Glenn Greenwald



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Articles: 2013

 * Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice - A full audio recording of the whistleblower is released today despite a court prohibition on such recordings - 12th March
 * The NYT and Obama officials collaborate to prosecute Awlaki after he's executed - A joint media-government attempt to justify the assassination of a US citizen ends up doing the opposite - 12th March
 * Three Democratic myths used to demean the Paul filibuster - The progressive 'empathy gap', a strain of liberal authoritarianism, and a distortion of Holder's letter are invoked to defend Obama - 11th March
 * Bradley Manning: the face of heroism - The 25-year-old Army Private, this generation's Daniel Ellsberg, pleads guilty today to some charges and explains his actions - 1st March
 * Ron Fournier's amazing admission about his service to White House officials - As the trivial though bitter bickering between the White House and press corps intensifies, truths about their relationship emerge - 1st March
 * Bob Woodward embodies US political culture in a single outburst - Washington's most celebrated journalist hails the values of militarism, lawlessness, and presidential omnipotence - 28th February
 * Supreme Court shields warrantless eavesdropping law from constitutional challenge - The five right-wing justices hand Obama a victory by accepting his DOJ's secrecy-based demand for dismissal - 27th February
 * Is the US maintaining death squads and torture militias in Afghanistan? - torture militias in Afghanistan?''] - Afghan President Hamid Karzai and local residents insist that the answer is yes - 26th February
 * Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA and film critics have a very bad evening - The stigma attached to the pro-torture CIA propaganda vehicle, beloved by film critics, results in Oscar humiliation - 25th February
 * Obama officials refuse to say if assassination power extends to US soil - The administration's extreme secrecy is beginning to lead Senators to impede John Brennan's nomination to lead the CIA - 23rd February
 * MSNBC boldly moves to plug its one remaining hole - By hiring long-time Obama spokesmen Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod, the cable news network clarifies its function - 20th February
 * Pop quiz on US politics: guess the speaker - A prominent US politicians makes some familiar statements about secrecy, the War on Terror, and Muslim enemies: who is it? - 20th February
 * The premises and purposes of American exceptionalism - That the US is objectively "the greatest country ever to exist" is as irrational as it is destructive, yet it maintains the status of orthodoxy - 18th February
 * Obama, the US and the Muslim world: the animosity deepens - Another new poll, this one of Pakistan, shows: a central promise of Obama for improving US security is an utter failure - 15th February
 * Obama DOJ again refuses to tell a court whether CIA drone program even exists - As the nation spent the week debating the CIA assassination program, Obama lawyers exploit secrecy to shield it from all review - 14th February
 * The Iraqi government hires the Podesta Group to lobby for it in DC - The sleazy but legal process that drives Washington has a new happy couple as its latest symbol: Tony Podesta and Nouri al-Maliki - 14th February
 * Italy's ex-intelligence chief given 10-year sentence for role in CIA kidnapping - Such accountability for high-level government officials is inconceivable in the US, highlighting its culture of impunity - 13th February
 * Should an armed drone be dispatched to kill Christopher Dorner? - Why should the lives of law enforcement agents be risked to apprehend this suspected domestic terrorist? - 12th February
 * DOJ kill list memo forces many Dems out of the closet as overtly unprincipled hacks - Last week's controversy over Obama's assassination program forced into light many ignored truths that were long obvious - 11th February
 * US Air Force veteran, finally allowed to fly into US, is now banned from flying back home - Secret, unaccountable no-fly lists are one of many weapons the US government uses to extra-judicially punish American Muslims - 9th February
 * Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens - The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize - 4th February
 * Brooklyn College's academic freedom increasingly threatened over Israel event - New York politicians join the Alan Dershowitz-led campaign to dictate to colleges what academic events they can hold - 2nd February
 * Cameron's attack on George Galloway reflects the west's self-delusions - In an act of supreme projection, the British PM accuses a critic of lending support "wherever there is a brutal Arab dictator": the core policy of the US and UK - 31st January
