Greenwald: 'US can only suppress democracy for so long'

Remember coverage of the Arab Spring, of Tahrir Square, and you'd get the impression that there's nothing they want more than for all peoples' of the world to live in freedom and equality. Only problem is no matter how the media tries to spin it, Democracy in the Arab world is the last thing that our foreign policy establishment wants. Salon's Glenn Greenwald weighs in.

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[thedesertrose99]

GLENN GREENWALD IS A MASTERMIND! I want a Greenwald Show!

[437thx1138]

Total package. Smart pretty and can run an interview like that. Erin Burnett, this is a journalist. Take notes.

[FriedSynapse]

Here's my plan to fix everything in the US. We need non-standard media to hire only the hottest women. That way, all the over sexed men will hang on every word and even if they can't take their eyes off her tits, some of that (truly) fair and balanced reporting will filter into their brains. They will subconsciously react to the right wing propoganda because of their bias towards the hottie who beckons to them on the internet.

Let's get a third party, hot woman to run for president next.

[Z3Lasher]

God damn she's HOT!!!

[whythehell99]

Listening to Glenn Greenwald gets me hard

[synzofanonymous]

Our News media is sooooo corrupt it's ridiculous. We can't believe ANYTHING they say. Stick it to them & VOTE Ron Paul 2012; For peace & Love around the world

[pyroseed13]

@seriousguynogames3 I think you misunderstood me. My point was that are those countries that have been attacked by Muslim countries also occupiers? According to Ron Paul they must be, otherwise Muslims would have never initiated aggression against them.

[seriousguynogames3]

@pyroseed13 Since when did Afghanistan attack the US? When did Iraq attack the US? I thought it was Al-Qaeda that attacked us? If they have soldiers in those countries then they are also occupiers, I don't really see what relevance your question has or the point you're trying to make there.

[m015094]

The indefinite detention is NOT at the sole discretion of the Pres. A Federal judge has to declare the individual an enemy combatant. Didn't anyone actually read the bill?

[Shifurei]

@OldSchoolSkill I do understand where you are comming from. However "self-education" should be part of their dayly routine even if it means not going shopping in the weekend or party with frends hence the sheep mentality eventually if they keep being ignorant of the development of politics and society and just accept whatever society throws at you eventually even 12 hours work won't be enough to pay the bills and raising children will be as humanly impossible to any middle class

[pyroseed13]

@seriousguynogames3 Muslims in the Middle East have been initiating aggression against non-Muslims well before we intervened in those territories. You also seem to forget that the U.S. is not the only country that has been attacked by those nations. So are all of those countries occupiers too?

[seriousguynogames3]

@pyroseed13 So what if they want Sharia Law? If the majority there wants it, it's their right to have it. They're Muslims, and a lot of them are very faithful to their religion so it goes without saying. You obviously didn't listen to Glenn, because he's saying exactly what is happening: they hate us BECAUSE we're over there killing people and stealing their resources, not because of this lie that they hate our freedoms (that we don't have either).