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We are returning to @Substack!
We're very excited to be returning to @Substack after 3 great years of doing our live nightly show, System Update, on @rumblevideo.
I'm particularly happy to be getting back to written reporting and long investigations. We'll have our first up today.
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Two days ago, Piers Morgan asked Glenn Greenwald whether Benjamin Netanyahu would have the same staying power as Brazil's Lula:
"I do kind of compare him to Lula: whatever you want to say about Netanyahu, he's a wildly shrewd and cunning politician, and I would never put my money on Netanyahu losing."
When Israelis woke up it seemed that their future had taken another twist overnight: Results that had looked like a narrow loss for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they went to bed now pointed to a narrow Netanyahu lead by dawn. nbcnews.com/world/israel/isr…
Two days ago, Piers Morgan asked Glenn Greenwald whether Benjamin Netanyahu would have the same staying power as Brazil's Lula:
"I do kind of compare him to Lula: whatever you want to say about Netanyahu, he's a wildly shrewd and cunning politician, and I would never put my money on Netanyahu losing."
When Israelis woke up it seemed that their future had taken another twist overnight: Results that had looked like a narrow loss for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they went to bed now pointed to a narrow Netanyahu lead by dawn. nbcnews.com/world/israel/isr…
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What are two big lessons we can learn from Brazil's shock election? First, Lula is one of the 21st century's few, true political giants.
"There are few people who have more significantly changed their country and the world than Lula."
Second, this was not a "shock" election:
What are two big lessons we can learn from Brazil's shock election? First, Lula is one of the 21st century's few, true political giants.
"There are few people who have more significantly changed their country and the world than Lula."
Second, this was not a "shock" election:
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Journalists have the right to publish classified documents from CIA or any other agency. They do so every day. There is nothing illegal about it. It's the basis for many of the most important journalistic exposés.
Neocons like this should stop trying to erode core US liberties:
Did @DropSiteNews knowingly publish illegally obtained classified CIA intelligence?
On October 5, the outlet co-published Aída Chávez’s story claiming a secret CIA assessment warned Israel could descend into civil war.
That date is now in an FBI leak affidavit🧵
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Vivek Ramaswamy, Flavio Bolsonaro, and the Corrosive “Never Apologize” Culture
What happens to a political system when admitting error is vilified as weakness, refusing to apologize is venerated as courage, and shamelessness is embraced as a virtue?
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Are the Houthis just a “ragtag group of guerrilla fighters,” or something more?
Glenn Greenwald and Erik Sperling discuss how Western media TOTALLY FAILS to explain how their cave-dwelling narrative squares with long-range missiles hitting Saudi airports, U.S. bases, and Israel:
Are the Houthis just a “ragtag group of guerrilla fighters,” or something more?
Glenn Greenwald and Erik Sperling discuss how Western media TOTALLY FAILS to explain how their cave-dwelling narrative squares with long-range missiles hitting Saudi airports, U.S. bases, and Israel:
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❌💬 Why did so many liberals in the West become obsessed with online censorship?
Glenn Greenwald explains to Jim Webb: "In 2016, there was this dual trauma that was doled out to Western liberals," namely, Brexit in Europe and the election of Donald Trump in the United States.
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GLENN GREENWALD: "You can't be a country at war, killing people around the world, for 16 years unless you start degrading the mentality of the population in order to support it!"
Now 25 years on, the U.S. global bombing campaign continues unnoticed to all but a few protesters:
Families recount deaths, injuries and displacement as Trump accelerates US strikes against armed groups in Somalia.
Read more: aje.news/p511fi
GLENN GREENWALD: "You can't be a country at war, killing people around the world, for 16 years unless you start degrading the mentality of the population in order to support it!"
Now 25 years on, the U.S. global bombing campaign continues unnoticed to all but a few protesters:
Families recount deaths, injuries and displacement as Trump accelerates US strikes against armed groups in Somalia.
Read more: aje.news/p511fi
❌💬 Why did so many liberals in the West become obsessed with online censorship?
Glenn Greenwald explains to Jim Webb: "In 2016, there was this dual trauma that was doled out to Western liberals," namely, Brexit in Europe and the election of Donald Trump in the United States.
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Chris Murphy -- another liberal Democrat who wants to send endless billions to the coffers of Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics and Palantir to fuel the war in Ukraine -- boasted of how he went to Ukraine with John McCain to interfere in Ukraine and push out its elected leader:
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PIERS MORGAN: "You're putting a lot of trust in Putin! Say he took the Donbas as part of a settlement. The idea he would stop there, the idea this contains Putin, when his clear history shows he would just go and want more—"
GLENN GREENWALD: "Putin has been the president of Russia for 25 years. Every American president who dealt with him, from Bill Clinton to Obama, said that he's an incredibly rational actor, if you make deals with him, he abides by them."
PIERS MORGAN: *proves Glenn's point*
PIERS MORGAN: "You're putting a lot of trust in Putin! Say he took the Donbas as part of a settlement. The idea he would stop there, the idea this contains Putin, when his clear history shows he would just go and want more—"
GLENN GREENWALD: "Putin has been the president of Russia for 25 years. Every American president who dealt with him, from Bill Clinton to Obama, said that he's an incredibly rational actor, if you make deals with him, he abides by them."
PIERS MORGAN: *proves Glenn's point*
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‼️ Whether or not Jacob Rees-Mogg is a “warmonger,” there’s an obvious reason for the establishment’s interest in foreign policy: “When you’re extremely wealthy and you sit at the top of society, it’s very easy to say, ‘Let’s look over there at Ukraine!’”
“Meanwhile, the people in your country who weren’t born into extreme wealth—many of whom end up going into the military for economic reasons—are suffering, and they keep hearing these conversations about places on the other side of the world!”
“This is why,” Glenn Greenwald says, “parties that hate the establishment, on both the left and the right, have been rising in so many countries around the world, because the establishment is filled with a bunch of coddled, very wealthy people who have contempt for their concerns!”
‼️ Whether or not Jacob Rees-Mogg is a “warmonger,” there’s an obvious reason for the establishment’s interest in foreign policy: “When you’re extremely wealthy and you sit at the top of society, it’s very easy to say, ‘Let’s look over there at Ukraine!’”
“Meanwhile, the people in your country who weren’t born into extreme wealth—many of whom end up going into the military for economic reasons—are suffering, and they keep hearing these conversations about places on the other side of the world!”
“This is why,” Glenn Greenwald says, “parties that hate the establishment, on both the left and the right, have been rising in so many countries around the world, because the establishment is filled with a bunch of coddled, very wealthy people who have contempt for their concerns!”
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Piers Morgan: "If what Netanyahu has done in Gaza is a holocaust, why is what Putin's done in Ukraine not... given he's killed a lot more Ukrainians?"
Greenwald: "Ukraine has a population 40 times the size of Gaza, and four times more civilians in Gaza were killed by Israel."
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'Look at your voting record... you've supported every war!'
@ggreenwald challenges @Jacob_Rees_Mogg, fresh from his @TuckerCarlson appearance, as he claims to be 'the least warmongering person you can find.'
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