 * Pentagon's new massive expansion of 'cyber-security' unit is about everything except defense - Cyber-threats are the new pretext to justify expansion of power and profit for the public-private National Security State - 29th January
 * Kiriakou and Stuxnet: the danger of the still-escalating Obama whistleblower war - The only official punished for the illegal NSA program was the one who discussed it. The same is now true of torture - 27th January
 * US military says Martin Luther King would be proud of its weapons - A repellent piece of propaganda appropriates the words and images of this nonviolence advocate to glorify US militarism - 23rd January
 * Brookings' Bruce Riedel urges intensified US support for Saudi despots - Every now and then, leading mavens of the Foreign Policy Community have an uncharacteristic outburst of candor - 19th January
 * Aaron Swartz case: why accountability is vital - Imposing consequences on the federal prosecutors in the Aaron Swartz case is essential for justice and reform - 16th January
 * Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann: accountability for prosecutorial abuse - Imposing real consequences on these federal prosecutors in the Aaron Swartz case is vital for both justice and reform - 16th January
 * Mali bombing highlights all the lessons of western intervention - The North African nation becomes the eight country in the last four years alone where Muslims are killed by the west - 14th January
 * The inspiring heroism of Aaron Swartz - The internet freedom activist committed suicide on Friday at age 26, but his life was driven by courage and passion - 13th January
 * The US - alongside Saudi Arabia - fights for freedom and democracy in the Middle East - The ability to persuade people that the US opposes tyranny is a testament to the potency of propaganda - 12th January
 * Why are Bob Woodward's WH sources - or Woodward himself - not on trial next to Bradley Manning? - The extremist prosecution of Manning, accused of 'aiding and abetting al-Qaida', poses a real threat to US press freedom - 11th January
 * Even a military judge recognizes what many progressives denied: Bradley Manning was mistreated - The ruling is but the latest repudiation of claims from Obama supporters that Manning was treated fairly and justly - 9th January
 * Debating Zero Dark Thirty and John Brennan - Both the critics' favorite film of 2012 as well as Obama's nominee for CIA Director are supporters of torture - 9th January
 * John Brennan's extremism and dishonesty rewarded with CIA Director nomination - Obama's top terrorism adviser goes from unconfirmable in 2008 to uncontroversial in 2013, reflecting the Obama legacy - 8th January
 * Chuck Hagel and liberals: what are the priorities? - As Obama prepares to nominate the controversial former senator, the key question is whether Democrats will help neocons oppose him - 6th January
 * The 'war on terror' - by design - can never end - As the Pentagon's former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as finite, the US moves in the opposite direction - 5th January
 * France's censorship demands to Twitter are more dangerous than "hate speech" - Few ideas have done as much damage throughout history as empowering the government to criminalize opinions it dislikes - 3rd January



Articles: 2012

 * Who paid for the Log Cabin Republicans' anti-Hagel NYT ad? - The gay GOP group confirms the ad was funded by outside donors, but refuses to identify them or their cause - 31st December
 * GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama's demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping - The California Democrat's disgusting rhetoric recalls the worst of Dick Cheney while advancing Obama's agenda - 29th December
 * Obama's gift to al-Qaida, support for tyranny, and FBI monitoring of dissent - Numerous individual events from this week alone signify important trends in US government policy - 26th December
 * The Israel Lobby's smear campaign against Hagel and Zero Dark Thirty - Discussing the potential new Defense Secretary and the highly-celebrated pro-torture film, on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" - 23rd December
 * Newtown kids v Yemenis: why the disparate reactions? - Many have rightly lamented the difference in how these childrens' deaths are perceived - 19th December
 * New press freedom group is launched to block US government attacks - Nothing is more vital than enabling true transparency and adversarial journalism, and preventing further assaults on them - 18th December
 * New York's top court highlights the meaningless and menace of the term 'terrorism' - A fascinating new ruling unwittingly illustrates the separate system of 'justice' invented for Muslims in the US after 9/11 - 16th December
