Articles by The Intercept
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The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes from a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
27 Feb 2017
Foreign villains must always be omnipotent, and anyone questioning that must be disloyal.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Globo e Folha sofrem censura de Temer e juiz, e apagam reportagens. Nós publicamos o que foi proibido.
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2017
Em Defesa de Uma Imprensa Livre sem a Censura do Estado – Como um dos objetivos da criação do The Intercept era defender e apoiar a liberdade de imprensa em todo o mundo, estamos publicando os materiais censurados para que possam ser analisados pelo público.
→ read full articleWhy Do So Many Americans Fear Muslims? Decades of Denial about America’s Role in the World
Jon Schwarz – The Intercept,
20 Feb 2017
What surprises me about the poll results isn’t that lots of Americans like the ban — but that so many Americans don’t. Regular people have lives to lead and can’t investigate complicated issues in detail. Instead they usually take their cues from leaders they trust. And given what politicians across U.S. political spectrum say about terrorism, Trump’s executive order makes perfect sense. There are literally no national-level American politicians telling a story that would help ordinary people understand why Trump’s goals are both horrendously counterproductive and morally vile.
→ read full articleSecret Docs Reveal: President Trump Has Inherited an FBI with Vast Hidden Powers
Glenn Greenwald and Betsy Reed – The Intercept,
6 Feb 2017
The FBI’s Secret Rules, based on a trove of long-sought confidential FBI documents, shines a bright light on the vast powers of this law enforcement agency, particularly when it comes to its ability to monitor dissent and carry out a domestic war on terror, at the beginning of an era highly likely to be marked by vociferous protest and reactionary state repression.
→ read full articleWatch How Casually False Claims Are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 Jan 2017
The Paper of Record publishes a claim it knows to be false about the Snowden reporting. Why?
→ read full articleThe Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 Jan 2017
Trump’s critics can do him no bigger favor than using dubious, discredited tactics to attack him.
→ read full articlePoison Fruit: Dow Chemical Wants Farmers to Keep Using a Pesticide Linked to Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Sharon Lerner – The Intercept,
16 Jan 2017
While children in farming communities get the biggest doses of chlorpyrifos, people across the country are exposed to potentially dangerous amounts of the chemical through their food. Though it’s unclear exactly how much pesticide residue can alter brain development, all of the researchers I spoke with told me they advise pregnant women and young children to eat organic fruits and vegetables.
→ read full articleWashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News about Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
9 Jan 2017
4 Jan 2017 – In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging that the core claims of the story were fiction.
→ read full articleU.S. Special Operations Numbers Surge in Africa’s Shadow Wars
Nick Turse – The Intercept,
2 Jan 2017
Africa has seen the most dramatic growth in the deployment of America’s elite troops of any region of the globe over the past decade.
→ read full articleIn Major Privacy Victory, Top EU Court Rules against Mass Surveillance
Ryan Gallagher – The Intercept,
26 Dec 2016
The EU’s top court has undermined the British government’s mass surveillance powers in a new ruling that could rein in police and spy agency investigations.
→ read full articleExtensive British Spying Throughout Africa Revealed in Le Monde
Ryan Gallagher – The Intercept,
26 Dec 2016
Using documents provided by Edward Snowden, the French paper reports that Britain spied on more than 20 current and former African heads of state.
→ read full articleDrowning in Information: NSA Revelations from 262 Spy Documents
Micah Lee and Margot Williams – The Intercept,
12 Dec 2016
7 Dec 2016 – By the first half of 2004, the National Security Agency was drowning in information. It had amassed 85 billion phone and online records and cut the ribbon on a new hacking center in Hawaii — but it was woefully short on linguists who could make sense of captured communications and lacked enough network analysts to effectively monitor all the systems it had hacked.
→ read full articleNew Report Exposes “Patient Advocacy” Groups as a Big Pharma Scam
David Dayen – The Intercept,
5 Dec 2016
A new study shows that nearly all patient advocacy groups are captured by the drug industry. Drug companies don’t only fund them, but also doctors, medical journals, university research, hospitals, and politicians.
→ read full article(Português) Novos escândalos de Temer comprovam que o impeachment de Dilma Rousseff visava proteção de corruptos
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
28 Nov 2016
25 Nov 2016 – O impeachment de Dilma não foi realizado para punir corruptos, mas para protegê-los. Nas duas últimas semanas, vimos dois novos escândalos de corrupção que confirmaram esse ponto de vista muito além do que seus defensores imaginavam ser possível. Em pouco tempo de mandato, Temer já perdeu cinco ministros por escândalos, mas as mais novas controvérsias são as mais graves até o momento.
