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Thursday, February 5, 2015Exclusive Interview: Sami Al-Arian, Professor Who Defeated Controversial Terrorism Charges, Deported From U.S. Despite the personal harm he suffered and the intense surveillance to which he had been subjected since as early as 1993, the government ultimately failed to produce any evidence of Al-Arian's involvement in terrorist activities, instead relying at trial overwhelmingly on the pro-Palestinian writing and speaking he had done over the years.
Thursday, January 29, 2015The Petulant Entitlement Syndrome of Journalists Prior to the advent of blogs, establishment journalists were largely immunized even from hearing criticisms. If a life-tenured New York Times columnist wrote something stupid or vapid, or a Sunday TV news host conducted a sycophantic interview with a government official, there was no real mechanism for the average non-journalist citizen to voice critiques.
Friday, January 16, 2015Latest FBI Claim Of Disrupted Terror Plot Deserves Much Scrutiny And Skepticism The known facts from this latest case seem to fit well within a now-familiar FBI pattern whereby the agency does not disrupt planned domestic terror attacks but rather creates them, then publicly praises itself for stopping its own plots. Predictably, political officials instantly exploited the news to justify their powers of domestic surveillance.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015France arrests comedian for Facebook comments, showing the sham of the West's "Free Speech" Celebration Since that glorious "free speech" march, France has reportedly opened 54 criminal cases for "condoning terrorism." AP reported this morning that "France ordered prosecutors around the country to crack down on hate speech, anti-Semitism and glorifying terrorism."
Tuesday, January 13, 2015Dianne Feinstein, Strong Advocate Of Leak Prosecutions, Demands Immunity For David Petraeus Feinstein wanted Julian Assange, who isn't a US citizen and never served in the US Government, prosecuted for espionage for exposing war crimes, and demanded that Edward Snowden be charged with "treason" for exposing illegal eavesdropping which shocked the world. But a four-star general who leaked classified information not for any noble purpose but to his mistress should be protected from any legal consequences.
Friday, January 9, 2015In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons This week's defense of free speech rights was so spirited that it gave rise to a brand new principle: to defend free speech, one not only defends the right to disseminate the speech, but embraces the content of the speech itself. One should not merely condemn the attacks and defend the right of the cartoonists to publish, but should publish and even celebrate those cartoons.
Thursday, January 1, 2015North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government claims None of the expert skepticism made its way into countless media accounts of the Sony hack. Time and again, many journalists mindlessly regurgitated the U.S. Government's accusation against North Korea without a shred of doubt, blindly assuming it to be true, and then discussing, often demanding, strong retaliation.
Saturday, December 20, 2014Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, The Senior Officer At The Center Of The CIA's Torture Scandals The person described by both NBC and The New Yorker is senior CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. Multiple news outlets have reported that as the result of a long string of significant errors and malfeasance, her competence and integrity are doubted -- even by some within the agency.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014Jeb Bush V. Hillary Clinton: The Perfectly Illustrative Election Having someone who is the brother of one former president and the son of another run against the wife of still another former president would be sweetly illustrative of all sorts of degraded and illusory aspects of American life, from meritocracy to class mobility.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014U.S. TV Provides Ample Platform For American Torturers, But None To Their Victims When America is forced to confront its heinous acts, the central strategy is to disappear the victims; render them invisible. That's what robs them of their humanity. That is what enables American elites first to support atrocities, and then, when forced to reckon with them, tell themselves that--despite some isolated and well-intentioned bad acts--they are still really good, elevated, noble, admirable people.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014Live Coverage Of The Senate Torture Report American torture was not confined to a handful of aberrational cases or techniques, nor was it the work of rogue CIA agents. It was an officially sanctioned, worldwide regime of torture that had the acquiescence, if not explicit approval, of the top members of both political parties in Congress. It was motivated by far more than interrogation.
Sunday, December 7, 2014Release of Six Detainees After Twelve Years Highlights the Historic Evil of Guantanamo The U.S. military overnight transferred six Guantanamo detainees to Uruguay. All of them had been imprisoned since 2002 -- more than 12 years. None has ever been charged with a crime, let alone convicted of any wrongdoing. They had all been cleared for release years ago by the Pentagon itself, but nonetheless remained in cages until today.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014In US-Supported Egypt, 188 Protesters Are Sentenced To Die Days After Mubarak Is Effectively Freed While Mubarak and his cronies are immunized for their savage crimes, 188 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who participated in anti-Sisi protests that led to the deaths of 11 police officers, were handed death sentences today en masse.
Friday, November 28, 2014Talking To James Risen About Pay Any Price, The War On Terror And Press Freedoms There have been lots of critiques of the War on Terror on its own terms, but Risen's is one of the first to offer large amounts of original reporting on what is almost certainly the most overlooked aspect of this war: the role corporate profiteering plays in ensuring its endless continuation, and how the beneficiaries use rank fear-mongering to sustain it.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014The US/UK Campaign To Demonize Social Media Companies As Terrorist Allies All of this is part of a clear and definitely coordinated campaign by the U.S. and UK Governments to demonize social media companies as terrorist-helpers in order to force them to act as (even more) obedient snooping agents for the National Security State.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014Congress Is Irrelevant On Mass Surveillance -- Here's What Matters Instead The pro-NSA Republican senators were actually arguing that if the NSA were no longer allowed to bulk-collect communication records of Americans inside the U.S., then ISIS would kill you and your kids. But because they were speaking in an empty chamber and only to their warped and insulated D.C. circles and sycophantic aides, there was nobody there to cackle contemptuously or tell them how self-evidently moronic it all was.
Saturday, November 15, 2014Cynics, Step Aside: There is Genuine Excitement Over A Hillary Clinton Candidacy One shouldn't be jaded. There is genuine and intense excitement over the prospect of (another) Clinton presidency. Many significant American factions regard her elevation to the Oval Office as an opportunity for rejuvenation, as a stirring symbol of hope and change, as the vehicle for vital policy advances.
Thursday, November 13, 2014John Cook Is Leaving The Intercept To Retun To Gawker At The End Of The Year The Intercept's editor-in-chief, John Cook, who spent the year tripling our staff size and significantly increasing our daily journalistic output, is leaving at the end of the year to return to Gawker Media. Deputy Editor Ryan Tate will continue to work with John and the rest of the newsroom to effect a smooth transition until the search for Cook's permanent replacement, already underway, is completed.
Thursday, October 30, 2014The Inside Story of Matt Taibbi's Departure From First Look Media Taibbi's departure means that First Look has lost a talented, unique, and influential journalistic voice before he published a single word. After months of struggle and negotiation, The Intercept has arrived at the point where it can function effectively: with full editorial freedom and an ample budget. But First Look and Taibbi failed to reach a similar mutual understanding.
Sunday, October 26, 2014Compare How U.S. Responds to the Killing of American Kids Based on Identity of the Killers When the U.S. calls for a "speedy and transparent investigation" of the West Bank shooting, what they mean is that they want the IDF -- the occupying force which killed the American teenager -- to investigate (and inevitably clear) itself.
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