This would be a great time for Biden to show how things in America are different by dropping all charges against Julian Assange and pardoning Snowden, but of course he won't, because things in America aren't really as different as he would like us to think.
Btw, Matt, "downed a RyanAir jet" might make some readers think the jet was shot down. Maybe "forced a RyanAir jet to land" would have been better phrasing.
How embarrassing for anyone subscribing to the Washington Post. This is as close as you're going to get to an outright admission from the Post that it has no respect for its own readers and is actively trying to keep them in the dark.
I'm sad that "news" in the US has really become nothing more than partisan propaganda outrage clickbait.
Thank goodness for independent journalists with integrity. You, Greenwald, and several others on Substack are now my most trusted source of information.
There is a sick part of me that finds comfort in WaPo behaving exactly as I would expect. At least the boundaries, contours, and signature aberrations of this Twilight Zone remain unchanged.
There are many reasons why the American public is so ignorant about international affairs, and especially previous actions by the US in that realm. Chief among this is illustrated by WaPo in this piece.
The Guardian will not permit ANY comments under any Belarus-Pratasevich story that mention Snowden, Morales and the 2013 incident. Literally, any allusion to that historical event will get the comment deleted.
I don't understand why the Washington Post would white wash a case directly involving Snowden.
Whitewashing the case involving Julian Assange is just as bad, but I can at least understand it on a purely narrow parochial partisanship basis. The courts have actually confirmed at this point that what Edward Snowden identified was in fact illegal behavior on the part of the intelligence agencies and I don't recall him being involved in an hyper partisan dust ups the way Julian Assange was. Why would the Post want to erase the case of Snowden from this story?
Matt, is there any way to contact you? I have a potential story including an ambassador, a former legislator who's eager to talk, and a top university desperately trying to hide the identity of the people running it.
Matt this is why I canceled my subscriptions to the WaPo, NYT, WSJ and don't watch MSM anymore. A double standard in politics? C'est moi? Never! You know what the problem is? All of these people have too much time and need to fill space rather than finding a real story to report about. Meet the new boss same as the old boss!
Moonofalabama (German blogger) has quite a bit about this not reported in western media in addition to listing not a few other forced landings. Curiously he doesn't mention the Ukrainian forced landing in 2015 to arrest and anti-maidan opposition figure in his list of other forced landings.
This would be a great time for Biden to show how things in America are different by dropping all charges against Julian Assange and pardoning Snowden, but of course he won't, because things in America aren't really as different as he would like us to think.
Btw, Matt, "downed a RyanAir jet" might make some readers think the jet was shot down. Maybe "forced a RyanAir jet to land" would have been better phrasing.
"Other aviation incidents."
How embarrassing for anyone subscribing to the Washington Post. This is as close as you're going to get to an outright admission from the Post that it has no respect for its own readers and is actively trying to keep them in the dark.
I'm sad that "news" in the US has really become nothing more than partisan propaganda outrage clickbait.
Thank goodness for independent journalists with integrity. You, Greenwald, and several others on Substack are now my most trusted source of information.
There is a sick part of me that finds comfort in WaPo behaving exactly as I would expect. At least the boundaries, contours, and signature aberrations of this Twilight Zone remain unchanged.
There are many reasons why the American public is so ignorant about international affairs, and especially previous actions by the US in that realm. Chief among this is illustrated by WaPo in this piece.
The Guardian will not permit ANY comments under any Belarus-Pratasevich story that mention Snowden, Morales and the 2013 incident. Literally, any allusion to that historical event will get the comment deleted.
Sort of surprising you can find a far more accurate report in WSJ today. They even cite another US grounding in 1985.
Creeping dystopia. Ain't that the truth...
Great reporting Mr. Taibbi.
I don't understand why the Washington Post would white wash a case directly involving Snowden.
Whitewashing the case involving Julian Assange is just as bad, but I can at least understand it on a purely narrow parochial partisanship basis. The courts have actually confirmed at this point that what Edward Snowden identified was in fact illegal behavior on the part of the intelligence agencies and I don't recall him being involved in an hyper partisan dust ups the way Julian Assange was. Why would the Post want to erase the case of Snowden from this story?
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" -- the darkness that Izvestiya-on-the-Potomac is doing its best to propagate.
Matt, is there any way to contact you? I have a potential story including an ambassador, a former legislator who's eager to talk, and a top university desperately trying to hide the identity of the people running it.
The RyanAir jet was not “downed” nor was it “forced” to land. It was ordered to land by air controllers having the authority to do so.
Matt this is why I canceled my subscriptions to the WaPo, NYT, WSJ and don't watch MSM anymore. A double standard in politics? C'est moi? Never! You know what the problem is? All of these people have too much time and need to fill space rather than finding a real story to report about. Meet the new boss same as the old boss!
However, the Washington Post did publish an article yesterday on the Snowden incident and its relation to current events:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/24/belarus-flight-evo-morales-sndowden-russia/
https://www.foiaresearch.net/person/roman-protasevich Rather comprehensive unvarnished accounting of this fellow
Moonofalabama (German blogger) has quite a bit about this not reported in western media in addition to listing not a few other forced landings. Curiously he doesn't mention the Ukrainian forced landing in 2015 to arrest and anti-maidan opposition figure in his list of other forced landings.