In this video, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Greenwald examines how Venezuela is discussed inside U.S. power circles — and what is quietly left out. He unpacks the language, assumptions, and legal claims used to justify U.S. actions, questions the drug-trafficking narrative surrounding Venezuela, and asks who actually benefits from framing the country as a “criminal state.” What emerges is a picture rarely explored in mainstream coverage — and one that raises uncomfortable questions about power, interests, and control.
This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 6th of January, 2026.
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Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021). Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.
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