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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
As Hurricane Ida wrought destruction throughout Louisiana and Mississippi this week, the companies that own the oil rigs and refineries in the storm’s path — and helped fuel this and the other natural dis […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
The FBI’s secretive spy plane program targeted a man in Florida last year with nearly constant surveillance, logging more than 400 hours in the air with a fleet of Cessna aircraft registered to what appear to be f […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
The United States flew its last military flight out of Afghanistan, ending the 20-year war in the country — the longest in U.S. history. This week on Intercepted: Journalist Spencer Ackerman discusses his new b […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
Right up until his death in 2018, Ferik Duka dreamed of seeing his three eldest sons, Shain, Dritan, and Eljvir, freed from prison. In 2009, the three brothers were sentenced to life for their role in an alleged […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
1979: Inventing Competitiveness
On the morning of June 6, 1979, Navy Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, the longest-serving officer in the history of the U.S. armed services, sat down before a Senate subcommittee on the […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
Indigenous communities in Brazil organized the largest-ever native protests to block what they described as “a declaration of extermination” from lawmakers representing agribusiness, mining, and logging int […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
In its bid to go public next week, Israeli cellphone hacking company Cellebrite has tried to present itself as a defender of global human rights, highlighting its withdrawal from Bangladesh, Belarus, China, Hong […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, U.S.-backed Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum’s forces murdered hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners by jamming them i […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
Software used by the Department of Homeland Security to scan the records of millions of immigrants can automatically flag naturalized Americans to potentially have their citizenship revoked based on secret […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
A media consensus has quickly emerged around the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal, and it goes like this: Whatever its merits in the abstract, the whole thing has been a chaotic debacle in its ex […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
Jack Keane has had a busy week.
The retired four-star general has been making the cable news rounds, offering scathing criticism of the White House in wake of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, he […] -
theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
With gas masks covering their faces, police officers in Mobile, Alabama, stood guard at the entrance of a highway on-ramp as tear gas wafted in the air. Then, video shows, a woman wearing a red handkerchief around […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
The Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, emerged from the shadows on Tuesday and devoted part of his first press conference to a rant about Facebook, in which he accused the tech giant of violating the Islamist […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 8 months ago
The Taliban have seized U.S. military biometrics devices that could aid in the identification of Afghans who assisted coalition forces, current and former military officials have told The Intercept.
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 9 months ago
When vacuum cleaners first showed up outside the cells at Guantánamo Bay, the men being held there were amused. Some of the detainees, poor farmers from Afghanistan or Yemen, had never seen such devices, and t […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 9 months ago
Last month, President Joe Biden announced that America’s “military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on August 31st.” In the time since the July 8 statement, a Taliban offensive has overrun city after city […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 9 months ago
The biggest Al Qaeda plot the FBI claimed to have foiled in the years following the 9/11 attacks involved no weapons, no plot, and no Al Qaeda. Instead, the vague, implausible threat by a group of construction […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 9 months ago
Faheem Qureshi was 13 years old when the war on terror came crashing into his life. Faheem lived in the village of Ziraki, in the tribal regions of northwestern Pakistan. He was coming home from a long day of […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 9 months ago
On a recent evening in Atlanta, a group of over 100 residents gathered in the sanctuary of a local church, spaced out and wearing masks to follow pandemic precautions. “We are dealing with a very important issue t […]
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theintercept wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 9 months ago
Public relations experts working for a mysterious client have been preparing ghostwritten opinion columns set to run in Arizona newspapers.
The columns sharply warn Democratic Sens. Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema […] - Load More