Glen greenwald

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional lawyer and a Guardian columnist until October 2013, has earned numerous awards for his commentary and investigative journalism, including most recently the 2013 George Polk Award for national security reporting. In early 2014, he cofounded a new global media outlet, The Intercept.

Arrest Of 14-Year-Old Student For Making A Clock: The Fruits of Sustained Fearmongering And Anti-Muslim Animus

There are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career “terrorism experts” in the U.S. that profit greatly by deliberately exaggerating the threat of Terrorism and keeping Americans in a state of abject fear of “radical Islam.” There are all sorts of polemicists who build their public platforms by demonizing Muslims and scoffing at concerns over “Islamaphobia,” with the most toxic ones insisting that such a thing does not even exist, […]

September 17th, 2015

By Glenn Greenwald

Arrest Of 14-Year-Old Student For Making A Clock: The Fruits of Sustained Fearmongering And Anti-Muslim Animus

There are sprawling industries and self-proclaimed career “terrorism experts” in the U.S. that

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The US Media And The 13-Year Old Boy Burned To Death Last Month By A US Drone

“What many journalists and officials in western nations seem to think that they can go around for decades invading, occupying, imprisoning without charges and dropping bombs on multiple other countries around the world, regularly killing innocents, including children, and then act shocked and surprised when people in those countries, or who identify with them, want to bring violence back in return.”

February 11th, 2015

By Glenn Greenwald

On January 26, the New York Times claimed that “a CIA drone strike in Yemen. . . . killed three suspected Qaeda fighters on Monday.” How did they know the identity of the dead? As usual, it was in part because “American officials said.” There was not a

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With Power Of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring And Criminalizing Online Speech

This eagerness to criminalize political speech becomes more compelling as social media vests ordinary individuals with greater autonomy to disseminate news as well as their views.

January 07th, 2015

By Glenn Greenwald

With Power Of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring And Criminalizing Online Speech

On March 6, 2012, six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside explosive device, and a national ritual of mourning and rage ensued. Prime Minister David Cameron called it a “desperately sad day for our country.” A British teenager, Azhar Ahmed, observed the reaction for two days and

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How Many Muslim Countries Has The US Bombed Or Occupied Since 1980?

There is an awful lot to be said about the factions in the west which devote huge amounts of their time and attention to preaching against the supreme primitiveness and violence of Muslims.

November 07th, 2014

By Glenn Greenwald

How Many Muslim Countries Has The US Bombed Or Occupied Since 1980?

Reports: Barack Obama, in his post-election press

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Glenn Greenwald, How I Met Edward Snowden

“As an NSA contractor, Snowden found himself inside the blanket of secrecy that has fallen across our national security state since 9/11 and there he absorbed an emerging principle on which this country was never founded: that “they” know what’s best for us, and that, in true Orwellian fashion, our ignorance is our strength. “

May 13th, 2014

By Glenn Greenwald

Make no mistake: it’s been the year of Edward Snowden. Not since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War has a trove of documents revealing the inner workings and thinking of the U.S. government so changed the conversation. In Ellsberg’s case,

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