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Russia Calls for U.N. Investigation of Nord Stream Attack, as Hersh Accuses White House of False Flag
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – Moscow claims Germany, Denmark, and Sweden are engaged in a U.S.-backed cover-up, as the war to control the narrative — and the evidence — intensifies.
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In Bulldozing Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Could Become the BDS Movement’s Greatest Ally
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Capital is beginning to flee Israel in the wake of the prime minister’s judicial overhaul.
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The Disturbing Groupthink over the War in Ukraine
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asserted that U.S. support for Ukraine “is motivated, first and foremost, by a moral duty to come to the aid of a people under attack.” Why this supposed moral duty does not apply to the Palestinians or disappears when the U.S. wages offensive wars and campaigns of mass slaughter throughout the world?
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The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement
Trevor Aaronson | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused activist leaders of being police cooperators, and tried to draw demonstrators into elaborate stings.
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White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great for Business
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A representative from America’s Frontier Fund said that a “kinetic event” in the Pacific would be very good for its bottom line.
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U.S. Hypocrisy on War Crimes Is a Gift to Putin
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The failure to prosecute American officials and other powerful nations for war crimes has created a jurisdictional mess.
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Big Tech to US Congress: Listen to Taylor Swift and Go after Ticketmaster, Not Us
Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Lobbyists for tech giants asked US Congress to focus less on Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Congress was happy to oblige.
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U.S. Mercenaries in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
Peter Maass | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Amid accusations of fraud and sexual misconduct, the U.S. military vets founders of the high-profile Mozart Group are waging a personal war back home.
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Empire by Invitation
Samar Al-Bulushi | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – African leaders are asking for more U.S. counterterrorism support. They should be careful what they wish for.
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Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
16 Jan 2023 – The social media pressure campaign was just a part of the pharmaceutical industry’s successful lobbying blitz to retain patents — and make obscene record profits.
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Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – One of the most striking aspects of the interview conducted in 2004 is the apparent absence of even a glimmer of self-awareness by Bush about the significance of the death and destruction he was unleashing with his global war. He comes off as almost childishly simplistic in his insights and analysis.
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Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Winner: “What We Need Today Is Weapons”
Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
“What we need today is weapons, and maybe it’s weird to hear that from a human rights lawyer, but I’ll be very honest with you: I have spent 20 years defending human rights, and now I have no legal instrument which has worked in this situation.”
— Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Lawmakers Seek Answers on Pentagon’s Role in Deadly Nigeria Airstrike
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – A new congressional caucus called on Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III today to disclose details of the U.S. role in an airstrike that killed more than 160 Nigerian civilians at a displaced persons’ camp, including many children.
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Americans Rarely See the True Face of Israel’s Bombing of Gaza
Elise Swain and Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. This article includes graphic images and depictions of death.
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Why No One Cared That Al Qaeda Honcho Zawahiri Got Droned
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – That Zawahiri’s killing went so quietly suggests that the cultural and political behemoth that was the war on terror had long preceded him into the grave.
→ read full articleProgressives on U.S.-China Policy and Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit (PODCAST)
Deconstructed | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Tobita Chow of ‘Justice is Global’ and Matt Duss, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, two leading progressive foreign policy voices, discuss the House speaker’s decision to visit Taiwan.
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Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
24 Jul 2022 – Google employees, who have been kept in the dark about the “Nimbus” AI project, have concerns about Israeli human rights abuses.
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Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine
Amy Westervelt | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – The industry moved quickly to capture the narrative, going from disinformation blitz to policy wins within a matter of weeks.
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White House Rejects Rep. Seth Moulton’s Characterization of a “Proxy War” with Russia
Ryan Grim | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
11 May 2022 – Biden has dished out his own escalatory rhetoric, calling Putin a war criminal and suggesting that the Russian president couldn’t remain in power.
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Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Continue to Seize on Russia’s War in Ukraine to Push Long-Term Interests
Lee Fang | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – The unfolding crisis is now a common–and effective–talking point for corporate interest groups seeking regulatory relief.