→ read full articleIn Brazil, Major New Corruption Scandals Engulf the Faction that Impeached Dilma Rousseff
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
28 Nov 2016
The argument that impeachment would empower and protect the corrupt is now completely vindicated.
→ read full articleIn the Trump Era, Leaking and Whistleblowing Are More Urgent, and More Noble, Than Ever
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
21 Nov 2016
Trump has not yet been inaugurated, but all signs point to a presidency that will be deeply hostile to basic precepts of transparency. The Intercept is determined to enable sources to work with journalists in the safest way possible.
→ read full articleTroubling Study Says Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Who Will Be Criminals Based on Facial Features
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
21 Nov 2016
18 Nov 2016 – The fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning are moving so quickly that any notion of ethics is lagging decades behind, or left to works of science fiction. This might explain a new study out of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which says computers can tell whether you will be a criminal based on nothing more than your facial features.
→ read full articleSeeding Doubt: How Self-Appointed Guardians of “Sound Science” Tip the Scales toward Industry
Liza Gross – The Intercept,
21 Nov 2016
15 Nov 2016 – At a time when public mistrust of science runs high, non-experts are hard-pressed to separate fact from industry-sponsored spin. A nonprofit purports to help the misinformed public sift through alarmist claims about the environment. But it has a disturbing history of promoting industry experts.
→ read full articleSaudi Ambassador to the U.S. Vows to Keep Hitting Yemen, “No Matter What”
Zaid Jilani and Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
7 Nov 2016
1 Nov 2016 – At last week’s Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference — bankrolled by oil companies — the Saudi ambassador was the keynote speaker.
→ read full articleThree New Scandals Show How Pervasive and Dangerous Mass Surveillance Is in the West, Vindicating Snowden
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
7 Nov 2016
Each new investigation and judicial inquiry proves Snowden’s core warnings were correct.
→ read full articleThe U.S. and Russia Ensure a Balance of Terror in Syria
Charles Glass – The Intercept,
31 Oct 2016
The Russians, having lost Aden, Egypt, and Libya years earlier, backed their only client regime in the Arab world when it came under threat. The U.S. gave rhetorical and logistical support to rebels, raising false hopes — as it had done among the Hungarian patriots it left in the lurch in 1956 — that it would intervene with force to help them. Regional allies, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, were left to dispatch arms, money, and men, while disagreeing on objectives and strategy.
→ read full articlePrivate Eyes
Ryan Gallagher and Nicky Hager – The Intercept,
24 Oct 2016
The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance – The Medusa system, named after the mythical Greek monster with snakes instead of hair, had one main purpose: to vacuum up vast quantities of internet data at an astonishing speed.
→ read full articleHow Israel Became a Hub for Surveillance Technology
Alex Kane – The Intercept,
24 Oct 2016
Israel’s cyberwarriors are increasingly taking their skills to the private surveillance industry. And now Israel, the self-proclaimed “startup nation,” is selling its products around the world to governments that want to spy on their own citizens.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
Murtaza Hussain and Cora Currier – The Intercept,
17 Oct 2016
11 Oct 2016 – A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of “homegrown” terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to “radicalization,” concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts. Government officials rarely acknowledge the role that political grievances play in driving attacks.
→ read full articleReport Finds Loose Laws on Data and Surveillance in Latin America
Cora Currier – The Intercept,
17 Oct 2016
10 Oct 2016 – Privacy researchers warn of the potential for abuse of spyware and anti-encryption laws in countries across the region.
→ read full articleDelete Your Yahoo Account
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
17 Oct 2016
4 Oct 2016 – There’s no good reason to have a Yahoo account these days. Yahoo chose to comply with a classified “directive” to build “a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials” — the NSA in particular.
→ read full article(Português) Relatório expõe leis ultrapassadas sobre dados e vigilância na América Latina
Cora Currier – The Intercept Brasil,
17 Oct 2016
10 out 2016 – As leis de muitos países latino americanos não acompanharam a expansão das tecnologias de vigilância, criando a possibilidade de sérios abusos, de acordo com um novo relatório de uma entidade fiscalizadora de assuntos de privacidade.
→ read full articleTo Sell Weapons, Defense Contractors Make War Seem Fun
Naomi LaChance – The Intercept,
10 Oct 2016
6 Oct 2016 – A visit to the Association of the United States Army’s annual exposition. AUSA features a who’s who of the military-industrial complex, and the extreme excess of money in the industry is evident everywhere.
