2022: THE INTERCEPT (279)

JANUARY

Capitol Rioter Admits False Statements To FBI, But Prosecutors Haven’t Charged Him With A Felony

Despite Omicron Risk, TSA Still Requires Travelers To Remove Masks At Airport Checkpoints

What Drove A West Virginia Democrat To Storm The Capitol On January 6?

It’s January 6 And The Warning Lights Are Flashing Red

Uber CEO Admits Company Can Afford Labor Protections For Drivers

The Life And Legacy Of Harry Reid

More Kids And Overwhelmingly Black: New Records Show Concerning Trends In D.C. Gang Database

Minnesota Rep. Betty McCollum Is Facing A Serious Primary Challenge From The Left

Fire Retardant Violations Reported Twice Last Year In Bronx Apartment Building

“Don’t Look Up” And Fighting Capitalism With Naomi Klein

I Spent 20 Years Covering America’s Secretive Detention Regime. Torture Was Always The Subtext.

Former Ambassador On Haitian President In March: “Put Him Aside” And Embrace “Prime Minister Option”

Is Biden In The Midst Of A World Historic Crime Against Humanity?

2021’s Inflation Proves How Incredibly Valuable Social Security Is For Americans

Congressional Democrats Join Republicans To Undermine Biden Administration’s Surprise Medical Billing Rule

Starving Afghans Use Crypto To Sidestep U.S. Sanctions, Failing Banks, And The Taliban

Democrats Dicker In Congress As Biden Flirts With Afghan Genocide

Conservative Lobby Groups Prevail As Senate Keeps The Filibuster

As Immigration Plummeted, Conservatives Falsely Accused Biden Of Fueling A Crisis

USAID Contractors Denounce Agency’s Betrayal Of Thousands Of Afghans Who Carried Out Its Mission

Democrats Are Rushing Through A Massive Ukrainian Defense Bill

Another U.S.-Trained Soldier Stages A Coup In West Africa

New Hampshire Republicans Are Throwing Voting Restrictions At The Wall And Seeing What Sticks

Homeland Security Adviser Shaped Cyber Strategy Despite Financial Interests

Pentagon Professes Shock That U.S. Soldiers Frequently Kill Civilians

Prosecutors Silence Evidence Of Cruel Factory Farm Practices In Animal Rights Cases

Rhode Island Democrats Are On Track To Hand GOP A Midterm Advantage

FEBRUARY

Episode One: Killing Capital

Dignity In A Digital Age, With Ro Khanna

Biden’s Afghanistan Counsel Left The White House In January. Now He’s Poised To Reap Financial Windfall From Billions In Seized Afghan Assets.

Oath Keepers, Anti-Democracy Activists, And Others On The Far Right Are Funding Canada’s “Freedom Convoy”

APRIL

The U.S. Has Its Own Agenda Against Russia

Amazon Did Everything It Could To Bust The Staten Island Union. They Overcame It All.

U.S. Airstrike Killed 11 Libyan Civilians And Allies, Human Rights Groups Say

With Sweeps Of Homeless Encampments, Liberal Cities Wage War On Poorest Residents

Grassroots Or Astroturf? Inside The Republicans’ Rebranding As The “Parents Party”

Conscription Into Revolutionary Guards Haunts Iranian Dual Nationals Decades Later

Ukraine War Sparks Fears Of More Gas Extraction In Quake-Prone Region

U.S. Didn’t Expect Major Explosions When An ISIS Bomb Factory Was Bombed

Some Rare Good News In A Ravaged World: A Truce In Yemen

Zelenskyy Is Absolutely Right: The U.N. Must Be Reformed. But It Never Will Be.

