Articles by Glenn Greenwald
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When the U.S. security state announces that Big Tech's centralized censorship power must be preserved, we should ask what this reveals about whom this regime serves.
Glenn Greenwald · 331 views
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Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism.
Glenn Greenwald · 352 views
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All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party's liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.
Glenn Greenwald · 351 views
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Brazil today awoke to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual...
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda · 6,393 views
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FROM THE TIME we began reporting on the archive provided to us in Hong Kong by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, we sought to fulfill his two principal requests for how the materials...
Glenn Greenwald · 3,591 views
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A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds...
Glenn Greenwald · 2,385 views
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The multiple, remarkable crises subsuming Brazil are now garnering substantial Western media attention. That’s understandable given that Brazil is the world’s fifth most populous country...
Glenn Greenwald, Andrew Fishman and David Miranda · 2,675 views
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Ever since members of the U.K. Labour Party in September elected Jeremy Corbyn as party leader by a landslide, British political and media elites have acted as though their stately...
Glenn Greenwald · 1,636 views
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The BBC loves to boast about how “objective” and “neutral” it is. But a recent article, which it was forced to change, illustrates the lengths to which the British state-funded media...
Glenn Greenwald · 2,628 views
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The FBI on Friday announced the arrests in Oakland of two animal rights activists, Joseph Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, and accused the pair of engaging in “domestic terrorism.” This...
Glenn Greenwald · 2,022 views
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In Fayoush, Yemen on Monday morning, just outside of Aden, “a massive airstrike” hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians, wounding another 50. Officials told the AP that...
Glenn Greenwald · 1,241 views
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The spy unit responsible for some of the United Kingdom’s most controversial tactics of surveillance, online propaganda and deceit focuses extensively on traditional law enforcement and...
Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Fishman · 1,140 views
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Western journalists claim that the big lesson they learned from their key role in selling the Iraq War to the public is that it’s hideous, corrupt and often dangerous journalism to give...
Glenn Greenwald · 1,871 views
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The FBI and major media outlets recently trumpeted the agenc
Glenn Greenwald · 2,669 views
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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
Glenn Greenwald · 8,611 views
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The identity of the Sony hackers is still unknown. President Obama, in a December 19 press conference, announced: “We can confirm that North Korea engaged in this attack.” He then...
Glenn Greenwald · 6,877 views
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Jeb Bush yesterday strongly suggested he was running for President in 2016. If he wins the GOP nomination, it is highly likely that his opponent for the presidency would be Hillary Clinton.
Glenn Greenwald · 1,843 views
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CBS News, August 18, 2011:
President Barack Obama officially demanded that Syrian President Bashar Assad resign for the sake of his own people, saying he was no longer fit to lead...
Glenn Greenwald · 2,480 views
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There have been increasingly vocal calls for Twitter, Facebook and other Silicon Valley corporations to more aggressively police what their users are permitted to see and read. Last...
Glenn Greenwald · 4,678 views
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Glenn Greenwald · 3,357 views
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A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of...
Glenn Greenwald · 3,196 views
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News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride parade, named by...
Glenn Greenwald · 4,248 views
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News reports purporting to describe what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told US interrogators should, for several reasons, be taken with a huge grain of salt. The sources for this information are...
Glenn Greenwald · 5,012 views
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There's not much to say about Monday's Boston Marathon attack because there is virtually no known evidence regarding who did it or why. There are, however, several points to be made...
Glenn Greenwald · 11,375 views
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The New York Times this morning deserves credit for publishing one of the most powerful Op-Eds you will ever read. I urge you to read it in its entirety: it's by Samir Naji al Hasan...
Glenn Greenwald · 2,812 views
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His vital April 4, 1967 speech is a direct repudiation of the sophistry now used to defend US violence and aggression.
Glenn Greenwald, Guardian UK · 2,497 views
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Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism – 'disposition matrix' – the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim
Glenn Greenwald · 3,740 views
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Critics of the Libya intervention warned that dropping bombs in a country and killing civilians would produce blowback in the form of those who would then want to attack the US.
Glenn Greenwald · 3,054 views
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Shortly prior to the start of the London Olympics, there was an outburst of hysteria over the failure to provide sufficient security against Terrorism, but as Harvard Professor Stephen...
Glenn Greenwald · 4,965 views
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The New York Times revealed this week that President Obama personally oversees a "secret kill list" containing the names and photos of individuals targeted for assassination in the U.S...
Amy Goodman & Glenn Greenwald · 4,692 views
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Ever since the FBI claimed (for a second time) that it had discovered in 2008 the identity of the anthrax attacker — the recently-deceased-by-suicide Army researcher Bruce Ivins — it was...
Glenn Greenwald · 3,645 views
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As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture —...
Glenn Greenwald · 7,775 views
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For much of the day yesterday, the featured headline on The New York Times online front page strongly suggested that Muslims were responsible for the attacks on Oslo; that led to...
Glenn Greenwald · 4,278 views
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Virtually every major newspaper account of the killing of Osama bin Laden consists of faithful copying of White House claims. That's not surprising: it's the White House which is in...
Glenn Greenwald · 4,635 views
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There's been a very strange episode being written about the past couple of days involving numerous parties, including me, that I now want to comment on. The story, first reported by...
Glenn Greenwald · 10,595 views
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Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that...
Glenn Greenwald · 4,770 views
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The FBI's lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks -- Bruce E. Ivins -- died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him...
Glenn Greenwald - Friday, Aug 1, 2008 · 3,700 views
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The comparison of these two passages is so telling in so many ways:
Glenn Greenwald · 3,153 views
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