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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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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."
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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.
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Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No doubt that Endless War is Official U.S. Doctrine
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After Feigning Love for Egyptian Democracy, U.S. Back To Openly Supporting Tyranny
Americans were led to believe the U.S. political class was on the side of democracy in Egypt. Nope.
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 threat of the "Khorasan Group" was trotted out to justifying bombing Syria. Then it just evaporated.
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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.
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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.