Glenn Greenwald

-by Eric ZuesseThe great investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald gave an hour-long lecture on how America’s billionaires control the U.S.

Dunbar’s number, the famous estimate of how many relationships you can meaningfully maintain in life, is just 150.
— Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (2019)

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
— The Beatles, “I Am The Walrus,” (1967)

Noam Chomsky believes that it is so imperative that Trump be defeated that he will vote for Biden, while Glenn Greenwald challenges the political strategy of the lesser-of-two-evils dictum. It is difficult to imagine anyone more intellectually commanding than Chomsky, but Greenwald is no inferior. Chomsky and Greenwald are unbroken, rational warriors who apply contrasting […]

Sanders, not Biden, has the best chance of beating Trump
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
9 March 2020
If you have followed the race to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States you’ll have heard the argument a lot: Bernie Sanders, the social democratic senator from Vermont, would never beat sitting US President Donald Trump.

By Will Banyan (Copyright © 21 February 2020) TRUMP: Look, Putin…… from everything I see, has no respect for this person. CLINTON: Well, that’s because he’d rather have a puppet as president of the...

Roland is always suggesting countries with shady right-wing governments as place for us to visit, like Egypt (Abdel el-Sisi), Poland (Mateusz Morawiecki), China (Xi Jinping), Brazil (Jair Bolsonaro), Austria (Brigitte Bierlein), Hungary (Viktor Orbбn,)... and I always explain I don't want to go to fascist-ruled countries. Still... here I am living in Trumpland.

Thoreau got it right:

‘Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.’ (Thoreau, ‘Walden’, Penguin, 1983, p.68)

Has anything changed since Katharine Gun’s momentous leak against the Iraq War?
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
22 October 2019
Directed by Gavin Hood and starring Keira Knightley, new film Official Secrets tells the story of Katharine Gun’s brave actions to try to stop the illegal US-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Glenn Greenwald on Robert Mueller’s disappearance; how Andrew McCabe has become the latest former U.S. intelligence official to join either…
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Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept discusses the record-setting Amazon forest fires, the struggle against Brazil’s far-right government, and how his…
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