Biden’s Nuclear Strike Policy Is The Same As Russia’s

Russian TV Screens Are Filled With Evidence Of Russian War Crimes – But Labeled “Fake”

Facebook’s Ukraine-Russia Moderation Rules Prompt Cries Of Double Standard

Amid Bird Flu Outbreak, Meat Producers Seek “Ventilation Shutdown” For Mass Chicken Killing

With An Attempt To Unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota House Race Sets Up A Contest On Policing

Fire Scientists Testify In Support Of Claude Garrett’s Bid For Freedom

As Execution Looms, Mounting Evidence Points To Melissa Lucio’s Innocence

The Armenian Genocide Holds A Bitter Lesson For Those Who Weep For Ukraine

Chuck Schumer Is Stalling A Floor Vote On Antitrust Bills To Rein In Big Tech

Biden Faces Moment Of Truth On Renewing Ice Contract For Notorious Florida Jail

McDonald’s Franchises Planned To Pay Tens Of Millions In PPP Loan Dollars To Corporate HQ

Russia Is Losing A War Against Hackers Stealing Huge Amounts Of Data

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Attacks On Disney May Violate First Amendment

Whistling Past The Graveyard: Why It’s So Hard To Rid The Courts Of Junk Science

Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Continue To Seize On Russia’s War In Ukraine To Push Long-Term Interests

Bottled Water Giant Bluetriton Admits Claims Of Recycling And Sustainability Are “Puffery”

Steven Donziger Vs. Big Oil

Melissa Lucio’s Life Was Spared At The Last Minute. What Happens Now?

The New New Right Was Forged In Greed And White Backlash

How A Virginia Businesswoman Escaped Her Kidnappers In Iraq – And Later Returned To Finish Her Work

MAY

Man Who Painted Trump’s Face On Lawn Could Be Headed To Congress

Roe V. Wade Is About To Be Struck Down By The Electoral College

Staten Island DA Bought Clearview Face Recognition Software With Civil Forfeiture Cash

The Left In Europe Confronts Nato’s Resurgence After Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine

My Story: How I Was “Groomed” By My Elementary School Teachers

Mark Esper Waited Two Years To Tell Us Trump Wanted Troops To Shoot George Floyd Protesters

The Implosion Of A Democratic Socialist Campaign

The Border Patrol Is Systemically failing To Count Migrant Deaths

A “Woodstock” For Right-Wing Legal Activists Kicked Off The 40-Year Plot To Undo Roe V. Wade

White House Rejects Rep. Seth Moulton’s Characterization Of A “Proxy War” With Russia

How American’s Evangelicals Turned Themselves Into An Anti-Abortion Machine

Baby Formula Industry Successfully Lobbied To Weaken Bacteria Safety Testing Standards

Does Elon Musk Know Trump Could Have Started Nuclear War Via Twitter In 2018?

Jewish Progressives Sound The Alarm As Pro-Israel Groups Target Marginalized Candidates

Kurt Schrader Blasted Nancy Pelosi As “Truly A Terrible Person” While Killing Biden’s Build Back Better

The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric On Abortion And Trans Health Care

Google And Amazon Face Revolt Over Israeli DefenseWork

Military-Industrial Complex Is Itching To Send “Hunter-Killer” Drones To Ukraine

FBI Provides Chicago Police With Fake Online Identities For “Social Media Exploitation” Team

After Buffalo, Will Corporate America Turn Against The Murdochs And Fox News?

Facebook Anti-Terror Policy Lands Head Of Afghan Red Crescent Society On Censorship List

A Carbon Dioxide Delivery Driver’s Long Journey To Expose Airgas

Silicon Valley Billionaire Storms Into Texas To Bail Out Abortion Foe Henry Cuellar

Abortion Opponent Henry Cuellar Was Buoyed By Democratic Leaders To A Narrow Lead In Texas Runoff

Cops Didn’t Stop The Uvalde School Shooting

Uvalde Police Didn’t Move To Save Lives Because That’s Not What Police Do

We All Know Mass Killers Love The AR-15. Now Meet Their Favorite Bullet.

