This is the reason that leaders around the world -- Merkel, Macron, AMLO and numerous others -- objected so loudly when Silicon Valley removed Trump from the internet, even as US journalists swooned. They see that this kind of oligarchical censorship is anti-democratic tyranny:
If Google's policy -- that you get banned for saying *anything* about COVID-19 that deviates from the views of WHO, Dr. Fauci & friends -- were in place in March, 2020, then you'd have been banned for *urging people to wear masks*. That's when WHO/Fauci were anti-mask.
Listen to Mexican President López Obrador after tech monopolies banned Trump in January, 2021, warning of the serious dangers posed by online censorship to basic democracy and its ability to survive -- warnings repeated by Germany, France & EU officials:

The only people incapable of seeing the grave dangers posed by this ongoing censorship of Silicon Valley monopolies -- now extending even to high elected officials and scientists -- are Democrats and liberal sectors of the media, whose interests are served by this censorship.

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9 Apr
No basis to assume AOC is responsible for this without evidence, but regardless, this is a very serious incident if the Capitol Police are dispatching armed police officers to citizens' homes in response to non-violent criticisms of a politician's statements. It's repressive.
It's totally unacceptable for the Capitol Police to dispatch armed officers of the state to the home of a citizen to interrogate them over tweets criticizing a politician, and since it was done in @AOC's name, she should speak out about it, too:

There should be an immediate investigation into what led the Capitol Police to dispatch armed officers to the home of a citizen to interrogate him about tweets he posted critical of AOC. If they come to your house without a warrant, tell them to fuck off.

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8 Apr
For anyone surprised about what @lhfang reported today about @GovHowardDean, you shouldn't be: Dean has long been one of the sleaziest swamp creatures in DC, monetizing his political influence to serve the worst corporate & militarist entites:

theintercept.com/2016/01/21/how…
Dean has been so upset with Lee Fang's characteristically relentless reporting about all of his sleazy legalizing influence-peddling that Dean, in 2016, decided to muse that perhaps the Intercept is funded by Russia or Iran: that's how deranged he is.
(Sincerest apologies in advance to Gov. Dean if my pointing this out incites anyone to tweet anything critical or unpleasant about or to him).
Read 4 tweets
7 Apr
New DC Medical Examiner Report:

Of the 5 people whose deaths are connected to the Capitol riot, 4 were pro-Trump supporters:

* 2 of heart attack
* 1 of amphetamine poisoning
* 1 from homicide (Ashli Babbitt)
* Still do not know the "cause and manner of death" for Off. Sicknick.
So: 3 months after the NYT & national press corps drowned US discourse over a month with a harrowing but false story about a pro-Trump mob bashing Officer Sicknick's skull in with a fire extinguisher, they still can't say what caused his death on Jan 7:

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-an…
Here's a reminder of just a small portion of what the national press said over and over about Officer Sicknick's death -- just completely false, with very little retraction or explanation. Watch:

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7 Apr
This was one of the most infuriating parts of the Trump era. I started writing about politics to denounce Bush/Cheney lawlessness & their attacks on civil liberties. Watching those who did that rebuild their careers by marching under the "rule of law" banner was nauseating.
The central purpose of the neocon project during Bush/Cheney was to eliminate all legal constraints. The overarching theory was that the President could do anything -- start wars, bomb, kill, kidnap, spy on Americans -- no matter what the law said.

glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/01/ideolo…
Neocons migrated back to the Dem Party and now are its most vocal and loyal supporters not because they abandoned those theories -- they didn't -- but because, *before Trump*, they concluded that is the Party now most hospitable to their warped agenda.

nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opi…
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6 Apr
My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes

greenwald.substack.com/p/my-new-book-…
On Mother's Day in 2019, I obtained a massive archive of materials from Brazil's most powerful officials. The reporting we did changed the country, and our lives.

I regard the book as at least as much about journalism and democracy in general as it is about Brazil.
In terms of both the dangers and threats, but also the societal changes it fostered, I regard the journalism I was able to do with the courageous team of young journalists at @TheInterceptBr as being as intense & consequential as the Snowden reporting. This book tells that story.
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4 Apr
I'll be on Fox's MediaBuzz show at 11:40 am ET, on the latest proof of the authenticity of the Hunter Biden docs that Facebook & US media suppressed, as well as USA Today's attempt to prevent people from raising legal funds, part of media's ongoing targeting of private citizens:
Columns like this one from Maureen Dowd continue to confuse what the Biden story was about. Nobody responsible cares about Hunter's drug use or consensual adult sex. Only issue was his influence-trading in Ukraine & China & Joe Biden's involvement:

nytimes.com/2021/04/03/opi…
Pretending that the Biden laptop story was about sex or drugs is utterly deceitful. A person's addiction struggles & consensual adult sex is not news. The story was (and is) about financial corruption. And there's *zero* doubt the docs were authentic:

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