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Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War, the Media, Propaganda, and Accountability
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Noam Chomsky spoke with Jeremy Scahill in a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The U.S. Has Its Own Agenda against Russia
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – Ukraine is ground zero for the expansion of the U.S.-Russia proxy war, simultaneously a war of aggression being waged by Putin and a larger geopolitical battle between the U.S., NATO, and Russia. “It’s a proxy war with Russia, whether we say so or not,” said Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary under Obama.
→ read full articlePutin’s Criminal Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Some Ugly Truths about U.S. and NATO
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – The fact that Putin is trying to justify the unjustifiable in Ukraine does not mean we must ignore the U.S. actions that fuel his narrative.
→ read full articleU.S. and NATO’s Unprecedented Weapons Transfers to Ukraine Could Prolong the War
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The USA, world’s largest arms dealer, is leading an effort to dramatically increase the flow of weapons to the government in Kyiv. The weapons transfers represent a significant escalation of Western involvement and nations must ask themselves whether it is more or less likely to help end the horrifying violence being imposed on Ukraine’s civilian population.
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Toxic Nostalgia, from Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?
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Major Media Outlets That Use Invasive User Tracking Are Lobbying Against Regulation
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible. News outlets entrusted with promoting transparency and privacy are also lobbying behind closed doors against proposals to regulate the mass collection of data.
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Prosecutors Silence Evidence of Cruel Factory Farm Practices in Animal Rights Cases
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
30 Jan 2022 – The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.
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Starving Afghans Use Crypto to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions, Failing Banks, and the Taliban
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – NGOs looking to provide emergency aid to Afghanistan are turning to cryptocurrency.
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Humanitarian Exemptions to Crushing U.S. Sanctions Do Little to Prevent Collapse of Afghanistan’s Economy
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – More Afghan people may die from sanctions than from 20 years of war.
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Israel Killed Up to 192 Palestinian Civilians in May 2021 Attacks on Gaza
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
9 Dec 2021 – More than 70 percent of the Israeli attacks that killed civilians in Gaza had no corresponding reports of militants hit alongside them. “I still don’t know why they bombed my house and killed my wife and children and my sister and her children.”
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The Mysterious Case of Joe Biden and the Future of Drone Wars
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
15 Dec 2021 – The handling of the Kabul strike is an ominous sign that while Biden has pledged to review the drone program, a long-standing mechanism for self-exoneration remains entrenched.
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The War Party
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
21 Nov 2021 – From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier
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Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
4 Nov 2021 – A Pentagon report treats the killing of an Afghan family as an innocent mistake — and upholds a U.S. tradition of excusing war crimes.
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“The Spoils of War”: How Profits Rather Than Empire Define Success for the Pentagon
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
27 Oct 2021 – Andrew Cockburn’s new book is an incredible compendium of avarice and folly. “War-fighting efficiency has a low priority,” he writes, “by comparison with considerations of personal and internal bureaucracies. … The military are generally not interested in war, save as a means to budget enhancement.”
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Julian Assange’s Health Is Central to Upcoming Ruling on Extradition to the U.S.
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – In a case that puts press freedoms on trial, a British appeals court is considering the suicide risk should Assange be sent abroad.
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How the U.S. Derailed an Effort to Prosecute Its Crimes in Afghanistan
Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021 – The new chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, sought to reopen a suspended investigation in Afghanistan but it would not include conduct by the USA and its allies. He wrote in a statement that his office would focus exclusively on crimes committed by the Taliban and by the Islamic State Khorasan Province, or IS-K. His decision came after years of U.S. obstruction.
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ShadowDragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move
Michael Kwet | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Sep 2021
21 Sep 2021 – A Michigan State Police contract obtained by The Intercept sheds new light on the use of a little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement and corporations watch people’s social media and other activities—the product of a growing industry.
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I Reported on the War in Afghanistan. Was I Complicit in the Harm the USA Caused?
Vanessa Gezari | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
2 Sep 2021 – Moral injury describes the inner collapse we feel, as civilians on the margins of endless war, when our leaders betray the people who helped us.
→ read full articleOver Two Decades, U.S.’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
1 Sep 2021 – The U.S.-led global war on terror has killed nearly 1 million people globally and cost more than $8 trillion since it began two decades ago. These staggering figures come from a landmark report issued today by Brown University’s Costs of War Project, an ongoing research effort to document the economic and human impact of post-9/11 military operations.
