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New episode: Israel’s Use of Mass Starvation as a Weapon of War
@Yara_M_Asi
joins
@MazMHussain
and
@jeremyscahill
to discuss immediate and long-term health impacts of Israel’s war on Gaza.
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"That's why I thought a boycott was necessary," says
@ShaunKing
on the NFL's blacklisting of
@Kaepernick7
.
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Why is Donald Trump fixated on demanding public gratitude from the father of a UCLA basketball player. by
@ShaunKing
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"When powerful political leaders in the U.S. want to change governments, the price of killing innocent people is always worth it. It is the American way," says
@jeremyscahill
.
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"Trump is the product of a failed democracy. Trump is what rises up from the bowels of a decayed and degenerate system," says
@ChrisLynnHedges
.
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”What the [Bolivian] military is doing is a classic coup. It’s amazing that U.S. media outlets just explicitly refuse to call it a coup,“ says
@ggreenwald
.
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“Gaza is an unlivable space. 97 percent of Gaza’s water is contaminated. It’s unfit for human consumption. And that’s a fact. Israel is poisoning one million children,” says
@normfinkelstein
.
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We're back with a new episode of
@intercepted
this Wednesday! Here's a preview of
@jeremyscahill
with
@ShaunKing
— stay tuned.
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“There is this alliance now between the GOP and the Democratic establishment to use Red Scare tactics against Bernie Sanders. This is the central strategy of the bipartisan coalition opposing Bernie Sanders: McCarthyism,” says
@jeremyscahill
.
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Trump's $110 billion arms deal with the Saudis only fuels the terrorism they claim to oppose, says
@asadabukhalil
.
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.
@RalphNader
on Democrats, the 2016 election, and the blame game. Full interview tomorrow on
@intercepted
.
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Tomorrow, legendary dissident Noam Chomsky on Intercepted. Tune in here:
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Historian Andrew Bacevich offers an alternative to more US bombing in Syria.
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“Joe Biden just finished fourth. He’s fading hard. In this pivotal battle for control of the party, the soldier that they could marshal onto the field was Joe Biden. What a decrepit state of affairs for what passes for an establishment,” says
@ryangrim
.
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"They know damn well that climate change is real. They know it’s not a hoax. So why do they lie, lie, lie? Money," says host
@jeremyscahill
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“This crisis is laying bare the extreme injustices and inequalities of our economic and social system. People are getting it,” says
@NaomiAKlein
.
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“Imagine a country where every single person on here is standing on stolen ground calling other people illegal,” says
@prisonculture
.
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"If the U.S. government is run anything like the Trump organization, expect to be looted." says
@theintercept
's
@NaomiAKlein
#Intercepted
.
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A podcast in the making: Senior correspondent
@NaomiAKlein
joins Princeton University’s
@KeeangaYamahtta
and filmmaker
@astradisastra
in a roundtable discussion about labor. by
@NaomiAKlein
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“No abolitionist who’s a true abolitionist wants to save money. What we want is for the money to be spent to enhance and support human life so that it can flourish in a way that doesn’t destroy the planet,” says Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
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“We are learning a lesson from the women of this country and I don’t think that’s going to stop right here,” says
@democracynow
host Amy Goodman.
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“Had the West not tried to dominate the entire world and colonize the entire world, it would not be facing the kinds of migration situations that they’re facing now,” says
@juangon68
.
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“These school shootings are so shocking versus children getting blown up in Syria or Iraq or somewhere — and the difference is that in our fuckin’ twisted minds, this government has taught us to believe that that should be happening,” says
@ImmortalTech
.
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Tonight, a last-minute visit from our colleague
@ggreenwald
. Tune in tmrw at 6am ET to listen, and please subscribe!
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"This is explicit interventionism and an attempt at regime change," says
@ciccmaher
on Venezuela.
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“It is absolutely critical the media not act as a conveyor belt for the lies of an administration,” says
@democracynow
’s Amy Goodman.
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"For Tucker Carlson to act like protesting outside of his house is off-limits when kids are in cages and our president is lying to us, in front of our face every single second of the day, is just irrational," says
@jduffyrice
.
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The US government says it plans to indict
@JulianAssange
. The
@CIA
director vowed to "end"
@wikileaks
.