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Michel Temer Confession on Dilma’s Impeachment
The Intercept Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2016
Sep 22, 2016 – Speaking to a group of U.S. business and foreign policy elites, the country’s installed president, Michel Temer, admitted that what triggered the impeachment process was not any supposed “budgetary crimes,” but rather Dilma’s opposition to the neoliberal platform of social program cuts and privatization demanded by Temer’s party and the big-business interests that fund it.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Is Building a $100 Million Drone Base in Africa
Nick Turse – The Intercept,
3 Oct 2016
As the only country in the region willing to allow a U.S. base for MQ-9 Reapers — a newer, larger, and potentially more lethal model than the venerable Predator drone — Niger has positioned itself to be the key regional hub for U.S. military operations.
→ read full article(Português) Dilma diz que Michel Temer e seus aliados “confessam o golpe”
Inacio Vieira – The Intercept Brasil,
3 Oct 2016
Na primeira entrevista desde seu afastamento, a ex-presidente Dilma Rousseff citou a declaração em que Michel Temer diz que o impeachment foi motivado por Dilma não aceitar o plano econômico do PMDB, e não por supostas irregularidades praticadas por ela.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Impeached Ex-President Dilma Rousseff Says Successor “Confessed to the Coup”
Inacio Vieira – The Intercept,
3 Oct 2016
The impeached president highlights the stunning comments from Michel Temer that Brazil’s big media has ignored.
→ read full articleA Walking Tour of New York’s Massive Surveillance Network
Cora Currier – The Intercept,
26 Sep 2016
A new “field guide” by Ingrid Burrington makes visible the infrastructure of surveillance in New York, and explains the money and politics behind it.
→ read full articleWashington Post Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
26 Sep 2016
The Washington Post received countless benefits off Snowden’s back; now its editorial page wants him imprisoned.
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(Português) Michel Temer diz que impeachment aconteceu porque Dilma rejeitou ‘Ponte para o futuro’
The Intercept Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2016
22 setembro 2016 – O presidente Michel Temer deixou escapar um segredo em discurso para empresários e investidores: o impeachment de Dilma Rousseff ocorreu para implementar um plano de governo radicalmente diferente do que foi votado através das urnas em 2014, quando o PT ganhou a presidência pela quarta vez, e não por irregularidades praticadas pela ex-presidente.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Big Media Ignores Temer’s Confession — Except Estadão Columnist Who Falsely Claimed Video Was Altered
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – Speaking to a group of U.S. business and foreign policy elites, the country’s installed president, Michel Temer, admitted that what triggered the impeachment process was not any supposed “budgetary crimes,” but rather Dilma’s opposition to the neoliberal platform of social program cuts and privatization demanded by Temer’s party and the big-business interests that fund it.
→ read full articlePharma Company Funding Anti-Pot Fight Worried about Losing Business, Filings Show
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
19 Sep 2016
12 Sep 2016 – Pharmaceutical executives who recently made a major donation to an anti-marijuana legalization campaign claimed they were doing so out of concern for the safety of children — but their investor filings reveal that pot poses a direct threat to their plans to cash in on a synthetic cannabis product they have developed.
→ read full articleNew Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
Jenna McLaughlin and Talya Cooper – The Intercept,
19 Sep 2016
In the hope that Oliver Stone’s movie will spark more widespread interest in the NSA programs Snowden helped bring to light, The Intercept has compiled its stories based on the archive of documents, which can be explored through the chart below.
→ read full articleInside Menwith Hill: The NSA’s British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing
Ryan Gallagher – The Intercept,
12 Sep 2016
Documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden expose the controversial role of a massive NSA surveillance base in England’s countryside.
→ read full articleThe Death Toll in Yemen Is So High the Red Cross Has Started Donating Morgues to Hospitals
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
29 Aug 2016
25 Aug 2016 – Almost a year and a half into Saudi Arabia’s U.S.-backed bombing campaign in Yemen, the humanitarian toll has become so extensive that the International Committee of the Red Cross has taken the unusual step of donating entire morgue units to Yemeni hospitals.
→ read full articleThe NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm
Sam Biddle – The Intercept,
22 Aug 2016
On Monday [15 Aug], a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for “cyber weapons” made by the NSA. Based on never-before-published documents provided by Edward Snowden, The Intercept can confirm that the arsenal contains authentic NSA software, part of a powerful constellation of tools used to covertly infect computers worldwide.
→ read full article(Português) Bernie Sanders chama impeachment de antidemocrático enquanto Michel Temer perde força
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
15 Aug 2016
A denúncia de Sanders é feita enquanto a situação do presidente interino do Brasil continua a se desmoronar.
→ read full articleBernie Sanders Denounces Brazil’s Impeachment as Undemocratic, Calls for New Elections
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
15 Aug 2016
9 Aug 2016 – Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders yesterday denounced in harsh terms the impeachment of Brazil’s democratically elected president. As the Brazilian Senate heads toward a final vote later this month, Sanders described his position as “calling on the United States to take a definitive stand against efforts to remove Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff from office.” He added: “To many Brazilians and observers the controversial impeachment process more closely resembles a coup d’état.”