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Brazil’s Indigenous Groups Mount Unprecedented Protest against Destruction of the Amazon
Andrew Fishman | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Aug 2021
28 Aug 2021 – Brazil’s largest-ever Indigenous protest came amid efforts by Pres. Jair Bolsonaro and his allies to pave the way for industry in the Amazon.
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$10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth almost $100,000
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Aug 2021
16 Aug 2021 – Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders.
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The Fall of Kabul
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
15 Aug 2021 – Today, the Taliban entered the Afghan capital of Kabul, and several countries, including the USA, began to evacuate their embassies. As the Taliban seized the presidential palace, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. “We, of course, are saddened indeed by the events. … But these events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the world nor of America’s leadership in the world,” said the U.S. president. But that president wasn’t Biden. It was Gerald Ford on April 23, 1975, as North Vietnamese forces rolled toward Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.
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Afghanistan: No Exit
Andrew Quilty | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2021
12 Aug 2021 – As the Taliban Seize Cities, Desperate Afghans Are Trapped in an American-Made Fiasco
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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
30 Jul 2021 – Hale should be pardoned and released, and the government should pay him restitution.
→ read full articleStuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jul 2021
23 Jul 2021 – Climate inaction was never really about denial. Rich countries just thought poorer countries would bear the brunt of the crisis.
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The Controversial Prosecutor at the Heart of the Julian Assange Case
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
17 Jul 2021 – The battle to extradite Assange from the UK to the US is of paramount importance to the future of national security reporting. Prosecutor Gordon Kromberg has been dogged by allegations of bias and politicized prosecutions. Now he could shape the future of journalism.
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Scientific American Retracted Pro-Palestine Article without Any Factual Errors
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021 – After right-wing outrage, the esteemed journal removed an opinion piece expressing solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli bombardment.
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Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
15 Jun 2021 – Yesterday’s summit showed how the “North Atlantic” Treaty Organization has decided it has an extremely expansive global mission.
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Tools for Repression in Myanmar Expose Gap between EU Tech Investment and Regulation
Zach Campbell and Caitlin L. Chandle | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jun 2021
14 Jun 2021 – Inside the interrogation room of a Myanmar detention center, what Myat remembers most clearly is looking up from the floor and everything being green. “When they first caught me, about 30 police just beat me up quite badly. They also dragged me on the road for about 100 meters and I think I lost consciousness,” Myat said. “But somehow I wasn’t bleeding, so they kept beating me until I bled.” Europe is developing phone-cracking technology with a company that has exported to violent, authoritarian regimes.
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Why Daniel Ellsberg Wants the U.S. to Prosecute Him under the Espionage Act
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
In an exclusive interview, Ellsberg explains why he hopes the courts take on the law used to crack down on whistleblowers.
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Israel Destroyed Offices of More Than 20 Palestinian Media Outlets in Gaza
Shrouq Aila and Anna Therese Day | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
18 May 2021 – The bombing of global media offices in Gaza caused a stir, while few noted the Palestinian journalists left to work with targets on their backs.
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Canadian Journalists Fear Retaliation for Criticizing Coverage of Israeli Attacks on Gaza
Akela Lacy | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
20 May 2021 – An open letter on media standards in Canada, where some style guides ban the word “Palestine,” garnered over 2,000 signatures.
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Pharmaceutical Industry Dispatches Army of Lobbyists to Block Generic Covid-19 Vaccines
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
23 Apr 2021 – The pharmaceutical industry is pouring resources into the growing political fight over generic coronavirus vaccines. New lobbying disclosures show over 100 drug lobbyists working to defeat the IP waiver request at the WTO.
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Wall Street’s Cooked Books Fueled the Financial Crisis in 2008–It’s Happening Again
Jon Schwarz and Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
20 Apr 2021 – This time, the issue is not a bubble in the housing market but rather apparent widespread inflation of the value of commercial businesses, on which loans are based.
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The Journalist and the Whistleblower
James Risen | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021 – As the government attacks press freedom, reporters must consider their responsibility to sources — and each other.