Israeli Limits On West Bank Travel Draw Scrutiny from U.S. Lawmakers

In Australia’s Election, Rupert Murdoch Was A Surprise Loser

JUNE

NRA Planned To Hold Fundraisers At Family Estate Of Missouri Democrat And Anheuser-Busch Heir Running For Senate

With New Ad Buy, DMFI Turns Its Sights On Another Progressive Candidate: Rep. Marie Newman

The FBI Tried To Ambush My Source. Now I’m Telling The Whole Story.

The Scale Of American Violence Is Awe-Inspiring In The Wrong Ways

Ousted Whitney Museum Board Member Still Selling Tear Gas Despite Divestment Claim

9/11 Families And Others Call On Biden To Confront Afghan Humanitarian Crisis

Breaking Unions With The Language Of Diversity And Social Justice

Right-Wing Judges Say It’s “Harmless” To Label Climate Activists A Terrorist

ICE Searched Lexisnexis Database Over A Million Times In Just 7 Months

Iran Is Backing Out Of The Nuclear Deal That U.S. Had Already Reneged On For Years

The Truth Never Mattered At Guantanamo 

History Says Democracy Will Die If Democrats Don’t Try “Going Big”

The Threat Of Nuclear War: Four Decades After “The Day After”

Jan. 6 Hearings Point Finger At Donald Trump. But Federal Prosecutors Haven’t Gone That Far.

Beyond Revenge, What Does Jane’s Revenge Want?

In The Shadow Of The Jan. 6 Hearings, Right-Wing Militancy Is On The Rise

The Interstate Tug-Of-War over Reproductive Freedom

Pentagon Must Do More To Mitigate Civilian Harm, Says House Armed Services Committee Chair

Despite What Pundits Claim, Most Elections Don’t Tell Us Much Of Anything About America

Judge To Black Elder: Drop Dead (And Then Maybe Compassionate Release)

Newly Released Documents Reveal International Funding, Trail Preceding  The murder of Berta Caceres.

The Interstate Tug-Of- War Over Reproductive Freedom

FBI Raid On Trump Justice Department Official Signals A Criminal Investigation May Be Starting

Antlanta’s Gang Indictment Takes On An Institution

Private Prisons Are A Socially Responsible Investment, According To Bizarre Wall Street Measures

Your Kitchen Floor May Have Been Made With Uygher Forced Labor

How Charles Koch Purchased The Supreme Court’s EPA Decision

JULY

How The Democrats Forgot The New Deal And Paved The Way For Trumpism

The Fight For Abortion Rights Turns To State Constitutions

Biden Administration Pushes More Ocean Drilling Amid Record Oil And Gas Profits

In Letter To Biden, Shireen Abu Akleh’s Family Demands A Meeting And An End To Israeli Impunity

Army Bases Shockingly Unprepared for Chemical, Biological Attacks

The Twisted Legal Path To Oklahoma’s Looming Execution Spree

Anti-Abortion Zealots Were Precursor To Donald Trump’s Right-Wing Shock Troops

Rashida Tlaib Is Trying To Fix The Espionage Act, But Whistleblowers Are Probably Out Of Luck

Israeli Forces Keep Killing Americans While U.S. Officials Give Them A Pass

Abortion Rights Activists Call New Group Leading Protests A Front For A Far-Left Cult

Secret Service Deleted Jan. 6 Text Messages After Oversight Officials Requested Them

Facial Recognition Search Engine Pulls Up “Potentially Explicit” Photos Of Kids

Saudi Prince Taunts Biden For Caring More About Khashoggi Than Shireen Abu Akleh

Sen. Joe Manchin And His Wife Directed Millions To The Wildlife Area Surrounding Vacation Condo

Renters In Arkansas And Nebraska Face Eviction After Governors Refuse Federal Rental Assistance

Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt In 100 Years An Inside Job?

El Salvador’s Embrace Of Bitcoin Didn’t Bring Prosperity – It Rode In With Waves Of Repression.