→ read full articleMicrosoft Pitches Technology That Can Read Facial Expressions at Political Rallies
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
8 Aug 2016
Microsoft officials declined to comment on exactly what information is collected on each face and what data is retained or stored, instead referring me to their privacy policy, which does not address the question. Microsoft’s marketing did not seem to match the consent policy. “It’s difficult to envision how companies will obtain consent from people in large crowds or rallies.”
→ read full articleIf Russian Intelligence Did Hack the DNC, the NSA Would Know, Snowden Says
Robert Mackey – The Intercept,
1 Aug 2016
The NSA has tools that should make it possible to trace the source of the hack. Even though the Director of National Intelligence usually opposes making such evidence public, he argued, this is a case in which the agency should do so, if only to discourage future attacks.
→ read full articleThe Long Cruel Reach of Indonesia’s Death Penalty
Liliana Segura – The Intercept,
1 Aug 2016
As Indonesia continues to execute groups of foreigners for drug crimes, the trauma reverberates across the globe.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: Folha comete fraude jornalística com pesquisa manipulada visando alavancar Temer
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau- The Intercept,
25 Jul 2016
Uma coisa é a mídia plutocrática brasileira incentivar e incitar abertamente a queda de um governo democraticamente eleito. De acordo com a RSF, esse comportamento representa uma ameaça direta à democracia e à liberdade de imprensa. Mas é muito diferente testemunhar a fabricação de manchetes e narrativas falsas insinuando que uma grande parte do país apoia o indivíduo que tomou o poder de forma antidemocrática, quando isso não é verdade.
→ read full article(Português) Brasil: A fraude jornalística da Folha é ainda pior: surgem novas evidências
Glenn Greenwald e Erick Dau – The Intercept,
25 Jul 2016
• Dados de pesquisa ocultados pela Folha mostram que a grande maioria dos eleitores quer a renúncia de Temer, o que contradiz categoricamente a matéria da Folha
• 62% dos brasileiros querem a renúncia de Dilma e Temer, e a realização de novas eleições: ao contrário dos 3% inicialmente mencionados pela Folha
• Dados cruciais da pesquisa foram publicados e, em seguida, retirados do ar pelo datafolha: encontrados por portal brasileiro
• Resposta do Diretor Executivo da Folha de São Paulo de que os dados ocultados não eram “jornalisticamente relevantes” não resiste a análise
Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Commits Major Journalistic Fraud to Boost Interim President Temer
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau – The Intercept,
25 Jul 2016
It’s one thing for Brazil’s plutocratic media to openly incite and agitate the fall of a democratically elected government. As Reporters Without Borders found, that behavior poses a direct threat to both democracy and press freedom. But it’s quite another to watch as they simply manufacture headlines and false narratives to suggest that a large portion of the country supports the individual who seized power undemocratically when they plainly do not.
→ read full articleBrazil: Folha’s Journalistic Fraud Far Worse Than We Reported Yesterday: A Smoking Gun Emerges
Glenn Greenwald and Erick Dau – The Intercept,
25 Jul 2016
• Polling data concealed by Folha shows a large majority want Temer to resign: directly contradicting Folha’s key claim
• 62 percent of Brazilians want Dilma and Temer to quit and new elections held: not 3 percent as Folha stated
• Incriminating data was published, then unpublished, by Datafolha: discovered yesterday by a Brazilian website
• Response from Folha’s executive editor — they withheld data that was not “journalistically relevant” — cannot withstand scrutiny
Clinton-Led Democrats Are Now “To the Right of George W. Bush” on Palestinian Rights
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 Jul 2016
Surprising or not, the Clinton-led Democratic Party’s hostility toward the most basic precepts of equality and dignity for Palestinians, and their willingness – their eagerness – to support and cheer for the most extremist Israeli acts of oppression, racism and decades-long occupation, is nothing short of despicable.
→ read full articleBillionaires in Brazil: Understanding How Extreme Wealth and Political Power Overlap Everywhere
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 Jul 2016
13 Jul 2016 – Alex Cuadros spent years covering the billionaire class of Latin America for Bloomberg. A Portuguese-speaking American journalist who spent years based in Brazil, he has now written a highly entertaining and deeply insightful book about the particularly powerful, flamboyant, assertive, and often-crazed class of Brazilian billionaires. Titled Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, his new book was released yesterday.
