Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition
By The Intercept
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The Intercept produces fearless, adversarial journalism, covering stories the mainstream media misses on national security, politics, criminal justice, technology, surveillance, privacy, and human rights. A SpokenEdition transforms written content into human-read audio you can listen to anywhere. It's perfect for times when you can't read - while driving, at the gym, doing chores, etc. Find more at www.spokenedition.com
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CleanWe Need Memorial Day to Obscure the Unbearable Truth About War | If you’re anywhere near Washington, D.C. this Memorial Day, I strongly recommend a visit to Arlington National Cemetery. There may be nowhere where American history is more highly concentrated in all its kooky cruel splendor — and so there’s also no better place to ask questions about it. For instance, the grounds and the mansion at the entrance of Arlington once belonged to Robert E. Lee’s wife. | 5/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe U.S. Has Ramped Up Airstrikes Against ISIS In Raqqa, and Syrian Civilians Are Paying the Price | On April 24, a group of Syrian womenbundled themselves and their children into a carand attempted to flee the small townof Tabqa, outside of Raqqa. In recent months the sleepy principality had become the site of raging battles between Islamic Statemilitants and U.S.-backed proxy forces, waging a campaign to drive ISIS from the country. | 5/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDonald Trump’s War on Journalism Has Begun. But Journalists Are Not His Main Target. | Wars are rarely announced in advance, but President Trump provided an abundance of warning about his intention to wage anassault on journalism. During the election campaign, he called journalists an “enemy of the people” and described media organizations he didn’t like as “fake news. | 5/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanVillagers Say Yemeni Child Was Shot as He Tried to Flee Navy SEAL Raid | Five civilians includinga child were killed and another five were wounded in the latest U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Yemen, according to eyewitness accounts gathered by The Intercept. The raid by U.S. commandos in the hamlet of al Adhlan, in the Yemeni province of Mareb on May 23, also destroyed at least four homes. Navy SEALs, with air support from more than half a dozen attack helicopters and aircraft, were locked in a firefight with Yemeni tribesmen for over an hour, according to local residents. | 5/30/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLeaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies” | A shadowy internationalmercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first detailed picture of how TigerSwan, which originated as a U.S. | 5/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAs Trump Travels to Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom’s D.C. Lobbying Surge Is Paying Off | An examination by The Intercept oflobbyist disclosuresfiled with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act shows that Saudi Arabia has greatly expanded its spending on influence peddling during the past two years. Since 2015 the Kingdom has expanded the number of foreign agentson retainer to 145 individuals, up from 25 registered agents during the previous two year period. | 5/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSweden Withdraws Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange, but he Still Faces Serious Legal Jeopardy | Swedish prosecutors announced this morning that they were terminating their seven-year-old sex crimes investigation into Julian Assange and withdrawing their August 20, 2010, arrest warrant for him. | 5/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBritish Intelligence Warned Tony Blair of Manchester-Like Terrorism if the West Invaded Iraq | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has yet to say anything about Monday’s heinous, nihilistic suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. According to current reporting, the attack has been claimed by ISIS and was carried out by a 22-year-old man born in Manchester to Libyan refugees. But when Blair does speak, we can be certain he won’t mention one key fact: Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the U.S. and U.K. | 5/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrump Called Rodrigo Duterte to Congratulate Him on His Murderous Drug War: “You Are Doing an Amazing Job” | In a phone call from the White Houselate last month,U.S. President Donald Trump heaped praise on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte,one of the world’s most murderous heads of state, fordoing what Trump called an“unbelievable job” in his war on drugs. | 5/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDonald Trump’s Pick for EPA Enforcement Office Was a Lobbyist for Superfund Polluters | Residents of Hoosick Falls, New York, recently took comfort in EPA administrator Scott Pruitt’s announcements that the agency will be prioritizing the Superfund program. | 5/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMeet the Pastor Running as a Progressive Republican to Get Big Money Out of Politics | The Republican Party wasn’t always an organization dominated by the ultra-wealthy. While today most of its federal representatives in Congress are trying to pass a gigantic tax cut for the rich disguised as a health care bill, it was once a party that liberated American slaves, established the Environmental Protection Agency, and broke up enormous business monopolies. That’s the GOP that 42-year-old Arkansas pastor Robb Ryerse is trying to revive. | 5/24/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDeported to El Salvador, Trapped Between the Gangs and Trump | Thousands of miles from his home and family, Jose Escobar lives in a small rural community in La Unión, El Salvador, amid fields of sugar cane and corn, bordered by the Chaparrastique volcano and the Gulf of Fonseca. Escobar, 31, is desperate to leave El Salvador but feels trapped. He was deported from the United States on March 2. Escobar immigrated to the U.S. with his mother as a teenager and built a life there. | 5/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFacebook Won’t Say If They’ll Use Your Brain Activity for Advertisements | Every year, Facebookgathers hundreds of developers, corporate allies, and members of the press to hear CEO Mark Zuckerberg’svision of our sharednear future. The gathering is known as “F8,” and this year’s iteration included some radical plans, one of which could’ve been pulled from a William Gibson novel: Facebook is working on a means of using your brain as an input device. | 5/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCongressman Lamar Smith of Texas Has a Problem with Science – and with Voters | For most of his four years as chair of the Science