Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AmbEacho @AVindman By "Russian agent," are you asserting Michael Tracey is paid by the Kremlin, Putin or Russian government agencies, or that he receives directions from Russian officials regarding what he says and does? You walk and talk like a paranoid schizophrenic smear artist. Therefore.... — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For the first few months of the war, it was deemed "Russian propaganda" to say what was so obvious, even after Obama's former CIA Director Leon Panetta admitted it: this is a proxy war between the US and Russia. It's seen this way around the world: https://t.co/Zh2eKQ9X2b — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Given the stakes the world is facing, what Adm. Mullen said here about the urgent need for a negotiated end to this war -- including various provinces in Eastern Ukraine -- is the only sane mindset. But this isn't the DC mindset. It's the opposite. That's what is so alarming: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@speedan0n @davidcnswanson I never claimed any political label other than civil libertarian. I don't think it's helpful. I report what I learn and explain what I see and allow others to apply whatever labels they want to me if they choose. I've had pretty much every label applied at one point or another. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@decymahon @jmdavis2k @AVindman I'm not talking about the Iraq War. I'm talking about complete scumbags and liars like Alexander Vindman casually branding people "Russian agents" because he believes he has the right to lie, smear and spread disinformation. He did this yesterday, not in 2003 (that I know of). — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@jmdavis2k @AVindman Yeah, I previously used to cheer when former members of the US military turned into liberal TV stars and falsely accused their critics of being Russian agents and traitor, but now I'm against it. That's because, as you astutely pointed out, I've changed my values. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ggreenwald: @AVindman By "Russian agent," are you asserting Michael Tracey is paid by the Kremlin, Putin or Russian government agencies… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AVindman By "Russian agent," are you asserting Michael Tracey is paid by the Kremlin, Putin or Russian government agencies, or that he receives directions from Russian officials regarding what he says and does? Do you have the courage to state your accusations or just use slimy innuendo? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@wheatus @cloptinothe @mtracey The vast majority of GOP Congress members voted for Biden's $40 billion war package to Ukraine. It was Obama who refused to arm Ukraine, and one of the main GOP attacks on him -- from McCain, Rubio, Graham - was he was soft on Russia. You know nothing. https://t.co/XCfFAOYqyS — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@davidcnswanson It's possible to be heard without being on TV. We're doing it right now. Chomsky just did it on DN. And one reason I go on Fox is because that's the only place on TV where this message can be heard. I've said there left-wing writers saying this: but not *the mainstream left.* — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DenovoNos Se você acha que Chomsky está defendendo a Rússia neste video, ou você não entende inglês, é um mentiroso, ou ambos. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Tulsi Gabbard announces she's leaving the Democratic Party. A Wash Post columnist - one of the most hard-core partisan loyalists ever to exist on this planet -- promptly accuses her of spreading Russian disinformation. It's a pathology with these people: https://t.co/MZUWDBXPb2 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KhalifaTaluqdar Which words do you need help with? Our NGO in Rio is now designing after-school classes to teach community residents English, so I've been working with the teachers a lot, and would be happy to walk you through whichever words you're struggling to comprehend. Bro. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Here again is the marriage between neocons and left-liberals so relevant, central even. This has always been the defining tactic of neocons: accuse anyone who opposes their war policies of being traitors. So of course their liberal allies now do the same https://t.co/5AwSJq9Y9W — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And again: these are the same people who want Big Tech to censor their critics because "disinformation" is so harmful. They whine in columns and on MSNBC if a random tweeter says something mean to them. Then they lie and smear with impunity, and their in-group thinks it's noble. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Neoliberal elites who casually, publicly and with *no evidence* accuse dissenters of being "Russian agents" or "Kremlin assets" should pay for that, should be sued. A fund to enable lawsuits over this by their victims would be useful. Defamation is not protected by the 1 Am. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

People like @AVindman are absolute scumbags. They should be sued. Hillary Clinton, who never served anyone but herself, did it to @TulsiGabbard. And, of course, these career liars are the ones who want to censor the internet to stop "disinformation": as they smear reflexively. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Anyone who questions US foreign policy or the bullshit premises of Russigate has been labelled a "Russian agent" or "Kremlin asset." I don't mean by random Twitter trolls. The NBC/CNN/DNC crowd does it routinely, along with their CIA and FBI colleagues. No evidence needed. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This shit has been going on for years. DC neoliberal elites have assigned themselves license to lie and defame anyone who dissents from neoliberal orthodoxy as "Russian agents" or "Kremlin assets." At least McCarthy and Hoover would hold hearings to do this. They just assert it. https://t.co/rwrRtPLWMA — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The marriage between neocons and left-liberals (meaning the areas where leftists and liberals align: now most places) began with Russiagate. But this was always the key: Russiagate wasn't just a dumb domestic scandal but also, way more importantly, a foreign policy/CIA campaign. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

One of the most significant Trump-era developments was the re-migration of neocons back to the Dem Party. This did not happen because neocons changed. They haven't changed. The Dem Party - and their liberal-left followers - just became fully aligned with neocons on most issues. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Speaking of which, read this good and important Newsweek essay from @DavidSacks on the full-scale marriage between neocons and the cultural liberal-left. They pretended for awhile it was just an anti-Trump coalition; it's far more enduring than that: https://t.co/5AwSJq9Y9W — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That was the point of this thread. Dissent on the US role in Ukraine comes only from right-wing media and the populist parts of the GOP caucus (with the exception of a few left-wing writers), because there is no "US left" separate from the Dem Party: https://t.co/zddcVtcqgW — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The view Chomsky is expressing here is the standard one for the international left (and the populist right) in most of the world. But in the US, you'll almost never hear any left-liberal of prominence say this because the US really doesn't have "a left": it just has Democrats. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ketchmeifucan @kennardmatt Ciro and his party both endorsed Lula. My husband said in an interview in June: if the run-off were between Lula and Bolsonaro, he'd be on the street every day campaigning for Lula dressed in red (PT's color). Do you see how you're opining on things about which you know nothing? https://t.co/D1TsR6aa1h — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And these events highlight the surreal part of my work: for all the endless claims of how I've chaaaanged, things like this article (👆) and creating @FreedomofPress for WL show I've been working against the same authoritarian threats for years. What changed is who supports them https://t.co/UtAed2K2II — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is why we created the @FreedomofPress Foundation in 2012: me, @DanielEllsberg, Laura Poitras, @trevortimm, others: to circumvent this extra-judicial punishment and allow WL to keep getting donations. In 2011, I warned how dangerous this scheme was: https://t.co/VyDo2hsmcF — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

On Paypal's leading censorship role, this is key history many have forgotten. In 2010, Joe Lieberman pressured banks and financial services companies to cut off WikiLeaks after it published docs on US war crimes. They all complied, starting with Paypal: https://t.co/JQ4DGAQKjc — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ketchmeifucan @kennardmatt If the Economist is "the voice of billionaires," why are they endorsing Lula to be President of Brazil? Also, if you were only referring to the Economist, not to me, why did you link to a thread that was all about me but had nothing to do with the Economist? That seems weird. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@NcbraskyJed @aaronjmate @MacaesBruno Do you know what his job is? — PolitiTweet.org