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"Our job is to hold those in power accountable — whether they’re Democrats or Republicans," says host
@jeremyscahill
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“People want political leaders who believe in what they believe in. The way you win is with somebody like Bernie, who just is unapologetic about his values,” says
@peterdaou
.
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”We now have a Biden administration that’s bringing back a lot of Obama appointees ... this is not just a revolving door of private industry, but it’s a revolving door of just the same people for the last 10, 20, 30 years,“ says
@AOC
.
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“Instead of beginning to recognize that maybe the centrist white Democrat was not the best choice against specifically a Trump candidate, they're going to blame the people who Joe Biden alienated,” says
@DrIbram
.
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Donald Trump stars in “‘Merican Psycho” (a collaboration between
@intercepted
&
@thenib
for
@topicstories
).
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"If you talk about Russia, it's a great way for prominent media voices to pose as being cantankerous searchers for the truth and opponents of this possibly compromised president while avoiding people who have real power in this country," says
@aaronjmate
.
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"Wealth inequality in this country is at dangerously high levels. And that is not just bad for the way our economy functions, it's extremely dangerous when it comes to the way our democracy functions," says
@StephanieKelton
.
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Package bombs are killing people in Texas but Donald Trump hasn’t said a thing. There’s a reason for that. by
@ShaunKing
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”To have universal health care is to connect decommodification with democratization. And that is deeply threatening to a ruling class,“ says
@astradisastra
.
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"If you're liberal and progressive, stop calling for people to be locked up," says
@prisonculture
.
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Journalist and author
@mtaibbi
on the alliance of neocons and elite Democrats. Catch this week's episode here:
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“I do not believe that Saudi Arabia could conduct this military campaign in Yemen without the United States,” says
@ChrisMurphyCT
.
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New
#Deconstructed
podcast:
@CornelWest
discusses with
@mehdirhasan
why he still supports Bernie Sanders for president. "He’s an anti-racist in his heart," Dr. West says.
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.
@Kaepernick7
is still effectively banned from the
@NFL
, but a grassroots boycott of the league is a step toward justice by
@ShaunKing
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“I’m appalled that John Brennan, Mike Morell, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, Phil Mudd are on television talking about the intelligence community...none of them have confronted the lies that they’ve told the American people,” says
@DanielJJonesUS
.
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"George Bush Sr. is primarily responsible for a lot of the damage and the horror that Iraqis lived through and continue to live through until today," says
@sinanantoon
.
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“We shouldn’t have to be saying, ‘Black lives matter.’ The fact that we have to say it and the fact that there’s still resistance to saying it reveals how much work there needs to be done in this country,” says
@KeishaBlain
.
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Fomer Rep.
@Dennis_Kucinich
explains what happens when you stand in the way of American imperialism.
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Our friend
@SteveEarle
stopped by to chat with
@jeremyscahill
and play some songs. Tune in tomorrow!
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Today we're presenting a special podcast episode with Rep.
@AOC
. She joins
@ryangrim
and
@briebriejoy
from
@theintercept
's DC bureau to talk about her first weeks in Washington.
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Donald Trump as Patrick Bateman in "'Merican Psycho," voiced by the brilliant
@TonyAtamanuik
.
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This week,
@RepBarbaraLee
explains Trump's inherited blank check for "perpetual, endless war."
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Author
@tanehisicoates
on war, Trump, liberals embracing neocons, and the Black Panther comics by
@jeremyscahill
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“We’re living in a world of debt peonage, in which most of the population is actually — their future is foreclosed by the way in which the capital is wrapped around them,” says
@profdavidharvey
.
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On
@intercepted
, organizer Mariame Kaba makes the case for a people’s bailout to confront coronavirus
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"The GOP has fully embraced a fascist, right-wing Christian, Creationist, Dominionist ideology—theology—and they're moving fast to implement it. We need to be uncompromising. We need to reject any candidates who don't get that," says
@jeremyscahill
.
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“The fundamental premise that the police exist to ‘protect us’ or ‘keep us safe’ — that’s a myth ... they’re essentially continuing to do now what they were founded to do, which is to protect capital and to protect racial hierarchy,” says
@SimonBalto
.
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Join
@theintercept
and
@democracynow
for a
#Midterms2018
election night special. Watch live on Tuesday night:
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"When there is a failure on the part of the establishment this profound, people turn to whoever they perceive as being an enemy of that system," says
@ggreenwald
on Jair Bolsonaro's rise.
