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20 Feb 2025

Extreme Censorship In Germany

Why has the German government adopted such extreme laws governing free speech? What are the “hate crimes” they cite as a defense for these laws?

Is there a rationale behind the censorship? Or are there simply German leaders who can’t withstand criticism? Do they suffer from a deeply ingrained, even fascist, approach?

Here, journalist James Jackson explains Germany’s insane patchwork of law governing what’s free and acceptable speech.

Jackson is a Berlin-based freelance journalist covering news, politics and culture in central Europe. He has been published in Time Magazine, BBC Culture and The Sunday Times. He appears here on System Update with Glenn Greenwald.

 

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19 Aug 2024

Ukraine Pushes Into Russia

Ukraine has launched a major incursion into Russia. Michael Tracey joins Glenn Greenwald to discuss what’s next. Tracey, an American journalist, formerly appeared on The Young Turks and has hosted Greenwald’s web news show System Update on occasion.

How will the Russians retaliate? Does Ukraine have any other military options under wraps? Here’s more in a clip from System Update.

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16 Aug 2024

Harris Can’t Do Live Interviews?

So-called “journalists” defend Kamala Harris and her lack of interviews.  When will these leftists be described as what they are?

They are no longer journalists. More like propagandists. Here’s the full scoop on System Update from Glenn Greenwald.

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19 Jun 2024

How They Oppress Free Speech

How do you know American politics is dominated by a uniparty that seeks to oppress you? Because both sides oppose free speech. Glenn Greenwald explains.

Greenwald is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, author, former constitutional lawyer, and host of the nightly live Rumble show “System Update.”

Here, in a far-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson, Greenwald discusses antisemitism, attacks on free speech and everything you need to know about Brazil.

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12 Dec 2023

Biden Wants More Spying

President Joe Biden is seeking to renew and expand his domestic spying. his administration has conducted far broader censorship than any previous American administration, yet it’s apparently not enough.

Here, one of Biden’s strongest critics, Utah Senator Mike Lee, speaks out with Glenn Greenwald. They get into the efforts to widen the U.S. Patriot Act. They also discuss the long history by the United States in silencing critics of Israel, whether they are on campus or operating in the larger world.

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05 May 2023

The Disinformation Fraud

In his latest System Update video, Glenn Greenwald explores the Disinformation Fraud. This is a concerted effort on the part of the most powerful institutions in the United States and Western Europe to crush free speech and silence dissent.

The leftist institutions were mortified by the election of Donald Trump to the American Presidency in 2016, and took concrete steps to try to ensure this would never happen again. Here, Jacob Siegel joins Greenwald to examine the pernicious censorship efforts that have grown in intensity under the administration of the phony and corrupt Joe Biden.

Siegel is the author of a new article in the online journal Tablet. The title of the article: “A Guide To Understanding the Hoax of the Century.” To read the full article free of charge, visit https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation

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16 Jan 2023

Brazil Threatens Social Media

Glenn Greenwald, of the System Update, reports that Brazil’s Supreme Court is once again wielding its ugly censorship gavel.

Greenwald says a directive issued Friday from Brazil’s Supreme Court and spearheaded by far left Justice Alexandre de Moraes, orders six social media companies to ban the accounts of countless Brazilians for anti-government rhetoric. The companies include, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, Tik Tok and Rumble.

Greenwald added that de Moraes is notorious for having constructed one of the most oppressive censorship regimes in the Democratic world that is shocking for both its breadth and its repression. Here’s his exclusive report.

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05 Jan 2023

FBI: Belly Button Of Censorship

Matt Taibbi unveils The Twitter Files 11, which details collusion between Twitter and the FBI to censor free speech in America. In newly released emails, we see the FBI pushing itself into Twitter moderation efforts, making Twitter a state actor of the Government. More from Robert Gouveia, Esquire, in a new episode of Watching The Watchers.

The media is silent as The Twitter Files expose flagrant misconduct in government and journalism. More on System Update from Glenn Greenwald.

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13 Dec 2021

Assange Extradition Approved

Glenn Greenwald is reporting the High Court in the United Kingdom has delivered a devastating blow to Julian Assange in his quest for freedom, by essentially approving President Biden’s request for extradition.

Greenwald says the report will be sent to British Home Secretary Prita Paten for approval. The High Court’s vote overturned a lower-court ruling. Here’s Greenwald with an overview of the case, including the personal aspects of the ruling.

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