→ read full articleThe Network: Leaked Data Reveals How the U.S. Trains Vast Numbers of Foreign Soldiers and Police with Little Oversight
Douglas Gillison, Nick Turse and Moiz Syed – The Intercept,
18 Jul 2016
A Rand Corp. analysis from 2013 found that the Pentagon alone has 71 different authorities under which it provides foreign aid as a means of “building partner capacity,” or BPC — part of a system that the report criticized as akin to “a tangled web, with holes, overlaps, and confusions.” The Pentagon, for example, maintains no master list of the people it trains nor does it keep aggregate figures.
→ read full article(Português) Eventos importantes no Brasil expõem a fraude do impeachment de Dilma — e a corrupção de Temer
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
Elio Gaspari, importante colunista da Folha de São Paulo, maior jornal brasileiro, escreveu na terça-feira [28 junho] – sob o título “Há Golpe” – que, à luz deste novo relatório, o Impeachment de Dilma é um golpe no sentido de que é realizado sem eleições: por “estratagemas” através de “práticas ardilosas”. Enquanto isso, o partido de Temer, PMDB, é virtualmente o mais corrupto deste hemisfério.
→ read full articleObama Administration Finally Releases Its Dubious Drone Death Toll
Ryan Devereaux – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
In a long-anticipated gesture at transparency, the Obama administration on Friday [1 Jul] released an internal assessment of the number of civilians killed by drone strikes in nations where the U.S. is not officially at war.
→ read full articleThe Hunter –> He Was a Hacker for the NSA and He Was Willing to Talk. I Was Willing to Listen.
Peter Maass – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
The sender was a hacker who had written a series of provocative memos at the National Security Agency. His secret memos had explained — with an earthy use of slang and emojis that was unusual for an operative of the largest eavesdropping organization in the world — how the NSA breaks into the digital accounts of people who manage computer networks, and how it tries to unmask people who use Tor to browse the web anonymously.
→ read full articleMajor New Brazil Events Expose the Fraud of Dilma’s Impeachment — and Temer’s Corruption
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
4 Jul 2016
Whatever the motives were for getting rid of Dilma, illegality and corruption plainly had nothing to do with it. Just look at this week’s Senate report, or the face of the person they’ve installed, to see how true that is.
→ read full articleDuPont May Dodge Toxic Lawsuits by Pulling a Disappearing Act
Sharon Lerner – The Intercept,
20 Jun 2016
Deceit, duplicity, power play. First DuPont spun off much of its environmental liability into a new company known as Chemours. Now DuPont plans to merge with Dow.
→ read full articleWhy Is the Killer of British MP Jo Cox Not Being Called a “Terrorist”?
Glenn Greenwald - The Intercept,
20 Jun 2016
The term now has little meaning other than “a Muslim who engages in violence against Westerners or their allies.”
→ read full articleAs Corruption Engulfs Brazil’s “Interim” President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
20 Jun 2016
Now that Dilma is impeached, where have the “anti-corruption” protesters gone?
→ read full article(Português) Enquanto a corrupção assombra o Temer, caem as máscaras dos movimentos pró-impeachment
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
20 Jun 2016
Agora que Dilma está afastada, pra onde foram os manifestantes anticorrupção?
→ read full article(Português) Enquanto a corrupção em Brasília é exposta, os legisladores tentam criminalizar a dissidência
Andrew Fishman – The Intercept,
13 Jun 2016
10 Jun 2016 – O vazamento das gravações secretas envolvendo as mais poderosas figuras do Brasil causaram uma série de escândalos explosivos na atual crise política do país. Agora, os legisladores brasileiros estão tentando tornar ilegal a publicação destas gravações.
→ read full articleAs Brasília’s Corruption Is Exposed, Lawmakers Try to Criminalize Dissent
Andrew Fishman – The Intercept,
13 Jun 2016
Leaked secret audio recordings of Brazil’s most powerful figures have sparked a series of explosive scandals. Now, lawmakers are trying to outlaw their publication.
→ read full articleU.N. Chief Admits He Removed Saudi Arabia from Child-Killer List Due to Extortion
Alex Emmons and Zaid Jilani – The Intercept,
13 Jun 2016
9 Jun 2016 – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon publicly acknowledged today that he removed the Saudi-led coalition currently bombing Yemen from a blacklist of child killers — 72 hours after it was published — due to a financial threat to defund United Nations programs. He didn’t name the source of the threat, but news reports have indicated it came directly from the Saudi government.
→ read full articleHillary Clinton’s State Department Gave South Sudan’s Military a Pass for Its Child Soldiers
Nick Turse – The Intercept,
13 Jun 2016
The State Department under Clinton played a central and unacknowledged role in granting waivers for military aid to South Sudan despite its child soldiers.
