Glenn Greenwald on All Topics
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“When 'liberals' like Al Gore criticize U.S. foreign policy in Muslim countries, that is an act of virtual treason ... When leading members of the American Right do the same in and on behalf of Israel, the silence is deafening.”
“When an anonymous Internet user compares Bush to Hitler, the media goes into Full Hysteria Alert, but when the most influential conservative figure in the country does the same thing, they utter barely a peep of recognition.”
“We send murderous, crusading civilian units around the world to accompany our invading armies -- while ushering a regime of torture wherever we go -- and then announce we will only look to the future.”
“What [GE executives] mean by 'civility' is: 'thou shalt not criticize anyone who can harm GE's business interests or who will report on our actions.'”
“The torture tactics Bush ordered are criminal no matter how many memos John Yoo wrote saying they weren't.”
“It's more apparent than ever that the central excuse made by Obama defenders to justify preventive detention and military commissions ... is an absolute myth.”
“It's impossible even to imagine the likes of Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw and friends interrupting their pompously baritone, melodramatic, self-glorifying exploitation of Cronkite's death to spend a second pondering what he meant by that.”
“Remember never to accuse [CNN] of being 'stenographers' because that is unfair and offensive.”
“Trying to prevent investigations of their friends, colleagues and bosses in political power is one of the few times [journalists are] willing so explicitly to turn themselves into advocates.”
“If empathy is irrelevant to judicial decision-making, why are GOP Senators calling Frank Ricci as a witness at this hearing? Since he's obviously not there to testify about the strict legalistic doctrines governing his claims.”
“The Bush-era torture regime might have been that administration's most flamboyant act of criminality, but its illegal NSA warrantless eavesdropping program ... has always been the clearest.”
“No matter how many times the statements of government officials are proven false, the assumption remains that the pronouncements from high government officials are true.”
“Even talking about imprisoning people based on accusations of which they have been exonerated is a truly grotesque perversion of everything that our justice system and Constitution are supposed to guarantee.”
“Clearly, journalism itself is not dying. What is dying -- and rightfully so -- is the staid, establishment-serving, passion-free, access-desperate, mindless stenographic model to which establishment journalism rigidly adheres.”
“For all the Serious analysis about the War on Terror, so much of it has been driven by nothing more complex or noble than sheer hostility towards Muslims.”
