“No military in the world works as hard as we do to avoid civilian casualties,” Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said recently. Experts say that isn’t true. “There was a time I could have said that,” Larry Lewis, who spent a decade analyzing military operations for the U.S. government under Presidents Continue Reading
Texas Troopers Opened Fire From a Helicopter in 2012. Families Are Still Fighting to Hold Them Accountable.
In the village of Varituc el Carmen in Guatemala’s highlands, Maria Maura is raising three children without a father. There’s not much time for dwelling on the past, only survival. The military has repeatedly cordoned off their community and placed it under quarantine because of the high rate of Covid-19 Continue Reading
PF legaliza seguranças que aterrorizam moradores de antiga usina de açúcar em Pernambuco
Em janeiro de 2020, 10 seguranças armados foram até uma das casas do Engenho Barro Branco e destruíram uma cerca. No fim daquele mês, colocaram abaixo 10 mil pés de banana de um dos agricultores que ocupa as terras, parte da desativada Usina Frei Caneca, na cidade de Jaqueira, na Continue Reading
Marco Rubio Met With Far-Right Chilean Candidate Tied to Military Dictatorship
Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday took a surprise meeting with a Chilean presidential candidate who often speaks favorably of the country’s time under military dictator Augusto Pinochet. José Antonio Kast is locked in a runoff election against a left-wing challenger and is often referred to as Chile’s Jair Bolsonaro, the Continue Reading
Empire After Trump: Joe Biden and the National Security State
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2021 Time: 3 p.m. ET/12 p.m. PT RSVP Here Most Americans view the battle between Republicans and Democrats as the defining feature of contemporary politics. Yet U.S. militarism and the preservation of American imperial power has long been a source of common ground for both parties. Continue Reading
Facebook Papers: as provas que faltavam para mostrar como a rede manipulou você
No final de 2017, o Facebook anunciou uma novidade para conquistar um novo público: um aplicativo de mensagens para crianças. O Messenger Kids foi apresentado com os diferenciais de poder ser monitorado pelos pais e ter sido desenvolvido com apoio de especialistas. A ideia era permitir que as crianças “se Continue Reading
Investigators Debunk Far-Right Claim That Dayton Mass Shooting Was Linked to Antifa
A two-year investigation into the August 4, 2019, mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, concluded this week with the finding that the gunman, Connor Betts, was not inspired by antifascism or “aligned to any specific ideological group” when he opened fire outside a crowded bar, killing his sister and eight other Continue Reading
Precisamos de mais apoiadores para fazer a cobertura eleitoral mais corajosa de 2022
Ilustração: Rodrigo Bento/The Intercept Brasil Em setembro de 2018, o Intercept colocou no ar sua primeira campanha de financiamento coletivo. A ideia era levantar recursos para cobrir a fundo as eleições daquele ano, cruciais para o Brasil. Criado pela fundação First Look Institute, o Intercept começava a buscar independência financeira Continue Reading
The Biden Administration’s Game of Chicken With Border Patrol Over Vaccines
On November 16, a Border Patrol agent sent an email to around 3,000 colleagues comprising the agency’s entire Rio Grande Valley sector that decried the Biden administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The mandate requiring all federal workers to be fully vaccinated by November 22 was issued in September, and the agent had Continue Reading
PF legaliza seguranças que aterrorizam moradores de antiga usina de açúcar em Pernambuco
Em janeiro de 2020, 10 seguranças armados foram até uma das casas do Engenho Barro Branco e destruíram uma cerca. No fim daquele mês, colocaram abaixo 10 mil pés de banana de um dos agricultores que ocupa as terras, parte da desativada Usina Frei Caneca, na cidade de Jaqueira, na Continue Reading