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Drugmakers Promise Investors They’ll Soon Hike Covid-19 Vaccine Prices
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – The U.S. pharmaceutical firms behind the approved coronavirus vaccines — Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Pfizer — have quietly touted plans to raise prices on coronavirus vaccines in the near future and to capitalize on the virus’s lasting presence. They pledged affordable vaccines — but only as long as there’s a “pandemic.”
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Brazil’s Lula Launches Comeback — as the Judge Who Locked Him Up Falls from Grace
Alexandre de Santi and Rafael Moro Martins | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
15 Mar 2021 – By ending Lula’s political ban and trying the ex-judge Sergio Moro for bias, the Supreme Court shook up Brazilian politics.
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India Targets Climate Activists with the Help of Big Tech
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Mar 2021
27 Feb 2021 – Tech giants like Google and Facebook are aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists. The real threat that the toolkit represented to Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was always, at root, about the power of the farmers’ movement.
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Fossil Fuel Apologists Crafted Lies Now Heard on Fox, Blaming Wind Power for Texas Blackouts
Robert Mackey | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
17 Feb 2021 – Republicans failed to ensure that the Texas power grid could withstand a cold snap, so the party’s broadcast arm recycled lies about wind energy to deflect blame on to Democrats.
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How to Understand the [Postjournalism] Rage Economy
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
13 Feb 2021 – In “Postjournalism,” media ecologist Andrey Mir analyzes the way the ‘News Economy’ shapes our perceptions of reality.
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After Pork Giant Was Exposed for Cruel Killings, the FBI Pursued Its Critics
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
17 Feb 2021 – The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says. The FBI asked a series of questions about DxE: How are they funded? Do they run drugs or sell guns to finance their animal welfare activism?
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In Furor over Poet with Child Porn Conviction, Prison Abolitionists Debate the Limits of Mercy
Judith Levine | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – Is Poetry magazine “platforming toxicity” or promoting the “practice of freedom”? A bedrock principle of the prison abolitionist movement is that you don’t ask an incarcerated person what they’re in for. It’s more than etiquette.
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The Biden Administration’s Continued Push for Julian Assange’s Extradition Is Bad News for Journalism
James Risen | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
11 Feb 2021 – During the course of his career as the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has managed to anger both of America’s major political parties. A successful prosecution of Assange could empower governments to go after journalists for publishing classified information.
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Robinhood Is a Perfect Example of Fintech’s Insidious Power
Timi Iwayemi and Max Moran | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
31 Jan 2021 – This past week we saw a perfect illustration of financial technology’s power. To spite “hedge fund bros,” retail investors led a surge in GameStop’s stock price. “The recent rise of ‘fintech’ is just the latest saga in a centuries-old struggle between democratic accountability and unaccountable private power, with the latter hiding behind promises of technological innovation.”
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The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2021
21 Jan 2021 – The symbolic power of Bernie’s old pair of mittens was the work of the “us” in “not me, us.”
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The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads for Children
Andrew Quilty | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020 – A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be USA’s Exit Strategy from Its Longest War
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The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
8 Dec 2020 – Writing about “The Great Reset” is not easy. It has turned into a viral conspiracy theory purporting to expose something no one ever attempted to hide, most of which is not really happening anyway, some of which actually should. A viral conspiracy theory blends together legitimate critiques with truly dangerous anti-vaccination fantasies and outright coronavirus denialism.
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Now We Have to Fight Trump’s Tin-Pot Coup — and Biden’s Worst Instincts
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
13 Nov 2020 – Republicans keep finding new ways to tell us that they don’t believe in democracy, and we should believe them. The chorus of Republican voices echoing manufactured claims of mass election fraud hasn’t petered out yet.
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(Português) Bispos de Angola engrossam denúncia sobre retirada ilegal de dólares da Igreja Universal do país
Gilberto Nascimento | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
21 out 2020 – Religiosos revelam como funcionava operação da igreja de Edir Macedo para transportar dinheiro em sigilo para África do Sul e Brasil. O dinheiro, fruto de dízimos e ofertas, seguiria de carro, por estradas, e seriam transportados, geralmente, entre 4 milhões e 6 milhões de dólares por viagem. Cédulas seriam escondidas em malas, no forro de veículos e até em pneus.
