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The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists
The world would be vastly improved if highly paid journalists like Jonathan Chait stopped whining about mean online critics.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is one of the three co-founding editors of The Intercept. He left The Intercept in October 2020.
Greenwald is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times bestselling 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 co-founding The Intercept, Greenwald’s column was featured in The Guardian and Salon.
He was the debut winner, along with “Democracy Now’s” 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 Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named Greenwald 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.
Greenwald is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times bestselling 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 co-founding The Intercept, Greenwald’s column was featured in The Guardian and Salon.
He was the debut winner, along with “Democracy Now’s” 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 Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras, Foreign Policy magazine named Greenwald 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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Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads
Canada monitors up to 15 million downloads a day to identify extremists.
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Compare and Contrast: Obama's Reaction to the Deaths of King Abdullah and Hugo Chávez
Latest FBI Claim of Disrupted Terror Plot Deserves Much Scrutiny and Skepticism
The FBI hails yet another young, aimless loner as a scary domestic terror threat. Yet more often than not, it is the FBI that creates, funds and directs the plots.
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France Arrests a Comedian For His Facebook Comments, Showing the Sham of the West's "Free Speech" Celebration
The arrest, so soon after the epic Paris free speech march, underscores the selectivity and fraud of this week's "free speech" parade. It also shows why those who want to criminalize the ideas they like are at least as dangerous and tyrannical as the ideas they targeted.
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Dianne Feinstein, Strong Advocate of Leak Prosecutions, Demands Immunity For David Petraeus
This generous mentality of mercy, forgiveness and understanding - like Obama's decree that we Look Forward, Not Backward to justify immunity for American torturers - is reserved only for political officials, Generals, telecoms, banks and oligarchs who reside above and beyond the rule of law.
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In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
People profess affection for cartoons that offend a religion — until the targeted religion changes.
With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
Social media is increasingly targeted for police control, repression and punishment.
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North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims
Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA's Torture Scandals
The "queen of torture" played a direct part in the torture of at least one innocent detainee, had a key role in misleading Congress about the agency’s use of torture, and reportedly mishandled information that could potentially have prevented the 9/11 attacks.