2023: THE INTERCEPT (318)

JANUARY

Biden’s “Diplomacy” In Yemen Means Taking Saudi Arabia’s Side – And Could Spark All-Out War

Facing His Eighth Execution Date, Richard Glossip Asks For Clemency

How Jan. 6 Brought Frontier Violence To the Heart Of U.S. Power

What Matt Gaetz And AOC Talked About During Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker Vote

Republican Freedom Caucus Pushes For New Committee To Investigate The Surveillance State

The GOP’s Kevin McCarthy Debacle Is An Insurrection By Other Means

Sabri Al-Qurashi Has Lived Without Legal Status In Kazakhstan Since His 2014 Guantanamo Release

It’s Easy To Write A Memoir About War – But Hard To Write An Anti-War Memoir

Exclusive: Surveillance Footage Of Tesla Crash On SF’s Bay Bridge Hours After Elon Musk Announces “Self-Driving” Feature

New Stock Listings Open The Door To American Investment In The Israeli Occupation

It’s Important To Talk Openly About Suicide

Party Drugs For PTSD: Study Moves Therapeutic Use Of MDMA Toward Approval

Guccifer, The Hacker Who Launched Clinton Email Flap, Speaks Out After Nearly A Decade Behind Bars

Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter To Censor Activists Pushing For Generic Vaccine

California Police Are Buying Guns From Dealers With Troubling Records

Dissent Episode One: Tipping The Balance

Unredacted NIH Emails Show Efforts To Rule Out Lab Origin Of Covid

The Secrets Presidents Keep In Their Garages And Luxury Resorts

Did Mexico’s Top Cop Play A Role In The Killing Of A DEA Informant?

Turkey’s Next Elections Could Be The Country’s Las Real Democratic Vote

Reps. Adam Schiff And Jim Jordan Killed Mass Surveillance Reform In 2020. Will They Do It Again?

Inside The Slow Implosion Of The Democratic Party’s Vaunted Campaign Tech Firm

Big Tech To Congress: Listen To Taylor Swift And Go After Ticketmaster, Not Us

Apple Brings Mainland Chinese Web Censorship To Hong Kong

The Crackdown On Cop City Protesters Is So Brutal Because Of The Movement’s Success

A Biologist Fought To Remove Grizzlies From The Endangered Species List – Until Montana Republicans Changed His Mind

George Santos Benefactor Bankrolled Group Opposing LA’s Progressive Prosecutor

New FTX Filing Pulls Back The Curtain On Sam Bankman-Fried’s Massive Influence-Peddling Operation

FEBRUARY

Dissent Episode Three: How An Adoption Case Could Unravel Tribal Sovereignty

The Grisly Cult Of The Wagner Group’s Sledgehammer

White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great For Business

Chicago Blocks Release Of Inspector General Report Prompted By “Somebody” Podcast

How A Grassroots Revolt In The Iconic Retirement Community Ended With A 72-Year-Old Political Prisoner

Marines Charged In Capitol Riot Got Highly Sensitive Spy Jobs After Jan. 6

Dissent Episode Four: The Right To Discriminate

“An Irreversible Justice”: Missouri Executes Leonard “Raheem” Taylor Despite Doubts Over His Guilt

U.S. Hypocrisy On War Crimes Is A Gift To Putin

Israeli Army Battalion Puts U.S. Ban On Funding Abusive Units To The Test

Pakistan On The Brink: What The Collapse Of Nuclear-Armed Regional Power Could Mean For The World

DeSantis-Stacked Medical Boards Ramp Up Bans On Care For Trans Youth

Dissent Episode Five: The Death Penalty, Deadlines, And DNA

GOP Megadonor Is Funding A Far-Right Israeli Think Tank – And Establishment Democrats

Google Greenwashes A Dirty Partnership With Climate-Destroying Saudi Aramco

The Myth Of Safe Plastics Persists, Despite Risk Of Disasters Like East Palestine

Are U.S. Sanctions Against Syria Stalling Humanitarian Aid After The Earthquake?

