Israeli Society Is in a Deepening State of Contradiction
(The Intercept): Nearly a year into the Gaza war, the sense of dread in Israel is all-consuming.
The US has dozens of secret bases in the Middle East. They keep getting attacked.
Washington (The Intercept) An Intercept investigation found 63 US bases, garrisons, and shared facilities in the region. US troops are “sitting ducks,” according to one expert.
USA: Will this make Trump more popular?
Washington (The Intercept): While speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, Donald Trump was hurried off stage after what sounded like gunshots. Before he was ushered away by his security detail, Trump, bleeding from an apparent wound on the ear, raised his fist defiantly toward the crowd.
Companies making it easy to buy in a West Bank settlement
Los Ángeles (The Intercept): In late June, a company called My Israel Home hosted an expo at a Los Angeles synagogue catering to a specific clientele: Jewish Americans looking to buy a new home in Israel -or on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Like Julian Assange, I Know How It Feels to Be Prosecuted for Acts of Journalism
New York (The Intercept): When Julian Assange abruptly found himself back in Australia and freedom this week after reaching a plea deal with the US government, I found myself thinking back to my own marathon legal fight with the US government and how it finally and suddenly ended.
Can anything stop the democratic national convention from being a Biden coronation?
Washington (The Intercept): People have been talking behind closed doors about President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline for the past several years.
Negotiations for Release of Guantánamo’s “Forever Prisoner” From Gaza
Washington (The Intercept): During an appearance before a military review board, an attorney for Guantánamo Bay’s “forever prisoner” revealed that negotiations are underway for his possible release after being tortured and detained without charges for 22 years.
More Than 10 Years Later, the Senate Torture Report Is Still Secret
Washington (The Intercept): The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence submitted its 6,700-page “torture report” about the CIA to the White House in April 2014. More than 10 years later, the full report remains secret after a federal appellate court dismissed a lawsuit I filed in the hopes of forcing its release.
Israel’s new air war in the West Bank: nearly half of the dead are children
(The Intercept): Nearly 20 years after the Second Intifada, the Israeli military has resumed airstrikes in the West Bank and killed 24 children.
Around 9:30 P.M. in late February, a white Mazda pulled up near a game cafe in the Jenin refugee camp on the northern edge of the West Bank, where a crowd of boys and young men often gathered to socialize.
NYC: establishment politicians only understand governance through policing
New York (The Intercept): New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday that the city would spend at least $225 million on a new police training facility in the borough of Queens.
