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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
The House Oversight Committee hearing on the oil industry Thursday was advertised as a mirror image of the iconic 1994 hearing that many believe turned the tides in the tobacco wars.
That year, a group of older, […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
The federal government loses $600 billion each year because wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes. The top 1 percent of Americans “choose not to pay” more than $160 billion a year in taxes, according to an ana […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Kavitha Kasargod-Staub was looking forward to sending her two kids back to elementary school this fall. After a year of remote learning in Washington, D.C., her kids spent the summer attending day camp. “I’m cer […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
On what would be the last day of his life, Zemari Ahmadi, an employee of a U.S.-based NGO, was being watched by a remote crew piloting a Predator drone above the skies of Kabul, Afghanistan. As Ahmadi went about […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
In June 2010, the body of Sen. Robert Byrd lay in repose on the floor of the U.S. Senate, offering his colleagues a final opportunity to pay their respects. For years, Byrd had lorded over West Virginia politics, […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
As the negotiations over President Joe Biden’s sweeping budget reconciliation bill drag on, Democrats are struggling to find a set of compromises that will satisfy congressional progressives while still se […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
An order signed by Israel’s defense minister on Friday designated six leading Palestinian human rights groups “terror organizations,” marking an escalation in Israel’s effort to deprive independent agencie […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Kyrsten Sinema might be on the young side for a senator — less than half the age of some of her colleagues — but she represents the Democratic Party’s past. Think of her and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as the dead […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
The national leadership of the largest labor federation in the country is trying to stop one of its affiliates from debating and voting on a resolution that condemns Israeli violence against Palestinians, calls […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
RABAT, MOROCCO — In February 2020, Moroccan human rights activist Fouad Abdelmoumni received some bone-chilling news: He and his partner had been filmed having sex inside their own home, and videos of their i […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
President Joe Biden will soon decide an obscure but potent question: Which secret files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy should be made fully public?
When President Donald Trump faced the […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
After months of delay, a Senate committee held a confirmation hearing Tuesday for President Joe Biden’s pick to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the nation’s largest law enforcement agency, who sig […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
“Do you want to continue with this medication?” asks an actor portraying a doctor in a new political ad, holding a pill bottle out to a fictional patient. When the patient nods, the fake doctor turns left to two […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Joe Crowley, the former chair of the House Democratic Caucus who famously lost his 2018 primary to progressive challenger Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is now lobbying for one of Wall Street’s most p […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
As the U.S. continues to pursue WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition from the U.K., an explosive story from Yahoo News has revealed that top officials, including then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo, di […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
As the national push to vaccinate people against Covid-19 continues, hundreds of thousands of hacked documents show how a group of doctors is explicitly pushing unproven and potentially dangerous alternatives on […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
The New York City Police Department, the largest police department in the country, is continuing to use surveillance drones made by a Chinese company that the U.S. government has made moves to ban, labeling it a […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.
The restrictions appear to trace […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
On Sunday, a former Facebook data scientist went on “60 Minutes” to accuse the company of defrauding its advertising customers and deliberately engineering social division and ethnic strife. Then on Mond […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
It was a remote work opportunity, with no fixed hours, and it paid in dollars. In a moment of extreme economic crisis playing out in Brazil, the offer seemed irresistible. Felipe, who was unemployed, took the job […]
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