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.
Guantánamo prosecutors accused of trying to use torture testimony
(The Intercept): In a pretrial hearing Tuesday at the Guantánamo Bay military tribunal, Clive Stafford Smith, a lawyer for a potential witness in the war crimes case, accused government prosecutors of “outrageous” misconduct”.
Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention
Gaza (The Intercept): It´s been two months since Osaid Alser has heard from his cousin, Khaled Al Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.
The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
New York (The Intercept): Donald Trump represents an existential threat to democracy in the United States. If he is elected president, he will try to become a dictator.
That warning must be repeated, over and over again, so Americans don’t forget it in November.
University professors are losing their jobs over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza
New York (The Intercept); Many scholars committed to Palestinian liberation can no longer do their jobs. That’s because many of the professors most supportive of Palestine don’t have jobs anymore.