The Problem With New York’s Public Power Campaign – And How To Fix It

Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling To Israel

The FBI Is Investigating A Potential Political Motivation Linked To Justin Fairfax Allegations

Abortion Faces Early Electoral Test In Kansas – But Misinformation Is Rampant

The Cost Of Saying No To The FBI

A Manchin Miracle Brings Biden’s Climate Agenda Back From The Dead

Bank Of America Memo, Revealed: “We Hope” Conditions For American Workers Will Get Worse

Proud Papa: How Joe Biden Became The Father Of The Iranian Nuclear Bomb

AUGUST

EPA Whistleblowers Provide New Evidence Of Ongoing Failure To Assess Dangerous Chemicals

Progressives On U.S.-China Policy And Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit

What Democrats Should (But Probably Won’t) Learn From The Kansas Abortion Victory

Massive Quantities Of PFAS Waste Got Unreported To EPA

Should Doctors Break The Law?

Why Is The UAE Detaining An American Laywer Who Worked With Jamal Khashoggi?

Ambulance Rides Still Aren’t Protected From Surprise Billing – And Subscriptions Do Little To Help

Amazon’s One-Stop Shop For Identity Thieves

Criminal Justice Reformer Trounces Police-Backed Candidate In Race To Replace Top Prosecutor In Floyd Murder

It’s Not Just Trump – LBJ Took Classified Documents Too

An Accused War Criminal Trained Florida Cops In “New Concepts Of Shooting”

In The Aftermath Of A Police Killing, The Justifications Begin Immediately

Will A Federal Investigation Reveal The Truth About Deaths At USP Atlanta?

The Killing Of A Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved. Then Journalists Sued The City.

An Uncompromising Coalition Is Building Support To Nix Atlanta’s “Cop City”

DCCC Tests Ads Linking Republicans To High Gas Prices

Explosive New Evidence Points To Richard Glossip’s Innocence. Why Is Oklahoma Still Trying To Kill Him?

Freedom Dreams: Black Women And The Student Debt Crisis

DHS Jan. 6 Investigators Raised Alarm About Being Stonewalled Last Year

Multimillionaire Self-Funder Foisted On NY-10 Voters, But Other Big-Money Candidates Failed

Liberty Counsel’s Donor Records And Pro-Trump Election Messaging Exposed In Data Breach

The Origin Of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create A Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”

Facebook Tells Moderators To Allow Graphic Images Of Russian Air Strikes, But Censors Israeli Attacks

The Front Lines Of The End Of The World – And The Fight To Save The Amazon

The Murdoch Family Exposes Its Hypocrisy In Lawsuits Over Fox News

Anthony Ornato, Top Secret Service Official Sought By Investigators For Role in Jan. 6, Retires Unexpectedly

Right-Wing Appeals Court Blocks Arkansas Ban On Trans Health Care

SEPTEMBER

“We Felt Like Hostages”: Ukrainians Describe Forcible Transfers And Filtration By Russian Forces

Aboard The Trump Train

Chile’s Vote On A New Constitution Is A Big Loss For The CIA And The “Chicago Boys”

Pentagon Research Center Quietly Contradicts Optimism Of Defense Secretary Austin

After Refusing Loan Forgiveness, Bank Of America Hits PPP Borrowers With Inscrutable “Finance Charges”

Lawmakers Seek Answers On Pentagon’s Role In Deadly Airstrike

Fed’s Own Economist Warns Of “Severe Recession” From Chair Powell’s Rate Hikes

U.S. Military Aid To Ukraine Grows To Historic Proportions – Along With Risks

Now Way Home, Episode One: Life And Death

When The Taliban Took Kabul, An Afghan Pilot Had To Choose Between His Family And His Country

Losing Afghanistan

Livestream: Leaving Afghanistan

When The Uneasy Democratic Coalition Shares A Neighborhood

“I Can’t Believe He Did That”: Retired Kansas City Detective Charged With Kidnapping And Rape

No Way Home, Episode Three: Born Again

Drone Debt: U.S. Refuses To Help Wounded Survivor Of Wrongful Attack In Yemen

Israeli Forces Deliberately Killed Palestinian American Journalist, Report Shows

Ron DeSantis Chartered Planes From GOP-Allied Donor To Fly Migrants To Martha’s Vineyard

Russians Return To Street To Protest Widening Of Putin’s War On Ukraine

Is Crypto A Big Scam?

