Articles by Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
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Fearful of Lula’s Exoneration, His Once-Fanatical Prosecutors Request His Release from Prison. But Lula Refuses.
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
7 Oct 2019
4 Oct 2019 – Lula’s accusers are desperately trying to get him out of prison, while he insists on staying there until he’s fully exonerated.
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Watch: Interview with Brazil’s Ex-President Lula from Prison, Discussing Global Threats, Neoliberalism, Bolsonaro, and More
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
27 May 2019
22 May 2019 – Among the planet’s significant political figures, no one is quite like Lula. Born into extreme poverty, illiterate until the age of 10, forced to quit school at the age of 12 to work as a shoe shiner, losing a finger at his factory job at 19, and then becoming a labor activist, union leader, and founder of a political party devoted to a defense of laborers (the Workers’ Party, or PT), Lula has always been, in all respects, the exact opposite of the rich, dynastic, oligarch-loyal, aristocratic prototype that has traditionally wielded power in Brazil.
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(Português) Video: Glenn Greenwald Entrevista Lula – ‘Bolsonaro é a velha política, eu sou a nova’
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
27 May 2019
22 maio 2019 – Eu queria saber a visão de Lula–que, goste ou não, é um dos mais importantes líderes da esquerda mundial–sobre os motivos que nos trouxeram até aqui, depois de 14 anos de um governo que, ele diz, foi excelente para a população. Sim, ele foi o presidente que mais combateu a pobreza, a desigualdade, que mais criou universidades e programas para obsessivamente acabar com a fome no Brasil. A vida das pessoas melhorou. O que explica, então, o sofrimento que fez com que a população migrasse o voto dele e de Dilma, com o PT, para um extremista como Bolsonaro?
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Animal Matters: Episode 2
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
13 May 2019
15 Apr 2019 – How the Cause Went From the Leftist Fringe to the Trans-Ideological Mainstream
→ read full articleAnimal Matters: Episode 1
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
1 Apr 2019
28 Mar 2019 – Our first episode debuts today: it is time for humanity to grapple with its treatment of animals and the multilevel damage done by animal agriculture.
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NYT’s Exposé on the Lies about Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How U.S. Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
25 Mar 2019
10 Mar 2019 – Independent journalists skeptical of government claims proved these lies weeks ago, but the propagandistic U.S. media ignored them.
→ read full articleTrump’s Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old “U.S. Values” and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
26 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018 – U.S. elites who have armed and funded the world’s worst monsters pretend to be offended by Trump’s support for the Saudis.
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Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” Aims Not at Trump but at Those Who Created the Conditions That Led to His Rise
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
24 Sep 2018
21 Sep 2018 – Moore’s new film will surprise, please, disturb, disgust and anger everyone – for different reasons – and that’s what makes it so worthwhile.
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Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange and Hand Him Over to the UK. What Comes Next?
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno traveled to London yesterday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the 2018 Global Disabilities Summit. The concealed, actual purpose of the President’s trip is to meet with British officials to withdraw its asylum protection of Julian Assange and then hand over the WikiLeaks founder to British authorities.
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Ecuador’s Ex-President Rafael Correa Denounces Treatment of Julian Assange as “Torture”
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
21 May 2018
16 May 2018 – In an exclusive interview, the former Ecuadorian leader speaks about Assange, allegations from The Guardian, and the “submissive” posture of his successor to the U.S.
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Six Animal Rights Activists Charged with Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
7 May 2018
4 May 2018 – With the agricultural industry’s “ag-gag” laws dying in court, it appears to be turning to new tactics to silence activists and journalists who expose its abuses. This article includes graphic images and video some readers may find disturbing.
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Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
1 Jan 2018
30 Dec 2017 – Facebook has been on a censorship rampage against Palestinian activists who protest the decades-long, illegal Israeli occupation, all directed and determined by Israeli officials. Indeed, Israeli officials have been publicly boasting about how obedient Facebook is when it comes to Israeli censorship orders.
→ read full articleThe FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
9 Oct 2017
This article includes graphic images some readers may find disturbing. Systematic abuse of animals lies at the heart of U.S. industrial farms, which are protected by the government. Despite a crackdown on activists, the public is seeing the barbarism.