Less Than A Mile From Drone Base, Bandits Stole Bags Of U.S. Tax Dollars In Broad Daylight

Dissent Episode Six: The Clean Water Act Comes Under Attack

Advocates Demand Oversight And Accountability For U.S. Arms Trade

Bristling Under Progressive Mayor, St. Louis Police Seek State Takeover

Tucker Carlson Deserves A Raise For His Shameless Lies

How To Save Yellowstone’s Wolves

MARCH

Pentagon Developed Contingency Plan For War With Iran

Hacked Resume Gives Inside Look At Wagner Group Founder Yevgeny Prigozhin

The Disturbing Groupthink Over The War In Ukraine

The Real, Sinister Political Threat Of Tennessee’s New Anti-Drag Law

In Bulldozing Israeli Democracy, Benjamin Netanyahu Could Become The BDS Movement’s Greatest Ally

U.S. Embassy In Niger Threatens A Pesky American Journalist And Then Backs Down

United Auto Workers On Brink Of Unprecedented Leadership Upset

Matt Gaetz, Progressive Caucus, And Former Obama Ambassador Team Up To Oppose Syria Occupation

The War In Ukraine Is Just Getting Started

Ending The Hidden Occupation

Trump’s Last Defense Secretary Has Regrets – But Not About Jan. 6

His Conviction Relied On Debunked Bite-Mark Science. Why Is He Still Locked Up?

Silicon Valley Bank Used Former McCarthy Staffers To Weaken Regulations, Lobby FDIC

Cheering Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Mention He’s A Client

Biden Administration Splits On Prosecuting Russia For War Crimes In Ukraine

“Trauma Never Goes Away”: As America Forgets, Iraq War Stays With U.S. Veterans

Iraqis Tortured By The U.S. In Abu Ghraib Never Got Justice

Americans Don’t Care About The Iraqi Dead. They Don’t Even Care About Their Own.

Bush’s Iraq War Lies Served As A Blueprint For Donald Trump

The FBI Used An Undercover Cop With Pink Hair To Spy On Activists And Manufacture Crimes

License Plate Surveillance, Courtesy Of Your Homeowners Association

Biden Moves Forward With Mining Project That Will Obliterate A Sacred Apache Religious Site

Exclusive: Two Koch-Backed Groups Speak Out Against Ron DeSantis’s Attack On Journalists

What It Means For Trump’s Campaign To Start In Waco

After Tide Of Memoirs From Americans, An Iraqi Journalist Offers Inside Account Of War’s Destruction

Biden Is Fulfilling Trump’s Cruel Policy On Wild Horses

A Is For Abuse: The Saga Of For-Profit Schooling In Africa

The Atlantic Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of Iraq War With Lavish Falsehoods About Iraq War

Thieves Rip Off U.S. Weapons As Shadow War In Syria Escalates

The Anti-War Vote That Came 20 Years Late

APRIL

As Israelis Protest Mounting Authoritarianism, Apartheid Regime Over Palestinians Goes Unchallenged

After Two Decades Of U.S. Military Support, Terror Attacks Are Worse Than Ever In Niger

Pentagon Tries To Cast Bank Runs As National Security Threat

Trump (Allegedly) Broke The Law For No Reason

Tasked With Stopping Terror, Colorado’s Intel Agency Monitors Students Protesting Gun Violence

The Teamsters And The UAW Gear Up For Struggle

Twitter Deploys Classic Musk Tactics To Hunt Down Leaker

Elon Musk Wants To Cut Your Social Security Because He Doesn’t Understand Math

AFRICOM Chief To Congress: We Share “Core Values” With Coup Leaders

Texas Judge Cosplaying As Medical Expert Has Consequences Beyond The Abortion Pill

U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Destabilizing African Nations

After Spying On Standing Rock, Tigerswan Shopped Anti-Protest “Counterinsurgency” To Other Oil Companies

Why Did Journalists Help The Justice Department Identify A Leaker?

10 Years After My Cancer Diagnosis, The Right Is Still Trying To Kill Me

Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking To Recruit High School Children

Leaked Pentagon Doc Gives Unprecedented U.S. Intel View Into Secret Yemen War Talks

Politics, Not Science, Will Win The Battle For Mifepristone

Pentagon Requests $36 Million For Havana Syndrome

Leaked Tape Reveals How Spy Camera Firm Used Ex-U.S. Official To Cover Up Uyghur Abuses

AI Art Sites Censor Prompts About Abortion

Saudi Arabia Owns Stake In Firm That Bought Democratic Party’s Campaign Tech

Oregon Domestic Terrorism Law Targets the Far Right. Here’s How It’ll Backfire.

The “Pro-Israel” Smear Campaign To Cancel A Global Charity

Virtue Signaling As A War Policy

Army Info War Division Wants Social Media Surveillance To Protect “NATO Brand”

Crypto Cash Is Powering Kyrsten Sinema’s Reelection Campaign

The Ejection Of Tucker Carlson Is A Classic “Reverse Ferret” By Rupert Murdoch

I Really Think You Should Read Tucker Carlson’s Last Speech Before FOX Fired Him

MAY

Exclusive: AOC Endorses Progressive Helen Gym In Philadelphia Mayoral Race

Ron DeSantis Has Raked In $3.9 Million From Insurance Industry, New Report Reveals

The Polarizing Prosecutor Trying To Nail Putin For War Crimes 

The Government Created A New Disinformation Office To Oversee All The Other Ones

What The Debt Limit Fight Is Actually About

Schools Are Pouring Millions Into AI-Powered Weapons Detections Systems. Do They Work?

