Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @mattduss: "Other U.S. officials emphasize the goals of punishment and future deterrence, saying that the carcass of the Russian economy… — PolitiTweet.org

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@creme_moi @peterjukes https://t.co/zxXyzBwoqj — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@jbooton Nobody was this blasé about armed neo-Nazi militias until about 10 days ago. In the US, if 50 of them gather, it's treated as a grave threat. To the contrary, most Western media outlets before 10 days ago described them as a grave and growing problem: https://t.co/elGH4wlVn3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@peterjukes Like all journalists, I can only be in one place at one time. I spent 2019 and 2020 fighting off attempts by the Brazilian government to prosecute me for my 18-month investigative exposé there that freed Lula. So I cite other journalists there: the first 3 are from *2022*: https://t.co/CXV6Xv0Rs7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @schwarz: John Kerry voted for the Iraq war in 2003, then in 2014 said about Russia, "You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th… — PolitiTweet.org

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@peterjukes The article I cited about neo-Nazi militas in Ukraine is from that notorious Kremlin outlet called the Guardian. But your trite smear tactics are explainable by nothing more complicated than this:🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 https://t.co/Jw39rorCOt — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @justinamash: Russia’s legislative assault on independent media outlets over allegations that they spread dangerous misinformation shoul… — PolitiTweet.org

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Nobody suggests the Ukrainian government itself is neo-Nazi. That's absurd. But mainstream western outlets have for years warned that these are powerful fascist militias with ties to the government. Saying that is now "pro-Putin" propaganda, but where will all these weapons go? https://t.co/LOabyIuMRq — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the most striking aspects of the propaganda regime imposed in the West is how so many once-common views -- NATO expansion threatens Moscow, US runs Ukraine, etc -- are now taboo. For years the dangers of neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine were reported: https://t.co/MN2DGlGwfr — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@chiwizardry The West didn't just block RT. It also blocked Sputnik, and has spent years banning any significant accounts that express dissent on any major debates, from COVID to Russiagate to the 2020 election to this war. It's a spreading pathology that didn't start 10 days ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't blame Ukrainian leaders for using propaganda and disinformation. All countries in war do. The problem is US media outlets and various activists have been the most aggressive in ratifying it, renouncing their role as sorting fact from fiction to endorse "useful lies." — PolitiTweet.org

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Just a stunning article from NYT. For 5 years, US corporate outlets have depicted disinformation as the gravest of threats, requiring censorship. Yet here they use a playful, borderline-admiring tone for the charming lies spread by Ukrainian officials: https://t.co/hkePIq58D6 — PolitiTweet.org

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From the start of this war, some leftist media personalities have insisted there is only one valid position for "real leftists": condemn Russia and cheer Ukraine, period. Yet actual leftists around the world have consistently had a much more nuanced if not different message: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ChristopherJM: Ukraine's security service has reportedly shot & killed Denis Kireev, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team, pictur… — PolitiTweet.org

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By definition they would be. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KirbyRMichaels Yes, I agree that these interviews are similar to Trump sitting down with Sean Hannity. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@americasneighbr Do you know what the word "impressively" means? They have online dictionaries. And I'm doing quite well myself, so there's no ground for bitterness. One key job of a journalist -- the ones who do the job right -- is critique. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Deflate How can be you this dumb? What she's done -- built a gigantic audience all on her own, with no institutional media support -- is impressive, as I said in this very tweet. And Biden's giving her an interview is a testament to Substack's growth. But she's a full-on Dem loyalist. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden followed this up with a one-on-one interview with Heather Cox Richardson, who - impressively - became Substack's highest-earning writer by churning out daily DNC talking points. Many major news outlets haven't interviewed Biden but his most devoted loyalists are rewarded: — PolitiTweet.org

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@skattan2013 Believing that nobody can see the world differently than you do absent corrupt motives is a by-product of extreme narcissism. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I don't want to over-simply a complex debate in one tweet, so you can read it in Google Translate. But the ideological scrambling is not unlike in the US. Nobody is defending Putin or the invasion. But parts of left and right (both Lula & Bolsonaro) have more mixed/nuanced views. https://t.co/CG2IpUnvcj — PolitiTweet.org

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Brazil's @folha examines how Ukraine has scrambled normally clear left-right divisions. Parts of each side unite in one message: We Stand With Ukraine. But other parts of the left focus on NATO aggression, while parts of the right empathize with Russia: https://t.co/ZDgGInzboh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AbbyMartin: Why doesn’t VICE disclose it’s funded by Saudi Arabia, currently committing genocide in Yemen? https://t.co/ua6GUFpKOC — PolitiTweet.org

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@skattan2013 I'm going to renounce my beliefs in order to win you back. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's hard to know in each of these cases whether the motive is fear of being vilified by a social media mob for not severing all ties with everything Russian, or just an affirmative quest for applause, but there's no denying we've reached insane levels: https://t.co/YS02vdgjEN — PolitiTweet.org

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@ianbremmer Right, we'll now never know whether that would have averted the war. Some claim NATO was Putin's primary grievance while others claim it was pretext. The point is that, given how horrific this is, everything reasonable should've been done diplomatically to avert it. It wasn't. — PolitiTweet.org

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When you read about historical atrocities like FDR's internment of all people of Japanese descent, you wonder how it could've been tolerated. Then you live through an event like this -- institutions holding all Russians responsible for Putin's acts -- and you see how it happens. — PolitiTweet.org

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What's particularly disturbing about the Met's firing of the star Russian soprano Anna Netrebk is she never praised the war. She denounced it! But that wasn't enough: they demanded she publicly denounce Putin, and fired her when she refused. There's a new story like this daily: — PolitiTweet.org

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@joehagansays I didn't write the article, you imbecile. It was written by an MSNBC' @ZeeshanAleem, formerly of Vox, and he quotes a wide range of US diplomats and scholars making this point. But given what a tough guy you are, why haven't you heeded the calls of Ukrainians to go fight there? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emeriticus: Putin invaded Ukraine. But an alliance of bad actors, the U.S. foreign policy establishment, and NGOs paved the road that m… — PolitiTweet.org