→ read full articleIn Europe, Hate Speech Laws Are Often Used to Suppress and Punish Left-Wing Viewpoints
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 Sep 2017
If hate speech laws existed in the U.S., their prime targets would be pro-Palestinian groups, Muslims, atheists, Black Lives Matter activists, and antifa.
→ read full article(Português) Dois anos depois, Congresso conclui o plano das elites ao proteger Temer: terminou a sangria
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
7 Aug 2017
3 Ago 2017 – Os mesmos pomposos deputados de direita e de centro que doze meses atrás se disfarçaram, sem pudor, com a ética, a religião e a moralidade pelo impeachment de Dilma, se juntaram para defender seu criminoso de estimação, que governa o país. Os votos dos deputados foram comprados por Temer usando dinheiro público. O Presidente passou os últimos dois meses fisgando, um a um, os deputados para dar-lhes um banho de generosidade até que eles aceitassem bloquear qualquer investigação.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Corrupt Congress Protects Its Bribe-Drenched President, Finalizing Elites’ Two-Year Plot
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – The very same bloated, slimy, pompous right-wing and centrist criminals who 12 months ago shamelessly draped themselves in ethics, religion and morality to oust Dilma Rousseff banded together to ensure that their fellow criminal who rules the country will face no consequences. Their votes were purchased by Temer using public funds. The President spent the last two months hauling them, one after the next, into his palace to shower them with public largesse until they agreed to block any investigation of him.
→ read full articleChelsea Manning Is a Free Woman: Her Heroism Has Expanded Beyond Her Initial Whistleblowing
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
22 May 2017
One could almost say that Chelsea Manning’s 2010 leaking to WikiLeaks has faded into the background when assessing her true impact as a human being.
→ read full articleKey Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
20 Mar 2017
The principal problem for Democrats is that so many media figures and online charlatans are personally benefiting from feeding the base increasingly unhinged, fact-free conspiracies — just as right-wing media polemicists did after both Bill Clinton and Obama were elected.
→ read full articleThe New Yorker’s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
6 Mar 2017
28 Feb 2017 – The New Yorker is aggressively touting its 13,000-word cover story on Russia and Trump that was bylined by three writers, including the magazine’s editor-in-chief, David Remnick. The most astonishing aspect of the discourse on Russia is how little attention is paid to the risks of fueling a new Cold War.
→ read full articleThe Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes from a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
27 Feb 2017
Foreign villains must always be omnipotent, and anyone questioning that must be disloyal.
→ read full articleWatch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 Jan 2017
The Paper of Record publishes a claim it knows to be false about the Snowden reporting. Why?
→ read full articleThe Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 Jan 2017
Trump’s critics can do him no bigger favor than using dubious, discredited tactics to attack him.
→ read full articleWashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News about Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
9 Jan 2017
4 Jan 2017 – In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging that the core claims of the story were fiction.
→ read full article(Português) Novos escândalos de Temer comprovam que o impeachment de Dilma Rousseff visava proteção de corruptos
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – O impeachment de Dilma não foi realizado para punir corruptos, mas para protegê-los. Nas duas últimas semanas, vimos dois novos escândalos de corrupção que confirmaram esse ponto de vista muito além do que seus defensores imaginavam ser possível. Em pouco tempo de mandato, Temer já perdeu cinco ministros por escândalos, mas as mais novas controvérsias são as mais graves até o momento.
→ read full articleIn Brazil, Major New Corruption Scandals Engulf the Faction that Impeached Dilma Rousseff
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
28 Nov 2016
The argument that impeachment would empower and protect the corrupt is now completely vindicated.
→ read full articleIn the Trump Era, Leaking and Whistleblowing Are More Urgent, and More Noble, Than Ever
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
21 Nov 2016
Trump has not yet been inaugurated, but all signs point to a presidency that will be deeply hostile to basic precepts of transparency. The Intercept is determined to enable sources to work with journalists in the safest way possible.
→ read full articleThree New Scandals Show How Pervasive and Dangerous Mass Surveillance Is in the West, Vindicating Snowden
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
7 Nov 2016
Each new investigation and judicial inquiry proves Snowden’s core warnings were correct.
