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1Mar 29, '24"These people, if I'm being totally honest, they make me sick. They cannot think in any form of principle whatsoever." @GGreenwald eviscerates @BenShapiro's impressively hypocritic227×5.2M8.3k1.4k2.2k
3Aug 3, '23🚨 Brazil's Censorship Regime Becomes Even More Despotic Monark, "Brazil's Joe Rogan," is now being criminally investigated and fined ~$75,000 for online conduct—fully silencing th83.4×1.9M7.5k2k314
4Aug 29, '23Nikki Haley was outraged by Vivek Ramaswamy's suggestion that she was owned by corporate interests. But after her stint in the Trump Administration, Haley's strained financial situ76.1×1.8M4.8k1.2k164
5Apr 14, '23SUPERCUT: Rather than press the govt on the content within the Ukraine Docs leak, "journalists" used today's Pentagon briefing to demand that more be done to prevent future leaks. 57.9×1.3M2.9k1k132
6Dec 16, '23.@TuckerCarlson: "Libertarian economics was a scam perpetrated by the beneficiaries of the economic system that they were defending... I think you need to ask: 'Does this economic 53.4×1.2M2.1k472585
7Nov 22, '24.@ComicDaveSmith on how the pro-Israel right weaponizes 'woke' identity politics:42.5×978k3.1k692579
8Feb 4, '25“There is no USAID project on God’s green earth that is honest.” Former State Dept. official @mikebenzcyber exposes how the U.S. uses USAID to topple foreign governments and covert34.1×786k5.3k1.8k700
9Nov 7, '25A party that embraces people like Randy Fine and Laura Loomer has no credibility pretending it wants to expel Tucker Carlson or even Nick Fuentes because bigotry offends them. @ggr33.5×772k1.5k23988
10Aug 10, '23STUNNING: Secret Pakistan cable reveals explicit US pressure to remove democratically elected leader Imran Khan—which immediately followed. In contrast with liberal hysteria over "33.3×768k3.8k1.9k144
11Sep 16, '23President Biden just appointed the multi-billionaire heiress Penny Pritzker – Obama's chief mega-donor – to oversee the profiteering plans in Ukraine of BlackRock, JP Morgan and Go32.7×753k4k1.7k299
12Sep 7, '23The Washington Post’s latest “disinformation study” – sponsored by the EU with an Omidyar-funded group that accuses Twitter of failing to censor "Russian propaganda" – is another i32.3×743k1.7k559112
13Mar 19, '24.@GGreenwald rips apart Ketanji Brown Jackson's concern that the First Amendment could, in fact, limit government power: "She believes... the free speech guarantee is an impediment29.3×674k2.1k676206
14Jun 12, '23.@RobertKennedyJr explains why he changed his mind on Russiagate—and how that hoax was critical to the breakdown of US-Russia relations: "Now I see that as the runway to the Ukrain25.9×596k2.5k704163
15Sep 10, '23Elon Musk is under fire, again, this time from neocons and corporate journalists insisting that his refusal to turn on Starlink satellites to enable an escalation of Ukraine's mili24.7×569k3.5k814173
16Apr 25, '23‼️ AOC escalates calls for censoring political opponents, using an appearance on Jen Psaki’s show to advocate for a Federal BAN on Tucker Carlson. @GGreenwald: “Like so much of wha24.6×567k1.5k41056
17Sep 12, '23On Friday, an appellate court upheld the July ruling that the Biden administration had repeatedly violated Americans’ First Amendment rights by censoring free speech on social medi24.4×562k1.9k583109
18Jul 22, '25Mass starvation expert Alex de Waal warns that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the “most intense, most severe,” and “minutely engineered” act of deliberate starvation since Worl23.6×543k2.1k1.1k334
19Apr 3, '24Prof. John Mearsheimer: "I think the Israelis would like to get us into a war with Iran... with Hezbollah... I think the Israeli view—deep down—is that the bigger the war is, the g22.5×518k1.7k773242
20Jun 9, '23The Espionage Act of 1917—under which Donald Trump is currently being indicted—is a draconian law that has been cynically weaponized against whistleblowers and journalists for year21.7×500k2.3k916174
21Oct 3, '23.@GGreenwald: "You may be comforted by the fact that we, at least in the United States, have the First Amendment. For a while, I was too. But what the EU is saying, and they're in 21.5×494k1.4k48967
