Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Genuinely glad, and surprised, to see a major media corporation allowing space to criticize the US in the weeks leading up to this war for refusing to take diplomatic steps and consider minor concessions that might have averted the war. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JohnOBrennan2 All censors believe that their censorship is necessary and just because the opinions they're suppressing are dangerous. This is the view and claim of literally every censor in history. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@_Nobr3ga Eu andava com a integridade do sistema legal e os limites do poder dos juizes e promotores, não "com Lula." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Russia's aggressive censorship of all views other than state-approved messaging is driven by their fear of allowing dissent. Their censorship pre-dates the war but, as always, war is used to crush civil liberties. That's the same motive for the spate of censorship in the West. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Perhaps the ease many in the West have of seeing the evils of various policies when imposed by adversary countries can help them see the evils of similar policies in the West. The Russian crackdown on dissent through internal censorship happens as Google bans RT in all of Europe. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Isso nunca vai acontecer com Moro pq ninguém tem menos humildade ou capacidade de autocrítica. Nada pode perturbar sua crença religiosa central: que ele é o sumo sacerdote da probidade moral. Mas outros devam começar a examinar o que esses episódios dizem sobre o próprio Moro. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Se você se encontra repetidamente tendo que admitir que as pessoas que você escolheu como seus aliados mais próximos são, na verdade, desprezíveis antiéticos, uma pessoa com um mínimo de humildade começaria a se perguntar se o problema está em seu próprio julgamento e caráter. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

With Americans being fed a relentless diet of homogenized messaging, intensified by social media, that this is the worst act since Hitler, it's unsurprising they'd demand more. This was the danger we identified last week of a no-fly zone being normalized. https://t.co/Fxx2huHCHD — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

"A broad bipartisan majority of Americans think the US should stop buying Russian oil and work with NATO to set up 'no-fly zones' to protect Ukraine from Russian air strikes," putting "pressure on Biden to take more aggressive actions against Moscow." https://t.co/lBKfhIf1nF — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you believe that, then you probably also believe that the people who kneel every day and pray most ardently for the return of Donald Trump aren't top cable news hosts, cable executives and newspaper editors. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The war has been explosively good for the ratings of the three cable networks, especially CNN and MSNBC, which, in normal times, have almost nobody watching. I guess you can choose to believe this has nothing to do with media's views of war -- just a huge unintended gift -- but.. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Talleyrand0615 @ianbremmer He has 5 million Twitter followers. His book was a major NYT best-seller. His two appearances on the Joe Rogan show are among the most-watched ever in its history, including his first appearance being watched by 30 million people, so sort of the exact opposite of your claim. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@MiddleFWIW @ianbremmer I was in Hong Kong with him hose first 10 days ago. All of our working assumptions -- included his -- was that he had a 90% chance - at best - of ending up in US custody and then a life in prison. It was luck that he got away. Don't minimize other's bravery because of your shame. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ianbremmer Aside from the fact that Snowden -- more than 99% of the people on the planet at least -- has proven he's willing to risk a long prison term for a principle, the fact is he's repeatedly condemned Russian leaders and its government over the years: https://t.co/dXZEXYyUGh — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mdrayton Ciro's statement was much more emphatically anti-Russian, without the softening language/nuance included by Lula: more in line with what western leaders are saying about it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@VadimLebedev1 https://t.co/BH3XTjcGxP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@challiscj Then why did the US and Western media reports constantly talk about the "insurgency" in Afghanistan and Iraq, defending their country against western invading and occupying forces such as the US? See also: this NYT headline: https://t.co/t2EPbRF4dX — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@matthewstoller Yes, that's fair, but the primary antagonist of Russia is the US. They've been playing a good cop/bad cop routine with Macron in the former role. The grievance is largely with the US - not just NATO but ongoing interference in Ukraine. Why not try? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Arming a Ukrainian insurgency against Russia was what McCain and Graham promised the Ukrainians back in late 2016, right after Trump was elected. They were there with Amy Klobuchar who, dressed in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, was nodding in agreement https://t.co/cCi2PJRCt3 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's striking how little mention there is from the US and NATO of attempting to speak with Russia to find a diplomatic end. Maybe there isn't one, but given how horrific the war is, why not try? Especially since US/NATO can't do much other than arm an insurgency to prolong it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@kefra The Czech government has also warned that any statements on social media supportive of Russia can and will be treated as a criminal offense and I haven't commented on that either. Does that bother you, too? https://t.co/0B5K55ch2G — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TimothyKillian No. Russian censorship of the internet pre-dated this new war and has intensified since. Do you think we should use them as our model for what to do? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@OKnox @Yair_Rosenberg @zackbeauchamp I don't think it's true that Crimea made Ukrainian membership in NATO impossible: all kinds of ways to work around it. But if true, why didn't the US just formalize that it wouldn't happen? Was the principle really so valuable that it was worth risking a horrific war over? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@doggreenwald4 You: "for some reason they’re no longer asking [Glenn Greenwald] to come onto Tucker’s show." Tucker, 48 hours ago: to discuss censorship of RT and other Russian outlets, we're delighted to speak with Glenn Greenwald. Glenn, thanks for coming on: https://t.co/d7cnSavGO9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Yair_Rosenberg @zackbeauchamp Fair, but I've seen claims that Putin's speech proves NATO expansion isn't one of his main motives. That strikes me as blatantly untrue. He began and ended with it, and has vocally warned of it for years. It was his main pre-war demand. Do you think the threat perception is real? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@zackbeauchamp US officials, and scholars from left to right, have been warning for 20 years that NATO expansion is genuinely (and legitimately) threatening to all Russians, not just Putin, will provoke war. All wars have multiple/complex motives, but how are you so sure this isn't one of them? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@deltoid1982 I'm really surprised to find that this is a zero-follower accounted created just last month. I would never have guessed. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@mtracey @TheHouse81 US leaders, by definition, can only "blunder" and make well-intentioned mistakes. Actual malignant and evil acts are possible only for the leaders of countries adverse to the US. That's why few things are deemed more fringe than referring to US (or UK) leaders as war criminals. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The internet is valuable only if it remains free from centralized state and corporate censorship. if not, it becomes history's most potent tool of coercion and surveillance. These independent outlets are vital for liberating the internet, and our discourse, from Big Tech tyranny. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I'm proud to be associated with several of the handful of growing social media and news platforms that reject the hubristic view that its duty is to anoint itself arbiters of truth and falsity, and then censor the internet at the behest of DC Democrats and the US Security State. — PolitiTweet.org