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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

A kind of journalism that serves the public

Journalism
is printing
what someone else
does not want printed
 Greenwald continues
Excerpt, editing for TIN by Carolyn Bennett

From part two of a two-part Democracy Now interview with the author of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

Glenn Greenwald says, “We tried to do … reporting in the public service.”

He says the journalism he advocates and engages in “is controversial among a large klatch of … ‘establishment’ journalists” as there exists “an unwritten set of rules that govern how you [journalists] are supposed to speak and what you’re supposed to do,” which he says he consciously reject[s] and set[s] out to violate because … [these rules] are corrupting.” Continuing, Greenwald says he has been

…a very vociferous critic of how the establishment media in the United States conducts itself, and that’s created a lot of animosity even before the Edward Snowden story … [and his reporting and the way he tries] to do journalism [has been] the target of [their] criticism. 

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Glenn Greenwald reporting
Posted at Euronews
oes the public hear meaningfully and appreciate journalism in service to the public? Greenwald draws on his particular experience covering issues of concern in his latest work.

Working on surveillance issues for eight years, he says, “I know the difficulty of trying to induce large numbers of people to pay attention and care about [these issues] because it’s a little bit more ethereal and abstract, and even a little bit remote, than … your inability to pay bills or to get health insurance for your children.

“The ability we’ve had to take [actual] documents and show them to people ─ as opposed to just reporting on [the issues] and making them rely on what we’re saying ─ has been indispensable in engaging the public.
 
“It really shows the value of whistleblowing, not just for exposing specific programs; but for strengthening democracy and for the debate that is necessary to support democracy.”
  
Source: Democracy Now, May 14, 2014, “Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Corporate Media is ‘Neutered, Impotent and Obsolete’,” http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/14/glenn_greenwald_us_corporate_media_is

Filmmaker Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, were the journalists who first met Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in June of last year.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Global Threat of OUTLAW NATION

Ours is an outlaw nation that weakens countries, vital structures and valid traditions, the world's peoples including the USA
Excerpt, edited for TIN, ending comment by Carolyn Bennett

Today with Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, the author, journalist and activist Glenn Greenwald discusses content from his latest work concerning the United States (U.S. Government's) National 'Security' Agency's global, lawless reach.

INVASION, OCCUPATION

“…You’re not just talking about one country; you’re talking about hundreds of millions, probably billions of people around the world who use these companies. …” NSA invaded major systems at home and abroad, spying on Muslims in Muslim countries and Americans within the USA. ● “PRISM” program uncovered showed “Facebook and Google and Yahoo and Skype and Microsoft directly cooperating with the NSA in all sorts of extensive ways to ensure easy NSA access to the communications that take place through those companies” ● “unlike the NSA story of 2005 that involved AT&T and Sprint and Verizon, U.S. domestic telephone companies; these Internet companies are the primary means by which the entire ‘First World’ communicates.”  Moreover, in both the developed and developing world … "hundreds of millions, probably billions of people around the world use these companies. …” 

President of
the Federative Republic of Brazil
H. E. Dilma Rousseff
LIES, SECRECY, STEALING FOR COMMERCIAL GAIN

The U.S. government, though it has vehemently denied engagement “in economic spying,” it has done; and though the U.S. has “accused other countries, particularly the China, of engaging in economic spying,” the U.S. does this. Numerous uncovered documents show e.g., U.S. “TARGETING the largest Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, that funds huge numbers of Brazilian social programs; ● U.S. SPYING on economic conferences that take place in various regions throughout the world that are designed to negotiate financial treaties; ● U.S. SPYING on the World Bank and the IMF and the SWIFT banking system, …” ● spying obviously “for economic gain.” 

BREACH OF NATIONS’ SOVEREIGNTY

“Countries that are democratically elected, for the most part; allies of the United States; buildings that are supposed to be sacred.… ● Consulates, embassies in the United States that are a crucial part of diplomacy, of the ability of nations to communicate with one another and have diplomatic relations… [evidence] shows that for pretty much every single one of these buildings NSA has invaded the communication systems and is collecting the information that take place, even with some really extreme tactics” such as “an air gap computer, a computer that is used that never connects to the Internet [the only way to … ‘jump the air gap,’ to actually invade those computers, is to physically go into the computer itself and implant a surveillance device within it covertly.] … ● NSA is doing even this kind of invasive, stealth surveillance on its allies in their own consulates and embassies, even breaking into their offices and implanting surveillance devices within the machine. ● These are the extreme lengths to which the National 'Security' Agency goes in spying that has always been deemed essentially illegitimate.” 

Source: May 13, 2014, Democracy Now Part 1 of a 2-part discussion with Glenn Greenwald, “‘Collect It All’: Glenn Greenwald on NSA Bugging Tech Hardware, Economic Espionage & Spying on UN,” http://www.democracynow.org/2014/5/13/collect_it_all_glenn_greenwald_on
  
 
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f law is caprice or expediency; if freedom is plutocrats’ (or anybody's) doing whatever the hell they want to do; if law is whatever politicians and or their allies say it is  then we have come to a place and state far worse than the jungle, because in the jungle are boundaries, laws by which all inhabitants are governed. 

It is ludicrous to believe, “I’ve done nothing wrong so I don’t care if they spy on me.” Such belief and oft-stated idiocy or learned ignorance suggests a mindless “trust” in that which no longer is ─ if indeed it ever was ─ worthy of trust. 

Stop spying rally
Stop spying rally
The fact of the matter is (a) they have (government has) no business spying on you (or me, on anyone domestic or international) without due cause under clearly established and impartial law; and (b) as surely as they (government and their “partners” and or “clients”) can spy on information and use it as they see fit, they can also plant information and alter information to say whatever they want it to say and, at any given time and circumstance, use it for whatever purposes they choose.

To rein in this outlaw nation, to end the lawlessness, law breakers must be stopped and they must be brought to stand publicly before the people’s bar of impartial justice. 

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Bennett's books are available in New York State independent bookstores: Lift Bridge Bookshop: www.liftbridgebooks.com [Brockport, NY]; Sundance Books: http://www.sundancebooks.com/main.html [Geneseo, NY]; Mood Makers Books: www.moodmakersbooks.com [City of Rochester, NY]; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center: www.enlightenthedog.org/ [Buffalo, NY]; Burlingham Books – ‘Your Local Chapter’: http://burlinghambooks.com/ [Perry, NY 14530]; The Bookworm: http://www.eabookworm.com/ [East Aurora, NY] • See also: World Pulse: Global Issues through the eyes of Women: http://www.worldpulse.com/ http://www.worldpulse.com/pulsewire http://www.facebook.com/#!/bennetts2ndstudy

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