https://t.co/HVuaV1Mc6Y — PolitiTweet.org

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Some have speculated that the US goal isn't to protect Ukrainians -- that's the pretext -- but rather sacrifice Ukraine by turning it into Syria or Afghanistan where war rages for years and destroys the country, bogging down Russia. No proof, but US actions consistent with that. — PolitiTweet.org

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"In Washington and European capitals, officials anticipate that the Russian military will reverse its early losses, setting the stage for a long, bloody insurgency," so the US is creating ways to "support a Ukrainian resistance." https://t.co/vMlT9ZGK61 — PolitiTweet.org

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@zmaaay So it's OK to use a relic of Jim Crow, designed to prevent the rule of the majority in the Senate? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RichardHanania: University of Chicago students circulating a letter calling for the cancellation of John Mearsheimer over “Putinism,” “… — PolitiTweet.org

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Three weeks before the invasion of Ukraine, Ted Cruz introduced a bill to sanction the company building Russia's gas pipeline to Germany. He got a clear majority in support - 55 votes, including 6 Dems - but Dems used the Jim Crow filibuster to defeat it: https://t.co/xek00jOvPA — PolitiTweet.org