Em uma atitude que chocou até os observadores de política mais experientes das tramas que assolam a corrompida Brasília, no fim da noite de ontem, os líderes da Câmara dos Deputados tentaram inserir de forma sorrateira na agenda de votação… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Glenn Greenwald’
Washington Post pede ação legal contra sua fonte, Edward Snowden, após aceitar prêmio por reportagem
Três dos quatro meios de comunicação que receberam e publicaram um grande número de documentos secretos da NSA fornecidos por Edward Snowden — The Guardian, The New York Times e The Intercept — defendem que o governo dos EUA permita que o… Read More ›
WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)
Three of the four media outlets that received and published large numbers of secret NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden — The Guardian, the New York Times, and The Intercept –– have called for the U.S. government to allow the NSA whistleblower to return to the… Read More ›
Flávio Bolsonaro, flagrado ao lado de suspeito de pedofilia, ameaça quem compartilhar as fotos
O deputado Jair Bolsonaro é o Donald Trump brasileiro, com duas ressalvas: 1) ele é mais extremo que sua contraparte americana na disseminação do ódio; e 2) ele tem vários filhos que são cópias fieis dele e que se utilizam… Read More ›
Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored
Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese “Napalm Girl” on the ground that it violated the company’s ban on “child nudity.” Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who… Read More ›
Barbara Lee’s Lone Vote on Sept. 14, 2001, Was as Prescient as It Was Brave and Heroic
Almost immediately after the 9/11 attack, while bodies were still buried in the rubble, George W. Bush demanded from Congress the legal authorization to use military force against those responsible for the attack, which everyone understood would start with an invasion… Read More ›
What’s Behind Barack Obama’s Ongoing Accommodation of Vladimir Putin?
When a major party cynically espouses a set of beliefs as a tactic for winning an election, those beliefs get entrenched in popular discourse and often endure well past the election, with very significant consequences. The most significant such rhetorical template in the 2016… Read More ›
The Unrelenting Pundit-Led Effort to Delegitimize All Negative Reporting About Hillary Clinton
In his New York Times column yesterday, Paul Krugman did something that he made clear he regarded as quite brave: He defended the Democratic Party presidential nominee and likely next U.S. president from journalistic investigations. Complaining about media bias, Krugman claimed that journalists are… Read More ›
Congressional Democrats Call on FBI to Investigate Their Political Adversaries’ Kremlin Ties
Leading House Democrats on Tuesday sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey, which they promptly published, asking the agency to investigate whether the Trump campaign and the Russian government have entered into a joint plot “to interfere with the U.S…. Read More ›
Video: Dilma Rousseff’s Impeachment Trial Nears an End, Endangering Brazilian Democracy
During the Olympics, Brazil’s “interim president,” Michel Temer, fearing boos, broke protocol by demanding that his name not be announced when he appeared at the opening ceremony (he was widely booed anyway) and then hid entirely by skipping the closing ceremony…. Read More ›