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Independent news by Glenn Greenwald. Follow for highlights & updates. Full episodes and exclusive articles now available on Substack.

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"We're talking about CIVILIZATIONAL ANNIHILATION ... for a country that has never attacked the United States—never attacked the American homeland," @ggreenwald explains to Piers Morgan. "The reason we say, 'War is a last resort,' it's not a cliché. It's supposed to be the highest human moral mandate!"
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‼️Glenn Greenwald: "I don't think we need to sit here and dissect [Trump's] Truth Social post as though it's some hieroglyphic from ancient civilization. Trump has REPEATEDLY made statements like this!" Piers Morgan: "How can America, when another nation commits [a morally reprehensible] act—how can they play the moral card going forward?" Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald): "Well, we can't, and it wasn't just today. We're fighting wars constantly, now with the American president threatening civilizational annihilation."
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🚨Glenn Greenwald: This war is happening "for the SAME REASON that the Iraq War was launched based on total lies—" Rob Schmitt: "But he trashed the Iraq War!" Glenn Greenwald: "The people that you're interviewing, who are selling the Iran War to your audience, are exactly the SAME PEOPLE who sold the Iraq War!"
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‼️"You're really CONFLATING two EXTREMELY different things." This isn't taxpayer money going to our bases in Germany or South Korea—it's aid going to a foreign country. @ggreenwald shreds the claim that giving aid to Israel is the same as funding the U.S. military abroad.
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🚨"The Trump family, and the [people] around them, are PROFITEERING in a way that makes Hunter Biden look like a small-time shoplifter!" @ggreenwald says. "I spent a lot of time on the Hunter Biden case. I had a media outlet I founded—that I quit when they wouldn't let me do the reporting I wanted to do on it." What's happening now is "on a completely different scale."
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"I've never seen a president who's MORE poll aware," but "the one poll that he's Helen Keller on is the Israel one—and the Epstein one." @JonesDanny asks @ggreenwald why Trump is only comfortable hemorrhaging support on this one issue.
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Israel and its allies aren’t just shameless: they’re PANICKING as their narrative collapses. @ggreenwald breaks it down with @JonesDanny.
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"We give more intelligence tech and surveillance data [to Israel] than any other government in the world," and yet our CIA has known for decades that Israel is a "leading intelligence threat," similar to China and Russia. @ggreenwald on the costs of this 'special relationship.'
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"This isn't Davidson College," or some progressive student body, "this is the United States government!" @ggreenwald dispels the myth that there is a symmetry of censorship between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine speech on college campuses across the U.S.
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"Pete Hegseth has the AUDACITY to criticize Iranian leaders for wasting money ... on their military." "What?! That's the United States!" @ggreenwald says.
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"Are the United States and Israel LOSING the Iran War?" Watch Glenn LIVE on YouTube and Substack here:
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“Our posture, our role in the world, is to FIGHT wars.” Combined with intense pressure from Israel to eliminate its regional adversaries, that goes a long way toward explaining why the U.S. is still fighting in the Middle East. @ggreenwald explains:
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Is this what liberation for the Iranian people is supposed to look like?
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.@ggreenwald confirms to @tuckercarlson: 36 states in the U.S. condition various types of investment and aid — including hurricane relief — on one's support for Israel.
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@ggreenwald Não é apenas os Estados Unidos que têm uma forte conexão com Israel por causa de sua população evangélica. Como @ggreenwald explica, o Brasil também tem:
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It's not just the United States that has a strong connection to Israel because of its evangelical population. As @ggreenwald explains, so does Brazil:
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