Glenn Greenwald: Matt Taibbi on How “Free Speech” Turned Into a “Far Right” Slogan
Is Big Tech independent? How and why the mainstream corporate media (MSM) is establishment and what that means.
Matt Taibbi: Dao Prize Acceptance Speech and Interview with Glenn Greenwald
Bari Weiss, Michael Shellenberger and I win the inaugural Dao Prize for excellence in investigative journalism, for the Twitter Files reports. Dao Prize Acceptance Speech MATT TAIBBI / Racket News / November 2, 2023 I was a little nervous in Washington last night, so my speech didn’t come out exactly like this, but this More
Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media. Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats By CHRIS HEDGES The Chris Hedges Report July 9, 2023 When Goliaths Infiltrate the More
Fragmentary Connections: A Meditation on War, Peace, Community, and Climate
REFLECTIONS Fragmentary Connections: A Novel, A Poem, A Song, Videos, A Meditation on War, Peace, Community, and Climate By Sue Ann Martinson REFLECTIONS Leadership Lately I have been reading a novel in which the war in Crimea figures as a background the plot turns on. No, not the current war, although the geopolitical reasons for More
Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi
"A discredited ruling class [attacking Matt Taibbi] which has disemboweled the nation for its corporate masters and whose primary mission is the perpetuation of permanent war, has no intention of carrying out reform."
Matt Taibbi: First Roger Waters, Now This— Germany Places American C.J. Hopkins Under Investigation
",,,it would take all of about 20 seconds of anyone looking at my actual work to determine how absolutely opposed I am to anything resembling totalitarianism, fascism, authoritarianism..."
Matt Taibbi: Eleven Minutes of Media Falsehoods, Just On One Subject, Just On One Station
You’re not hearing one or two stories about Russian bots or evil anti-vaxxers or even the treachery of Jill Stein and the Green Party, you’re hearing hundreds just on one channel, and God knows how many more in other outlets and via social media.
Glenn Greenwald: Who’s REALLY Fighting Big Tech?
We’re going to try and do our best to examine what is actually a challenging and an interesting question: faced with a very small group of corporate giants who have used anti-competitive practices to make themselves virtually unchallengeable and inescapable, how can one shrewdly subvert their power without sacrificing one's integrity, or, worse, cynically exploiting the sincere anger of the public toward Big Tech for one's own personal aggrandizement?
Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate: Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, John Kiriakou
Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou. Watch the replay. Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate Consortium News February 1, 2023 Joe Lauria writes: https://youtu.be/kEymiIyDJx0 In the latest More
Rise Up Times, Media for Justice and Peace, January 2023
Giroux: Neoliberal fascism, cruelty, violence; Antiwar Activists to be jailed in Germany; Taibbi: Twitter Files, a Big Deal, Jacobin; Nuclear fusion energy, Greenwald: FBI/Big Tech; House Speaker concessions to Christian extremists; more
Why the Twitter files are in fact a big deal; Capsule Summaries and Key Revelations
On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
Matt Taibbi: Give War A Chance
God save us from people who dream big, without the brains to match.