→ read full articleWashington Post Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
26 Sep 2016
The Washington Post received countless benefits off Snowden’s back; now its editorial page wants him imprisoned.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Big Media Ignores Temer’s Confession — Except Estadão Columnist Who Falsely Claimed Video Was Altered
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Speaking to a group of U.S. business and foreign policy elites, the country’s installed president, Michel Temer, admitted that what triggered the impeachment process was not any supposed “budgetary crimes,” but rather Dilma’s opposition to the neoliberal platform of social program cuts and privatization demanded by Temer’s party and the big-business interests that fund it.
→ read full article(Português) Bernie Sanders chama impeachment de antidemocrático enquanto Michel Temer perde força
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
15 Aug 2016
A denúncia de Sanders é feita enquanto a situação do presidente interino do Brasil continua a se desmoronar.
→ read full articleBernie Sanders Denounces Brazil’s Impeachment as Undemocratic, Calls for New Elections
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
15 Aug 2016
9 Aug 2016 – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday denounced in harsh terms the impeachment of Brazil’s democratically elected president. As the Brazilian Senate heads toward a final vote later this month, Sanders described his position as “calling on the United States to take a definitive stand against efforts to remove Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff from office.” He added: “To many Brazilians and observers the controversial impeachment process more closely resembles a coup d’état.”
→ read full articleClinton-Led Democrats Are Now “To the Right of George W. Bush” on Palestinian Rights
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 Jul 2016
Surprising or not, the Clinton-led Democratic Party’s hostility toward the most basic precepts of equality and dignity for Palestinians, and their willingness – their eagerness – to support and cheer for the most extremist Israeli acts of oppression, racism and decades-long occupation, is nothing short of despicable.
→ read full articleBillionaires in Brazil: Understanding How Extreme Wealth and Political Power Overlap Everywhere
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 Jul 2016
13 Jul 2016 – Alex Cuadros spent years covering the billionaire class of Latin America for Bloomberg. A Portuguese-speaking American journalist who spent years based in Brazil, he has now written a highly entertaining and deeply insightful book about the particularly powerful, flamboyant, assertive, and often-crazed class of Brazilian billionaires. Titled Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, his new book was released yesterday.
→ read full article(Português) Eventos importantes no Brasil expõem a fraude do impeachment de Dilma — e a corrupção de Temer
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
Elio Gaspari, importante colunista da Folha de São Paulo, maior jornal brasileiro, escreveu na terça-feira [28 junho] – sob o título “Há Golpe” – que, à luz deste novo relatório, o Impeachment de Dilma é um golpe no sentido de que é realizado sem eleições: por “estratagemas” através de “práticas ardilosas”. Enquanto isso, o partido de Temer, PMDB, é virtualmente o mais corrupto deste hemisfério.
→ read full articleMajor New Brazil Events Expose the Fraud of Dilma’s Impeachment — and Temer’s Corruption
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
Whatever the motives were for getting rid of Dilma, illegality and corruption plainly had nothing to do with it. Just look at this week’s Senate report, or the face of the person they’ve installed, to see how true that is.
→ read full articleAs Corruption Engulfs Brazil’s “Interim” President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
20 Jun 2016
Now that Dilma is impeached, where have the “anti-corruption” protesters gone?
→ read full article(Português) Enquanto a corrupção assombra o Temer, caem as máscaras dos movimentos pró-impeachment
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
20 Jun 2016
Agora que Dilma está afastada, pra onde foram os manifestantes anticorrupção?
→ read full article(Português) O Colapso de Credibilidade de Michel Temer – Agora Inelegível por Oito Anos
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
6 Jun 2016
Apenas 20 dias após assumir o poder, provas irrefutáveis do envolvimento do Presidente interino Michel Temer em escândalos de corrupção vieram à tona. Dois ministros interinos de seu gabinete composto apenas de homens brancos, incluindo o Ministro da Transparência, foram forçados a abandonar seus cargos depois do aparecimento de gravações secretas em que conspiram visando obstruir as investigações nas quais se encontram envolvidos, assim como 1/3 dos ministros do gabinete interino.
→ read full articleCredibility of Brazil’s Interim President Collapses as He Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
6 Jun 2016
A mere 20 days into the seizure of power by the corruption-implicated “interim” President Michel Temer, overwhelming evidence has emerged: Already, two of the interim ministers in his all-white-male cabinet, including his anti-corruption minister, have been forced to resign after the emergence of secret recordings showing them plotting to obstruct the ongoing Car Wash investigation (in which they, along with one-third of his cabinet, are personally implicated).