 * Zero Dark Thirty: CIA hagiography, pernicious propaganda - As it turns out, the film as a political statement is worse than even its harshest early critics warned - 14th December
 * HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system - DOJ officials unblinkingly insist that the banking giant is too powerful and important to subject to the rule of law - 12th December
 * The revealingly substance-free fight over Susan Rice - Her record of war advocacy and close ties to tyrants is notably missing from the debate over whether she should be Secretary of State - 11th December
 * Zero Dark Thirty: new torture-glorifying film wins raves - Can a movie that relies on fabrications to generate support for war crimes still be considered great? - 10th December
 * The PSY scandal: singing about killing people v. constantly doing it - Americans would benefit from less outrage at anti-US sentiment and more energy toward understanding why it's so widespread - 8th December
 * Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job - Few people embody the corporatist revolving door greasing Washington as purely as Elizabeth Fowler - 5th December
 * The US and Israel: a short quiz on 'rogue nation' status - A series of events just from this week makes clear who is actually violating the consensus of the international community - 5th December 2012
 * Progressive media claims they'll be 'tougher' on Obama now - Given the rationale they have embraced, is there any reason to believe this will happen, or that it will matter if it does? - 3rd December
 * Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America - The US does nothing to punish those guilty of war crimes or Wall Street fraud, yet demonises the whistleblower - 1st December
 * AP's dangerous Iran hoax demands an accounting and explanation - Evidence proves that the graph trumpeted by AP as evidence of Iran's nuclear weapons program is an obvious sham - 29th November
 * Times Bureau Chief in Jerusalem will now have her Facebook entries edited - The new measure slams shut an important window into a journalist's assumptions, and shows how constricted Israel discussion still is - 29th November
 * Obama: a GOP president should have rules limiting the kill list - The president's flattering view of himself reflects the political sentiments in his party and the citizenry generally - 27th November
 * The 'both-sides-are-awful' dismissal of Gaza ignores the key role of the US government - The temptation to wash one's hands of the whole conflict is understandable, but US support of Israel is a central force driving it all - 21st November
 * Stop pretending the US is an uninvolved, helpless party in the Israeli assault on Gaza - The Obama administration's unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict - 18th November
 * Obama's kill list policy compels US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza - The US was once part of the international consensus against extra-judicial assassinations. Now it is a leader in that tactic - 16th November
 * FBI's abuse of the surveillance state is the real scandal - That national security stars are being devoured by surveillance is a form of sweet justice - 14th November
 * Petraeus scandal is reported with compelled veneration of all things military - The reverence for the former CIA Director is part of a wider religious-like worship of the national security state -10th November
 * CNN claims Iran shot at a US drone, revealing the news network's mindset - Its Pentagon reporter parrots significant, inflammatory government claims without an iota of skepticism or balance - 9th November
 * Obama and progressives: what will liberals do with their big election victory? - With fights over social security, Medicare, ongoing war, and other key progressive priorities looming, what will they do with their new power? - 7th November
 * US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother - Despite never having been charged with any crime, an Air Force veteran is effectively exiled from his own country - 5th November
 * Who is the worst civil liberties president in US history? - Where do the abuses of the last decade from Bush and Obama rank when compared to prior assaults in the name of war? - 2nd November
 * US detention of Imran Khan part of trend to harass anti-drone advocates - The vindictive humiliation of Pakistan's most popular politician shows the US government's intolerance for dissent - 27th October
 * Journalism in the Obama age shows the real media bias - A new Rolling Stone interview with the president shows subservience to power, not partisan favor, is what drives the press corps - 26th October
 * Joe Klein's sociopathic defense of drone killings of children - Reflecting the Obama legacy and US culture, the Time columnist says: "the bottom line is: 'whose 4-year-olds get killed?'" - 24th October
