Articles by Glenn Greenwald

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New UK MP George Galloway on the Next Era of Politics
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – Upending the “West’s Dictatorship”

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Glenn Greenwald: US Government Doesn’t Care about Spreading Democracy
Tucker Carlson interviews Glenn Greenwald | FOX News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

9 Dec 2022 – The USA is spreading democracy on the other side of the world by sending billions of taxpayers’ dollars in weapons to Ukraine, whose war is being orchestrated and fueled by US and NATO. If you want to believe the fairy tale that the US government goes to war to spread democracy, then Ukraine is not the place for you.

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The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

30 Oct 2022 – The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated. The silencing tactic that has most commonly provoked attention and debate is the banning of particular posts or individuals by specific social media platforms. But the censorship regime that has been developed, and which is now rapidly escalating, extends far beyond those relatively limited punishments.

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Why Brazil Still Matters
Glenn Greenwald | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

With Lula eligible to run against Bolsonaro, Brazilians hold the world’s future in their hands.

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Biden Wanted $33B More for Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised It to $40B. Who Benefits?
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022

11 May 2022 – Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as North Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. government, and for whose benefit.

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The Bizarre, Unanimous Dem Support for the $40b War Package to Raytheon and CIA: “For Ukraine”
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022

14 May 2022 – “The US Anti-War Left Is Dead–The Squad’s $40b War Vote Just Killed It.” Many Dems voting YES have long denounced exactly these sorts of bills. What happened?

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Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Board” Is Even More Pernicious Than It Seems
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022

4 May 2022 – The power to decree what is “disinformation” now determines what can and cannot be discussed on the internet. It is now in the hands of trained disinformation agents of the U.S. Security State.

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The Censorship Campaign against Western Criticism of NATO’s Ukraine Policy Is Extreme
Glenn Greenwald | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

13 Apr 2022 – Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.

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Reporting from Moscow: Sanctions May Achieve the Opposite of Biden’s Stated Long-Term Goals
Glenn Greenwald and Dimitri Simes Jr. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2022

27 Mar 2022 – In Russia, sanctions have taken a bite out of the Russian economy, but interviews and data suggest they cannot fulfill the West’s strategic motives for imposing them.

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Biden’s Reckless Words Underscore the Dangers of U.S. Use of Ukraine as a Proxy War
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2022

27 Mar 2022 – The central question from the start of the war in Ukraine was what role, if any, should the U.S. government play in it? If the U.S. is going to involve itself in this war, what objectives should drive that involvement? Those questions were never considered and it may be too late for them to be examined. But given the stakes, this is as clear a case of better late than never.

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Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2022

9 Mar 2022 – The neocon’s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.

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War Propaganda about Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2022

27 Feb 2022 – Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.

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NBC News Uses Ex-FBI Official Frank Figliuzzi to Urge Assange’s Extradition, Hiding His Key Role
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jan 2022

2 Jan 2022 – The most dangerous, and under-discussed, development in corporate media is the spate of ex-security state agents now employed to deliver the “news.”

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To Protect Fauci, The Washington Post Is Preparing a Hit Piece on the Group Denouncing Gruesome Dog Experimentations
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Nov 2021

2 Nov 2021 – For years, the White Coat Waste Project was heralded by The Post as what they are: an activist success story uniting right and left. But now its work imperils a liberal icon.

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The U.S. Government Lied for Two Decades about Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2021

16 Aug 2021 – Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan.

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As Anger toward Belarus Mounts, Recall the 2013 Forced Landing of Bolivia’s Plane to Find Snowden
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 May 2021

24 May 2021 – What Belarus did, while illegal, is not unprecedented. The dangerous tactic was pioneered by the same U.S. and E.U. officials now righteously condemning it.

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My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Apr 2021

6 Apr 2021 – On Mother’s Day in 2019, I obtained a massive digital archive of chats, documents, audios, videos, and photos from Brazil’s most powerful officials. It of course viscerally reminded me of the first time I was contacted back in 2012 by Edward Snowden. [The hacker] told me that he had reviewed less than ten percent of these materials, but already found acts of such grave deceit and illegality that he was certain it would shake Brazilian politics at its core. The reporting we did changed the country, and our lives.

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Corporate, Mainstream Media Journalists Double Down on Lies about Russia
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Mar 2021

17 Mar 2021 – Journalists, Illustrating How They Operate, Yesterday Spread a Significant Lie all over Twitter – Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it.

