Glenn Greenwald

One of Obama’s damage control frontiers this week is the “cover up” after the tragic and deadly attack on the Benghazi consulate last September.

It is being roundly pooh-poohed as not scandal-label-worthy by Obama Team Dems. The one MSNBC anchor I am willing to watch, Chris Hayes, tonight led the pooh-poohers much to my frustration. He called it a “nothingburger”! Read below the fold...

Have we as a citizenry ever gotten a good answer on why the U.S. went after Iraq when a whopping 15 of the 19 Al Qaeda hijackers in the 9/11 attacks (according to wikipedia) were citizens of Saudi Arabia? (The four others were from Egypt, Lebanon and the UAE.)

Have we ever gotten a good answer as to why negative focus has never been directed by U.S. administrations or corporate media against the despotic monarchy of Saudi Arabia (our main weapons customer) while it oppresses its own people and enables other despotisms to oppress theirs? Read below the fold...

Retiring Congressman Ron Paul, former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, comes done on the same side as many progressives on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. A recent post on his website, reiterates comments he made when was president about Gaza being nothing but a vast concentration camp.

It has never mattered to Paul which party was in power. His greatest appeal, especially among young supporters, is his ability to tell the unvarnished truth. He puts the blame for Gazan atrocities squarely where it belongs: with the US government, which is the main supplier of planes and bombs Israel uses to attack Palestinians. Read below the fold...

So, the chronically conscience-deprived “Obama bubble people” and the new club of morality sell-outs, the “I held my nose but was proud to have voted for Obama” group, have put another nail in the coffin of American democracy by backing the man whom Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report has savvily labeled the “more effective evil”.

This coalition of willfully naive Democrats have secured for Obama four more years of profound executive power -- not only legitimate but the illegitimate power Obama has already begun vastly amassing for himself -- to finish off the democracy he and his corporate overlords have achieved such progress already in destroying. Read below the fold...

Fascism comes
on little Obama-cat feet.

It sits looking
from sea to shining sea
on liberty-murdering haunches.
It won’t move on.

The sham of Obama as the "lesser evil" is over.

Glen Ford in “Eric Holder Tortures the Constitution” in Black Agenda Report writes: Read below the fold...

The last time I beat Glenn Greenwald by a day in writing on the NYT John Burns' hit piece on wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Read below the fold...

Paul Krugman got a lot of attention among leftward tweeters today for following Glenn Greenwald down the road of writing about the de-evolution of the United States into a de-developed nation, because of the irresponsible preference of its ruling elite for lower taxes rather than infrastructure and essential services, and also because of impac Read below the fold...

On Friday, Glenn Greenwald did a piece called "What Collapsing Empire Looks Like," in which he contrasted the cutbacks in essential domestic spending throughout the country with the "no problem" funding of Homeland Security and our two wars. Among other things he said: Read below the fold...

Glenn Greenwald points out in his post today that Dick Durbin is whipping against votes for a public option. Read below the fold...

Joe Klein, trying to dismiss Glenn Greenwald. And (hat tip to Athenae at First Draft), the most perfect comment ever on a Klein column. Take a bow, juniusredivivus. Read below the fold...

My original letter is here.

Glenn's response, followed by mine to him:

Thanks for sending me that email letting me know of your post. The email you sent it to is one I really don't use any more and only check very sporadically, so I am only seeing it now.

I registered for an account at Corrente a few days ago in order to post a comment correcting a false claim that was made about me there, but my account hasn't been approved, so I haven't been able to comment.

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Glenn,

I’m posting the following on correntewire.com, as an open letter to you, on the twin assumptions that our readers’ comments may further illuminate this topic and that you receive far too much e-mail for me to expect a response. Read below the fold...

Glenn:

Obama has obviously calculated that sacrificing the rule of law and the Fourth Amendment is a worthwhile price to pay to bolster his standing a tiny bit in a couple of swing states.

He adds:
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This ad hominem attack on Three Nasty Piss Pots goes well with the melody from Eric Idle's Money Song.

heinous motherfuckers, full of nonsense
petty little Villagers to boot
nasty when they're leering
embarassing when cheering
preening pompous polecats in cahoots Read below the fold...

Novak writes today: Read below the fold...