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Salon‘s Glenn Greenwald (5/19/09, ad-viewing required) “gives the lie to the collective national claim that we learned our lesson and are now regretful about the Bush/Cheney approach to terrorism”: Republicans are right about the fact that while it was Bush officials who led the way in implementing these radical and lawless policies, most of the […]
Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald gets the site’s lead story today (5/8/09, ad-viewing required) with an excerpt from the New York Times obituary for U.S. fighter pilot Harold E. Fischer Jr., who, as the Times headline puts it, was “Tortured in a Chinese Prison.” Greenwald deems such naming of Fischer’s ordeal–“kept in a dark, damp cell […]
In his latest Salon blog entry (5/1/09, ad-viewing required), Glenn Greenwald displays his find of “a perfect illustration of how severely our political spectrum has shifted in the last two decades and how depraved and extremist our political and media classes have become”–one quote of the Washington Post‘s Charles Krauthammer rebutting those who “believe you […]
Writing at Salon (4/23/09, ad-viewing required) of how the “sheer criminality” of George W. Bush-era torture, “really for the first time, has exploded into mainstream political debates,” Glenn Greenwald is thoroughly unsurprised by their behavior as “media stars are forced to address it”: Exactly as one would expect, they are closing ranks, demanding (as always) […]
Blogging from his regular Salon perch (4/20/09, ad-viewing required), Glenn Greenwald notes that the public wants to investigate U.S. torture (that’s what the polls tell us), but: These facts about public opinion are virtually always excluded from establishment media discussions, and those who advocate investigations and prosecutions–the view held by large percentages, if not majorities, […]
An Associated Press headline about the “Issue of Terrorists’ Rights to Test Obama’s Pledge” to close the Guantanamo Bay prison facility spurs Salon critic Glenn Greenwald (1/26/09, ad-viewing required) to put a basic journalistic tenet as simply as possible: “The fact that the U.S. Government accuses someone of X does not mean that they are […]
