Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times best-selling books on politics and law. His most recent book, No Place to Hide, is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to his collaboration with Pierre Omidyar, Glenn’s column was featured at The Guardian and Salon. He was the debut winner, along with Amy Goodman, of the Park Center I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2008, and also received the 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the abusive detention conditions of Chelsea Manning. For his 2013 NSA reporting, he received the George Polk award for National Security Reporting; the Gannett Foundation award for investigative journalism and the Gannett Foundation watchdog journalism award; the Esso Premio for Excellence in Investigative Reporting in Brazil (he was the first non-Brazilian to win), and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award. Along with Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013. The NSA reporting he led for The Guardian was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for public service.

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What ‘Democracy’ Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition

What ‘Democracy’ Really Means in U.S. and New York Times Jargon: Latin America Edition

One of the most accidentally revealing media accounts highlighting the real meaning of “democracy” in U.S. discourse is a still-remarkable 2002 New York Times Editorial on the U.S.-backed military coup in Venezuela, which temporarily removed that country’s democratically elected (and very popular) president, Hugo Chávez. Rather than describe that coup as what it was by definition - a direct attack on democracy by a>>

New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents

New Zealand Cops Raided Home of Reporter Working on Snowden Documents

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UN Report Finds Mass Surveillance Violates International Treaties and Privacy Rights

It’s “indiscriminately corrosive of online privacy.”

Edward Snowden’s Girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, Moved to Moscow to Live with Him

Edward Snowden’s Girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, Moved to Moscow to Live with Him

That he is now living in domestic bliss should put to rest the absurd campaign to depict his life as grim.

Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No doubt that Endless War is Official U.S. Doctrine

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Long before Americans were introduced to the new 9/11 era super-villains called ISIS and Khorasan, senior Obama officials were openly and explicitly stating that America’s “war on terror,” already 12 years old, would last at least another decade. At first, they injected these decrees only anonymously; in late 2012, The Washington Post - disclosing the administration’s secret creation of a>>

After Feigning Love for Egyptian Democracy, U.S. Back To Openly Supporting Tyranny

After Feigning Love for Egyptian Democracy, U.S. Back To Openly Supporting Tyranny

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UK Drops Charges Against the War Critic It Jailed for Seven Months

UK Drops Charges Against the War Critic It Jailed for Seven Months

Bagram, Guantanamo, Belmarsh — and zero convictions.

The Fake Terror Threat Used To Justify Bombing Syria

The Fake Terror Threat Used To Justify Bombing Syria

The threat of the “Khorasan Group” was trotted out to justifying bombing Syria. Then it just evaporated.

How Former Treasury Officials and the UAE Are Manipulating American Journalists

How Former Treasury Officials and the UAE Are Manipulating American Journalists

A bizarre neocon/ Israel/ Gulf-dictator coalition is now driving not only U.S. policy but U.S. discourse, as well, aided by ex U.S. officials.

Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate

Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate

Empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason. And the U.S. will be at war, always.