World News Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir After India Revoked the State’s Special StatusThe Intercept - Soumya Shankar Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir — On the eve of Eid al-Adha last month, 17-year-old Asrar Khan lay in a vegetative state at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of …
National Security Donald Trump Just Admitted That It Makes Sense for America’s Enemies to Get Nuclear WeaponsThe Intercept - Jon Schwarz On Thursday, President Donald Trump did something truly shocking: He told the truth. When asked why he fired John Bolton, his former national security …
Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu Hints Trump Peace Plan Will Allow Israel to Annex Key West Bank TerritoryThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, hinted on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan, set to be unveiled after next week’s …
U.S. Politics A Memoir From Hell: Samantha Power Will Do Anything for Human Rights Unless It Hurts Her CareerThe Intercept - Jon Schwarz “The Education of an Idealist” — a new memoir by Samantha Power, America’s ambassador to the U.N. from 2013 to 2017 — could have been among the …
U.S. Politics Joe Biden Is Proud of His Record on Iraq, But His Plan to Segregate It Would Have Unleashed ChaosThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Asked this week to respond to criticism of his judgement on Iraq, like his senate vote to authorize the use of force in 2002, and his much-derided …
Boris Johnson Conservative Revolt Against Boris Johnson Exposes Republicans’ Complicity in the Cult of TrumpThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan “Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, brothers in chaos,” read a headline in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend. Chaos, indeed. The two right-wing soul …
World News How White Nationalists Have Been Inspired by the Genocide of Muslims in BosniaThe Intercept - Murtaza Hussain On a spring day in 2017, a monument was raised in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, in memory of a terrible mass murder that had occurred there two …
U.S. Politics The Best Movie Ever Made About the Truth Behind the Iraq War Is “Official Secrets”The Intercept - Jon Schwarz “Official Secrets,” which opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles, is the best movie ever made about how the Iraq War happened. It’s startlingly …
Amazon Rainforest Larry Fink, Joe Biden’s Wall Street Ally, is Deeply Invested in Amazon Cattle Ranching, a Force Behind DeforestationThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Larry Fink, the influential chief executive of BlackRock, which manages more than $6 trillion in investments, wants the public to know that he is …
Glenn Greenwald Brazil’s Chief Prosecutor, Deltan Dallagnol, Lied When He Denied Leaking to the Press, Secret Chats RevealThe Intercept - Glenn GreenwaldRafael Neves Brazil’s chief prosecutor overseeing its sweeping anti-corruption probe, Deltan Dallagnol, lied to the public when he vehemently denied in a 2017 …
U.S. Politics A Top Financier of Trump and McConnell Is a Driving Force Behind Amazon DeforestationThe Intercept - Ryan Grim Two Brazilian firms owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the …
Rohingya It’s Time to Indict Aung San Suu Kyi for Genocide Against the Rohingya in MyanmarThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan Isn’t it time Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was indicted for war crimes and genocide at the International Criminal Court? This Sunday …
World News GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the AmazonThe Intercept - Lee Fang This summer, fires are being used to clear wide swaths of the Amazon at an unprecedented rate. One fifth of the Amazon has already been destroyed in …
News (Hong Kong) Twitter Helped Chinese Government Promote Disinformation on Repression of MuslimsThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Twitter helped to promote Chinese government propaganda and disinformation about the country’s controversial internment camps in the Xinjiang region, …
Technology Google Is Deepening Its Involvement With Egypt’s Repressive GovernmentThe Intercept - Vic Ryan Google is set to re-staff its Cairo office, which more or less went dormant in 2014, following the military coup that brought President Abdel Fattah …
AIPAC To Appease Trump, Netanyahu Blocks Tlaib and Omar Visit to Israeli-Occupied PalestineThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Under pressure from President Donald Trump, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Thursday that Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan …
Iran Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop Another Illegal WarThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan Last month, the Trump White House put out a typically Orwellian statement, chock-filled with lies, distortions, and half-truths about Iran and the …
Eduardo Bolsonaro, Pro-Trump Son of Brazil’s President, on Track to Be Ambassador to U.S.The Intercept - Robert Mackey Prosecutors in Brazil have launched what looks like a last-ditch effort to block President Jair Bolsonaro from nominating his son Eduardo to be the …
How Voice of America Persian Became a Trump Administration PR MachineThe Intercept - Jordan Michael Smith As an Iranian American journalist covering the Iran-U.S. relationship, Negar Mortazavi is accustomed to receiving vitriol on social media. Still, she …
U.S. Generals Worry About Rising Russian and Chinese Influence in Africa, Documents ShowThe Intercept - Nick Turse The Trump administration and the Pentagon have repeatedly warned that China and Russia are expanding their influence across Africa, where the two …
The Sharpest Lens on the Arab World Belongs to the Arab Women Reporting ThereThe Intercept - Maryam Saleh In late 2010, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, and Zahra Hankir started a Google Doc titled “Mideast Reporters.” …
The Tragic Story of Jimmy Aldaoud, Deported From the Streets of Detroit to His Death in IraqThe Intercept - Chris Gelardi Before he was deported, Jimmy Aldaoud had never stepped foot in Iraq. Born in Greece to Iraqi refugee parents, he immigrated to the United States …
What a Protest in Hong Kong Looks Like When Pro-Democracy Marchers Lose Their Fear of the PoliceThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Hong Kong’s not-yet-named protest movement began with mass demonstrations in June against a proposed change to the city’s extradition law, which …
India Moves to Strip Kashmir of Autonomy, Potentially Setting Up Conflict in Disputed TerritoryThe Intercept - Murtaza Hussain Early Monday morning, the Indian government announced a change to its constitution, revoking the autonomy of the disputed northern state of Jammu and …
Violence Has Spiked in Africa Since the Military Founded AFRICOM, Pentagon Study FindsThe Intercept - Nick Turse Since U.S. Africa Command began operations in 2008, the number of U.S. military personnel on the African continent has jumped 170 percent, from 2,600 …
The Bolsonaro Government’s Aggressive Response Shows Why Our Reporting on the Secret Brazil Archive Is So VitalThe Intercept - Glenn GreenwaldLeandro DemoriBetsy Reed When news emerged this week that the Federal Police had arrested four people accused of hacking the Telegram accounts of various Brazilian officials …
A Syrian Mother’s Letter to Her Daughter, “For Sama” Shows War in an Unusually Intimate LightThe Intercept - Sarah Aziza For the majority of Western audiences, the region known as “the Middle East” is conceived as a vast swath of constant and inscrutable chaos. In this …
Brazilian Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Gave Secret Talk to Bankers and Took Money From a Company He Was InvestigatingThe Intercept - Andrew FishmanLeandro DemoriAmanda AudiRafael Moro Martins Private chats reveal the extent to which Deltan Dallagnol, coordinator of Brazil’s Car Wash anti-corruption task force, sought to personally profit …
Play button Donald Trump Praises Boris Johnson, Who Once Called Him “Unfit to Hold the Office of President of the United States”The Intercept - Robert Mackey “We’re respected all over the world,” Donald Trump told an audience of young Republican operatives in Washington on Tuesday. By way of example, he …