→ read full article(Português) Uma Mensagem do Futuro II: Os Anos de Reparação [Vídeo]
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
1 Out 2020 – Dá para imaginar um futuro melhor? Pararmos de falar sobre o que significa vencer a pandemia não é o mesmo que desistir?
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Louise Glück Should Refuse the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here’s Why.
Peter Maass | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
7 Oct 2020 – I don’t know what poet Louise Glück said when the Swedish Academy informed her that she won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, but I know what she should have said: “Thanks, but no thanks.” The Swedish Academy is a corrupt institution that has tolerated genocide denial and sexual assault.
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The Unprecedented and Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange
Charles Glass | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – Over the 17 days of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London, courtroom evidence exposed illegality on an unprecedented scale by America’s and Britain’s intelligence, military, police, and judicial agencies to eliminate Assange. The governments had the edge, like the white man of whom Malcolm X wrote, “He’s a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck.” The deck was clearly stacked.
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Crumbling Case against Assange Shows Weakness of “Hacking” Charges Related to Whistleblowing
Micah Lee | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
30 Sep 2020 – The entire computer crime case against Assange is based on a brief discussion, between a publisher and source, about cracking a password — but the cracking never actually happened.
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A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
1 Oct 2020 – With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A world without prisons? Of beautiful, green public housing? Of buried border walls? Of healed ecosystems? A world where governments fear the people instead of the other way around? If we stop talking about what winning actually looks like, isn’t that the same as giving up?
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Fires Turn Brazil’s Tropical Wetlands into Wildlife Death Traps
The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
23 Sep 2020 – A group of veterinarians attempts to rescue animals injured by fires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.
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Evicting Lote Ocho: How a Canadian Mining Company Infiltrated the Guatemalan State
Max Binks-Collier | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
26 Sep 2020 – The 11 women’s accounts of the trauma that the gang-rapes caused them are unfathomable. Five were pregnant at the time; four miscarried, and one, three days from her due date when she was gang-raped, said in a deposition that she gave birth to a stillborn that “was all blue or green.” The women claim to live with chronic pain and ongoing emotional suffering. “Something has entered inside me, and it is a fear. It’s a terror, and it is a physical pain that I live with all the time.”
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Chechnya Is Trying to Exterminate Gay People–Our Silence only Emboldens Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov
Mehdi Hasan | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
Chechnya is a small Muslim-majority republic in southwestern Russia. It is also a place where gay people live in terror. Since 2017, there have been a series of state-sponsored anti-gay purges across Chechnya, in which hundreds of gay men have been arrested and detained in secret prisons.
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The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud
Michael Kwet | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
14 Jul 2020 – Microsoft is knee-deep in services for law enforcement, fostering an ecosystem of companies that provide police with software using Microsoft’s cloud and other platforms. The full story of these ties highlights how the tech sector is increasingly entangled in intimate, ongoing relationships with police departments. Microsoft declined to comment.
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How “Cancel Culture” Repeatedly Emerged in My Attempt to Make a Film About Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
14 Jul 2020 – Growing up as a gay child in South Florida in the late 1970s and into the dark 1980s era of Reagan and AIDS, my childhood hero was the tennis star Martina Navratilova. In 1975, at the age of 18, Navratilova fled Communist Czechoslovakia, leaving her entire family behind in a daring escape, to emigrate to the U.S. In the 1980s, she became one of the only openly gay celebrities in the world, an LGBT and feminist pioneer, and an outspoken political dissident.
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How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
9 Jul 2020 – The least-discussed Congressional proceedings are often the most consequential — and almost always bipartisan.
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With the World Focused on the Pandemic, Israel Prepares to Annex Large Swaths of the West Bank
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
18 Jun 2020 – Israel is planning a move on July 1 that the international community regards as one of the gravest assaults on the international law: annexation of not only the decades-old settlements in the West Bank, which the U.N. Security Council in 2016 declared illegal to be permanent Israeli land, but also the Jordan Valley, that is central to Palestinian agriculture.