Committee, Republican Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas has served up more spectacle than policy. As arguably the showiest climate denier and opponent of environmental regulations in Congress, Smith has orchestrated climate change hearings that are the scientific equivalent of pro-wrestling matches. Stacked with skeptics who mocked mainstream climate science, they offered virtually no chance for significant dialogue. | 5/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrump Says He Divulged Intelligence to Russians Because He’s Such a Great Guy | Twelve hours after his national security adviser called a Washington Post report that he had shared highly classified information with Russia “false,” President Donald Trump chose not to do so, arguing instead that his office gives him “the absolute right” to share “facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety” with even an adversary. | 5/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean“Misunderstanding Terrorism”: How the Us vs. Them Mentality Will Never Stop Attacks | Finding and stopping terrorists before they strike is often compared tolooking for a needle in a haystack, a cliché that speaks to the difficulty of preventing a crime that, while deadly, is uncommon.Counterterrorism officials still suggest that the task would become easier if they could use profiling to target Muslim communities.In other words, if they could shrink the size of the haystack. But a new book by Dr. | 5/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFor Donald Trump, A Short History of Presidential Obstruction of Justice | What exactly is obstruction of justice? And has President Trump engaged in it, by reportedly telling FBI Director James Comey that he hoped Comey would “let go” of the bureau’s investigation of Trump’s National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and then firing Comey months later? The answer to the first question is: Criminal obstruction of justice is broadly defined, and according to 18 U.S. | 5/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChelsea Manning is a Free Woman: Her Heroism Has Expanded Beyond Her Initial Whistle-Blowing | Ever since Chelsea Manningwas revealed as the whistleblower of one of the most important journalistic archives in history, her heroism was manifest. She was the classic leaker of conscience: someone who went at the age of 20 to fight in the Iraq War believing it was noble, only to discover thedark reality not only of that war but of the U.S. | 5/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMeet Philadelphia’s Progressive Candidate for DA: An Interview with Larry Krasner | Philadelphians are heading to the polls today to pick a Democratic candidate for the city’s top prosecutor job. Turnout will almost certainly be low,but many in the city and beyond are looking at this election as a referendum on the criminal justice system at large, and a vote that could send ripple effects across the country and bring greater scrutiny on prosecutors, the system’s most powerful and unchecked actors. | 5/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Bizarre Story Behind the FBI’s Fake Documentary About the Bundy Family | Ryan Bundy seemed uneasy as he settled into a white leather chair in a private suite at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. As the eldest son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who had become a national figure for his armed standoff with U.S. government agents in April 2014, Ryan had quite a story to tell. | 5/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWill Freshman Congressman Ro Khanna Chart a New Course for Democrats? | Freshman California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna rode to anupset victory this past November over long-serving California Democrat Mike Honda on a wave of Silicon Valley support. Among his prominent backers stood titans of the tech industry such as Yahoo executive Marissa Mayer and Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg — as well as Peter Thiel, the billionaire Palantir co-founder who spoke in favor of Donald Trump’s candidacy at the Republican National Convention. | 5/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCan the Anti-Trump Resistance Take Philadelphia’s DA Office? | Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s insurgent candidate for district attorney, has built his campaign around three pledges: to end mass incarceration, to stand up for people’s rights and liberties, and to resist the Trump administration. In Philadelphia, as in much of 2017 America, those are ambitious plans: The city has the highest incarceration rate in the Northeast and arrests twice as many people on average as other big cities. | 5/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMother’s Day in an ICE Detention Center | The woman arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border with her daughter in late April. “From what I had heard about the U.S., it was supposed to be a country that practices showing love to their fellow man. But what I have experienced with my daughter was horrible,” she wrote a few days later, after she was transferred from Border Patrol custody to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. | 5/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOklahoma Governor Signs Anti-Protest Law Imposing Huge Fines on “Conspirator” Organizations | A statute aimed at suppressing protests against oil and gas pipelines has been signed into law in Oklahoma, as a related bill advances through the state legislature. The two bills are part of a nationwide trend in anti-protest lawsmeant to significantly increase legal penalties for civil disobedience. The Oklahoma law signed this week is unique, however, in its broad targeting of groups “conspiring” with protesters accused of trespassing. | 5/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWith James Comey Gone, These Three FBI and DOJ Officials Are Running the Russia-Trump Probe | To serve underDonald Trump is to be a disposable commodity whose value fluctuates with the master’s moods. This was true on “The Apprentice” and it’s true in the administration, where personnel matters have taken on a gameshow quality. Turnover has been especially rapid among those responsible for heading up the investigation into ties between Trump’s circle and the Russian government. | 5/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-breaking Computer Project to Entire Internet | In early December 2016, Adamwas doing what he’s always doing, somewhere between hobby and profession: looking for things that are on the internet that shouldn’t be. That week, he came across a serverinside New York University’sfamed Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing, headed by the brilliant Chudnovsky brothers, David and Gregory. The serverappeared to be an internet-connectedbackup drive. | 5/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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