Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ResCon1 As I've said many times, my solution is to encourage people like you who say that it's vital that Americans defend Ukraine to please heed the urging of Ukrainian officials to travel there, pick up the free arms they supply you, and help them fight the Russian Army. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@TheAbridgedZach There are some neocons inside the Executive Branch right now, including the one most influential in Ukraine policy both in 2014 and now: https://t.co/enLcXCjes2 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For the 2014 attack on the Canadian Parliament, I was in Ottawa. Media was saturated with gut-wrenching stories about the 24-year-old guard killed: Corp. Nathan Cirillo's life dreams, his grieving family members. Occurred to me few westerners can name even one victim of US wars. — PolitiTweet.org

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The horrors and extreme human misery, terror and suffering of Ukrainians are common, even inevitable, in wars. Any decent human being will feel deep empathy and anger when shown it. But if you show only some while invisibilizing others, you wildly manipulate people's views. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you say employees of US media corporations propagandize, they'll vehemently - even earnestly - deny: "Nobody tells us what to say," etc. But much propaganda is from non-coverage. Dramatizing Ukrainian victims while ignoring Yemeni/Pakistani/Afghan victims warps perceptions. — PolitiTweet.org

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@QoqoBulos So you believe those wanting to fight back against the US invasion of Iraq would be morally justified in coming to the US and attacking and mass-shooting American civilians, on the ground that their support for the war makes them equally responsible for that invasion? — PolitiTweet.org

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Again: bin Laden's argument for why it was justified for Al Qaeda to attack and kill US civilians was they elected and support their leaders, so are responsible for their leader's crimes. It was reprehensible then, but makes less sense if you say Russia is a totalitarian state. — PolitiTweet.org

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Questions of poll reliability to the side, polls in early 2003 showed large majorities of Americans supportive of the Iraq invasion. Does this mean there was no distinction between the USG and the American people, and the latter should be deemed equally guilty for those crimes? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The media attention on Ukrainian victims, refugees, and others is fully appropriate. A key journalistic function is to ensure people see the real results of the policies they support. But that's what was almost never done during 20 years of US wars: https://t.co/cOyhpN5AyK — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Along with many War on Terror critics, I long argued: a key reason it continued was the media rarely if ever personalized or even noted the victims of US/UK violence, so they remained invisible. Imagine how different things might have been if they had received the same coverage: — PolitiTweet.org

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@glacialburners Like flooding Ukraine with lethal arms (which Obama refused to do) and doing everything possible to sabotage Nord Stream 2? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's been fortunate that the west's leaders -- Biden, Johnson, NATO -- have been empathic in their opposition to direct engagement. But each day the idea is normalized by more mainstream figures. As emotions intensify with Russia's escalation of violence, popular support can grow https://t.co/FpPuF1zsq9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Adam Kinzinger became of the media's most beloved figures for his posturing as the moderate, sober opponent of Trump's unhinged, dangerous behavior. In 4 years as President, what did Trump do or say more dangerous or unhinged that Kinzinger's week-long crusade for US/Russia war? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rumblevideo: A note about misleading reports regarding Rumble's relationship with RT https://t.co/ElRpytqOmP — PolitiTweet.org

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The rest of Lula's commentary: https://t.co/MAUwekCVSe — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/BfilOvcfYB — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Russian news channel RT to broadcast on Rumble after Big Tech -- including Google, Facebook and Twitter -- blocked it in various ways from being heard by hundreds of millions of people: https://t.co/UOJ8YTfb5c — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Tr3vorGoodchild I was widely accused during the Snowden reporting in 2013 and 2014 of being a pro-Kremlin asset. Snowden has been accused of this too for years. So was Daniel Ellsberg when he leaked the Pentagon Papers. It's the oldest and lamest smear attack in US discourse, going back decades. — PolitiTweet.org

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Starting now.... — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @EASPORTSFIFA: A statement from EA SPORTS FIFA: https://t.co/v3pZvpblgS — PolitiTweet.org

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It's hard to understand why the vital facts compiled in this thread are controversial to note, let alone evidence that someone is a traitor, a Kremlin agent, or a pro-Putin sympathizer. It's not just permissible but necessary to move beyond the first-order moral denunciations: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RnaudBertrand: Most fascinating thing about the Ukraine war is the sheer number of top strategic thinkers who warned for years that it… — PolitiTweet.org

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@SeanParson1 I don't think you have a good idea of who composes my audience. It's always been ideologically diverse and, as it's grown over the last 15 months since becoming fully independent, it's more so than ever. Many do, but not *everyone* on the left supports the NATO/CIA/CNN consensus. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mtracey: NYT runs op-ed from top Ukraine official calling for a No Fly Zone. The argument: World War III has already begun anyway, so m… — PolitiTweet.org

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Deleted the tweet about Live Score, since it seems they're excluding all competitions in Russia rather than any competitions including Russia athletes. Soon the difference may not be that great given the IOC's call to ban all Russian athletes: https://t.co/nX9jlVOCQw. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SeanParson1 You sure most people have stopped following me? — PolitiTweet.org

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A large online site for live sports scores for multiple sports, https://t.co/YTBvsN7UVP, announces it will, "for the foreseeable future," exclude all scores for any competitions which include Russians athletes: https://t.co/XBX9tlvUmQ — PolitiTweet.org

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A UK Labour official received notice she was expelled from the Party. She believes it's because they found Facebook "likes" of hers for content from a banned group. She posted a statement vowing that she does not support that group and was never a member of supporter at any time. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Please be mindful of your new "duty". What's the last Intercept article that couldn't comfortably be an MSNBC panel or a Mother Jones or Vox article? Asking earnestly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@matthewstoller Right, there's a strong argument to make that, especially for countries where the leaders weren't elected, the population size doesn't matter. But it certainly matters in terms of the importance/weight of the country, and so pretending abstentions don't exist is just propaganda. — PolitiTweet.org