22Jul 20, '24"This is so ironic, isn't it? That Max Boot has spent 20 years intensively and incessantly accusing people of being secret agents, undisclosed secret agents for foreign governments21.2×487k3.7k1.1k274
23Jan 31, '25In the most unhinged exchange from yesterday's hearing, @SenatorBennet demanded that Tulsi Gabbard denounce Snowden as a traitor and berated her for questioning Washington's consen21.1×485k2.5k556318
24Nov 2, '24.@DarrenJBeattie on Victoria Nuland's role in the lawfare against the anti-establishment Pakistani leader Imran Khan and why Imran Khan's imprisonment is so significant to the US:20.3×467k2.6k1.3k256
25Aug 19, '23.@GGreenwald: "I know it sounds like a sensationalist claim... but it's not—it's the only rational conclusion you can reach. These news outlets lie on purpose, they are there to li19.7×455k2.3k60466
26Mar 18, '24🚨 Happening NOW: Murthy v. Missouri—SCOTUS hears arguments on US govt collusion with social media platforms to censor online speech. A US judge has called this case "the most mass19.7×455k3.6k1.1k356
27Feb 27, '24The New York Times just published a "leak" from the CIA on their decade-long "secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine"—framing this relationship as critical for countering Rus17.4×401k2.7k851237
28Feb 20, '25U.S. social media companies are fed up with foreign governments imposing unjust censorship orders on their platforms. Now, @rumblevideo and Trump Media are fighting back, suing Bra17.4×400k1.9k44053
29Jun 22, '23"Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD" of MSNBC/TMZ fame would like for you to know that he's far too credentialed and elevated to bother debating RFK Jr. OR He's terrified that his atrocious, 16.1×371k1.7k460103
30May 16, '23Break free from corporate propaganda—A new era of radically independent journalism is here. Watch SYSTEM UPDATE with @GGreenwald, weeknights at 7pm ET, only on @RumbleVideo.14.8×340k1.7k516115
31Aug 10, '23We spoke with @DarrenJBeattie—one of the last US journalists to speak w/ Imran Khan—for his thoughts on the Intercept's new Pakistan report: "I don't think this is the full story..14.1×325k1.2k61474
32Apr 26, '25Independent media personalities who built their careers on Joe Rogan’s show are now criticizing him for platforming guests who are not “experts.” Is the issue with their “expertise13.9×319k2.1k337193
33May 17, '23‼️ All Americans *need* to understand the Durham Report's dire implications for their democracy: @GGreenwald: "The most dangerous development of all in the US is that the Security 13.5×310k3.3k1.3k263
34Aug 10, '23In response—predictably—the NY Times Pakistan correspondent @SalmanMasood spent his day attempting to discredit the report, lying about its source & retweeting detractors in DC13.5×310k1.7k89872
35Nov 12, '25Commentator and activist @guychristensen_ was expelled from Ohio State after posting constitutionally protected speech. He told @ggreenwald about the pressure campaign against him 13.3×306k1.4k39696
36Dec 23, '23.@GGreenwald: "There is no group of people that would swallow and accept being occupied by a foreign military for decades and being denied the basic guarantees and dignity of self-13.3×305k1.2k36967
37Oct 11, '24Univision billed Kamala's Las Vegas event as a "Town Hall" with "undecided voters" but @mtracey reveals that multiple audience members were already Kamala supporters... @mtracey wi12.1×280k1.5k535204
38Aug 5, '23‼️WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT‼️ @CBSNews aired what can only be described as a sexually-charged homage to special counsel, Jack Smith—somehow delivered under the guise of a news progr11×252k2.2k572119
39Nov 15, '24The hysteria surrounding Tulsi Gabbard's nomination is unsurprising after she has been maligned for years. Watch Joe Rogan expose Bari Weiss for baselessly calling Tulsi Gabbard an10.8×249k1.7k385204
40Oct 14, '25Prof. John Mearsheimer on Trump and Netanyahu: "These are two war criminals. These are two people who are responsible for a genocide. If we were to have Nuremberg Two trials, both 10.5×242k6.5k2.5k630
