Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/glenn-greenwald-the-bane-of-their-resistance

by xrd • 8 years ago

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mc32• 8 years ago

People, even open minded, accepting and highly educated people will cheer you when you speak and say what captures their zeigeist, but speak a truth which crosses that zeitgeist and you will see yourself crucified and villified. He was a hero got the Snowden revelations (even the Russian Fed was hailed as an enabler of truth). Now? He’s a turncoat for not falling in line with Russophobia.

xrd5• 8 years ago

Is that the general consensus now? I've not really paid attention to the discussion around him as much as the discussion he generates which mostly seems to be incredibly independent (or indignant or simply contrarian). Are there some people who were proponents of his in particular who have abandoned him? The article seems to suggest his former colleagues still think he is a powerful intellect

pstuart5• 8 years ago

I'm really bothered by his "Russia is innocent" stance.

lern_too_spel• 8 years ago

He was always a buffoon. Despite having full access to the Snowden docs, he completely botched the reporting, still getting PRISM wrong to this day.

notfromhere4• 8 years ago

Russia doing shitty things to its neighbors and rivals is not Russophobia, that's just reality.

Standing up to russian meddling in our internal affairs isn't russophobia, and anyone arguing otherwise is intentionally playing games.

wamsachel• 8 years ago

Puh-leaze

Russia has it's issues, but the current craze is just that: crazy.

People are becoming more acutely aware of the tightening noose of big money spending in government/elections, and so big money media is moving attention away

xrd5• 8 years ago

I'm a subscriber to The Intercept. Today they sent out a note about their crowdfunded Brazilian coverage of elections.

https://www.catarse.me/tibnaseleicoes

xrd5• 8 years ago

And, they have excellent Brazilian coverage already:

https://theintercept.com/brasil (note the "s" instead of the "z").

wrong_variable• 8 years ago

Lets assume Russia was responsible for serious election interference.

Now What ?

Is the US going to add MORE sanctions on Russia ? Russia is not North Korea.

The EU or US is going to go to war with a nuclear armed state, get real.

Sometimes I wonder, why it is always the fault of outsiders ? 9/11 (result of so much meddling in ME for 40 years ), 2016, mexican drugs, immigrants taking jerbs.

Unless society takes responsibility for its own problems things will not change.

notfromhere4• 8 years ago

So the answer is to roll over and do nothing?

h4b4n3r0• 8 years ago

He’s one of the very few journalists I still read and trust. Everybody else (including all other journos from The Intercept) has gone off the deep end after the election.

typon• 8 years ago

The New Yorker is an establishment mouth piece. This article is such laughably obvious propaganda and that its embarrassing, considering how good the New Yorkers journalism is for non political issues.

xrd5• 8 years ago

I'm genuinely curious about that statement, since I've always regarded NY as well researched and written. Can you provide me with some details on why you say that?

xrd5• 8 years ago

I'm genuinely curious why this was downvoted. Hacker News, you are hilarious!

Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance

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