The Dark Odds Facing Iran’s Brave Protesters

I Watched The Afghan Government Collapse Under The Weight Of Its Own Greed

California Farmworkers Pressure Gov. Gavin Newsom On Union Bill

Florida Contracts Go To Companies That Flooded Ron DeSantis Campaign Fund

The CIA Just Invested In Wolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology

In Reviewing Wolves’ Endangered Status, Martha William Confronts Her Montana Past

Nancy Pelosi Resisted Effort To Impeach Trump On Jan. 6: New Book

OCTOBER

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Prepare To Impeach Larry Krasner

Barry Jones Is Running Out Of Options. Will He Ever Leave Death Row?

Meet The Military Contractor Running Fare Collection In New York Subways – And Around The World

Inside The Chinese Government’s Growing Surveillance State

Livestream: Egypt’s Carceral Climate Summit

Holding The COP27 Summit In Egypt’s Police State Creates A Moral Crisis For The Climate Movement

Will Putin Face Prosecution For The Crime Of Aggression In Ukraine?

Texas Claims It’s “Too Late” For DNA Testing That Could Get Rodney Reed Off Death Row

The Right’s Anti-Vaxxers Are Killing Republicans

Biden State Department Embraces Flawed Logic For Bolivian Coup In Leaked Report

The Texas Border County At The Center Of A Dangerous Right-Wing Experiment

Senate Races That Could Tip The Balance

After Clinic Arson, Abortion Rights Advocates in Wyoming Step Up Their Fight

A People-Powered Insurgency Threatened To Reshape The Democratic Party. Then Came AIPAC And Its Allied Super PAC, Democratic Majority For Israel.

Oakland Cops Hope To Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns

Inside The Aggressive Legal War To Shield The Founder Of Russia’s Wagner Group

Did A Woke Mob Cancel The “Jihad Rehab” Doc? Here’s The Real Story.

Saudis Sought Oil Production Cut So Deep It Surprised Even Russia

How Democrats Botched Trump’s Impeachment

Texas Invents New Barriers To DNA Testing While Blaming Rodney Reed For Delay Tactics

House Progressives Float Diplomatic Path Toward Ending War In Ukraine, Get Annihilated, Quickly “Clarify”

The Fed Likes To Tout Its Independence. So Why Are Big Banks Lobbying It?

Is Hindu Nationalist Money Making Its Way Into Maryland’s Governor Race?

Iran’s Secret Manual For Tracking And Controlling Protesters’ Mobile Phones

How A Rare Effort To Compensate Iraqi Airstrike Victims Failed

Jewish Israelis Smoke Weed Without Fear. Their Palestinian Neighbors Face Harsh Penalties.

Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans To Police Disinformation

NOVEMBER

AIPAC’s First Attack Ad In Midterms Hits Would-Be Squad Member Summer Lee

Nobel Laureates Press Egypt To Free Alaa Abd el Fattah, Writer On Hunger Strike, Before COP27

Sexual Assault Allegations Exposes Self-Policing Prison System

An Uber Millionaire Wants You To Vote On The Internet – Despite The Inherent Vulnerabilities

New Justice Department Media Rules Won’t Help If Trump Wins Again

America’s 9/11 Wars Created The Foot Soldiers Of Far-Right Violence At Home

Midterms Will Determine Republicans’ Stance On Ukraine – And America

Will Police Money Tip Minnesota Attorney General Race Against Keith Ellison?

