7 ms·
Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance
- typon 8y agoThe New Yorker is an establishment mouth piece. This article is such laughably obvious propaganda and that its embarrassing, considering how good the New Yorkers journalism is for non political issues.
- mc32 8y agoPeople, even open minded, accepting and highly educated people will cheer you when you speak and say what captures their zeigeist, but speak a truth which crosses that zeitgeist and you will see yourself crucified and villified. He was a hero got the Snowden revelations (even the Russian Fed was hailed as an enabler of truth). Now? He’s a turncoat for not falling in line with Russophobia.
- lern_too_spel 8y agoHe was always a buffoon. Despite having full access to the Snowden docs, he completely botched the reporting, still getting PRISM wrong to this day.
- notfromhere 8y agoRussia doing shitty things to its neighbors and rivals is not Russophobia, that's just reality. Standing up to russian meddling in our internal affairs isn't russophobia, and anyone arguing otherwise is intentionally playing games.
- wamsachel 8y agoPuh-leaze Russia has it's issues, but the current craze is just that: crazy. People are becoming more acutely aware of the tightening noose of big money spending in government/elections, and so big money media is moving attention away
- notfromhere 8y agothis is propaganda
- mmjaa 8y agoWhat isn't? Your line that its 'alarming' that Russia is getting away with it? Also propaganda. Follow the money - who stands to benefit from this newfound hatred of Russia?
- notfromhere 8y agowhen you get punched in the nose, hitting back isn't 'russophobia'
- mmjaa 8y agoIt is "phobia" if you hit the wrong guy back. Which is something America is pretty good at doing, all the while still crying foul.
- vithlani 8y agoWhat you call meddling in your affairs is simply Americans being shown what their nation, in their name does to others. The boot is on the other foot this time. The party at the other end is a super power that has learned from previous downfalls and is trivially exploiting weaknesses within American polity and society at a cost of next to nothing to themselves and plenty of plausible deniability.
- xrd 8y agoIs that the general consensus now? I've not really paid attention to the discussion around him as much as the discussion he generates which mostly seems to be incredibly independent (or indignant or simply contrarian). Are there some people who were proponents of his in particular who have abandoned him? The article seems to suggest his former colleagues still think he is a powerful intellect
- pstuart 8y agoI'm really bothered by his "Russia is innocent" stance.
- Sideloader 8y agoDoes it also bother you that the hysteria over Russia’s “guilt” is shamefully hypocritical and misleading? Are you aware, for example, of the role the Clinton administration played in 1996 to get their man Boris Yeltsin re-elected? One reason for Putin’s popularity is he put a stop to the Yeltsin facilitated post-communist era plundering of Russia’s wealth and resources by scruple less Russians and foreigners alike, and Americans were heavily involved in that avaricious free for all. The United States not only interferes in other countries’ elections, it also regularly orchestrates coups, finances and arms violent insurgent groups and has a history of invading and destroying countries based on false pretexts. The United States and its NATO vassals pushed their militaries right up to the Russian border, which is like Russia, China and Iran sending their armies to the border regions of Mexico and Canada while their navies patrol the Gulf (of Mexico). Need I say more? Even if Russia is guilty of everything the hysterical and disingenuous Russiagate crowd alleges, it is still a lightweight when it comes to messing around in other countries’ affairs. The mythology, and ideology, of American exceptionalism says the United States has a divine right to subject the entire planet to its will. World domination has been an explicit American political goal since the 1930s. It’s a matter of public record. Russia with Putin as its leader stands in the way of American domination of Eurasia. Hence, the military encirclement of Russia and the belligerent anti-Russian rhetoric from American leaders. If there is one thing American exceptionalists can’t abide, it is a country that wants to chart its own path free of American domination. The United States is threatening Russia, not the other way around, and the Russian state’s alleged actions are a response to that. Really, Americans don’t have a leg to stand on here. The 24/7 nonstop anti-Russian hysteria whipped up by the media and Democrats who can’t accept they lost an election is overloading the emotional circuits of millions of Americans and shorting out their critical thinking abilities. It’s rather disconcerting.
- xrd 8y agoI'm a subscriber to The Intercept. Today they sent out a note about their crowdfunded Brazilian coverage of elections. https://www.catarse.me/tibnaseleicoes https://www.catarse.me/tibnaseleicoes
- xrd 8y agoAnd, they have excellent Brazilian coverage already: https://theintercept.com/brasil https://theintercept.com/brasil (note the "s" instead of the "z").
- wrong_variable 8y agoLets assume Russia was responsible for serious election interference. Now What ? Is the US going to add MORE sanctions on Russia ? Russia is not North Korea. The EU or US is going to go to war with a nuclear armed state, get real. Sometimes I wonder, why it is always the fault of outsiders ? 9/11 (result of so much meddling in ME for 40 years ), 2016, mexican drugs, immigrants taking jerbs. Unless society takes responsibility for its own problems things will not change.
- notfromhere 8y agoSo the answer is to roll over and do nothing?
- h4b4n3r0 8y agoHe’s one of the very few journalists I still read and trust. Everybody else (including all other journos from The Intercept) has gone off the deep end after the election.