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Maher: Class inequality may have helped Cleveland kidnapper hide victims
On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher and a panel made up of writer Glenn Greenwald, commentator Joy Reid and National Review writer Charles Cooke discussed whether class issues played a role in the case of the three women who were held prisoner in the…
Greenwald: U.S. oligarchs focused on military and surveillance state to put down unrest
Attorney and author Glenn Greenwald confessed Wednesday that he thinks America’s oligarchs appear to be mostly focused right now on consolidating surveillance and military might without regard for discontent across society, risking major civil unrest. Greenwald made the comments during a panel discussion on “The Young Turks,” joined by journalists…
Glenn Greenwald tells Moyers: Not much difference between Boston bombings and U.S. drone strikes
In an interview with Bill Moyers, journalist Glenn Greenwald criticized Americans’ “warped perspective” on the U.S. government’s use of unmanned attack ddrones, saying there’s not much differenciating an American military drone strike from the Boston Marathon bombings. “I don’t think there is much difference,” Greenwald said on Moyers & Company.…
Glenn Greenwald: Boston manhunt infused with political messages
Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald believes the Boston Marathon bombing last week shined a light on how most Americans think about the world. In a preview clip published by Moyers & Company on Wednesday, Greenwald noted the country was “glued to the television” after the two bombs killed three people and…
The Greenwald/Scahill Kerfuffle
Politics is a blood-sport, and you never learn that more keenly than during an election year. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we’re all human beings, no matter what we think of one another’s politics. Sometimes rhetoric gets overheated and politics becomes personal and it’s at those moments, we need…
A few thoughts on Glenn Greenwald, ABLC, Raw Story and the nature of political discourse
I’ve had a lot of insults hurled at me over my many years of writing on the Internet: in addition to the standard ones that women get related to our perceived attractiveness and concomitant perceived intellect or lack thereof, I’ve been called an Obamabot, a Romney shill, a secret Ron…
ABL on The Hal Sparks Radio Program Talking — Ranting, Really — About Lady Business and Drones [Updated]
Today was chock full of ranty goodness. Enjoy. As for me, I’m off to Manhattan Beach to enjoy brunch, the sun, and champagne cocktails with my good friend Ramy. Mimosas! Six Deep! Update: I was so busy this weekend that I didn’t have time to add links relevant to Hal…
Prominent Republicans may be getting nervous about Romney’s chances
With recent polls showing Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney either trailing or at best tied with Rick Santorum in the Michigan primary, some Republican leaders are starting to get nervous. One “prominent Republican senator” told ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl on Friday that “if Romney cannot win Michigan,…
Glenn Greenwald: Journalists have become servants to power
Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional rights attorney, said the media’s reaction to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement highlighted how mainstream media journalists had become part of the elite class. “If you look at, say, a host on MSNBC, what you’re actually seeing is a very high ranking employee of…
Greenwald on Awlaki’s killing: The ‘Constitution burned and stepped on’
Salon blogger and Constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald appeared on Democracy Now! Friday morning to voice his displeasure over the United States’ killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, a U.S. citizen who was considered a radical cleric for Al-Qaeda. Greenwald highlighted the criticism that President George W. Bush received from the…
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