Can The Pentagon Use ChatGPT? OpenAI Won’t Answer.

Shireen Abu Akleh’s Colleagues Are Still Waiting For Justice

The Rise And Fall Of The Raccoon Dog Theory Of Covid-19

Biden Is Selling Weapons To The Majority Of The World’s Autocracies

Around The World Update: Turkey, Pakistan, And Palestine

Update: Chicago’s Inspector General Recommends Discipline, Policy Review In Courtney Copeland Case

Claude Garrett Was Wrongfully Imprisoned For Decades. He Died After Five Months Of Freedom.

U.S. Marshals Spied On Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr

Erdogan Arrested And Expelled International Officials Observing Turkish Election

Inside The Pentagon’s New “Perception Management” Office To Counter Disinformation

The U.S. Still Owes Money To Family Of 10 Afghans It Killed In “Horrible Mistake”

Profits Skyrocket For AI Gun Detection Used In Schools – Despite Dubious Results

The Debt Limit Is Just One Of America’s Six Worst Traditions

Pipeline Company Spent Big On Police Gear To Use Against Standing Rock Protesters

Joe Manchin Rents Office Space To Firm Powering FBI, Pentagon Biometric Surveillance Center

Survivors Of Kissinger’s Secret War In Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

Henry Kissinger’s Bloody Legacy

Jamie Raskin And Rachel Maddow, Brought To You By Peter Thiel And Lockheed Martin

Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War In Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

What We’re Reading And Watching

The Press Is Falling For Anti-Abortion “Fetal Heartbeat” Propaganda

Imran Khan’s Ousting And The Crisis Of Pakistan’s Military Regime

JUNE

FBI Reopens Case Against Julian Assange, Despite Australian Pressure To End Prosecution

U.S. Lawmakers Seek To Preempt State-Level Bans On Foreigners Buying Property

The Debt Limit Bill: Yet Another Triumph For Bipartisanship

Oath Keeper Leader Stewart Rhodes Says He’s A Political Prisoner. Republicans Are Listening.

Biden Embraces Antisemitism Definition That Has Upended Free Speech In Europe

Monetary Blowback: How U.S. Wars, Sanctions, And Hegemony Are Threatening The Dollar’s Reserve Currency Dominance

The Feds Have Thousands Of Stadium Lights On The Border. Switching Them On Would Devastate Desert Ecosystems.

Funded By Dark Money, Chris Rufo’s Nonprofit Stokes The Far Right’s Culture War

How Many Indictments Does It Take To Bring Down A Cult Leader?

The News Big Emissions Fight Is An Old One: Why Some Conservatives Oppose Clean Air

The Right-Wing War On Clean Air

Dangerous Pathogens And Cruelty Law Violations At Perdue Subsidiary, Animal Rights Report Alleges

Ukraine On The Offensive

The FBI Groomed A 16-Year-Old With “Brain Development Issues” To Become A Terrorist

How Henry Kissinger Paved The Way For Orlando Letelier’s Assassination

Documents Link Potential COVID Patient Zero To U.S.-Funded Research In Wuhan

How Exxon Captured A Country Without Firing A Shot

Don’t Compare Donald Trump To Reality Winner. He’s No Whistleblower.

After 29 Years On Death Row, Barry Jones Was Dumped At A Bus Station. But He Was Finally Free.

Turkish Elections: Erdogan’s Autocracy Continues

Ukraine Blocks Journalists From Front Lines With Escalating Censorship

Kyrsten Sinema Moves To Slash Pilot Training After Taking Arline Cash

A Year After Dobbs, The Anti-Abortion Right Is Grilling Doctors On Tattoos, Tweets, And Too-Strong Beliefs

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Threatened Uprising Against Putin Echoes Russia’s History Of Wars Gone Bad

Prigozhin And Putin: Dead Men Walking

Information Warfare Was Key To Prigozhin’s Mutiny Against Putin

Fishing For Secrets In The Nord Stream Abyss

Progressives Use Pentagon Budget To Protest Outrageous Anti-LGBTQ+ Law

New NIH Emails Released: What Are Officials Trying To Hide About Covid’s Origins?

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