theintercept.com —  58+ min ago

...The Atlantic Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Iraq War With Lavish Falsehoods About Iraq War.... ...Bush administration sell the war, publishing lavish falsehoods about how Iraq posed a terrible danger to the U.S. (It did not.).... ...Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, never said a word about this arsenal of chemical weapons that Frum says were discovered by the U.S.... ...One incredible example appeared in a March 13 article in The Atlantic by David Frum, who is best known for serving as a speechwriter for President...

theintercept.com —  17+ hour, 10+ min ago

...Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, officials violated New York City pastor Kaji Dousa's constitutional rights by adding her to a blacklist of... ...A federal judge in California sided with a pastor who was targeted by U.S. authorities in a border surveillance program under former President Donald... ...San Diego-Tijuana area.... ...Dousa filed suit against CBP and other elements of the Department of Homeland Security in July 2019 after a government whistleblower leaked internal...

theintercept.com —  1+ day, 58+ min ago

...This week on Deconstructed: Journalists Neha Wadekar and Ryan Grim narrate the saga of Bridge International Academies.... ...Bridge International is the largest for-profit education chain in the world, serving upward of 750,000 children in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Liberia... ...The United Kingdom's development bank, the European Investment Bank, and the International Finance Corporation -- the IFC -- of the World Bank funded... ...Some of the highest-profile do-good donors in the game stepped in to finance the education start-up, including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pierre...

theintercept.com —  13+ hour, 47+ min ago

...Former President Donald Trump points to the crowd as he leaves after speaking at a campaign rally, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas.... ...Army began to strip its bases of their old Confederate names last week, as Donald Trump faced a possible criminal indictment.... ...; Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the base Trump talked about in 2020, will be renamed Fort Liberty at an event tentatively scheduled for June.... ...George Pickett, remembered as the losing commander of "Pickett's Charge," the doomed Confederate assault on Union lines at the battle of Gettysburg...

theintercept.com —  13+ hour, 42+ min ago

...Two months after teaming up with the Indian government to censor a BBC documentary on human rights abuses by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Twitter... ...for a local Sikh nationalist leader, Amritpal Singh.... ...lawyer and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.... ...The Twitter account for Jagmeet Singh (no relation to Amritpal), a leading progressive Sikh Canadian politician and critic of Modi, was also not...

theintercept.com —  1+ day ago

..."We feel betrayed, because we thought this was an administration that really believed in wildlife protections," Manda Kalimian, president of the... ...wild horse and environmental advocacy group Cana Foundation, told me recently.... ...By 2020, Congress had fully funded Path Forward, and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, whom Joe Biden celebrated as the first Native American... ...This was the conclusion of a National Academy of Sciences report in 2013....

theintercept.com —  2+ day ago

...Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and Israeli military raids at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.... ..., the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.... ...Palestinian human rights activist and executive director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development, a prominent civil society group, told... ...parliamentary body, a spike attributed to the coalition government formed by Knesset members Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid....

theintercept.com —  3+ day, 58+ min ago

...But a new book by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad provides a radically different perspective: that of an ordinary Iraqi who witnessed firsthand the decimation... ...As Abdul-Ahad goes on to explain, "A nation can't be bombed, humiliated and sanctioned, then bombed again, and then told to become a democracy.".... ...Following a chance encounter with a British reporter covering the invasion, Abdul-Ahad became a journalist himself, bearing witness to the total... ...Abdul-Ahad grew up under the rule of Saddam Hussein, a man whose power was so omnipresent that as a youth Abdul-Ahad pictured the dictator as "God...

theintercept.com —  3+ day ago

...Texas city of Waco.... ...decades: the 70-plus men, women, and children killed in the spring of 1993 at the conclusion of a 51-day government siege at a compound outside the Central... ...Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was a believer in the former.... ...The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives suspected the Davidians of having an illegal weapons cache in the compound that included...

theintercept.com —  3+ day ago

...Moscow, with the support of China, plans to introduce a resolution before the United Nations Security Council on Monday calling for an independent... ...The Russian government has accused Germany, Denmark, and Sweden of a cover-up in their investigations into the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream... ...Security Council meeting in February, Russia's representative Vassily Nebenzia cited investigative journalist Seymour Hersh's report accusing the... ...On February 17, the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry fired off letters not only to Germany, Sweden, and Denmark, but also to the U.S. and Norway,...