→ read full article(Portuguese) Assista: Primeira Entrevista Com a Presidente Dilma Rousseff Depois de Sua Suspensão
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
Na terça-feira [17 de maio], conversei com a Presidenta Dilma no Palácio do Planalto em sua primeira entrevista após ser suspensa. A entrevista de 22 minutos encontra-se logo abaixo. Em lugar de se comportar de forma subjugada, conformada ou derrotada, Dilma – presa e torturada por três anos pela ditadura militar que governou o país com o apoio dos EUA por 21 anos – está mais firme, combativa e determinada do que nunca.
→ read full articleThe Intercept Is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
We encourage other journalists, researchers, and interested parties to comb through these documents, along with future published batches, to find additional material of interest. Others may well find stories — or clues that lead to stories — that we didn’t. A primary objective of these batch releases is to make that kind of exploration possible.
→ read full articleWatch: First Interview with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff since the Senate’s Impeachment Vote
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
On Tuesday [17 May], I spoke to President Rousseff in the presidential palace for her first interview since being suspended. The 22-minute interview, conducted in Portuguese with English subtitles, is below. Rather than subdued, resigned, and defeated, Rousseff — who was imprisoned and tortured for three years in the 1970s by the U.S.-supported military dictatorship that ruled the country for 21 years — is more combative, defiant, and resolute than ever.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Democracy to Suffer Grievous Blow as Unelectable, Corrupt Neoliberal is Installed
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 May 2016
11 May 2016 – Brazil’s senate voted this week to begin impeachment proceedings of Dilma Rousseff, suspending the nation’s first female president as she is put on trial by politicians neck-deep in their own scandals. Our co-founder Glenn Greenwald has written blistering critiques of the political turmoil from Rio de Janeiro, where he has lived for 11 years. “They are literally dismantling — crushing — democracy in the world’s fifth-largest country,” he writes.
→ read full article(Português) A Democracia Brasileira Sofrerá um Duro Revés com a Posse de um Inelegível e Corrupto Neoliberal
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 May 2016
O sucessor será o Vice-Presidente Michel Temer, do PMDB. Ele está submerso em corrupção: foi acusado por delatores de envolvimento em um esquema ilegal de compra de etanol, acaba de ser considerado culpado, e multado, por irregularidades nos gastos de campanha, e enfrenta a possibilidade de ficar inelegível por 8 anos. Ele é profundamente impopular: apenas 2% dos brasileiros o apoiariam como presidente, e quase 60% querem seu impeachment. Mas ele servirá fielmente aos interesses dos ricos do Brasil.
→ read full article(Português) Mauricio Lima, Fotógrafo do NYT e Ganhador do Pulitzer 2016, Denuncia a Globo e o “Golpe” no Brasil
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 May 2016
“Gostaria de expressar meu apoio a liberdade de imprensa e a Democracia, que é exatamente o que não está acontecendo no Brasil nesse momento. Sou contra o Golpe,” disse o herói brasileiro, também denunciando a Globo.
→ read full articleNYT Photographer Mauricio Lima, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Denounces Globo and the “Coup” in Brazil
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 May 2016
Brazil’s media has completely lost control of the narrative internationally, but also increasingly within Brazil. Their sleazy plan to install as president the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer – who just this week, in a indescribably Orwellian manner, called proposals for “new elections” a “coup” – is becoming untenable.
→ read full articleThe Joke of U.S. Justice and “Accountability” When They Bomb a Hospital
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 May 2016
One officer was suspended from command and ordered out of Afghanistan. The others were given lesser punishments: Six were sent to counseling, seven were issued letters of reprimand, and two were ordered to retraining courses.
→ read full article(Português) Para Entender a Verdade no Brasil, Veja Quem Está Sendo Implantado na Presidência — e na Chefia das Finanças
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
25 Apr 2016
Uma pesquisa recente mostrou que apenas 2% dos brasileiros votariam no Vice-Presidente do Brasil Michel Temer. Ele está sob suspeita por conta de um depoimento que ligou seu nome a um enorme escândalo de propina. E uma alta corte da justiça decidiu que o Congresso deve considerar a abertura de impeachment contra ele. No entanto, está se preparando para assumir o Brasil no próximo mês se o Senado decidir depor a Presidente Dilma Roussef em julgamento.
