Share this page!

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
Twitter logo
5 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
There's a virtual industry of operatives funded by the Atlantic Council -- which in turn is funded by Gulf State despots and US intel agencies & NATO governments -- whose purpose is to demand the internet be purged of anyone dissenting from their orthodoxies.

A leading soldier:
Pro-censorship operatives from the Atlantic Council have built fan bases among US liberals because that movement is devoted to censoring anyone and everyone whose questions their pieties and narratives.
For all of you liberal groupies of Atlantic Council censorship operatives like @jaredlholt, here's what your cheering for: their own description of who funds them.

atlanticcouncil.org/news/press-rel…
Given that the favorite cable stars of liberals are ex CIA Directors, FBI agents, NSA lawyers and Pentagon brass, along with neocons and Bush/Cheney operatives, it shouldn't be surprising that their online idols work to impose censorship on behalf of the Atlantic Council. Adds up
The most passionate, tireless and devoted advocates of online political censorship by the union of state and corporate monopolistic power are found at liberal corporate media outlets.

Agitating and cheering for state/corporate censorship is a virtual religious mission there.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ggreenwald

Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
5 Jun
It's like what happened with Mueller: once liberals start revering a government official (which they often do), any criticisms of that state idol are inherently illegitimate and ill-intentioned.

(Of course, once they disappoint liberals -- as Mueller did -- it's open season).
Speaking of liberal worship of government officials, someone here just reminded me of this classic gem from The @NewYorker in 2018:
Caption: Mueller "leaves the Capitol, his tie graced by suave geometries of small patterns."

Mueller's "white shirt is a symbol of purity, yes, but it also sends security-blanket signals."

😬
Read 4 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
4 Jun
This article - by an anti-Trump liberal journalist - is a great work of investigative reporting. It doesn't mean every claim is proven or that one has to believe each assertion -- I don't -- but it is one of the best attempts yet to grapple with what the USG did on COVID origins.
Even given my low expectations for the liberal sector of the corporate media, I find it shocking how little coverage they're devoting to Fauci's fascinating email archive.

He's one of the most important officials on the planet over the last 18 months, and yet: virtual silence.
There are divisions on the left over how to treat the lab-leak theory. For those hostile to it, is the argument that:

1) The lab-leak theory is clearly false & COVID is obviously zoonotic; or,

2) The dangers of finding out (fueling a Cold War with China) outweigh the benefits?
Read 11 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
3 Jun
The FBI's Strange Anthrax Investigation Sheds Light on COVID Lab-Leak Theory and Fauci's Emails

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-fbis-str…
Mainstream institutions had seriously doubted the FBI had solved the 2001 anthrax case. That has all now been memory-holed: elite circles implicitly agreed to just move on.

Either way, revelations that emerged then about US Government bio-research labs have newfound relevance.
To understand the current debate over COVID origins, it is really worth returning to what happened with the still-bizarre 2001 anthrax attacks and the FBI's claim that the highly weaponized strain came from a US Army research lab. Lots of key lessons:

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-fbis-str…
Read 4 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
3 Jun
This tweet by a stunted @NYMag writer offers a vivid opportunity to peer into the mentality of the standard millennial media employee.

If, as a journalist, you point to "alarming" aspects of the views and coalitions of one party, it means you're explicitly endorsing the other:
This is exactly how they see themselves. As a "journalist," you pick one side of the partisan/ideological war and you enslave yourself to it. That's why they see any criticisms of their side as necessarily support for the other. Their brains function only in binary terms.
Smart people not in journalism have no trouble seeing how trapped these partisan drones are in primitive and vapid labels. That opposing militaristic, imperialistic, censorship-mad & corporatist liberals puts you on the "hard right" is obscenely stupid:

Read 5 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
2 Jun
The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun -- Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-dome…
The Department of Homeland Security just issued its fourth danger bulletin this year.

Despite the fact that *none* has yet happened, both the weapons and rhetorical tactics of the first War on Terror are increasingly visible.
Virtually every authoritarian power that made the first War on Terror so menacing to core civil liberties -- domestic surveillance, domestic no-fly lists for citizens, CIA interference in domestic politics -- are being weaponized in the name of this new domestic War on Terror.
Read 4 tweets
Glenn Greenwald Profile picture
1 Jun
European leaders -- including Germany's Merkel and France's Macron -- are furious over new reports this week that the Obama/Biden Admin used Danish intelligence in 2014 to spy on their own EU allies, including Merkel herself. Demanding answers from Biden:

msn.com/en-us/news/wor…
Recall that at the height of the Snowden reporting, Merkel was so furious with Obama that she accused him of using "Stasi" tactics to spy on her and entire European populations -- a rather stinging accusation given her childhood in East Germany:

theguardian.com/world/2013/dec…
In my 2014 book based on NSA reporting, I described a program whereby NSA cooperated with Danish intelligence to spy on US allies. Snowden himself warned of how Denmark could be used by the US to spy on German leaders and German citizens:

theintercept.com/2014/06/18/nsa…
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @ggreenwald has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @ggreenwald!

Read all threads by @ggreenwald

:(