 * The remarkable, unfathomable ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz - The Chair of the Democratic National Committee is completely unaware of one of the biggest stories of the Obama years - 20th October
 * US justice likely coming soon to Benghazi with extrajudicial executions - If the Obama administration identifies suspects in the consulate attack, should they simply be killed without a trial? - 20th October
 * Obama powerfully exposes the real Romney plan - We must not permit "folks at the top" to "play by a different set of rules," the President urged - 18th October
 * The lame rules for presidential debates: a perfect microcosm of US democracy - Secret collusion between the two parties, funded by corporations, run by lobbyists: all the ingredients are there - 17th October
 * The Brookings Institution demands servile journalism -The New York Times public editor is attacked for suggesting the paper should "aggressively challenge" government claims on drones - 16th October
 * Various items: free speech v 'community', lawlessness in Libya, sprawling surveillance state - The core western political liberty is being slowly eroded by a toxic combination of the worst human attributes - 15th October
 * Martha Raddatz and the faux objectivity of journalists - Establishment journalists are creatures of a highly ideological world and often cause ideology to masquerade as neutral fact - 13th October
 * Reaction to the vice presidential debate - Biden seemed to dominate the debate, but being immersed in politics likely makes it impossible to know how voters will react - 12th October
 * US supreme court finalizes gift of immunity to the telecom giants - Yet again, the Congress, courts, executive branch and the establishment media work together to protect the nation's most powerful actors - 10th October
 * Election year garbage - Whatever is awful about the US political process is magnified in the election season, and increases each day until it's mercifully over - 9th October
 * Iran sanctions now causing food insecurity, mass suffering - Yet again, the US and its allies spread mass human misery though a policy that is as morally indefensible as it is counter-productive - 8th October
 * The US presidential debates' illusion of political choice - The issue is not what separates Romney and Obama, but how much they agree. This hidden consensus has to be exposed - 5th October
 * Obama's Libya response highlights his foreign policy mentality - Extreme secrecy, extrajudicial assassinations, and a self-perpetuating militarism are driving Benghazi responses - 4th October
 * The true reason US fears Iranian nukes: they can deter US attacks - GOP Senator Lindsey Graham echoes a long line of US policymakers: Iran must not be allowed to deter US aggression - 2nd October
 * Sweden detains Pirate Bay founder in oppressive conditions without charges - The case underscores the prime fear long expressed by Assange supporters about the Swedish justice system - 2nd October
 * New Stanford/NYU study documents the civilian terror from Obama's drones - New research shows the terrorizing impact of drones in Pakistan, false statements from US officials, and how it increases the terror threat - 26th September
 * Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a terrorist group - A separate justice system for American Muslims, the US embrace of terrorism, and other key political facts are highlighted - 24th September
 * Obama officials' spin on Benghazi attack mirrors Bin Laden raid untruths - In a familiar pattern, White House claims about what motivated the killing of the US ambassador in Libya are now contradicted - 21st September
 * Various matters: cyberwar, last gasps, and hate speech - An Obama official seems to justify an Iranian attack on the US; Panetta channels Cheney; Tom Friedman writes from expertise - 20th September
 * Unlike Afghan leaders, Obama fights for power of indefinite military detention - Obama lawyers file a breathless, angry appeal against the court ruling that invalidated the NDAA's chilling 2011 detention law - 19th September
 * Conservatives, Democrats and the convenience of denouncing free speech - Westerners love to decry censorship aimed at them by Muslims while ignoring the extreme censorship they impose on them - 16th September
 * The tragic consulate killings in Libya and America's hierarchy of human life - The murder of American staff over a hate film is an unmitigated wrong. But so are deaths caused by the US that go unremarked - 13 September
 * Another Guantánamo prisoner death highlights Democrats' hypocrisy - With closing Guantánamo given up as a lost cause, Obama's policy has moved onto assassination rather than detention - 12 September
 * America's refusal to extradite Bolivia's ex-president to face genocide charges - Obama justice officials have all but granted asylum to Sánchez de Lozada – a puppet who payrolled key Democratic advisers - 9 September