41Feb 8, '24🚨 You'd really think it'd be a national emergency to figure out why US live expectancy is declining, its citizens drowning in debt, the fentanyl crisis ravaging communities, death9.9×227k1.3k39864
42Sep 11, '24.@ggreenwald reacts to the one-sided fact checking during last night's presidential debate: "Never once, not a single time, did the moderators ever tell Kamala Harris that anything9.7×224k5.4k1.6k378
43Nov 19, '24Biden was not mentally fit enough to run for re-election. But as a lame-duck president, he authorized Ukraine to use U.S. long-range missiles inside Russia. @ggreenwald on the majo9.7×224k4.2k1.3k223
44Oct 11, '23🚨🚨 The EU has sent @ElonMusk an alarmingly authoritarian letter—exploiting Israel-Gaza to accuse X of spreading "illegal content & disinformation" and demanding they do more to m9.7×224k1.8k69862
45Sep 19, '23Glenn breaks down the allegations against Russell Brand—and one thing is abundantly clear: He's been given absolutely no shot at due process by the media or the court of public opi9.5×219k1.4k31770
46Dec 6, '23.@RepThomasMassie explains that—despite the predictable barrage of antisemitism accusations & AIPAC attacks—his opposition to funding Israel is based solely on a consistent applica9.2×212k1.9k43191
47Aug 15, '24An ongoing investigation by @ggreenwald and @FabioSerapiao published in @folha reveals that Brazil's notorious Supreme Federal Court judge Alexandre de Moraes — who has led the cou9.2×211k1.4k37356
48Apr 23, '25The real goal of striking Iran is regime change. Pro-Israel neocons are even going so far as to push Tulsi Gabbard to alter U.S. intelligence on Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities8.8×204k1.4k366104
49Aug 2, '23.@JoeRogan's recent exchange with a guest over possible Fed involvement in Jan. 6 betrays a key aspect of the prevailing liberal mindset: These people simply have no reference for 8.6×198k1.7k42576
50Aug 25, '23Why was @VivekGRamaswamy the only candidate emphatically opposing more funding & weapons for Ukraine—despite deep opposition from GOP voters? Vivek believes the donor class has8.3×192k1.5k21624
51Jun 21, '24Senator Rand Paul says government officials intentionally changed the spelling of names in order to evade FOIA requests about the origins of COVID. Why aren't journalists outraged 8.3×191k1.9k646123
52Apr 11, '25Don't be fooled by @DouglasKMurray's posh accent; @ComicDaveSmith thoroughly challenged him in their debate over Israel, and Murray fell apart. @ggreenwald reacts to the explosive 8.2×190k3.8k544365
53Apr 25, '23Like it or not, Tucker Carlson’s show was a bastion of defiance from establishment Democrats *and* Republicans—and their ideology of endless war, militarism, and corporatism. His d8.2×188k1.4k33229
54Feb 20, '24Today, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange—one of the most consequential journalists of his generation—begins his final "live or death" extradition appeal. And US "journalists" still 7.5×174k1.8k73668
55Aug 24, '23🔥🔥 @GGreenwald slams out-of-touch establishment candidates at last night's GOP Debate: "You saw these politicians—Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Tim Scott, Mike Pence—who really so7.5×172k2.4k63063
56Jan 27, '24It is astounding for Mitch McConnell to admit that he believes securing Ukraine's border is far more important than that of his own country. @GGreenwald: "No matter what you tell R7.3×167k1.3k43345
57Sep 18, '24If China or Iran remotely detonated mobile devices held by U.S. soldiers living among civilians, the U.S. would call that "terrorism." @ggreenwald on Israel's pager attack and the 7.2×166k3.6k1.3k283
58Jul 6, '23Moment of silence for government servants masquerading as journalists—like @RyanJReilly—who are now faced with the *very real* challenge of making their defense of a sprawling stat7.2×165k1.3k30823
59Sep 5, '24Congratulations to Kamala’s campaign for winning Liz Cheney's endorsement! The ever-expanding list of pro-war Republicans joining the Democratic coalition is truly amazing!6.2×143k3.5k745112
60Jun 10, '23"Regardless of past cases, if Trump broke the law, shouldn’t he face consequences?" Actually no. The law only has legitimacy if applied consistently—otherwise it becomes nothing mo6.2×142k1.6k44480