→ read full articleTo See the Real Story in Brazil, Look at Who Is Being Installed as President — and Finance Chiefs
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
25 Apr 2016
One recent poll found that only 2 percent of Brazilians would vote for Michel Temer, Brazil’s vice president. He is under scrutiny over testimony linking him to a colossal graft scandal. And a high court justice ruled that Congress should consider impeachment proceedings against him. He is preparing to take the helm of Brazil next month if the Senate decides to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial.
→ read full articleWATCH: Exclusive Interview by Glenn Greenwald with Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 Apr 2016
Facing one of the worst scandals of his political career, including a criminal investigation, Lula is more challenging than ever and shows willingness to face the presidential elections of 2018.
→ read full article(Português) ASSISTA: Entrevista Exclusiva de Glenn Greenwald com ex-Presidente Lula
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 Apr 2016
Enfrentando um dos piores escândalos de sua carreira política, incluindo uma investigação criminal, Lula é mais desafiador do que nunca, e se mostra disposto para a corrida presidencial de 2018.
→ read full articleA Key Similarity between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
11 Apr 2016
Vital journalism does not only expose law breaking. It also highlights how corrupted political and legal systems can be co-opted by the most powerful in order to legally sanction atrocious and destructive behavior that serves their interests, typically with little or no public awareness that it’s been done.
→ read full articleFighting Israeli Occupying Forces Is “Terrorism.” Boycotting Is “Anti-Semitism.” What’s Allowed?
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 Apr 2016
3 Apr 2016 – That “terrorism” is a malleable term of propaganda, with no fixed meaning or consistent application, is now quite well-established. All forms of resistance to Israeli occupation — violent and nonviolent — are deemed illegitimate.
→ read full articleHighlighting Western Victims While Ignoring Victims of Western Violence
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
28 Mar 2016
U.S. media outlets bombard us with images and dramatic narratives highlighting our own side’s victims, while the victims of our side’s violence are rendered invisible.
→ read full articleWhere Were the Post-Hebdo Free Speech Crusaders as France Spent the Last Year Crushing Free Speech?
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
11 Jan 2016
One year ago, millions marched in Paris in defense of free speech. Why, then, is the systematic attack on free speech rights in France now ignored?
→ read full articleStock Prices of Weapons Manufacturers Soaring Since Paris Attack
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
17 Nov 2015
16 Nov 2015 – Already this morning, as Aaron Cantú noticed, the stocks of the leading weapons manufacturers — what is usually referred to as the “defense industry” — have soared.
→ read full articleAnti-Israel Activism Criminalized in the Land of Charlie Hebdo and “Free Speech”
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 Nov 2015
Where are all the newfound free speech activists who insisted after the Charlie Hebdo murders that a defense of free expression was so vital to all that is good and just in the Western world? Why isn’t the #JeSuisBDS hashtag trending in defense of these activists who have been persecuted — prosecuted — by France for their political views?
→ read full articleOne Day after Warning Russia of Civilian Casualties, the U.S. Bombs a Hospital in Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
5 Oct 2015
Several reports suggest that this hospital has been viewed with hostility because it treats all injured human beings, regardless of which side they’re on. “The hospital treated the wounded from all sides of the conflict, a policy that has long irked the Afghan security forces,” reports the NYT. Al Jazeera notes that “a caretaker at the hospital, who was severely injured in the air strike, told Al Jazeera that [the] clinic’s medical staff did not favor any side of the conflict.
→ read full articleTwo Short Paragraphs That Summarize the US Approach to Human Rights Advocacy
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
14 Sep 2015
Support for human rights abuses and tyranny – not opposition to it – is a staple of U.S. foreign policy. Standing alone, how can anyone believe that the same government that lavishes the Saudi regime with support is waging war or other using forms of violence in order to stop human rights abuses?
→ read full articleDo Adults Have a Privacy Right to Use Drugs? Brazil’s Supreme Court Decides
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
14 Sep 2015
“The idea is that drug usage, if there is a harm, is only self-injury, only harms the individual and thus cannot be the object of state punishment.”
