After NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden came forward with revelations of mass surveillance in 2013, journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill decided to found a new media organization dedicated to the kind of reporting those disclosures required: fearless, adversarial journalism. They called it The Intercept.
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Outside the Idealistic Bubble – Real Life
Venzuela was once the richest country in South America. As conditions change, the challenge to religious moires must bend in order to survive. It’s nice to preach from the comfort of one’s idealistic Lazy Boy…
There Must Be a Special Place in Hell
Circle Four Farms abuse their workers and are cruely inhumane to the animals they factory farm for profit. There must be a special place in hell for those without empathy who consider money and greed…
A Closer Look
Jeremy Scahill goes through current topics through interviews and news clippings.
Daniel Ellsberg and Noam Chomsky Discuss Nuclear War
Intercept Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed moderated a discussion between Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg on the topic of nuclear policy and war. Chomsky, a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona, and Ellsberg, the…
Top Down Party Picked Candidates
Our representatives are not grown from grassroot issues by people choosing to run for office but are rather pre-picked by the entrenched political establishment as dictated by its corporate sponsors. When power and money combine,…
The Battle for Paradise
Naomi Klein, Author of The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, reports from Puerto Rico after the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
Blowback
Jeremy Scahill, a journalist, correspondent, documentarian and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army reports on the consequenses of the United States conflict in the Middle East.
Assassination of Human Rights
From Brazil, the assassination of human rights activist, Marielle Franco. The people of Brazil will not forget her.
White Supremacy and the Second Amendment
The sanctity of the Second Amendment for all Americans is a myth. It is a myth today and it has been a myth from the beginning. Gun rights in this country were forged on the…
Jeremy Scahill on the Value of Whataboutism
If we, as a society, were actually honest about how often we do the very things — albeit in our own American way — as those we condemn as despots and tyrants and terrorists, then…