 * Democrats parade Osama bin Laden's corpse as their proudest achievement - It's one thing for Democrats to fete Obama's tougher-than-thou national security credentials, but this ghoulish jingoism is warped - 7 September
 * Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions - Excuse me if I don't join in Democrats' sycophantic cheerleading for an Obama presidency that has shredded laws and liberties - 5 September
 * CNN and the business of state-sponsored TV news - The network is seriously compromising its journalism in the Gulf states by blurring the line between advertising and editorial - 4 September
 * Obama's justice department grants final immunity to Bush's CIA torturers - By closing two cases of detainees tortured to death, Obama has put the US beyond any accountability under the rule of law - 31 August
 * Election 2012 and the media: a vast rightwing conspiracy of stupid - CNN's failure to question Paul Ryan's falsehoods is emblematic of the idiot wind blowing through American electoral politics - 31 August
 * Election 2012 and the media: a vast rightwing conspiracy of stupid - CNN's failure to question Paul Ryan's falsehoods is emblematic of the idiot wind blowing through American electoral politics - 30 August
 * Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA - Mark Mazzetti's emails with the CIA expose the degradation of journalism that has lost the imperative to be a check to power - 29 August
 * How the US and Israeli justice systems whitewash state crimes - Courts are supposed to check the abuse of executive power, not cravenly serve it. But in the US and Israel, that is now the case - 28 August
 * Film highlights the temptations and perils of blind obedience to authority - Indie film Compliance recalls notions that the past decade's worst events are explained by failures to oppose authority - 26 August
 * MSNBC host mimics Fox News' bullying jingoism - Out-Foxing Fox for phony patriotism, a senior journalist at the liberal network has outlawed any criticism of military officials - 24 August
 * The New Statesman must correct its error over Assange and extradition - The claim that Swedish courts, not government, have final say on extradition is a crucial mistake that distorts the Assange case - 24 August
 * The Bin Laden raid exposes the Obama administration's selective secrecy - The White House punishes whistleblowers even as it permits flattering leaks. So which will it be for a Navy Seal's new book? - 23 August
 * The bizarre, unhealthy, blinding media contempt for Julian Assange - It is possible to protect the rights of the complainants in Sweden and Assange's rights against political persecution, but a vindictive thirst for vengeance is preventing that - 22 August
 * Human rights critics of Russia and Ecuador parade their own hypocrisy - The media's new converts to civic freedom over the Pussy Riot and Assange asylum affairs show a jingoism blind to US abuses - 21 August
 * US drone strikes target rescuers in Pakistan – and the west stays silent - Attacking rescuers – a tactic long deemed by the US a hallmark of terrorism – is now routinely used by the Obama administration - 20 August
 * Julian Assange's right to asylum - Given the travesty that is American justice, WikiLeaks' founder is entitled to seek asylum and well-advised to fear extradition - 20 June
 * How the Obama administration is making the US media its mouthpiece - Spoonfed national security scoops based on anonymous official leaks – did we learn nothing from Judith Miller's WMD reporting? - 8 June
 * Obama's historic affirmation of same-sex marriage - Not 20 years ago, same-sex marriage was a fringe issue, almost unthinkable. That it now has presidential support is epochal - 10 May
 * Afghanistan and American imperialism - Afghans have been excluded from the judicial process after the shooting that left 16 dead. No wonder anti-US feeling is growing - 19 March



Articles: 2011

 * Vote Obama – if you want a centrist Republican for US president - Because Barack Obama has adopted so many core Republican beliefs, the US opposition race is a shambles - 27 December
 * Bradley Manning deserves a medal - The prosecution of the whistleblower and alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is an exercise in intimidation, not justice - 14 December
 * The CIA's impunity on 'torture tapes - That the CIA could destroy its videotapes of 9/11 conspirator interrogations without penalty is a shocking abuse of democracy - 7 October
 * Barack Obama is gutting the core principles of the Democratic party - The president's attacks on America's social safety net are destroying the soul of the Democratic party's platform - 21 July



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