Glenn Greenwald

John Burns’ “Ministering Angels” and “Liberators”

In this week’s New Yorker, Peter Maass — who was in Iraq covering the war at the time — examines the iconic, manufactured toppling of the Saddam statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, an event the American media relentlessly exploited in April, 2003, to propagandize citizens into believing that Iraqis were gleeful over the U.S. invasion and […]

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Oliver Willis Jumps The Shark ~ Dag

Shitake City Batman, another hero of mine goes down the rabbit hole… McNabb to the ‘Skins sure has messed up some minds the past 24 hours… When it comes to war and the military, there are two attitudes that I despise. The first, and more widespread, comes from the right and their insistence that military […]

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Glenn Greenwald Waterboards Chuckie Todd

S A L O N Glenn Greenwald Yesterday, I voiced several criticisms of comments made earlier this week by NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd regarding potential torture investigations by the Obama Justice Department.  Shortly thereafter, he emailed me to say that he wished I had contacted him before posting.  In response, I invited him to participate in a […]

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