→ read full articleNYT Claims U.S. Abides by Cluster Bomb Treaty: The Exact Opposite of Reality
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
7 Sep 2015
For the NYT to tell its readers that the U.S. — one of the leading cluster bomb states on the planet — is actually one of the countries that “have not yet joined the treaty but have abided by its provisions” is nationalistic propaganda of the most extreme kind.
→ read full articleJorge Ramos Commits Journalism, Gets Immediately Attacked by Journalists
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
31 Aug 2015
Jorge Ramos, the influential anchor of Univision and an American immigrant from Mexico, has been denouncing Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Yesterday at a Trump press conference in Iowa, Ramos stood and questioned Trump on his immigration views.
→ read full articleDylann Roof Is Not a “Terrorist” — But Animal Rights Activists Who Free Minks From Slaughter Are
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
3 Aug 2015
The FBI on Friday [24 Jul] announced the arrests in Oakland of two animal rights activists and accused the pair of engaging in “domestic terrorism.” This comes less than a month after the FBI director said he does not consider Charleston Church murderer Dylann Roof a “terrorist.” The activists’ alleged crimes: “They released thousands of minks from farms around the country and vandalized various properties.” That’s it.
→ read full articleNBC News Releases the Long-Awaited Trailer for Its Summer Horror Film about ISIS
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
27 Jul 2015
James Comey somberly warned that ISIS now officially poses a bigger threat to the ‘U.S. homeland’ than the one posed by former title-holder Al Qaeda – because, of course, the Latest Threat must always be the Greatest Threat.
→ read full articleSpies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law
Andrew Fishman and Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
29 Jun 2015
GCHQ needed to reverse engineer software to hack into computer networks — so it decided to secretly reinterpret British law. Then it abused its newfound powers, ignoring internal guidelines.
→ read full articleRefusal to Call Charleston Shootings “Terrorism” Again Shows It’s a Meaningless Propaganda Term
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
22 Jun 2015
Terrorism: a term that justifies everything yet means nothing — other than “violence we want to delegitimize.”
→ read full articleThe Sunday Times’ Snowden Story Is Journalism at Its Worst — And Filled with Falsehoods
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
15 Jun 2015
14 Jun 2015 – The British Murdoch-owned paper publishes a report trying to exploit this mindset: “If some anonymous government officials said it, and journalists repeat it while hiding who they are, I guess it must be true.”
→ read full articleGCHQ’s Rainbow Lights: Exploiting Social Issues for Militarism and Imperialism
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
25 May 2015
Whatever your views on all this nasty surveillance business might be, how can you not feel good about GCHQ when it drapes itself in the colors of LGBT equality? This is all a stark illustration of what has become a deeply cynical but highly effective tactic.
→ read full articleCanadian Government Says Free Speech is for Offending Muslims — Not Opposing Israel
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 May 2015
As I’ve argued many times, all applications of hate speech laws are inherently tyrannical, dangerous and wrong, and it’s truly mystifying (and scary) that people convince themselves that their judgment is so unerring and their beliefs so sacrosanct that it should be illegal to question or dissent from them.
→ read full article145 PEN Writers (Thus Far) Have Objected to the Charlie Hebdo Award – Not Just 6
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 May 2015
30 Apr 2015 – Contrary to media accounts claiming that only 6 PEN members have objected to the group’s decision to bestow Charlie Hebdo with an award, the actual number is currently 145 PEN members. Below is the letter drafted by several of the objecting writers, along with the current full list of signatories.
→ read full articleCowardly Firing of Australian State-Funded TV Journalist Highlights the West’s Real Religion
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 May 2015
A TV commentator in Australia, Scott McIntyre, was summarily fired on Sunday [26 Apr 2015] by Special Broadcasting Services on “Anzac Day,” a national holiday that marks the anniversary of a military action by Australian and New Zealand forces in WWI, due to a series of tweets about the violence committed by the Australian military.
→ read full articleThe Key War on Terror Propaganda Tool: Only Western Victims Are Acknowledged
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
27 Apr 2015
24 Apr 2015 – In all the years I’ve been writing about Obama’s drone killings, yesterday featured BY FAR the most widespread critical discussion in U.S. establishment journalism circles. The reason for the unusually intense, largely critical coverage of drone killings yesterday is obvious: the victims of this strike were Western and non-Muslim, and therefore were seen as actually human.
