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The true measure of a society´s freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized group...

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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden

Patriotism is not defined by loyalty to a particular elected official or political party. Indeed, ex...

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How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest ...

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A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the count...

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A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty.

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC o...

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I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Ira...

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The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis ...

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For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable ...

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It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly r...

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Very few people use landline phones for much of anything. So when you talk about things like online ...

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I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terr...

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The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been p...

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As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissectin...

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The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definit...

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It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow...

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Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides ...

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Fearlessness can be its own form of power.

Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts...

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But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emph...

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It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everythin...

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Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what...

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Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant sto...

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An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or...

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Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually s...

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It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should...

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He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they thin...

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There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media ou...

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I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where ...

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Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitat...

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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

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Glenn Greenwald

Journalist

Born: 1967-03-06

Died: N/A

Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American political journalist, lawyer, columnist, blogger and author, known for his role in a series of reports published by The Guardian newspaper beginning in June 2013, detailing the United States and British global surveillance programs, and based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the team he worked with won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for those reports.More