Glenn Greenwald

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• On Israel and Palestine

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 483
  I admit Im something of a sap.  Im one who believes as long as theres a chance of accomplishing something, there ought to be an effort.  But, perhaps as the occasionally sensible Thomas Friedman suggests , its time for the U.S. ought to back away from the age old Israeli/Palestinian conflict.  The ...
  6 hours ago

• Interesting reading on Fort Hood coverage, mobile revenue, rural journalism, staff cuts

  
  Pursuing the Complete Community Connection — Authority: 421
  I was unable last week to watch the unfolding coverage through Twitter and media web sites of the Fort Hood shooting. I was traveling Thursday and teaching Friday, and simply couldn’t follow all the developments as the “facts” of the story kept changing. While I’d love to comment on the story and the ...
  7 hours ago

• BBC Starts In Tennessee…

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 430
  … to see what is obvious to the rest of us.   http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/the_p_word/newsid_10000000/newsid_10002600/10002666.stm Story and audio at above link… Barack Obama was elected on 4 November 2008 after a campaign that promised change. One year on, BBC’s Newsbeat traveled across the country to ...
  18 hours ago

• Extraordinary rendition case thrown out because it would endanger "state secrets"

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
  Glenn Greenwald :
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• Fort Hood Tragedy: The First Good Use For Twitter Lists?

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 802
  In the wake of the tragic shootings in Fort Hood, millions of Americans scrambled to follow what was going on — and encountered misinformation and rumors at every corner, including TV, blogs, and  Twitter. Could Twitter’s new list feature give news consumers better information when stories like this break? ...
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• That Italian Surprise

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 425
  America was always the New World, and that was always the problem. Everything was fresh and bright and there was all the endless space out west. As Gertrude Stein once said – “In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.” She was ...
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• "But the U.S. media’s willingness to mindlessly apply the term “terrorist” in exactly the subjective,..."

  
  poor taste — Authority: 625
  “But the U.S. media’s willingness to mindlessly apply the term “terrorist” in exactly the...
  4 days ago

• Greenwald on the Arrar Ruling

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 741
  Glenn Greenwald has a good  post about Arrar v. Ashcroft , an appeals court ruling that came down the other day.  Here’s an excerpt: Maher Arar is both a Canadian and Syrian citizen of Syrian descent.  A telecommunications engineer and graduate of Montreal’s McGill University, he has lived in Canada since ...
  5 days ago

• NPR Ombudsman Want MORE Conservative Voices on NPR

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
  [ cross posted at NPR Check ] "Ive said it before, and I will reiterate it. NPR is a mainstream news outlet." - Alicia Shepard, Nov. 2, 2009
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• The Washington Post, Kraft introduce new Kool-Aid® flavor: Obama

  
  Post Right — Authority: 516
  MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Call my Tuesday-morning mind boggled. Eugene Robinson has just flipped the world upside down with a startlingly bizarre piece of disinformative agitprop . Glass one, not yet overly sweetened: It’s been a year since a healthy majority of American voters elected Barack Obama to ...
  6 days ago

• Holder’s Invocation of State Secrets Privilege Shields Government From Accountability

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  As Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald both pointed out over the weekend, Eric Holder on Friday once again declared that a case charging government lawbreaking must be dismissed because to let it continue would reveal important “state secrets.” That’s despite the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder not ...
  1 week ago

• The Draft, Brought to You By Hamid Karzai Bush

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 125
  So our second attempt at a presidential election in Afghanistan did not go so well.  As 24 of you may already know, Karzai was recently “elected” as the commander in chief of our newest acquisition nation building project.  Unfortunately, the Afghan Al Gore known as Abdullah Abdullah, said that the election was ...
  1 week ago

• Diversity and War: Canada, A/Stan and Vietnam

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 420
  Our war dead now stands at 133 – this week we lost two more soldiers. As I write this, a friend’s son is in harm’s way somewhere deep in Kandahar province, his unit sent to provide security to Afghan policemen, and then, horrors, sent to recover the body of their colleague. Our commanding officers praise such ...
  1 week ago

• Glenn Greenwald on Afghanistan, State Secrets, Healthcare and the Media (video)

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 441
  Democracy Now! with video: One of the leading political and legal bloggers in the country, Glenn Greenwald, joins us to talk about about the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration’s use of state secrets, the healthcare debate, the renewed military commissions at Guantanamo and the coverage of it all by the ...
  1 week ago

• Glenn Greenwald: White House should put serious pressure on Lieberman

  
  Raw Story — Authority: 839
  Sen. Joe Lieberman has announced that he might filibuster any health care reform bill that includes a public option, but MSNBCs Rachel Maddow finds Liebermans motivations something of a mystery. For one thing, Lieberman has stated that he opposes the public option because it is a vast new entitlement program that ...
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• George Will and Drug Decriminalization

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 741
  George Will’s latest column takes a look a drug policy and the views of the new drug czar, Gil Kerlikowski.  Notably, Will mentions Portugal’s experience with decriminalization of all drugs since 2001 and says Kerlikowski is aware of the Portuguese policy as well.  Cato published a report on Portugal’s ...
  1 week ago

• Must see video, Rachel Maddow and Glenn Greenwald runs it down about the hypocrisy of Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh and bucking health care reform (Video)

  
  This Week With Barack Obama — Authority: 444
  Glenn Greenwald wipes Evan Bayh all over the floor of hypocrisy and Joe Lieberman, who is surprised at his behavior? He was FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE before he was against it. Democrats and President Obama I hope got something up your sleeves, because these turn coats are an abomination.Home Page
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• War propaganda has a long shelf-life

  
  Saving Gas — Authority: 162
  Glenn Greenwald has an important column today comparing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan with the US presence there: I’m traveling still today, but I wanted to note an amazing Op-Ed that was referenced in a book I’m reading: the Op-Ed is by Nikolai Lanine, published in The Toronto Globe and Mail in November, ...
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• How NPR Avoids and Distracts

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
  [ cross posted at NPR Check ] On Friday I was staying late at work and before leaving heard this promising start to a story on All Things Considered : "This week, weve been reading a vivid narrative in the New York Times by the journalist David Rohde. He was held captive for seven months by the Taliban. He was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tucker Carlson and the rights perpetual self-victimhood

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Tucker Carlson and the rights perpetual self-victimhood : Via Salon: Glenn Greenwald . (updated below) The number one rule of American politics:  the greatest, most insatiable need of the standard conservative is to turn themselves into oppressed little victims.  In The Daily Beast today , Tucker ...
  2 weeks ago

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