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Brazil’s High Court Invalidates Lula’s Convictions, Leaving Him Eligible to Run against Bolsonaro
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Mar 2021

10 Mar 2021 – The decision by a Brazilian judge reverses Lula’s unjust and politicized persecution. The corruption that led to this holds many lessons for the west.

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Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor Its Writers: To Bar Critiques of Journalists
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Mar 2021

11 Mar 2021 – This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent. That same motive of self-preservation is driving them to equate any criticisms of their work with “harassment,” “abuse” and “violence.”

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US Congress Escalates Pressure on Media Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Feb 2021

20 Feb 2021 – For the third time in less than five months, the U.S. Congress has summoned the CEOs of social media companies to appear before them, with the explicit intent to pressure and coerce them to censor more content from their platforms. In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it.

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The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Feb 2021

7 Feb 2021 – A new and rapidly growing journalistic “beat” has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of junior high hall-monitor tattling and Stasi-like citizen surveillance. It is half adolescent and half malevolent. Its primary objectives are control, censorship, and the destruction of reputations for fun and power.

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The Reddit Rebellion: Gameplay and Melvin Capital
Glenn Greenwald – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Feb 2021

28 Jan 2021 – One of the most interesting and potentially significant conflicts to happen in some time — not just financially but culturally and politically — deserves serious scrutiny.

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The Reddit Revolution, GameStop and Melvin Capital
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Feb 2021

28 Jan 2021 – One of the most interesting and potentially significant conflicts to happen in some time — not just financially but culturally and politically — deserves serious scrutiny. A remarkable series of events culminated in at least one major Wall Street hedge fund on the verge of insolvency and widespread anxiety and even panic from the titans of the financial system. It was all initiated on a sub-group of Reddit.

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How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler
Glenn Greenwald |– TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jan 2021

12 Jan 2021 – In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.

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Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jan 2021

7 Jan 2021 – From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian “solutions” are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat.

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The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths about Freedom and Tyranny
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jan 2021

31 Dec 2020 – The real measure of how free is a society is not how its mainstream, well-behaved ruling class servants are treated, but the fate of its actual dissidents.

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A Long-Forgotten CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on Today’s U.S. Politics and Wars
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Nov 2020

23 Nov 2020 – The Agency knew that their best asset for selling their wars was Barack Obama — the same reason so many in the security state were eager to get rid of Donald Trump.

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The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Nov 2020

19 Nov 2020 – An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon.

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Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored by The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2020

29 Oct 2020 – I am posting here the most recent draft of my article about Joe and Hunter Biden — the last one seen by Intercept editors before telling me that they refuse to publish it absent major structural changes involving the removal of all sections critical of Joe Biden, leaving only a narrow article critiquing media outlets.

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(Português) Glenn Greenwald: Minha Renúncia do The Intercept
Glenn Greenwald – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Nov 2020

29 out 2020 – Hoje enviei minha intenção de demitir-me do The Intercept, que co-fundei em 2013 com Jeremy Scahill e Laura Poitras, bem como de First Look Media. O motivo é que os editores do The Intercept, em violação do meu direito contratual de liberdade editorial, censuraram um artigo que escrevi, recusando-se a publicá-lo a menos que eu removesse todas as seções críticas ao candidato democrata à presidência Joe Biden.

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Glenn Greenwald: My Resignation from the Intercept
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Nov 2020

29 Oct 2020 – Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from First Look Media. The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

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How “Cancel Culture” Repeatedly Emerged in My Attempt to Make a Film About Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jul 2020

14 Jul 2020 – Growing up as a gay child in South Florida in the late 1970s and into the dark 1980s era of Reagan and AIDS, my childhood hero was the tennis star Martina Navratilova. In 1975, at the age of 18, Navratilova fled Communist Czechoslovakia, leaving her entire family behind in a daring escape, to emigrate to the U.S. In the 1980s, she became one of the only openly gay celebrities in the world, an LGBT and feminist pioneer, and an outspoken political dissident.

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How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jul 2020

9 Jul 2020 – The least-discussed Congressional proceedings are often the most consequential — and almost always bipartisan.

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With the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the West Bank
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jun 2020

18 Jun 2020 – Israel is planning a move on July 1 that the international community regards as one of the gravest assaults on the international law: annexation of not only the decades-old settlements in the West Bank, which the U.N. Security Council in 2016 declared illegal to be permanent Israeli land, but also the Jordan Valley, that is central to Palestinian agriculture.

