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BONUS: Universal Enemy — Scholar Daryl Li on the Relationship Between Transnational Jihadists and U.S. Empire
In this special bonus episode of Intercepted, we take an in-depth look at one of the most consequential eras of modern history, the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, as the Soviet Union crumbled. The Russian occupation of Afghan...
The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads
A U.S.-backed militia that kills children may be America’s exit strategy from its longest war reported by journalist Andrew Quilty.
AOC on Ending the Pelosi Era, Biden’s Corporate Cabinet, and the Battle for Medicare for All
President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet is being constructed in significant part from corporate Democrats and Obama-era national security hawks with a small side order of more progressive figures. This week on Intercepted: As Nancy Pelosi...
State-Sanctioned Killers: As Trump Expedites Executions at Home, Biden Builds Team for Wars Abroad
Donald Trump is now in the dying days of his presidency and is spending those days promoting the myth that he actually won the November election in a landslide. This week on Intercepted: As the clock ticks toward Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trum...
BONUS: Naomi Klein on Fighting Trump’s Tin Pot Coup; Peace Activists Face Federal Prison
The Intercept’s Senior Correspondent Naomi Klein argues why Democrats should forcefully defend the integrity of votes and condemn coup-plotting for what it is, and stop from blowing a mandate they’ve won Associate Producer Elise Swain follows the sente...
American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump (Part Seven: Climate Carnage)
In his denial of science, Donald Trump has guided the U.S. far past the tipping point of mitigating the unfolding existential threat of the climate crisis. Under both Democratic and Republican administrations over decades, U.S. climat...
American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump (Part Six: The Looting of the Nation)
Donald Trump has run the White House like his family business with one primary aim: to enrich his brand, his family and his cronies. In part six of American Mythology, we examine how Trump and the GOP — at times with help from the Democrats — have open...
American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump (Part Five: Courting Corporate Theocracy)
While all eyes remain on the presidential election in November, Donald Trump has already secured a multi-generational victory with his radical reshaping of the judicial branch of government. In part five of “American Mythology,” we look at how...
American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump (Part Four: "You Think Our Country's So Innocent?")
On matters of war, Donald Trump has consistently spoken and acted in contradictory and unorthodox ways. He campaigned in 2016 with a mixed message of attacking the legacy of the Iraq war and U.S. military adventurism, while simultaneously pled...
American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump (Part Three: The Neo-Confederate in Chief)
On the campaign and as president, Donald Trump has worked hard to resurrect the George Wallace strand of U.S. politics: He has consistently used racist and bigoted language to accompany his policy onslaughts. In part three of American Mytholog...