61Sep 19, '23🚨 @GGreenwald: "The way to treat these Russell Brand accusations is the same way to treat accusations of these kind whenever they emerge in the media: You do not jump & assume acc6.1×141k1.7k38141
62Aug 3, '24Congratulations to Kamala Harris for securing the Democratic nomination without expressing any meaningful policy positions! @ggreenwald on Democrats fawning over "what Kamala repre5.9×136k1.4k34553
63May 25, '23Jeffrey Sachs on *why* the US would continue pushing toward nuclear exchange with Russia—from 3 decades of aggressive NATO expansion to the war today: "There are so many stupid peo5.8×134k1.3k564118
64Nov 12, '25Pro-Israel fanatics have openly said gaining control over TikTok is vital to suppressing pro-Palestinian sentiment, and TikTok's chief censor is a former IDF soldier. It's clear th5.8×133k1.9k662151
65Jan 11, '25.@Aboujahjah, founder of the @HindRFoundation, is tracking IDF war criminals around the world—including a soldier who gleefully blew up residential buildings. He explains why he co5.8×133k1.4k540132
66Feb 15, '25President Trump announced that he wanted to meet with Russian and Chinese leaders and cut military spending in half—so why aren’t anti-war activists on the left rejoicing? @ggreenw5.6×128k1.6k35990
67Aug 12, '23Two obvious & critical questions for Merrick Garland: 1. Why did David Weiss suddenly request to be made special counsel in Hunter Biden's case? They'd insisted for years this was 5.5×126k1.9k58143
68Feb 27, '25Russian analyst Aleksandr Dugin says Russia detected problems with USAID long before Trump's presidency. He says Russia expelled USAID from the country in 2012 because the organiza5.3×121k2.3k720287
69Jan 6, '24It is bone-chilling to watch a US president brag about locking up huge numbers of peaceful protestors. And Biden is simultaneously asking you to believe that *he* is the only hope 5.1×118k2k63593
70Nov 21, '23Media Matters just got caught pushing a demonstrable fraud to scare away advertisers on X. It's the same thing they did to @RumbleVideo—And will continue to do to any online platfo5.1×117k1.5k46184
71Sep 28, '23Four times in the last week, Western elites blamed Russia for a diverse range of problems: -Trudeau: My applauding an SS soldier was Moscow’s fault -Hillary: When Dems lose, it’s R5.0×115k1.6k48773
72Sep 29, '25Tonight on @rumblevideo at 7pm ET: @ggreenwald and @NickJFuentes on censorship, Charlie Kirk's assassination, Trump's foreign policy, Israel/Gaza, the future of the GOP, and more..5.0×115k1.3k167131
73Nov 30, '23Elon Musk to boycotting corporate advertisers: “Go F*ck Yourself!” That corporate "journalists" were shocked and horrified by this defiance of establishment power so perfectly enca4.8×111k1.7k43296
74Sep 23, '25A leak of former Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz's emails appears to reveal collusion between billionaires and an online cyber campaign targeting Israel's critics. @ggreenwald4.7×109k2.9k940575
75Jun 14, '25Professor Mohammad Marandi warns that if the U.S. starts striking Iran, it would lead to a "global economic catastrophe." @s_m_marandi on what's next for the U.S., Israel, and Iran4.6×106k1.3k349107
76Sep 2, '23As Jeffrey Sachs points out, the media conveniently never mentions how the Ukraine war was completely avoidable, with Russia even reaching out to the US back in December 2021. It’s4.3×99k1.4k49897
77Mar 23, '24.@GGreenwald on the obvious reason for @RealCandaceO's divorce from the Daily Wire: "She is a person with a lot of influence on the American right... who has been encouraging peopl4.3×99k1.3k28253
78Feb 13, '24.@RandPaul condemns reckless U.S. military instillations across the Middle East that needlessly put American men and women in harm's way: "It's of no military-strategic value—But i4.0×93k1.3k27125
79May 13, '25Israeli soldiers captured by Hamas are called "hostages" while Palestinian civilians captured by Israel are called "prisoners." @ggreenwald on what these labels reveal about who th4.0×93k3.2k1k205
80Sep 13, '25Netanyahu immediately exploited Charlie Kirk's murder to weaponize Americans' emotions and depict Kirk as America’s most stalwart Israel defender. But the best way to understand Ch4.0×91k1.9k407234