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The Far-Right Bolsonaro Movement Wants Us Dead. But We Will Not Give Up
Glenn Greenwald and David Miranda – The Guardian, 3 Feb 2020

29 Jan 2020 – Courage is contagious. Those are the people who inspire us and so many like us in Bolsonaro’s Brazil who are confronting state repression to defend the democracy that so many people suffered so much to bring about. Demagogues and despots like Bolsonaro are a dime a dozen. They centrally rely on intimidation, fear and the use of state repression to consolidate power. A refusal to give into that fear, but instead to join hands with those who intend to fight against it, is always the antidote to this toxin.

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Bolsonaro, under Fire, Dismisses His Culture Minister for Giving a Nazi Speech, but It Is Still Representative of Brazil’s Governing Ethos
Glenn Greenwald and Victor Pougy – The Intercept, 20 Jan 2020

18 Jan 2020 – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, under severe pressure from multiple corners, yesterday fired his Culture Minister, Roberto Alvim, for recording and publishing what can only be described — with no hyperbole — as a Nazi speech about Brazilian art. WATCH: the literal Nazi speech with English subtitles that has shone a light on the true ideology of the Bolsonaro movement.

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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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“Their Little Show”: Brazilian Judge in Corruption Case Mocked Lula’s Defense and Secretly Directed Prosecutors’ Media Strategy During Trial
Andrew Fishman, Rafael Moro Martins, Leandro Demori, Glenn Greenwald and Amanda Audi – the Intercept, 24 Jun 2019

17 Jun 2019 – Brazil’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro, while serving as a judge in a corruption case that upended Brazilian politics, took to private chats to mock the defense of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and direct prosecutors’ media strategy, according to newly unearthed chats from an archive obtained by The Intercept Brasil.

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(Português) Como e por que o Intercept está publicando chats privados sobre a Lava Jato e Sergio Moro (Partes 1 a 6)
Glenn Greenwald, Betsy Reed e Leandro Demori – The Intercept Brasil, 17 Jun 2019

Série de reportagens mostra comportamentos antiéticos e transgressões que o Brasil e o mundo têm o direito de conhecer. Uma enorme coleção de materiais nunca revelados fornece o olhar sem precedentes sobre as operações da força-tarefa anticorrupção que transformou a política brasileira e conquistou a atenção mundial. As Mensagens Secretas da Lava Jato:

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How and Why the Intercept Is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials about Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio Moro (Parts 1 to 3)
Glenn Greenwald, Leandro Demori and Betsy Reed – The Intercept, 17 Jun 2019

A massive archive exclusively provided to The Intercept confirms long-held suspicions about the politicized motives and deceit of Brazil’s corruption investigators who plotted Lula’s conviction and Bolsonaro’s rise.

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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

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(Português) A acusação contra Julian Assange pelo governo dos EUA representa uma grave ameaça à liberdade de expressão
Glenn Greenwald e Micah Lee – The Intercept Brasil, 15 Apr 2019

12 Abr 2019 – O Departamento de Justiça americano usou a antipatia do público em relação ao Assange para tentar criminalizar uma função vital do jornalismo investigativo.

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The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom
Glenn Greenwald and Micah Lee – The Intercept, 15 Apr 2019

12 Apr 2019 – The Trump DOJ is exploiting animosity toward Assange to launch a thinly disguised effort to criminalize core functions of investigative journalism.

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Animal 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.

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Trump’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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Animal Rights Activists Face Multiple Felony Charges, Brought by Prosecutors with Ties to Smithfield Foods
Glenn Greenwald, Lee Fang and Leighton Akio Woodhouse – The Intercept, 11 Jun 2018

7 Jun 2018 – Six animal rights activists have been charged with multiple felony counts in two separate criminal cases. Why are they, who took nothing of commercial value, facing prison terms? Because the law is being abused to intimidate and silence them.

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Bred to Suffer: Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation
Glenn Greenwald and Leighton Akio Woodhouse – The Intercept, 21 May 2018

17 May 2018 – An investigation into Ridglan Farms shines a light on a largely hidden industry that breeds and cages dogs for the sole purpose of experimentation. This article includes graphic images that some readers may find disturbing.

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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.

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Rescue at Oakland Slaughterhouse Shows New, Potent Tactics of Growing Animal Rights Movement
Glenn Greenwald and Leighton Akio Woodhouse – The Intercept, 6 Nov 2017

1 Nov 2017 – As industrial animal abuse worsens, the animal rights movement is transforming and growing, and its new tactics are finding success.

