13 thoughts on “BANG: GREENWALD ON MANNING, SNOWDEN, TAKES APART GOVERNMENT APOLOGIST”

1. Pete: great youtube! I can barely stand to watch CNN anymore so I’m glad you posted it, otherwise I would have missed it.

   Greenwald is really impressive and Jeff Toobin is such a tool. Investigative journalism seems to be dying in this Age of Obama

   And Snowden is also not a traitor – although accused.

2. Greenwald: a great left-winger.

3. Petr

   I didn’t realise he plays football ?

4. I don’t know about his voting record or political philosophy, Petr, but I think Greenwald is a very good investigative journalist. Thank God there are one or two left!

   These are odd times.

   For example, although conservative, right wing and pro-Israel, I recently found myself agreeing with Noam Chomsky about Snowden.

   “Turning and turning in a widening gyre…things fall apart; the center cannot hold”

5. The centre will hold – we aren’t in revolutionary times.

6. Patty –

   The impression that Greenwald is a Left Winger came about because he rose to prominence by criticising the Bush regime, which he did rather well. Well that’s reasoning based on a non-sequitur.

   He’s much closer to being a (classical) liberal/libertarian.

7. Finally, a gay Jewish lawyer that even Pete can support.

8. Great post Pete.

9. GLENN GREENWALD: ‘I’M NO RIGHT-WING LIBERTARIAN’

   Some of his positions/priorities:

   here are views I’ve publicly advocated. Decide for yourself if the “libertarian” label applies:
   * opposing all cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid (here and here);
   * repeatedly calling for the prosecution of Wall Street (here, here and here);
   * advocating for robust public financing to eliminate the domination by the rich in political campaigns, writing: “corporate influence over our political process is easily one of the top sicknesses afflicting our political culture” (here and here);
   * condemning income and wealth inequality as the by-product of corruption (here and here);
   * attacking oligarchs – led by the Koch Brothers – for self-pitying complaints about the government and criticizing policies that favor the rich at the expense of ordinary Americans (here);
   * arguing in favor of a public option for health care reform (repeatedly);
   * criticizing the appointment of too many Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street officials to positions of power (here, here and here);
   * repeatedly condemning the influence of corporate factions in public policy making (here and here);
   * using my blog to raise substantial money for the campaigns of Russ Feingold and left-wing/anti-war Democrats Normon Solomon, Franke Wilmer and Cecil Bothwell, and defending Dennis Kucinich from Democratic Party attacks;
   * co-founding a new group along with Daniel Ellsberg, Laura Poitras, John Cusack, Xeni Jardim [sic], JP Barlow and others to protect press freedom and independent journalism (see the New York Times report on this here);
   * co-founding and working extensively on a PAC to work with labor unions and liberal advocacy groups to recruit progressive primary challengers to conservative Democratic incumbents

10. Petr Tarasov –

    That’s a Breitbart headline.

    Of those 11 points, libertarians could agree with six and would have little problem with two of them. Noted is that he has called for a return to the 1776 constitutional vision, and that he doesn’t call for worker’s farming collectives.

    You frequently claim that every commie under the sun is no commie, yet all of a sudden Greenwald is Left Wing? By the standards you apply to Mao and Stalin, he’s halfway fascist.

11. You are a deeply confused individual. I literally have no idea where to start.

12. At least, I suppose, you appear to accept he’s no libertarian.

13. ” At least, I suppose, you appear to accept he’s no libertarian.”

    You mean you’re not the only one?
    There may be more?

    Aaaaaagh!

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