→ read full articleIranians Are Much Talked About on Sunday Morning TV, but Never Heard From
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
13 Apr 2015
The only way to exclude Iranian voices is if you choose to exclude them. That’s exactly what Sunday morning television programs have done, and the result is pure propaganda.
→ read full articleWhat’s Scarier: Terrorism, or Governments Blocking Websites in its Name?
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 Mar 2015
But the comical futility of these efforts is exceeded by their profound dangers. Who wants governments to be able to unilaterally block websites? Isn’t the exercise of this website-blocking power what has long been cited as reasons we should regard the Bad Countries — such as China and Iran — as tyrannies (which also usually cite “counterterrorism” to justify their censorship efforts)?
→ read full articleUS Threatened Germany over Snowden, Vice Chancellor Says
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 Mar 2015
19 Mar 2015 – German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said this week in Homburg that the U.S. government threatened to cease sharing intelligence with Germany if Berlin offered asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden or otherwise arranged for him to travel to that country.
→ read full articleThe Orwellian Re-Branding of “Mass Surveillance” as Merely “Bulk Collection”
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 Mar 2015
Just as Bush administration and U.S. media re-labelled “torture” with the Orwellian euphemism “enhanced interrogation techniques” to make it more palatable, the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now re-branding “mass surveillance” as “bulk collection” in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal).
→ read full articleThe “Snowden is Ready to Come Home!” Story: A Case Study in Typical Media Deceit
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
9 Mar 2015
What rational person would ever willingly submit themselves to a penal state that imprisons more of its citizens than any other in the world, run by people with this mentality?
→ read full articleClapper Calls for Arming Ukrainian Forces: Who Would That Actually Empower?
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 Mar 2015
The U.S. has already provided “non-lethal” aid to Ukrainian forces, and Obama has said he is now considering arming them. Who, exactly, would that empower? Russian President Vladimir Putin has long said that the Ukrainian coup of last year, and the subsequent regime in Kiev, is driven by ultra-nationalists, fascists, and even neo-Nazi factions.
→ read full articleHailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to Be the Exact Opposite
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 Feb 2015
Since 2011, Libya has rapidly unraveled in much the way Iraq did following that invasion: swamped by militia rule, factional warfare, economic devastation, and complete lawlessness. And to their eternal shame, most self-proclaimed “humanitarians” who advocated the Libya intervention completely ignored the country once the fun parts — the war victory dances and mocking of war opponents — were over.
→ read full articleWestern Spy Agencies Secretly Rely on Hackers for Intel and Expertise
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
9 Feb 2015
4 Feb 2015 – The U.S., U.K. and Canadian governments characterize hackers as a criminal menace, warn of the threats they allegedly pose to critical infrastructure, and aggressively prosecute them, but they are also secretly exploiting their information and expertise, according to top secret documents.
→ read full articleBurning Victims to Death: Still a Common Practice
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
9 Feb 2015
4 Feb 2015 – The latest ISIS atrocity – releasing a video of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being burned alive – prompted substantial discussion yesterday about this particular form of savagery. It is thus worth noting that deliberately burning people to death is achievable – and deliberately achieved – in all sorts of other ways:
→ read full articleSami Al-Arian, Professor Who Defeated Controversial Terrorism Charges, Is Deported from U.S.
Murtaza Hussain and Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
9 Feb 2015
5 Feb 2015 – In 2003, Sami Al-Arian was a professor at the University of South Florida, a legal resident of the U.S. since 1975, and one of the most prominent Palestinian civil rights activists in the U.S. The government ultimately failed to produce any evidence of Al-Arian’s involvement in terrorist activities and his ordeal finally ended last night, 12 years after it began, as Al-Arian was deported to Turkey. “I came to the United States for freedom, but four decades later, I am leaving to gain my freedom.”
→ read full articleCanada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads
Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 Feb 2015
The covert operation, revealed Wednesday [28 Jan 2015] by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept, taps into Internet cables and analyzes records of up to 15 million downloads daily from popular websites commonly used to share videos, photographs, music, and other files.
→ read full articleCompare and Contrast: Obama’s Reaction to the Deaths of King Abdullah and Hugo Chávez
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
26 Jan 2015
Hugo Chávez was elected President of Venezuela four times from 1998 through 2012 and was admired and supported by a large majority of that country’s citizens, largely due to his policies that helped the poor. King Abdullah was the dictator and tyrant who ran one of the most repressive regimes on the planet.
