The left needs so much more of this kind of savage self-criticism. Glenn Greenwald on fire against the captured left now represented by AOC, the Squad and Bernie Sanders – and their social media apologists

7.00 Wikileaks 'found a major vulnerability in actual power. It was incredibly innovating, inspiring.. Within a short period of time all anyone wanted to talk about was that Julian Assange.. had an abrasive personality, as though the issue was whether you wanted to date him'

8.30 ‘You claim you’re interested in people’s lack of health care coverage, in people’s inability to get jobs.. and you’re talking about whether or not Jimmy Dore is a good guy.. If you’re doing that you are an absolute and complete and total coward and fraud’

16.30 'How many of [AOC’s] tweets or interviews contain a word that could not have come out Joe Crowley’s mouth, or Chuck Shumer’s, Or Nancy Pelosi’s.. All she does is occasionally escalate her rhetoric about Republicans.. That's nothing. That’s being an extra Democrat'