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Not Just “Cops”: It’s Time to End the Entertainment Industry’s Anti-Black, Pro-Police Programming
Rich Benjamin | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
20 Jun 2020 – “Cops,” the longest-running reality TV show in U.S. history, was recently canceled after more than 30 years on air. The Paramount Network announced its decision to pull the plug on the seminal reality show after protests over George Floyd’s death and police brutality. The cancellation is barely a first step, however.
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Philippines: Maria Ressa’s Libel Conviction Is a Blow to Press Freedom
James Risen | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jun 2020
15 Jun 2020 – Journalist Maria Ressa, who has long resisted efforts by Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte to throw her in jail and shut down her Manila-based news organization, was found guilty on criminal libel charges in a Filipino court today. The editor who has come to symbolize the global fight for press freedom now faces the prospect of up to six years in prison, even as she continues to fend off other legal assaults from the Duterte regime.
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Animal Rights Activists Uncover the Locations of Thousands of Factory Farms
Alleen Brown | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
31 May 2020 – Animal rights activists published an interactive map today revealing the locations of more than 27,500 farms and animal agriculture facilities, including 5,812 identified using satellite imagery, many of which do not appear in public records. Users will be able to pin new locations to the map and attach photos and videos documenting animal cruelty and health violations. The animal agriculture industry has spent decades fighting to avoid the disclosure of such information.
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Naomi Klein: How Big Tech Plans to Profit from the Pandemic
Naomi Klein | The Intercept/The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
For a few moments during NY governor Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus briefing on Wed 6 May, the grimace was replaced by a smile. The inspiration: a video visit from the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who announced that he will be heading up a panel to reimagine New York state’s post-Covid reality, with an emphasis on permanently integrating technology into every aspect of civic life.
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With a Distracted Public, the Pentagon Tries to Get Away with Killing Innocent Civilians
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 May 2020
8 May 2020 – The United States’ wars continue to rage in the Middle East and Africa against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trump administration has shown itself to be not just indifferent, but positively encouraging of the killing of civilians in foreign wars. If there is a time to get away with killing people with no fear of accountability, it’s now.
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Why the Stock Market Is Healthy as Americans Die from Coronavirus
Jon Schwarz | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
12 Apr 2020 – This past week the S&P 500 went up 301 points, or 12 percent, its best performance in 46 years. During the same week, the reported number of Americans killed by Covid-19 went up 11,499, or 161 percent, the coronavirus’s best performance ever. So this seems like a good time to reevaluate our treasured belief that a rising stock market reflects general human flourishing. Consider a few more events that happened this week around the same time as this excited tweet from Donald Trump, who somehow is the president of the United States:
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Coronavirus Capitalism and How to Beat It
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2020
16 Mar 2020 – Governments around the world are busily exploiting the coronavirus crisis to push for no-strings-attached corporate bailouts and regulatory rollbacks. “I’ve spent two decades studying the transformations that take place under the cover of disaster,” writes Naomi Klein. “I’ve learned that one thing we can count on is this: During moments of cataclysmic change, the previously unthinkable suddenly becomes reality.”
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Banks Pressure Health Care Firms to Raise Prices on Critical Drugs, Medical Supplies for Coronavirus
Lee Fang - The Intercept,
23 Mar 2020
19 Mar 2020 – Investment bankers have been candid about the opportunity to raise drug prices on critical drugs and medical supplies.
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Naomi Klein - The Intercept,
23 Mar 2020
16 Mar 2020 – I’ve spent two decades studying the transformations that take place under the cover of disaster. I’ve learned that one thing we can count on is this: During moments of cataclysmic change, the previously unthinkable suddenly becomes reality. In recent decades, that change has mainly been for the worst — but this has not always been the case. And it need not continue to be in the future.
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“Keep It Confidential:” The Secret History of U.S. Involvement in Brazil’s Scandal-Wracked Operation Car Wash
Andrew Fishman, Natalia Viana and Maryam Saleh - The Intercept,
16 Mar 2020
12 Mar 2020 – Leaked conversations between Brazilian officials reveal the inner workings of a secretive collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice on a sprawling anti-corruption effort known as Operation Car Wash. The chats, analyzed in partnership with the Brazilian investigative news outlet Agência Pública, show that the Brazilians were extremely accommodating to their U.S. partners, going out of their way to facilitate their involvement in ways that may have violated international legal treaties and Brazilian law.
