System Update

🇧🇷 "Everyone in Brazil knows that he is COMPLETELY deranged!" Journalist Glenn Greenwald rips Alexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian judge who—despite his own history-shattering corruption problems—is pursuing Flavio Bolsonaro:

Two days ago, Piers Morgan asked Glenn Greenwald whether Benjamin Netanyahu would have the same staying power as Brazil's Lula: "I do kind of compare him to Lula: whatever you want to say about Netanyahu, he's a wildly shrewd and cunning politician, and I would never put my money on Netanyahu losing."

What are two big lessons we can learn from Brazil's shock election? First, Lula is one of the 21st century's few, true political giants. "There are few people who have more significantly changed their country and the world than Lula." Second, this was not a "shock" election:

Are the Houthis just a “ragtag group of guerrilla fighters,” or something more? Glenn Greenwald and Erik Sperling discuss how Western media TOTALLY FAILS to explain how their cave-dwelling narrative squares with long-range missiles hitting Saudi airports, U.S. bases, and Israel:

❌💬 Why did so many liberals in the West become obsessed with online censorship? Glenn Greenwald explains to Jim Webb: "In 2016, there was this dual trauma that was doled out to Western liberals," namely, Brexit in Europe and the election of Donald Trump in the United States.

GLENN GREENWALD: "You can't be a country at war, killing people around the world, for 16 years unless you start degrading the mentality of the population in order to support it!" Now 25 years on, the U.S. global bombing campaign continues unnoticed to all but a few protesters:

PIERS MORGAN: "You're putting a lot of trust in Putin! Say he took the Donbas as part of a settlement. The idea he would stop there, the idea this contains Putin, when his clear history shows he would just go and want more—" GLENN GREENWALD: "Putin has been the president of Russia for 25 years. Every American president who dealt with him, from Bill Clinton to Obama, said that he's an incredibly rational actor, if you make deals with him, he abides by them." PIERS MORGAN: *proves Glenn's point*

‼️ Whether or not Jacob Rees-Mogg is a “warmonger,” there’s an obvious reason for the establishment’s interest in foreign policy: “When you’re extremely wealthy and you sit at the top of society, it’s very easy to say, ‘Let’s look over there at Ukraine!’” “Meanwhile, the people in your country who weren’t born into extreme wealth—many of whom end up going into the military for economic reasons—are suffering, and they keep hearing these conversations about places on the other side of the world!” “This is why,” Glenn Greenwald says, “parties that hate the establishment, on both the left and the right, have been rising in so many countries around the world, because the establishment is filled with a bunch of coddled, very wealthy people who have contempt for their concerns!”

🚨 Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg says that he's the "least warmongering person you could find." But his voting record tells a different story:

Journalist Jasper Nathaniel and his colleagues were brutally attacked today by scores of Israeli terrorists in the West Bank. Glenn Greenwald spoke with him this evening about the violent settlers, their I.D.F. defenders, and the status of the now-hospitalized Washington Post journalist whom he ran to rescue: youtu.be/Y_zxImmMBvk

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS? Obama, Trump, and Brazil’s Lula all had (or have) the same problem: while each was elected by powerful anti-establishment forces, they all eventually became the establishment. The same story is true for any of the three men: “He offered an indictment of our political system—of the status quo—that really resonated with people and promised transformative change, and people believed it.” Even so, whatever “incremental changes” were made, “the old system continued.” Obama was absorbed by the Democrats, Trump by the Republicans.

MAKE NO MISTAKE: the U.S. backed a regime-change war in Yemen as well — but the American government pursued a more covert strategy. After Iraq and Afghanistan, "there really wasn't much space politically for people in Washington to launch regime-change wars. But they still needed a new regime-change war!" So, what did they do? Just Foreign Policy's Erik Sperling explains the conflict to Glenn Greenwald: "In this case, the U.S. was doing EVERYTHING in the war: providing the weapons, training the Saudis, and even doing the targeting." "You just have, often, a Saudi prince in the pilot's seat, you know, maybe clicking the button, but it's all done by U.S. weapons!"

❗️ SAY IT WITH US: "U.S. foreign policy is not and has never been motivated by human rights or democratic values!" Glenn Greenwald and Erik Sperling discuss two cases that explode this myth: "Saudi Arabia tends to be the most prominent example, but Pakistan is such an important one as well." "We don't even make any pretense about the fact—and, again, this was done under Biden—that you have this incredibly popular leader," Imran Khan, "who was democratically elected." "And because that will of the Pakistani people didn't serve the American and Israeli vision of that region, we just said, 'Yeah, get rid of him and we'll support this military junta.'"