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Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by The Guardian newspaper beginning in June 2013, detailing the United States and British global surveillance programs, and based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden. Greenwald and the team he worked with won both a George Polk Award and a Pulitzer Prize for those reports. He has written several best-selling books, including, No Place to Hide.

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Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just knows that it is vital that it continue in unlimited form indefinitely.

War, Form, Unlimited, Continue, Indefinitely, Nobody

All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you'll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that wields surveillance powers if you wish to be deemed free of wrongdoing. This is a deal that invites passivity, obedience, and conformity. The safest course, the way to ensure being “left alone,” is to remain quiet, unthreatening, and compliant.

Citizens, Evidence, Left, Mind Your Own Business, Support, Worry

What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.

Thinking, Nsa, Surveillance, Actually, Think, State

Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that they long ago ceased viewing this conflict with any remnant of objectivity.

American, Attachment, Emotional, Israel, Jews

What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.

Converted, Know, Mean, Religious, Vilification, War

But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.

Democratic, False, Hawks, Iran, Israel, Security

When journalists are 'accused' of being 'advocates', that means: challenging and deviating from DC orthodoxies.

Challenges, Challenging, Deviating, Journalists, Mean, Orthodoxy

Even as considering African-Americans, immigrants and other groups who may be marginalized in different ways, American Muslims are still one of the most marginalized groups. Overt prejudice is probably more acceptable toward American Muslims than any other single group in the U. S. There is still a lot of policies in place that are incredibly effective that don't show any signs of eroding. So, I don't want to overstate the optimism but I think things are headed gradually in the right direction. Just because of the distance between us and 9
11.

Distance, Thinking, Optimism, Prejudice, Incredibly

The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.

War, Names, Years, Name, Administration, Unchecked

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Culture, Outpaces, Political, Political Culture, Quickly, Satirize

The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

Yelling, Definitions, Lovers, Idiot, Definition

The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?

Drug, Drugs, Everything, Use, War

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

Candidates, Claims, Like, Obama, Right, Vote

Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U. S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U. S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.

Begging, Causes, Government, Sic, Single, Worst Nightmares

Many of the most important stories in the history of modern journalism have come from sources who have taken information without authorization.

Come, Important, Information, Modern Journalism, Stories, Taken

As the American Muslim community gets a little bit freer in terms of not being under the thumb of that kind of oppressive mentality, there is going to be some internal dissent. When you are consciously oppressed, you tend to sort of band together and unite because there's a necessity to do so. And that as that proceeds, some of those difference get more into the fore and I think that's the reason you are seeing some internal dissension as a byproduct of the fact that there is not this kind of immediate urgency to unify against this kind of onslaught because that onslaught is refuted.

Against, Community, Kind, Thinking, Together, Urgency

The more fear confrontational activism can put into the heart of the political class, the better.

Class, Confrontational, Heart, Political

The promise of the Internet has always been that it was gonna be this unprecedentedly potent instrument of liberation and democratization. It would let you explore things and meet people who you wouldn't otherwise get to know, in completely free and unconstrained ways.

Gonna, People, Promise, Way

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Everything, Justifies, Justify, Mean, Terrorism, Word

The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Authoritarian, Definitions, Evidence, Government, Opportunity, True

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