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Pentagon’s Own Map of U.S. Bases in Africa Contradicts Its Claim of “Light” Footprint
Nick Turse - The Intercept,
2 Mar 2020
27 Feb 2020 – Since 9/11, the U.S. military has built a sprawling network of outposts in more than a dozen African countries. The Intercept has obtained U.S. military documents and a set of accompanying maps that provide the locations of these African bases in 2019. These formerly secret documents, created by the Pentagon’s Africa Command and obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, offer an exclusive window into the footprint of American military operations in Africa.
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(Português) Manual para Envenenar a Terra
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
17 Feb 2020
15 fev 2020 – Embora neonicotinoides, um dos inseticidas mais comuns do mundo, sejam proibidos na UE, uma sofisticada guerra de informações os manteve no mercado americano.
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Trump and Netanyahu Dictate Terms of Palestinian Surrender to Israel and Call It Peace
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
10 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – Donald Trump unveiled “a vision for peace,” which permits Israel to annex much of the occupied West Bank, offering the Palestinians only limited autonomy.
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How the Environmental Lawyer Who Won a Massive Judgment against Chevron Lost Everything
Sharon Lerner – The Intercept,
3 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – Steven Donziger won a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron in Ecuador. The company sued him in New York, and now he’s under house arrest. “I’m like a corporate political prisoner, they are trying to totally destroy me,” he said.
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At Guantánamo Bay, Torture Apologists Take Refuge in Empty Code Words and Euphemisms
Margot Williams – The Intercept,
3 Feb 2020
29 Jan 2020 – These phrases are used: “intelligence requirements,” “abusive drift,” “countermeasures to resistance,” “Pavlovian response,” “learned helplessness,” “negative reinforcement,” “conditioning strategy,” a chart of “moral disengagement.” Torturers used a technique known as “walling,” in which a detainee is thrown against a wall that is described as “safe” because it is made of plywood and constructed to have “bounce.” When walling was used, a beach towel was protectively wrapped around the prisoner’s neck and later became a “Pavlovian” tool that the detainee could be shown to remind him of the suffering he’d endured. This is how torturers speak, cloaking their actions in anodyne language.
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Architect of CIA’s Torture Program Testifies Just Yards from Accused 9/11 Plotter He Waterboarded
Margot Williams – The Intercept,
27 Jan 2020
21 Jan 2020 – “I suspected from the beginning that I would end up here,” psychologist James Mitchell told a Guantánamo Bay courtroom.
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Bolsonaro, under Fire, Dismisses His Culture Minister for Giving a Nazi Speech, but It Is Still Representative of Brazil’s Governing Ethos
Glenn Greenwald and Victor Pougy – The Intercept,
20 Jan 2020
18 Jan 2020 – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, under severe pressure from multiple corners, yesterday fired his Culture Minister, Roberto Alvim, for recording and publishing what can only be described — with no hyperbole — as a Nazi speech about Brazilian art. WATCH: the literal Nazi speech with English subtitles that has shone a light on the true ideology of the Bolsonaro movement.
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(Português) Brasil: Documento confidencial mostra que Cultura vai continuar pregando ideais nazistas mesmo sem o Secretário Roberto Alvim
Amanda Audi – The Intercept,
20 Jan 2020
17 Jan 2020 – Roberto Alvim foi demitido da Secretaria Especial da Cultura após copiar um discurso do chefe da propaganda nazista, Joseph Goebbels. Mas isso não quer dizer que os colegas do dramaturgo, que continuam trabalhando e orientando a política cultural do país, pensem diferente dele.
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TV Pundits Praising Suleimani Assassination Neglect to Disclose Ties to Arms Industry
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
13 Jan 2020
6 Jan 2020 – David Petraeus, Jack Keane, Van Hipp, John Negroponte, and Jeh Johnson all celebrate President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Qassim Suleimani.
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