In Referendum On Whether You Can Prosecute Murderous Cops At All, Keith Ellison Ekes It Out

AOC: The New York State Democratic Party’s Corruption May Have Cost Democrats The House

Leaked Document Reveals New Interpol Overturned U.S. “Red Notice” Against Putin Associate Yevgeny Prigozhin

Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky

Chicago Sheriff Systematically Denies New Rights Laid Out In Criminal Justice Reform

The Hunger Striker Vs. The Dictator

Israeli Raids In The West Bank Push Palestinians To Brink Again

Chuck Schumer Quietly Moving Lame-Duck $3 Billion Payout To Families Of 9/11 Victims

Will Biden Sell Advanced Drones To Ukraine

Was The Killing Of A Migrant By A Former ICE Warden A Hate Crime Or A Terrible Accident?

The Evacuation Of The CIA’s Afghan Proxies Has Opened One Of The War’s Blackest Boxes

Elon Musk’s “Free Speech” Twitter Is Still Censoring Ddosecrets

I Experienced Jack Smith’s Zeal Firsthand. Will Trump Get The Same Treatment?

10 Things For Americans To Be Grateful For At Thanksgiving 2022

“Tantura” Exposes The Lie At The Heart Of Israel’s Founding Myth

A Criminal Ratted Out His Friend To The FBI. Now He’s Trying To Make Amends.

A Special Prosecutor Found Kevin Johnson’s Case Was Tainted By Racism. Missouri Is About to Kill Him Anyway.

Democratic And Republican Senators Demand Transfer Of Gray Eagle Drone To Ukraine

Philly DA Larry Krasner: In Midterms, Democrats Went “Republican-Lite” On Crime

War Industry Looking Forward To “Multiyear Authority” In Ukraine

DECEMBER

The Biden Administration Says Legal Immunity For Saudi Crown Prince Was Unavoidable. Privately, They Weren’t So Sure

CIA Venture Capital Arm Partners With Ex-Googler’s Startup To “Safeguard The Internet”

Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save The Planet”

How Jared Kushner Lost At The World Cup In Qatar

Bernie Sanders To Bring Yemen War Powers Resolution To The Floor As Soon As Next Week

Hakeem Jeffries Was A Literal No-Show On The Green New Deal

Donald Trump Is Out Of Power – And Out Of Luck

The Other Giant Crisis Hanging Over The Islamic Republic Of Iran

Pennsylvania’s Governor-Elect Ran On Saving Democracy. Then He Appointed A Trump White House Lawyer

The Railroad Fight Was The Produce Of Eight Years Of Militant Rank-And-File Organizing

Incarcerated People Forced To Do Dangerous Work For “Slave” Wages At Height Of Pandemic

The Shutdown Of “Luxury Emissions” Should Be At The Center Of Climate Revolt

How Neighbors In The Borderlands Fought Back Against Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s Illegal Wall – And Won

Biden Moves Ahead On Trump Plan To Build Israel Embassy On Stolen Palestinian Land

Elon Musk Is Taking Aim At Journalists. I’m One Of Them.

Not A Joke, The Pentagon Wants To Name A Warship The USS Fallujah

Remember When Bush-Era College Republicans Sang About Slaughtering “The Left”?

Henry Ford, Elon Musk, And The Dark Path To Extremism

Hacked Phones, Undercover Cops, And The Conspiracy Theory At The Center Of Italy’s Crackdown On Humanitarian Rescue

A Competitor Put The FBI On Haoyang Yu’s Trail. The Investigation Didn’t Go As Planned

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Agrees To Remove Illegal Border Wall

Merry Christmas! We’re All Being Murdered By Capitalism.

Texas Lawmakers Plan To Further Decimate Abortion Rights In Upcoming Legislative Session

How The Endless Paperwork Of The Pandemic Kept People From Receiving Benefits

Ten Years Into The Fight For $15, Workers Are Still Fighting For A Living Wage

Mental Health Issues Spiked During The Pandemic. Medicaid Isn’t Much Help.

Hacked Russian Files Reveal Propagranda Agreement With China

Liberals Rose To Fight The Assault On Abortion – But Not Trans Rights

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