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The 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.

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In 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.

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(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.

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Brazil’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.

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Chelsea 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.

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Key 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.

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The 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.

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The 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.

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Secret Docs Reveal: President Trump Has Inherited an FBI with Vast Hidden Powers
Glenn Greenwald and Betsy Reed – The Intercept, 6 Feb 2017

The FBI’s Secret Rules, based on a trove of long-sought confidential FBI documents, shines a bright light on the vast powers of this law enforcement agency, particularly when it comes to its ability to monitor dissent and carry out a domestic war on terror, at the beginning of an era highly likely to be marked by vociferous protest and reactionary state repression.

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Watch 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?

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The 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.

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WashPost 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.

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(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.

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In 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.

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In 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.

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Three 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.

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(Français) Une première dans l’Histoire du journalisme : le Washington Post demande l’inculpation de sa propre source – après avoir accepté le prix Pulitzer
Glenn Greenwald | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2016

Ce faisant, le Washington Post a réalisé un exploit ignominieux dans l’histoire des médias US : être le premier journal à avoir explicitement demandé des poursuites pénales contre sa propre source – sur le dos de qui le journal a remporté et accepté avec empressement un Prix Pulitzer du Service Public. Mais encore plus stupéfiant que cet acte de trahison journalistique contre la propre source du journal sont les arguments avancés pour le justifier.

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Washington 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.

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Brazil’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.

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(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.

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Bernie 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.”

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(Português) Brasil: Folha comete fraude jornalística com pesquisa manipulada visando alavancar Temer
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau- The Intercept, 25 Jul 2016

Uma coisa é a mídia plutocrática brasileira incentivar e incitar abertamente a queda de um governo democraticamente eleito. De acordo com a RSF, esse comportamento representa uma ameaça direta à democracia e à liberdade de imprensa. Mas é muito diferente testemunhar a fabricação de manchetes e narrativas falsas insinuando que uma grande parte do país apoia o indivíduo que tomou o poder de forma antidemocrática, quando isso não é verdade.

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(Português) Brasil: A fraude jornalística da Folha é ainda pior: surgem novas evidências
Glenn Greenwald e Erick Dau – The Intercept, 25 Jul 2016

• Dados de pesquisa ocultados pela Folha mostram que a grande maioria dos eleitores quer a renúncia de Temer, o que contradiz categoricamente a matéria da Folha
• 62% dos brasileiros querem a renúncia de Dilma e Temer, e a realização de novas eleições: ao contrário dos 3% inicialmente mencionados pela Folha
• Dados cruciais da pesquisa foram publicados e, em seguida, retirados do ar pelo datafolha: encontrados por portal brasileiro
• Resposta do Diretor Executivo da Folha de São Paulo de que os dados ocultados não eram “jornalisticamente relevantes” não resiste a análise

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Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Commits Major Journalistic Fraud to Boost Interim President Temer
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau – The Intercept, 25 Jul 2016

It’s one thing for Brazil’s plutocratic media to openly incite and agitate the fall of a democratically elected government. As Reporters Without Borders found, that behavior poses a direct threat to both democracy and press freedom. But it’s quite another to watch as they simply manufacture headlines and false narratives to suggest that a large portion of the country supports the individual who seized power undemocratically when they plainly do not.

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Brazil: Folha’s Journalistic Fraud Far Worse Than We Reported Yesterday: A Smoking Gun Emerges
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau – The Intercept, 25 Jul 2016

• Polling data concealed by Folha shows a large majority want Temer to resign: directly contradicting Folha’s key claim
• 62 percent of Brazilians want Dilma and Temer to quit and new elections held: not 3 percent as Folha stated
• Incriminating data was published, then unpublished, by Datafolha: discovered yesterday by a Brazilian website
• Response from Folha’s executive editor — they withheld data that was not “journalistically relevant” — cannot withstand scrutiny

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Clinton-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.

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Billionaires 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.

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(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.

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Major 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.

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Why Is the Killer of British MP Jo Cox Not Being Called a “Terrorist”?
Glenn Greenwald - The Intercept, 20 Jun 2016

The term now has little meaning other than “a Muslim who engages in violence against Westerners or their allies.”

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As 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?

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(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?

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(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.

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Credibility 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).

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(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.

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The 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.

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Watch: 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.

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Brazil’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.

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(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.

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(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.

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NYT 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.

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The 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.

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(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.

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