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System Update

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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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Feb 10
We are returning to @Substack!
Glenn Greenwald
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Feb 10
We're very excited to be returning to @Substack after 3 great years of doing our live nightly show, System Update, on @rumblevideo. I'm particularly happy to be getting back to written reporting and long investigations. We'll have our first up today. greenwald.substack.com/p/welcome-back…
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Mar 18, 2024
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KBJ doubles down: “My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” That is, quite literally, the entire point of the First Amendment—of the entire Bill of Rights.
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Mar 29, 2024
"These people, if I'm being totally honest, they make me sick. They cannot think in any form of principle whatsoever." @ggreenwald eviscerates @benshapiro's impressively hypocritical justification for @RealCandaceO's Daily Wire departure 👇
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Aug 3, 2023
🚨 Brazil's Censorship Regime Becomes Even More Despotic Monark, "Brazil's Joe Rogan," is now being criminally investigated and fined ~$75,000 for online conduct—fully silencing the once mega-popular podcaster without any due process. This is what's coming for everyone. The
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Oct 14, 2025
Prof. John Mearsheimer on Trump and Netanyahu: "These are two war criminals. These are two people who are responsible for a genocide. If we were to have Nuremberg Two trials, both of them would be found guilty and probably hung."
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Sep 11, 2024
.@ggreenwald reacts to the one-sided fact checking during last night's presidential debate: "Never once, not a single time, did the moderators ever tell Kamala Harris that anything she said was out of context, was misleading, was deceitful, was exaggerated, or was false, and
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Feb 4, 2025
“There is no USAID project on God’s green earth that is honest.” Former State Dept. official @MikeBenzCyber exposes how the U.S. uses USAID to topple foreign governments and covertly influence other countries:
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Aug 29, 2023
Nikki Haley was outraged by Vivek Ramaswamy's suggestion that she was owned by corporate interests. But after her stint in the Trump Administration, Haley's strained financial situation suddenly turned around—amassing a small fortune from the likes of Boeing & Barclays.
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Nov 19, 2024
Biden was not mentally fit enough to run for re-election. But as a lame-duck president, he authorized Ukraine to use U.S. long-range missiles inside Russia. @ggreenwald on the major escalation:
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Aug 10, 2023
STUNNING: Secret Pakistan cable reveals explicit US pressure to remove democratically elected leader Imran Khan—which immediately followed. In contrast with liberal hysteria over "Russian interference" in US elections, this is what *real meddling* in foreign govts looks like.
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Sep 16, 2023
President Biden just appointed the multi-billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker – Obama's chief mega-donor – to oversee the profiteering plans in Ukraine of BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs: to "rebuild" the country with US funds once Raytheon and Boeing are done profiteering
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Sep 18, 2024
If China or Iran remotely detonated mobile devices held by U.S. soldiers living among civilians, the U.S. would call that "terrorism." @ggreenwald on Israel's pager attack and the flexible definition of "terrorism:"
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Apr 11, 2025
Don't be fooled by @DouglasKMurray's posh accent; @ComicDaveSmith thoroughly challenged him in their debate over Israel, and Murray fell apart. @ggreenwald reacts to the explosive Joe Rogan episode:
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Sep 10, 2023
Elon Musk is under fire, again, this time from neocons and corporate journalists insisting that his refusal to turn on Starlink satellites to enable an escalation of Ukraine's military actions amounts to a form of treason. From where does this obligation come? Do we care that
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