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Today
@jeremyscahill
and
@mehdirhasan
join forces on
#Deconstructed
to break down Erik Prince's recent statements on the secret Trump Tower meeting, his record in Iraq, and his military ambitions in Afghanistan
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Donald Trump and his cabinet are the very “coastal elites” that the GOP has spent years mocking. by
@ShaunKing
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"You can't have a country where over more than 10 million people live completely vulnerable in the shadows and call yourself a democracy," says
@GregGrandin
.
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"We need to have a true commitment to ending our system of mass incarceration through decarceration,"says
@CabanForQueens
.
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Season 2 of
#Intercepted
kicks off this week. Who would you like to hear on the show in the coming weeks?
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“People are dying in massive numbers because of the actions of our government. Our wars make new enemies every day. And it is all of our job to report on it regardless of what else is happening in this country or the world,” says host
@jeremyscahill
.
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TELL US YOUR STORY: If you’re facing economic hardship or taking action in your community, tell us what you think people should hear, what our lawmakers should hear, and how you’re holding up. Call us at 202-930-8245, and we might play your message on our show.
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This week on
@intercepted
,
@catchatweetdown
hosts a special two part conversation. Ruth Wilson Gilmore makes the case for police and prison abolition.
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“I think we have to focus on police violence. We have to because they have the authority to kill us. And if we leave them unchecked then we’re well on our way to not only an authoritarian regime, but the worst forms of it,” says
@esglaude
.
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"This is what the civil rights movement was — it was disruptive," says
@JeanneTheoharis
on how to be like MLK Jr.
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Today on
#Deconstructed
,
@mehdirhasan
interviews presidential candidate
@PeteButtigieg
about the 2020 election, white nationalism, and Trump. Listen:
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“If fascist, controlling, fear-based governments didn’t think that artists and writers and journalists were dangerous, they wouldn’t take such great pains to silence them,” says
@amandapalmer
.
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“How can the Democrats even raise the issue of trying to find a candidate who’s electable against [Trump]? That’s just a technique to marginalize progressive candidates to mainstream their corporate Democratic primary candidates,” says
@RalphNader
.
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Episode 12 is up! Listen to our full hour on Syria with
@Dennis_Kucinich
,
@MazMHussain
and
@ArarMaher
.
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Intercepted will be back with new episodes September 18th! Catch up with our archive here:
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“The Western system of global white domination depends a lot on plausible deniability, and Trump — in his ignorance — is erasing that,” says
@RealSeunKuti
.
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“The biggest thing that I’m afraid about is a Bush v. Gore scenario, not just in one state, but in five or six states, and a Supreme Court declaring Donald Trump the winner of the next election as opposed to the people actually deciding,” says
@AriBerman
.
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The Russia theory "gets us out of considering our own culpability for the rise of misery," says
@mashagessen
.
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.
@RepBarbaraLee
was *only* member of Congress to vote against blank check for war post 9/11. She tells us her story
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The sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks
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“We are sleepwalking toward an abyss,” says
@DanielEllsberg
about the prospect of a nuclear war between the United States and North Korea.
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"The Trump people say go in invade wherever you want, but do it absolutely without restraint, with no rules, no limits on how many civilians you can kill," says journalist
@AllanNairn14
.
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2017 was a year of hard losses. Here's where we can — and can't — look for progress in 2018. by
@ShaunKing
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"How can reparations be combined with something like a Green New Deal? I think with our creativity and our revolutionary imagination, we can do that," says
@catchatweetdown
.
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"None of this is about espionage. This is about criminalizing journalism," says host
@jeremyscahill
.
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"Authoritarians always tell you what they're going to do. If we talk about corruption, about bothsideism — which is designed to protect the aggressor side, so far as in Charlottesville — [Trump] was letting you know what would happen," says
@ruthbenghiat
.
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“Do we need new leadership in the Democratic Party? Absolutely. But how do we ensure that when we shift, we don’t even move further to the right?” asks
@AOC
. Listen to the full episode here:
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“It's not a coincidence that Trump is both extremely corrupt and rails against corruption and pairs that with his kind of white populism,” says
@AdamSerwer
.
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“I want our future generation to be able to look back and say, ‘Wow, they really fought for us, and they made sure that we had the basic human decency in this country.’ And Biden’s not concerned with that,” says
@aja_monet
.
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