→ read full article(Português) O Colapso de Credibilidade de Michel Temer – Agora Inelegível por Oito Anos
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
6 Jun 2016
Apenas 20 dias após assumir o poder, provas irrefutáveis do envolvimento do Presidente interino Michel Temer em escândalos de corrupção vieram à tona. Dois ministros interinos de seu gabinete composto apenas de homens brancos, incluindo o Ministro da Transparência, foram forçados a abandonar seus cargos depois do aparecimento de gravações secretas em que conspiram visando obstruir as investigações nas quais se encontram envolvidos, assim como 1/3 dos ministros do gabinete interino.
→ read full articleCredibility of Brazil’s Interim President Collapses as He Receives 8-Year Ban on Running for Office
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
6 Jun 2016
A mere 20 days into the seizure of power by the corruption-implicated “interim” President Michel Temer, overwhelming evidence has emerged: Already, two of the interim ministers in his all-white-male cabinet, including his anti-corruption minister, have been forced to resign after the emergence of secret recordings showing them plotting to obstruct the ongoing Car Wash investigation (in which they, along with one-third of his cabinet, are personally implicated).
→ read full articleHard Time: The U.S. Is the Only Country That Routinely Sentences Children to Life in Prison without Parole
Lisa Armstrong – The Intercept,
6 Jun 2016
Defying the Supreme Court, some states are still putting minors in prison for life despite mitigating circumstances.
→ read full articleVindication for Edward Snowden from a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga
Jenna McLaughlin and Dan Froomkin – The Intercept,
30 May 2016
New key player: John Crane, a former assistant inspector general at the Pentagon who was responsible for protecting whistleblowers was forced to become one himself when the process failed.
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(Português) Entrevista de Glenn Greenwald com Dilma Rousseff: A Primeira Desde Sua Suspensão
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
May 19, 2016 – Do Palácio da Alvorada, em Brasília, a presidente suspensa do Brasil falou ao The Intercept sobre suas declarações de que é vítima de um ‘golpe’, as acusações contra ela, a guinada à direita planejada pelo governo interino, e como ela acha que os brasileiros devem protestar e lutar contra esta subversão da democracia.
→ read full article(Portuguese) Assista: Primeira Entrevista Com a Presidente Dilma Rousseff Depois de Sua Suspensão
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
Na terça-feira [17 de maio], conversei com a Presidenta Dilma no Palácio do Planalto em sua primeira entrevista após ser suspensa. A entrevista de 22 minutos encontra-se logo abaixo. Em lugar de se comportar de forma subjugada, conformada ou derrotada, Dilma – presa e torturada por três anos pela ditadura militar que governou o país com o apoio dos EUA por 21 anos – está mais firme, combativa e determinada do que nunca.
→ read full articleThe Intercept Is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
We encourage other journalists, researchers, and interested parties to comb through these documents, along with future published batches, to find additional material of interest. Others may well find stories — or clues that lead to stories — that we didn’t. A primary objective of these batch releases is to make that kind of exploration possible.
→ read full articleTrauma and Deprivation Lead Syrian Youths to Extremist Groups, Says New Report
Murtaza Hussain – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
Syrian youths overwhelmingly cite practical rather than ideological reasons for joining militant groups after five years of civil war.
→ read full articleSnowden Archive——The SIDtoday Files
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2016
16 May 2016 – SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA’s most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. After editorial review, The Intercept is releasing nine years’ worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003. The agency’s spies explain a surprising amount about what they were doing, how they were doing it, and why.
→ read full articleNew Evidence about the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
Sharon Lerner – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
The two men have other things in common, too: After being regularly exposed to Roundup, both developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer that starts in the lymph cells. And, as of April, both are plaintiffs in a suit filed against Monsanto that marks a turning point in the pitched battle over the most widely used agricultural chemical in history.
→ read full articleWatch: First Interview with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff since the Senate’s Impeachment Vote
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
23 May 2016
On Tuesday [17 May], I spoke to President Rousseff in the presidential palace for her first interview since being suspended. The 22-minute interview, conducted in Portuguese with English subtitles, is below. Rather than subdued, resigned, and defeated, Rousseff — who was imprisoned and tortured for three years in the 1970s by the U.S.-supported military dictatorship that ruled the country for 21 years — is more combative, defiant, and resolute than ever.
→ read full articleBrazil’s Democracy to Suffer Grievous Blow as Unelectable, Corrupt Neoliberal is Installed
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 May 2016
11 May 2016 – Brazil’s senate voted this week to begin impeachment proceedings of Dilma Rousseff, suspending the nation’s first female president as she is put on trial by politicians neck-deep in their own scandals. Our co-founder Glenn Greenwald has written blistering critiques of the political turmoil from Rio de Janeiro, where he has lived for 11 years. “They are literally dismantling — crushing — democracy in the world’s fifth-largest country,” he writes.
