Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is one of the most subtle but insidious forms of US propaganda to justify its close partnership with the world's most savage tyrants. The US didn't just "find" the Saudi regime as though it were elected. The US installed them and, for decades, has actively propped it up. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SandBlastr09 Yes, the point I made about Trump is exactly the one I made about Biden: embracing despots has been what every president has done since (at least) the end of WW2, which is why it was so false to claim that only Trump did it. It's an amoral policy at heart of US foreign policy. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@akkbar21 Yes, several of the key people involved in the email chains and who were working with Hunter stated explicitly that the plans included profit participation by Joe. I realize many liberal outlets ignored this so you likely didn't hear about it, but it's still true. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SandBlastr09 Politico, the Washington Post and the New York Times have all authenticated the documents and reported on them as a result. The Politico writer did it first without the laptop. There are many ways to authenticate archives: as we did in the Snowden, Brazil and WikiLeaks cases. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@lachlan Perhaps. But as Chinese propaganda is fond of pointing out, the US spent $2 trillion on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that produced nothing of value (except for Raytheon and friends). Meanwhile, China spent $850b on a nationwide high-speed rail. Sounds like cost-benefit analysis. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Look at this. When a journalist has a book to sell -- as @KatyTurNBC does now -- they're admit the public no longer trusts a word they say. They'll lament it. But the one thing they *never* do is engage in self-reflection, ask what they do to cause it: https://t.co/yNLaVYrfpZ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I stopped practicing law to do journalism because I really believe journalism is virtuous, noble, necessary. These media corporations have destroyed it. The public despises them: with good reason. These are not mistakes. These are lies. And they are lies they *refuse* to admit. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I stopped practicing law to do journalism because I really believe journalism is virtuous, noble, necessary. These media corporations have destroyed it. The public despises them: with good reason. These are not mistakes. These are lies. And they are lies they refused to admit. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Beyond the revolting and steadfast refusal of *even one* of these outlets to retract that pre-election lie or even account for what they did -- a gigantic scandal -- the Guardian to this very day has this article up which everyone knows is a lie. No retraction or editor's note: https://t.co/O1eVsZ3Caf — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Hunter's private left is irrelevant. But the attempts to trade on his dad's name for deals in China and Ukraine, with his dad's participation, were *highly relevant*. That's what makes that media/CIA lie, and their censorship, one of the worst journalistic scandals in decades. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I would like to note that -- shortly before the 2020 election -- numerous large media outlets ratified the CIA lie that the documents on Hunter Biden's laptop were "Russian disinformation." Even today -- after the NYT & WPost both authenticated them -- not *one* has retracted it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LBJtheGreat_ They're not "mistakes." The idea of supporting despots and tyrants to better serve US interests has been explicitly policy for decades, and still is, and has been carried out on almost every continent on the planet. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SandBlastr09 Here 1) https://t.co/mjgY0kf9rr and: 2) https://t.co/yuZ44aWFHQ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@brunostern Sinceramente, não entendo por que alguém iria querer negar que o isolamento social causa problemas mentais. Isso não é controverso. Todos os estudos mostram isso. A reportagem da Folha de hoje cita esse estudo da OMS que tem ainda mais dados sobre ele. https://t.co/CLaY06KMP3 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@brunostern https://t.co/NtGx7sE2wm — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The US Government does not seek to spread democracy and combat despotism in the world. That's the propaganda used to sell every new war. The opposite is true: a staple of US foreign policy since the end of WW2 has been - still is - to *prop up* tyrannies to serve US interests. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is what was most maddening to me about the media narrative of the Trump years: how often things he did that were totally normal for all presidents was falsely depicted as an evil he pioneered. It wasn't just MbL but also Sisi. Remember this? https://t.co/fgrttwo1jT — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Did Joe Biden set a new record this week for most savage dictators embraced and praised by any one President in a single trip? Remember: these are not tyrants the US just "encounters". They're ones the US helped install and whose rule they work to preserve. https://t.co/Nk0pV4nVOS — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@scubas84 @Marco26981647 That has absolutely nothing to do with the argument I advanced, which was about speed limits, and how we are willing to accept higher speed limits even knowing that doing so will result in more deaths than if we substantially lowered the speed limit, which would save many lives. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@brunostern Novamente, talvez seja um problema de linguagem, mas eu disse explicitamente que existem várias causas. Mas a pesquisa mostra que o que causou grande parte foi a interrupção da vida. Os humanos precisam de comunidade e conexão para serem saudáveis, e foram privados por 2 anos. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Marco26981647 You posted this comment within seconds after I posted the article, proving you didn't read it. I'd bet anything that you are incapable of summarizing even in the most basic manner the argument I made, and that would be true even if you had read the article you're condemning. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@lachlan Of course. The reason I cited the West is because the pre-pandemic mental health trends I referenced, from the interviews and other reporting I did, was in the West. There's something about Western society that is failing to provides humans with what they need for mental health. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@romulinotv Talvez seja um problema de idioma para vc em inglês, mas o ponto principal do que escrevi e das minhas próprias entrevistas foi que o problema de saúde mental já estava piorando antes da pandemia, mas que o isolamento e os bloqueios eram o que mais perigoso para torná-los piores. https://t.co/4Jg6cKHUlV — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

What both Solomon and Hari stressed in that interview at the start of the pandemic was mental health pathologies in the West were skyrocketing before COVID. But one of the key treatments -- connection, community, purpose -- were those most at risk through isolation and shutdowns. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@brunostern Talvez seja um problema de linguagem, mas eu disse explicitamente que os problemas estavam piorando muito antes do COVID. Mas o artigo da Folha e os especialistas que eles citam deixam claro o quanto as coisas pioraram com os últimos dois anos de isolamento por causa do COVID. https://t.co/NDMRthXRd4 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@romulinotv Este é um artigo da Folha, não meu. E os especialistas em saúde mental são todos especialistas em saúde, não em ideologias de direita. A visão de que os problemas de saúde mental são triviais é doentia e perigosa. Destrói a vida das pessoas com suicídio, depressão e coisas piores — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In April, 2020, I interviewed 2 mental healths experts, the authors Andrew Solomon and @johannhari101. They both warned mental health in the West was already in severe crisis. Any sustained isolation or disruption of connection would radically worsen it. https://t.co/YA3gZVGeE9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This, by itself, does not prove lockdown and quarantines were wrong. A cost-benefit analysis of the risks and harms of each policy was required. But in the west generally, that analysis was largely off-limits, where the only cognizable cost was COVID. https://t.co/aaMBBRaTj6 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

As in so many other places, Brazil has seen a dramatic and tragic increase in mental health pathologies due to the COVID lockdowns: depression, anxiety, suicides. "We are moving out of the coronavirus pandemic and into a mental health pandemic." https://t.co/2ezP5XfipS — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

https://t.co/AvgM8i0qBa — PolitiTweet.org