Home » Human needs before profits » Haitian migrants protest removal of TPS The U.S. government first granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians living in the United States after a 2010 earthquake in Haiti that led to the deaths of over 300,000 Haitians and the homelessness of a million. TPS allows Haitians or other…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Justice for Robert Jones! The following is a statement issued by the Philadelphia Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression regarding the police murder of Robert Jones on Oct. 3, 2024. On July 4, the District Attorney’s Office of Philadelphia, led by “progressive” Larry Krasner, refused to charge [Philadelphia police]…
Early Thursday morning, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Daniel Everette Hale — a former intelligence analyst for the U.S. Air Force and National Security Agency (NSA) and later a defense contractor working for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) — for providing a reporter with classified government information. The reporter in question, although…
NEW YORK — On March 13, a report in the Daily Beast revealed that the New York-based outlet The Intercept would be shutting down its archive of the trove of government documents entrusted to a handful of journalists, including Intercept co-founders Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, by whistleblower Edward Snowden. However, that account did not…
This is the concluding part of our series exploring billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s broad sweep of influence over global media and surveillance enterprises. Part 1 examined Omidyar’s use of investment to build a vast and tangled web of influence in NGOs and media outlets around the world; Part 2 illuminated his involvement with regime-change…
As we have seen in part one of this investigation, billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has partnered closely with many of the U.S.-funded outfits that fulfill the role the CIA used to play during the Cold War in backing opposition media and civil society in countries targeted for regime change. However, Omidyar has also sought…
A select group of national news “stakeholders” gathered at an undisclosed location for what was described as a “semi-secret” workshop somewhere in Canada on January 26. The meeting had been convened to determine how and to whom a “news industry bailout” of $645 million in Canadian government subsidies to private and supposedly independent media outlets…
NEW YORK — The Intercept, along with its parent company First Look Media, recently hosted a workshop for pro-war, Google-funded organization Bellingcat in New York. The workshop, which cost $2,500 per person to attend and lasted five days, aimed to instruct participants in how to perform investigations using “open source” tools — with Bellingcat’s past,…
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA — Reality Leigh Winner — a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and linguist, and the first person to be charged with violating the Espionage Act on President Donald Trump’s watch — has signed a plea agreement, according to the Courage Foundation. Her plea hearing has been scheduled for the morning of Tuesday,…
The US-led alliance of imperial nations has waged war on Syria for eight years with the hopes of overthrowing the independent Arab nationalist state led by President Bashar Al-Assad. Syria was believed to be another domino destined to fall in imperialism’s great power game to contain any international threat to its rule. Former NATO general Wesley…
Mehdi Hasan (MH) can hardly be blamed for the ignorance that he displays in his Intercept article, “Dear Bashar al-Assad Apologists: Your Hero Is a War Criminal Even If He Didn’t Gas Syrians.” He has apparently never been to Syria, doesn’t often do research on Syria, and gets his information from proponents of a single…
MINNEAPOLIS – On Wednesday, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reported that former Minneapolis-based FBI agent Terry James Albury had been charged with leaking classified government information to the online publication The Intercept. Albury’s legal defense, led by Jane Anne Murray and Joshua Dratel, identified him as a whistleblower, stating that his decision to leak the documents…
The Ecuadorian embassy in London cut off Julian Assange’s internet access in October of 2016, but the WikiLeaks Twitter account kept posting about leak drops uninterrupted. The embassy’s action made headlines all across mainstream media. It is common knowledge for anyone who was paying attention to WikiLeaks during that time. The Intercept‘s editors are unquestionably aware…
Home » Human needs before profits » Haitian migrants protest removal of TPS The U.S. government first granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians living in the United States after a 2010 earthquake in Haiti that led to the deaths of over 300,000 Haitians and the homelessness of a million. TPS allows Haitians or other…
Home » Racism and Self-Determination » Justice for Robert Jones! The following is a statement issued by the Philadelphia Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression regarding the police murder of Robert Jones on Oct. 3, 2024. On July 4, the District Attorney’s Office of Philadelphia, led by “progressive” Larry Krasner, refused to charge [Philadelphia police]…
The following is a statement by Teamsters Local 25, published on July 9, 2025. Teamsters Local 25: Republic Services continues to lie about negotiations. Picket lines extended to West Coast cities Boston Teamsters Local 25 President Thomas G. Mari said Republic Services wants impacted towns to believe it is negotiating daily with striking collection workers…
Sandra Bland If Sandra Bland were alive today, she would be 38 years old. This July 13 will mark the 10th anniversary of her lynching in a Waller County, Texas, jail following her arrest on July 10 for an alleged minor traffic violation. The white state trooper who arrested her was only charged with perjury.…