Articles by The Daily Beast
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I Was Canceled for Criticizing Israel
Katie Halper | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – I contributed to The Hill TV’s “Rising” for three years. But one monologue defending Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Palestinians cost me my job.
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Boris Johnson Quits as Decades of Bullshit Finally Catch Up with Him
Jamie Ross | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – The prime minister who spent his career using lies and deflection to wriggle out of scandal has finally found a crisis entirely of his own making that he couldn’t survive.
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Entire Top of the Republican Party Has Been Exposed to COVID
Lachlan Markay | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
3 Oct 2020 – The web of those exposed by President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis reads like a who’s who of his peripatetic campaign.
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To Fight Coronavirus, You Have to Understand How Weird It Is
David Axe | The Daily Beast - Reader Supported News,
29 Jun 2020
24 Jun 2020 – The novel coronavirus is unusual, it was obvious early in the pandemic, as the pathogen seemed to spread much faster than other coronaviruses, and kill at a higher rate than influenza viruses. It seems the disease behaves like a covert enemy that slips behind normally stout defenses—a Trojan Horse that deceives the body into submission.
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The Real Reasons Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Wanted Khashoggi ‘Dead or Alive’
Christopher Dickey – The Daily Beast,
22 Oct 2018
His death is key to understanding the political forces that helped turn the Middle East from a region of hope seven years ago to one of brutal repression and slaughter today.
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Jake Adelstein – The Daily Beast,
19 Jun 2017
15 Jun 2017 – Abe government makes even pondering crimes cause for arrest, with a U.N.-condemned ‘anti-terrorism’ law that hits mushroom-hunters and music teachers, but not actual terrorists.
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Tim Teeman | The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
How George Michael inspired us, turning a 1998 arrest for lewd behavior into a big FU to the authorities, and a public declaration of his sexuality.
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Jake Adelstein and Mari Yamamoto – The Daily Beast,
18 Jul 2016
10 Jul 2016 — A conservative Shinto cult dating back to the 1970s, which includes Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and many of his cabinet among its adherents, finally has been dragged out of the shadows. Nippon Kaigi aims to return Japan to pre-WWII imperial ‘glory.’ Today’s elections may further its goal.
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Philip Obaji Jr. – The Daily Beast,
18 Apr 2016
A look at the dirty war Nigeria is waging against its LGBT people and anyone associated with them.
→ read full articleWhy Banksy’s Art Is Such a Deadly Political Weapon
Lizzie Crocker – The Daily Beast,
1 Feb 2016
In a 2007 interview with The New Yorker, Banksy, the subversive British graffiti artist, was asked what drew him to his work. “I used to want to save the world,” he responded dryly, “but now I’m not sure I like it enough.”
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Dean Obeidallah – The Daily Beast,
25 May 2015
An ordained minister pleaded guilty to threatening to burn down a New York town full of Muslims. Where’s the FBI press conference and Fox News panic? Doggart didn’t mince words about his plans for the Muslims of Islamberg: “We will be cruel to them. And we will burn down their buildings.”
→ read full articleYour Samsung SmartTV Is Spying on You, Basically
The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
You may be loving your new Internet-connected television and its convenient voice-command feature—but did you know it’s recording everything you say and sending it to a third party?
→ read full articleBarrett Brown: Locked Up – My Post Cyberpunk Indentured Servitude
Barrett Brown, The Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Feb 2015
31 Jan 20215 – Not long ago I was a mild-mannered freelance journalist, activist, and satirist, contributing to outlets like the Guardian and Vanity Fair. But last Thursday I was sentenced to 63 months [5+ years] in federal prison. As inconvenient as this is for me, the upside is that for the first time in the two and a half years since I was arrested, I am at last able to speak freely about what has been happening to me.
→ read full articleU.S. Won’t Admit to Killing a Single Civilian in the ISIS War
Nancy A. Youssef – The Daily Beast,
26 Jan 2015
“It’s impossible for us to know definitively if civilians are killed in a strike. We do everything we can to investigate. We don’t do strikes if we think civilians could be there. But we can’t have a perfect picture on what’s going on.” – Pentagon official.
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Michael Daly – The Daily Beast,
15 Dec 2014
The CIA paid torture teachers James Mitchell and Bruce Jesser more than $80 million. Call them the houses that torture built: Two sprawling luxury homes purchased by the CIA-contracted psychologists at the center of the scathing Senate report.
→ read full articleU.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
Jamie Dettmer – The Daily Beast,
27 Oct 2014
Not only are foodstuffs, medical supplies—even clinics—going to ISIS, the distribution networks are paying ISIS ‘taxes’ and putting ISIS people on their payrolls.
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Josh Rogin – The Daily Beast,
20 Oct 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now threatening Baghdad, was funded for years by wealthy donors in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three U.S. allies that have dual agendas in the war on terror.
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Eli Lake – The Daily Beast,
13 Oct 2014
Obama pledged that the war against ISIS won’t be fought with U.S. ground troops. He didn’t say anything about contractors, who see this as “the next big meal ticket.”
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Michael Daly – The Daily Beast,
11 Aug 2014
Never mind that there seem to have been no more than eight doses of the serum in existence. The scandal is not that two white people got an untested serum, but that the deaths of so many black people were ignored until two white people got sick.
→ read full articleTech Monsters Own Everything
Joel Kotkin – The Daily Beast,
17 Feb 2014
How a Few Monster Tech Firms are Taking Over Everything from Media to Space Travel and What it Means for the Rest of Us
→ read full articleInside John Thavis’ Vatican Diaries: Sex and Lies
Barbie Latza Nadeau - The Daily Beast,
11 Mar 2013
Wile the Legion was admitting to the founder’s extramural heterosexual affair…it re¬fused to touch the more serious allegations that Maciel had turned his own seminary into a pedophilia camp.
→ read full articleAt the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Steady Drip of Toxic Trouble
Eric Nusbaum - The Daily Beast,
25 Feb 2013
Largest environmental cleanup operation the United States government has ever undertaken. Here in the American West, we conquered the most powerful forces in the universe—the very forces that set off the Big Bang —and turned them into an industry not so different from coal or steel.
→ read full articleWhy Goldman Sachs, Other Wall Street Titans Are Not Being Prosecuted
Peter Schweizer - The Daily Beast,
20 Aug 2012
The Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute Goldman Sachs in a financial-fraud probe is another sign of the cronyism that has kept Attorney General Eric Holder from taking action against other big Wall Street firms. On Thursday [9 Aug 2012] the Department of Justice announced it will not prosecute Goldman Sachs or any of its employees in a financial-fraud probe.
→ read full articleGoldman Execs Stay Fat and Happy
Gary Rivlin – The Daily Beast,
24 Oct 2011
Through the first nine months of 2011, Goldman set aside $10 billion in its compensation fund. If Goldman’s 30,000 employees split that bounty evenly, that would work out to $333,000 per person—plus the billions more Goldman will no doubt set aside in the last few months of the year. Is it any wonder the Occupy Wall Street crowd might think there’s something rotten about the system?
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