Western media coverage of every Russian election is bad. But this time it was even worse than usual. Instead of lashing out at the incompetence on display, it’s more constructive to explore why rational discussions about the country continue to appear impossible. Not to mention the dire consequences of the ongoing self-delusion. Reason …
Read More »Decision Desk HQ projects Republican Glenn Youngkin to win Virginia election, as CBS says race ‘leans Republican’
Decision Desk HQ, one of the leading organizations dedicated to tracking and reporting US election results, was the first to call the Virginia gubernatorial elections in favour of Youngkin, some three hours after the polls closed across the state. Stopping short of calling the election in anybody’s favour, CBS News …
Read More »CNN’s Stelter roasted by Glenn Greenwald & others for heralding himself as part of ‘reality-based media’
Stelter made his claim on the latest edition of his CNN series ‘Reliable Sources’ when he asked Yale professor Timothy Snyder how the “reality-based media” – like CNN – should cover Republicans like Donald Trump, who continue to float theories about the 2020 presidential election being fraudulent. Snyder’s advice was …
Read More »‘They crave his War on Terror’: Glenn Greenwald tears into liberals for praising George W. Bush’s 9/11 speech on threat ‘at home’
In his speech on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks – which sparked Bush’s invasion of Afghanistan, war crimes, and the rise of a surveillance state against American citizens – the former president warned that there was “growing evidence that the dangers to our country can come not …
Read More »‘No good deed goes unpunished?’ Chelsea Manning & Glenn Greenwald launch tweet-salvos at each other in a row nobody saw coming
Former army intelligence analyst Manning launched a seemingly-unprovoked Twitter attack on Greenwald on Thursday, calling him “greedy, unprincipled,” and someone she was “embarrassed” to have called a friend. The investigative journalist, Manning implied, had “chosen to bash, harass, humiliate, intimidate, and lie to get ahead.” She added that if she …
Read More »Could growing censorship lead to a mass YouTube exodus? Glenn Greenwald & Tulsi Gabbard move to ‘free speech platform’ Rumble
The veteran journalist, along with former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and several other well-known commentators, have joined Rumble’s “deep pool of content talent,” the company said in a press release on Thursday. As part of the agreement, Rumble will provide the all-star content creators with resources to help them produce videos …
Read More »Bitter feud among YouTube Left escalates as TYT’s Cenk Uygur suggests Glenn Greenwald ‘not a journalist’
An expanding mud storm engulfing non-legacy left-wing media in the US has claimed another participant. Greenwald has been accused by TYT’s Uygur of committing all sorts of journalistic sins after he weighed in on the bitter conflict between the outlet and other prominent voices on YouTube’s political Left, including Jimmy …
Read More »Tucker Carlson a socialist?! Liberals roast Glenn Greenwald over Daily Caller interview they apparently didn’t bother to watch
In a video interview with the Daily Caller’s Christian Datoc and Omeed Malik, Greenwald said that he would “describe a lot of people on the right as being socialists,” pointing to what President Donald Trump was saying as a candidate in 2016, or his strategist Steve Bannon, and even Daily …
Read More »Despair, depression, and the inevitable rise of Trump 2.0: Glenn Greenwald tells RT his Biden administration predictions
Glenn Greenwald is a lawyer who turned to journalism in 2005 to protest the suppression of Americans’ civil liberties under the Bush-Cheney ‘war on terror’. Greenwald came to international fame by breaking the Edward Snowden NSA whistleblower story in 2013. He later co-founded the Intercept, but quit the outlet in …
Read More »‘It’s nothing like what Nazis did’: Conservative host Glenn Beck gets roasted for saying Big Tech is setting up a ‘digital ghetto’
Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s show ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Fox News, Beck was discussing the recent actions of Big Tech. In the wake of the storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters, Apple and Google removed Parler, a social network popular with conservatives, from its app stores, and Amazon …
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