Glenn Greenwald, Author at BSNEWS

Iran: War Updates and False Flags

Glenn Greenwald — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:36:35 +0000

Glenn Greenwald talks to Tucker Carlson

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The Seven Stages of Establishment Backlash: Corbyn/Sanders Edition

Glenn Greenwald — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:42:03 +0000

The nature of “establishments” is that they cling desperately to power, and will attack anyone who defies or challenges that power with unrestrained fervor. That’s what we saw in the U.K. with the emergence of Corbyn, and what we’re seeing now with the threat posed by Sanders. It’s not surprising that the attacks in both cases are similar — the dynamic of establishment prerogative is the same — but it’s nonetheless striking how identical is the script used in both cases.

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The U.S. Intervention in Libya Was Such a Smashing Success That a Sequel Is Coming

Glenn Greenwald — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:09:39 +0000

Just as there was no al Qaeda or ISIS to attack in Iraq until the U.S. bombed its government, there was no ISIS in Libya until NATO bombed it. Now the U.S. is about to seize on the effects of its own bombing campaign in Libya to justify an entirely new bombing campaign in that same country.

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The Seven Stages of Establishment Backlash: Corbyn/Sanders Edition

Glenn Greenwald — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:54:24 +0000

The British political and media establishment incrementally lost its collective mind over the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the country’s Labour Party, and its unraveling and implosion show no signs of receding yet. Bernie Sanders is nowhere near as radical as Corbyn; they are not even in the same universe. But, especially on economic issues, Sanders is a more fundamental, systemic critic than the oligarchical power […]

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BBC Protects UK’s Close Ally, Saudi Arabia, With Incredibly Dishonest and Biased Editing

Glenn Greenwald — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:43:40 +0000

The BBC loves to boast about how “objective” and “neutral” it is. But a recent article, which it was forced to change, illustrates the lengths to which the British state-funded media outlet will go to protect one of the UK Government’s closest allies, Saudi Arabia, which also happens to be one of its largest arms purchasers (just this morning, the Saudi Ambassador to the UK threatened in an Op-Ed that any further criticism of the Riyadh regime by Jeremy Corbyn could jeopardize the multi-layered UK/Saudi alliance).

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Israel Calls a Man Its Soldiers Killed a “Terrorist”: Until They Realized He Was an Israeli Jew

Glenn Greenwald — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:13:54 +0000

The Jerusalem Post today describes the killing of a man by two IDF soldiers after, the soldiers claim, he was acting erratically and tried to grab one of their guns. When he was fatally shot by the IDF, says the paper, he was “believed to be an Arab terrorist.” As it turns out, he was not an Arab Palestinian but rather an Israeli Jew. Upon learning this, the “terrorist” designation was officially and “immediately” rescinded

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One Day After Warning Russia of Civilian Casualties, the U.S. Bombs a Hospital in Afghanistan

Glenn Greenwald — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 23:20:56 +0000

The formula by now is clear: bombing whatever countries it wants, justifying it all by reflexively labeling their targets as “terrorists,” and then dishonestly denying or casually dismissing the civilians they slaughter as “collateral damage.”

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The primary role of journalists is to expose abuses committed by their own nation and its allies

Glenn Greenwald — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:39:48 +0000

The ongoing atrocities by Saudi Arabia and its “coalition partners” in Yemen reflect powerfully – and horribly – on both the U.S. and UK. That’s true not only because those two countries in general are among the closest allies of the Saudi regime, but also because they are specifically lavishing Saudi despots with the very arms and intelligence being used to kill large numbers of Yemeni civilians.

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The Sunday Times’ Snowden Story Is Journalism At Its Worst — And Filled With Falsehoods

Glenn Greenwald — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:09:36 +0000

The Sunday Times today merely recycled the same evidence-free smears that have been used by government officials for years – not only against Snowden, but all whistleblowers – and added a dose of sensationalism and then baked it with demonstrable lies. That’s just how western journalism works, and it’s the opposite of surprising.

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Hailed as a Model for Successful Intervention, Libya Proves to be the Exact Opposite

Glenn Greenwald — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:33:01 +0000

Far from serving as a model, this Libya intervention should severely discredit the core selling point of so-called “humanitarian wars.” Some non-governmental advocates of “humanitarian war” may be motivated by the noble aims they invoke, but humanitarianism is simply not why governments fight wars; that is just the pretty wrapping used to sell them.

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