From The Grayzone:
Glenn Greenwald on the decline of left media in the Russiagate era, where bastions of dissent have gone from challenging the national security state to promoting it.
Glenn Greenwald discusses how Trump and Russiagate has changed progressive media for the worse. Greenwald has recently been frozen out by the progressive news broadcast Democracy Now! after being a longtime, regular guest.
As it shuts out longtime guests like Greenwald, DN! recently gave a warm reception to a former George W. Bush aide who praised, without challenge, Bush’s “compassionate conservatism.” Greenwald also discusses leaving The Intercept after it tried to censor his reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop affair, all while parroting evidence-free, anonymous intelligence claims that the story was “Russian disinformation.”
“Russiagate” is most certainly a bad joke, but I can’t give any points to Greenwald for noticing. The man was a supporter of George “codpiece commander” Bush, and if he didn’t actively cheer for the BS Iraq War, he certainly didn’t oppose it.
Until I see evidence to the contrary, I’m assuming he joined the Intercept to 1) get some big bucks, and 2) to help bury the Snowden materials.
Basically, I just don’t trust the man.
He founded the Intercept. After he was betrayed by his own editor who violated the terms of his employment he quit – abandoning a lucrative salary. He’s not in it for the money.
Prior to all this, he was the lone advocate for Assange and Wikileaks. I’ve never ever heard of him saying anything to boost Bush’s war.
Snowden trusted him and that is good enough for me.
I like Glenn too. But he was for the Bush’s war before he was against it. So was Trump. But Glenn’s eventual opposition was real and passionate. Not so much for Trump.
A billionaire named Omidyar created the Intercept. Wikileaks has been neutered and Assange is being slowly murdered in a British prison.
As for the “honey trap” business, Omidyar turned leaker Reality Winner over to the Feds, and she is now in prison.
Snowden did indeed trust Greenwald and the others, and that trust was betrayed, for his materials haven’t been even mentioned for ages.
IMO a person needs to be cautious about the ‘heroes” they worship.
Oh hell, even I was for war immediately after 9/11. Weren’t we all?.. I’ll give him a pass.
As for Sibel, she’s proved to be a bit whacky. She made some gratuitous slurs against Greenwald being gay. Like WTF does that have to do with anything?.. I think she resented being out of the spotlight.
What the Intercept did to Reality Winner had more to with ineptitude on the part of the editors who blew her cover – plus Reality was a bit of a nut herself and her info was pretty useless. Not big dark secrets but unsubstantiated allegations that really should remain confidential until thoroughly investigated.
“Oh hell, even I was for war immediately after 9/11. Weren’t we all?.”
No.
You’re not a New Yorker.
Doesn’t matter. And you didn’t say all New Yorkers.
Who gives a sh-t.
I read Chalmers Johnson’s first book in his Blowback series. Before 9/11. I have all of the volumes.
>>>Oh hell, even I was for war immediately after 9/11. Weren’t we all?
No. Re: the 9/11 attack: That blowback would occur from a part of the world the U.S. government has illegally and cruelly attacked and severely harmed for years was no surprise. It was clear the attackers chose government targets (ie. the Pentagon which executes illegal wars and Wall Street that pays for them) not civilian targets (ie. the Mall of America, etc.). I stood with Barbara Lee in 2001 in opposition to force and stated the solution was communication and discussion between the U.S. Govt and those who attacked us in order to let them know we would no longer bomb their countries, overthrow their governments and install U.S. puppets, interfere in their countries by fomenting civil wars, or starving their civilians with sanctions.
As for Iraq in 2003 (years after the 9/11 attack), you would have had to be a total fool to fall for that nonsense.
I was for retribution – not the AUMF that Ms. Lee courageously opposed.
The fanatics that attacked us weren’t from the milieu of victims from US policies but the pampered Saudi allies who have been our clients and accomplices. It wasn’t plotted in a refugee camp in some wasteland but an apartment in Hamburg Germany.
Your call for appeasement would have been about as effective as Chamberlain’s.
My problem wasn’t going to war but who we went to war on.
we won’t win more friends and allies over to anti-war by trying to one-up each other on which one is the most anti-war.
I was not for the first Iraq “war”.
He has been critical of Israel. He is Jewish.
A TRUE Jew too.
As opposed to a Jew you don’t like, you mean?
There aren’t any.. It’s Zionists I oppose.
Glad to see you’ve had a change of heart.
No, I’ve been pretty consistent distinguishing between genuine Jews and their usurpers.
In other words, Jews you don’t like aren’t “really” Jews. Thanks for clarifying.
Those would be your words, not mine.
Thanks for obfuscating.
That you consider clarification to be obfuscation, and vice versa, explains a lot.
There is very little difference between Left and Right wing media when it comes to propaganda being exposed or covered up. I used to watch Democracy Now! I no longer watch it and it called George W Bush a “compassionate conservative” although he is not one and neither was his father, George HW Bush. The senior Bush talked about family values and castigated LGBT people and let the Iraqi people suffer with sanctions that blocked food from being sent there and bombing the country after the Gulf War ended and bombing Panama to find Noriega and bring him to the USA.
Just as there is very little difference between the political parties in the U.S.
Ralph Nader: The only difference between the GOP and the Democratic Party is the velocities with which they hit their knees when corporations come calling.
Concerning sanctions, Clinton sanctions led to the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. Madeline Albright said it was worth it.
Thank goodness at least some journalists are staying true to their profession, are principled, and have integrity. I also used to watch Democracy Now! but it became crystal clear years before Trump became president that they were becoming just another propaganda outlet. Obama’s 2011 attempted illegal overthrow of Bashar Assad in Syria using proxy jihadists from all over the world backed by U.S. funding, U.S. training, and U.S. arming the nusra front, tahrir al sham, and other affiliates of al qaeda in Syria, began back in 2011 and persisted throughout Obama’s presidency. The lies spewed by Democracy Now! during those years (and currently) were astonishing to watch. What a sad state of affairs is our Ministry of Truth. Thank you Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Mate for staying true to your profession.