[Peace-discuss] Glenn Greenwald leaves The Intercept

[David Johnson]

That is too bad about Naomi Klein, but that is how the system operates to co-opt people. That is why individuals and organizations need to always be careful about who they take money from. Corporate foundation grant money is the biggest corrupter in U.S. society.

Nevertheless she will always be well remembered for her book SHOCK DOCTRINE and the film THE TAKE.

David J.

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I wrote:
> I'm guessing that Jimmy Dore will discuss this tomorrow (2020-10-30) night if not 
> also have someone else on his show to discuss this with.

The archived version of this interview is https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nig6c1WEc-0 and 
it's worth watching.

Some of the highlights included discussion of Naomi Klein, go-to talking head on 
environmentalism who has seemingly joined the establishment:

Aaron Maté said that Naomi Klein has joined her Intercept colleagues in saying that 
Glenn Greenwald's departure and publishing the essay The Intercept wanted edited to 
remove all criticism of the Bidens was, basically, "a marketing opportunity for his 
Substack" articles (13m43s into the above recording).

She was also part of censoring "Planet of the Humans" (the recent documentary Michael 
Moore produced but did not star in which debunked 'green energy' claims showing what 
frauds they are in terms of immediate viability, long-term sustainability, and 
unmentioned dependence on other horrors including child labor and mining).

Klein also obtained funding from what Maté called "dubious foundations" in this Jimmy 
Dore interview, backed by reporting from fellow Grayzone investigator Max Blumenthal 
in https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/07/green-billionaires-planet-of-the-humans/:
> Naomi Klein, perhaps the most prominent left-wing writer on climate-related issues
> in the West, did not weigh in to defend “Planet of the Humans.” Instead, the
> Intercept columnist, social activist, and Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media,
> Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University was an early participant in
> the campaign to suppress the film.
> 
> According to McKibben, “Naomi [Klein] had in fact taken Moore aside in an MSNBC
> greenroom” before the documentary’s release to lobby him against publishing the
> film. Klein later signed Josh Fox’s open letter demanding the film be retracted.
> 
> On Twitter, Klein condemned “Planet of the Humans” as “truly demoralizing,” and
> promoted a “big blog/fact check” of the film by Ketan Joshi, a former
> communications officer for the Australian wind farm company Infigen Energy.



Related commentary on Greenwald's resignation and what this means for adversarial 
journalism:

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/10/30/greenwalds-intercept-resignation-exposes-the-rot-in-all-mass-media/ 
-- Caitlin Johnstone

https://tube.cadence.moe/watch?v=hnz6LlZHA1s -- Peter Lavelle & George Szamuely

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/glenn-greenwald-on-his-resignation -- Matt Taibbi

Joe Rogan interview with Greenwald
http://traffic.libsyn.com/joeroganexp/p1556.mp3?dest-id=19997 -- audio
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t0rcLsoIKgA -- video

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYyn_XGAsCs -- The Hill
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