81Jun 10, '25Palantir's CEO Alex Karp is a hardcore pro-Israel neocon who strongly believes in the necessity of American hegemony, even if it requires endless warfare. @ggreenwald on Karp's bel4.0×91k2.9k924429
82May 23, '25Bari Weiss, who has made her career as a "free speech" advocate, is now using the murder of the two Israeli Embassy staffers to demonize any critic of Israel's destruction of Gaza,3.9×91k1.4k328109
83Aug 30, '24“I cannot do anything more in terms of words to express how extreme, how severe, and how dangerous this trend is. We could see it coming for several years now, and it is here.” @X 3.8×89k1.4k42575
84Nov 19, '24Coleman Hughes—now suddenly a foreign policy expert—says Tulsi Gabbard is a terrible choice for DNI because she does not worship the intelligence community. @ggreenwald on the pani3.7×85k1.4k21781
85Feb 15, '25JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference shocked European leaders and the DC establishment when he slammed European countries for their extreme censorship laws and viola3.4×78k1.6k28496
86Sep 24, '25After Tucker Carlson gave a speech at Charlie Kirk's memorial service, pro-Israel fanatics immediately accused him of being antisemitic. @TuckerCarlson responds to the smear campai3.3×77k1.8k406306
87Jan 18, '25.@samhusseini was physically removed and handcuffed during Secretary Blinken's final press briefing. He says he essentially had been blacklisted from asking questions at these brie3.2×74k1.3k39374
88Oct 27, '24Columnist @JRubinBlogger urged @latimes staffers to resign when the paper refused to endorse Kamala. Days later, when her own paper, the Washington Post, announced it would not mak3.2×74k1.4k30967
89Jul 6, '23FINALLY. In a huge win for internet freedom, a Fed Court has barred the govt from coercing Big Tech to censor on its behalf. The significance can't be overstated—A Fed judge has ef3.2×73k1.3k34823
90Jun 26, '24Julian Assange may be free, but the corporate media and the security state continue to spread blatant lies about him and WikiLeaks. One of these lies is that WikiLeaks put people's3.2×73k1.7k633102
91Oct 5, '24Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on endorsing Jill Stein for president and why he believes Trump would likely continue U.S. involvement in foreign wars:3.1×72k2k620218
92Aug 9, '25.@ggreenwald: "What we’ve seen in Gaza over the last 20 months—and it’s not just some horrific tragedy or even war on the other side of the world—it is absolutely a genocide that i3.0×69k1.9k565118
93Jan 28, '25National Review's "hit piece" on Tulsi Gabbard is full of errors and falsehoods, as the bipartisan ruling class scrambles to thwart her DNI confirmation. @ggreenwald dismantles @NR3.0×69k1.4k43263
94Sep 24, '25.@TuckerCarlson tells @ggreenwald that Netanyahu is doing "immense harm to Donald Trump's presidency, to the United States, and to the world" and that separating from Netanyahu is 3.0×69k2.3k488164
95Mar 1, '25Trump has made it clear that his goal is to end the war in Ukraine, and yesterday’s explosive meeting with Zelensky reinforced this commitment to stopping the U.S. from fueling a l2.9×68k1.6k273172
96Nov 13, '25"Employers prefer the H-1B workers because they can both be legally paid less than American workers, and secondly, they're controllable, they're indentured to the employer." Prof. 2.9×66k1.4k34798
97Jul 26, '25Israel's complete destruction of Gaza has become so undeniable that the Western governments and media outlets that fueled and funded Israel's war are now trying to cover up their c2.7×62k1.7k585107
98Aug 12, '25Israel is preparing for a full-scale invasion and occupation of Gaza, and it is eliminating Palestinian journalists so the world won’t see the IDF's atrocities. @ggreenwald on Isra2.6×61k2.6k808129
99Aug 8, '25Tonight we will air our 500th episode of System Update! Thank you for supporting our show and independent journalism!2.5×58k1.4k12518
100Nov 7, '25Conservatives like Ben Shapiro complained endlessly that liberals weaponize racism and bigotry accusations. Now, it is Shapiro who goes on CNN to denounce Tucker Carlson and other 2.2×51k1.4k238103
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