→ read full articleGPS Tracking Devices Catch Major U.S. Recyclers Exporting Toxic E-Waste
Elizabeth Grossman – The Intercept,
16 May 2016
A two-year investigation of electronics recycling revealed that about one-third of the devices were improperly exported to developing countries where equipment is often dismantled in low-tech workshops — often by children — endangering workers, their families, and contaminating the surrounding environment.
→ read full article(Português) A Democracia Brasileira Sofrerá um Duro Revés com a Posse de um Inelegível e Corrupto Neoliberal
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
16 May 2016
O sucessor será o Vice-Presidente Michel Temer, do PMDB. Ele está submerso em corrupção: foi acusado por delatores de envolvimento em um esquema ilegal de compra de etanol, acaba de ser considerado culpado, e multado, por irregularidades nos gastos de campanha, e enfrenta a possibilidade de ficar inelegível por 8 anos. Ele é profundamente impopular: apenas 2% dos brasileiros o apoiariam como presidente, e quase 60% querem seu impeachment. Mas ele servirá fielmente aos interesses dos ricos do Brasil.
→ read full articleWhistleblowing Is Not Just Leaking — It’s an Act of Political Resistance
Edward Snowden – The Intercept,
9 May 2016
One of the challenges of being a whistleblower is living with the knowledge that people continue to sit, just as you did, at those desks, in that unit, throughout the agency, who see what you saw and comply in silence, without resistance or complaint. They learn to live not just with untruths but with unnecessary untruths, dangerous untruths, corrosive untruths.
→ read full article(Português) Mauricio Lima, Fotógrafo do NYT e Ganhador do Pulitzer 2016, Denuncia a Globo e o “Golpe” no Brasil
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 May 2016
“Gostaria de expressar meu apoio a liberdade de imprensa e a Democracia, que é exatamente o que não está acontecendo no Brasil nesse momento. Sou contra o Golpe,” disse o herói brasileiro, também denunciando a Globo.
→ read full articleNYT Photographer Mauricio Lima, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Denounces Globo and the “Coup” in Brazil
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 May 2016
Brazil’s media has completely lost control of the narrative internationally, but also increasingly within Brazil. Their sleazy plan to install as president the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer – who just this week, in a indescribably Orwellian manner, called proposals for “new elections” a “coup” – is becoming untenable.
→ read full articleAndrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
Charles Glass – The Intercept,
2 May 2016
23 Apr 2016 – The conviction that invasion, bombing, and special forces benefit large swaths of the globe, while remaining consonant with a Platonic ideal of the national interest, runs deep in the American psyche. Nothing undermines the American belief in military force. No matter how often its galloping about results in resentment, the U.S. gets up again to do good elsewhere. Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal pointed out that drone strikes are great recruiters, not for the U.S. military, but for the Taliban, al Qaeda, and ISIS.
→ read full articleThe Joke of U.S. Justice and “Accountability” When They Bomb a Hospital
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
2 May 2016
One officer was suspended from command and ordered out of Afghanistan. The others were given lesser punishments: Six were sent to counseling, seven were issued letters of reprimand, and two were ordered to retraining courses.
→ read full articleDeath from the Sky: Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing
May Jeong – The Intercept,
2 May 2016
While patients and more than 100 employees and caretakers slept in the Kunduz Trauma Center, an American AC-130 gunship prepared to strike. The 211 shells fired at a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Afghanistan one night last October were felt by the 42 men, women, and children killed, victims of incompetence or prejudice or both. Someone along the US military chain of command gave the order.
→ read full article(Português) Para Entender a Verdade no Brasil, Veja Quem Está Sendo Implantado na Presidência — e na Chefia das Finanças
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
25 Apr 2016
Uma pesquisa recente mostrou que apenas 2% dos brasileiros votariam no Vice-Presidente do Brasil Michel Temer. Ele está sob suspeita por conta de um depoimento que ligou seu nome a um enorme escândalo de propina. E uma alta corte da justiça decidiu que o Congresso deve considerar a abertura de impeachment contra ele. No entanto, está se preparando para assumir o Brasil no próximo mês se o Senado decidir depor a Presidente Dilma Roussef em julgamento.
→ read full articleTo See the Real Story in Brazil, Look at Who Is Being Installed as President — and Finance Chiefs
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
25 Apr 2016
One recent poll found that only 2 percent of Brazilians would vote for Michel Temer, Brazil’s vice president. He is under scrutiny over testimony linking him to a colossal graft scandal. And a high court justice ruled that Congress should consider impeachment proceedings against him. He is preparing to take the helm of Brazil next month if the Senate decides to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial.