→ read full articleFrance Arrests a Comedian for His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West’s “Free Speech” Celebration
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
19 Jan 2015
14 Jan 2015 – Forty-eight hours after hosting a massive march under the banner of free expression, France opened a criminal investigation of a controversial French comedian for a Facebook post he wrote about the Charlie Hebdo attack, and then this morning, arrested him for that post on charges of “defending terrorism.”
→ read full articleIn Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
12 Jan 2015
To comport with this new principle for how one shows solidarity with free speech rights and a vibrant free press, we’re publishing some blasphemous and otherwise offensive cartoons about religion and their adherents:
→ read full articleNorth Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
5 Jan 2015
The overwhelming narrative disseminated by the U.S. media was clear: North Korea was responsible for the hack, because the government said it was.
→ read full articleU.S. TV Provides Ample Platform for American Torturers, But None to Their Victims
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
22 Dec 2014
Whether by design (most likely) or effect, this inexcusable omission radically distorts coverage. Whenever America is forced to confront its heinous acts, the central strategy is to disappear the victims, render them silenced and invisible. It is the biggest favor the U.S. television media could do for the government over which they claim to act as watchdogs.
→ read full articleOn Media Outlets That Continue to Describe Unknown Drone Victims as “Militants”
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
24 Nov 2014
Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties of his drone strikes which “in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants…unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.”
→ read full articleHow Many Muslim Countries Has the U.S. Bombed or Occupied since 1980?
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
10 Nov 2014
Syria has become at least the 14th country in the Islamic world that U.S. forces have invaded or occupied or bombed. Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew.
→ read full articleHow Former Treasury Officials and the UAE Are Manipulating American Journalists
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
29 Sep 2014
A bizarre neocon/ Israel/ Gulf-dictator coalition is now driving not only U.S. policy but U.S. discourse, as well, aided by ex U.S. officials.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Government’s Secret Plans to Spy for American Corporations
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
8 Sep 2014
After that categorical statement to the Post, the NSA was caught spying on plainly financial targets such as the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras; economic summits; international credit card and banking systems; the EU antitrust commissioner investigating Google, Microsoft, and Intel; and the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
→ read full articleShould Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives Be the Arbiters of What We See and Read?
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
25 Aug 2014
It’s tempting to support criminalization of, say, racist views as long as one focuses on one’s contempt for those views and ignores the serious dangers of vesting the state with the general power to create lists of prohibited ideas.
→ read full articleU.S. “Humanitarian” Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
11 Aug 2014
For those who ask “what should be done?,” has the hideous aftermath of the NATO intervention in Libya not taught the crucial lessons that (a) bombing for ostensibly “humanitarian” ends virtually never fulfills the claimed goals but rather almost always makes the situation worse; (b) the U.S. military is not designed, and is not deployed, for “humanitarian” purposes?; and (c) …
→ read full articleCash, Weapons and Surveillance: The U.S. Is a Key Party to Every Israeli Attack
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 Aug 2014
Top secret documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden shed substantial new light on how the U.S. and its partners directly enable Israel’s military assaults – such as the one on Gaza.
→ read full articleTerrorism in the Israeli Attack on Gaza
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 Aug 2014
As I’ve written many times before, “terrorism” is, and from the start was designed to be, almost entirely devoid of discernible meaning. It’s a fear-mongering slogan, lacking any consistent application, intended to end rational debate and justify virtually any conduct by those who apply the term.
→ read full articleHacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
21 Jul 2014
The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.”
→ read full articleNBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza after Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
21 Jul 2014
17 Jul 2014 – Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately.
→ read full articleExcerpt from «The Battle for Justice in Palestine»
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
28 Apr 2014
Like most of what he writes and says, Ali Abunimah’s new book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine, is provocative, erudite, impassioned, aggressive, and certain to make even some political allies uncomfortable with their tacitly held beliefs (beginning with the book’s very first sentence: “The Palestinians are winning”)
→ read full articleThe “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
7 Apr 2014
One previously undisclosed top-secret document–prepared by GCHQ for the 2010 annual “Five Eyes” surveillance alliance comprising the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S.–explicitly discusses ways to exploit Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media as secret platforms for propaganda.
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