I have nothing but the highest regard for ‘Salon’ and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
A common criticism of establishment journalists entails comparing them to stenographers, on the ground that most of them do little more than mindlessly write down and uncritically repeat what government officials say. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
As for the claim that drone ‘pilots’ are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military’s own term for its drone kills – ‘bug splat,’ which happens to be the name of a children’s video game – and other evidence negates that. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it’s one of the least ‘brave’ or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It’s one thing to call it just, but to pretend it’s ‘brave’ is Orwellian in the extreme. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because state officials, acting like Inquisitors, forced people to accept it by punishing them for their refusal. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
It’s always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It’s much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
It is true that the Internet can be used to disseminate falsehoods quickly, but it just as quickly roots them out and exposes them in a way that the traditional model of journalism and its closed, insular, one-way form of communication could never do. Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of his politics, character and background. (We are talking about a man, after all, who won the Nobel Peace Prize while ordering the automated killing of suspected Muslim terrorists around the world). Glenn Greenwald Read Quote
