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American investigative journalist and author based in Brazil, co-founder of The Intercept. Known for defending civil liberties, privacy against mass state surveillance, and exposing abuses of power across the political and judicial spectrum.
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Glenn Greenwald leans further toward liberty than 93% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Power is where Glenn Greenwald stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, Glenn Greenwald sits practically at the catalog median.
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Political doctrine advocating solidarity and cooperation among nations, overcoming nationalism, and strengthening global institutions for shared peace and development.
Synthesis of Georgism and socialism advocating the socialization of economic rent from land and natural monopolies to fund universal public services and a citizen dividend.
A plural critique of universalism, linear progress, and grand narratives. In a Foucauldian reading, genealogy and power/knowledge analysis show how institutions, norms, and discourses produce subjects and open possibilities for local resistance.
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A pamphleteer of the American and French revolutions, Paine defended the rights of man, the republic, and radical social reforms in popular language, spreading democratic ideals among the masses of his time.
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The most populous US state, California is a global hub of technology and culture, with strongly progressive, environmentalist, and technocratic politics and a gigantic, innovative market economy.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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