→ read full articleWATCH: Exclusive Interview by Glenn Greenwald with Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 Apr 2016
Facing one of the worst scandals of his political career, including a criminal investigation, Lula is more challenging than ever and shows willingness to face the presidential elections of 2018.
→ read full article(Português) ASSISTA: Entrevista Exclusiva de Glenn Greenwald com ex-Presidente Lula
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
18 Apr 2016
Enfrentando um dos piores escândalos de sua carreira política, incluindo uma investigação criminal, Lula é mais desafiador do que nunca, e se mostra disposto para a corrida presidencial de 2018.
→ read full articleEcho Papa Exposed: Inside Erik Prince’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force
Jeremy Scahill and Matthew Cole – The Intercept,
18 Apr 2016
The conversion of crop dusters into light attack aircraft had long been part of Prince’s vision for defeating terrorists and insurgencies in Africa and the Middle East. In Prince’s view, these single-engine fixed-wing planes, retrofitted for war zones, would revolutionize the way small wars were fought. They would also turn a substantial profit.
→ read full articleCable News Devotes 30 Seconds to Mass Arrests Protesting Political Corruption
Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani – The Intercept,
18 Apr 2016
The Democracy Spring, a protest to “end the corruption of big money in our politics” and “ensure free and fair elections,” on Monday [11 Apr] staged a nonviolent sit-in on Capitol Hill that resulted in over 400 arrests. CNN did not devote any coverage, MSNBC mentioned the protests for approximately 12 seconds, while Fox News mentioned the arrests and discussed the protests for about 17 seconds.
→ read full articleHere’s a Way to Shut Down Panama Papers-Style Tax Havens — If We Wanted To
Jon Schwarz – The Intercept,
18 Apr 2016
Tax havens serve two functions: tax evasion, which involves hiding assets and is illegal, and tax avoidance, which is done by multinational corporations in the open and is legal (since the same corporations have conveniently made sure the laws work that way.). Eliminating them requires different strategies. It is not technically difficult to crush the tax haven industry. The challenge would be mustering the political will.
→ read full articleGlenn Greenwald Interviews Brazil’s Ex-President Lula
The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016 – Glenn Greenwald sat down with Brazil’s ex-President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva to discuss the corruption scandal that has engulfed Lula’s Worker’s Party, or PT, and Brazil’s current President Dilma Rousseff.
→ read full articleL.A. Activists Want to Bring Surveillance Conversation Down to Earth
Jenna McLaughlin – The Intercept,
11 Apr 2016
The LAPD uses big data for “predictive policing,” street cameras with highly accurate facial recognition capabilities, Stingrays, and DRT boxes — which imitate cellphone towers to track nearby phones or jam signals — automatic license plate readers, body cameras, and drones. “How many different ways are our bodies being constantly tracked, traced, and monitored, not just online?”
→ read full articlePro-TPP Op-Eds Remarkably Similar to Drafts by Foreign Government Lobbyists
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
11 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 – Opinion columns published in California newspapers over the last year in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership use language nearly identical to drafts written and distributed by public relations professionals who were retained by the Japanese government to build U.S. support for the controversial trade agreement.
→ read full articleUSA: Prisoners in Multiple States Call for Strikes to Protest Forced Labor
Alice Speri – The Intercept,
11 Apr 2016
4 Apr 2016 – Prison inmates around the country have called for a series of strikes against forced labor, demanding reforms of parole systems and prison policies, as well as more humane living conditions, a reduced use of solitary confinement, and better health care.
→ read full articleA Key Similarity between Snowden Leak and Panama Papers: Scandal Is What’s Been Legalized
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept,
11 Apr 2016
Vital journalism does not only expose law breaking. It also highlights how corrupted political and legal systems can be co-opted by the most powerful in order to legally sanction atrocious and destructive behavior that serves their interests, typically with little or no public awareness that it’s been done.
→ read full articleWhile Stockpiling Banned Land Mines, U.S. Boasts about Its Record of Clearing Them
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
11 Apr 2016
The U.N. has adopted an international Mine Ban Treaty, but the United States refuses to sign on.
→ read full articleObama’s Nuclear Security Summit Neglects 98 Percent of the World’s Bomb-Ready Uranium
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
4 Apr 2016
The summits have focused on highly enriched uranium in civilian possession, while most of the supply — and the risk — comes from military-owned material.
→ read full articleA Conversation on Privacy with Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald
Alex Emmons – The Intercept,
4 Apr 2016
30 Mar 2016 – Snowden noted that Belgian authorities overlooked signs of a terror attack. “When you collect everything, you understand nothing,” he said. “You’re blinded by the noise.”
→ read full article