Report: Bit by Bit, the Noose Is Tightening Around the Nuclear Weapons Industry
Human beings are not necessarily destined to annihilate ourselves.
National Security
Biden to Pentagon: Keep the War Machine Running
The Biden administration released its first Global Posture Review, with the continuation of a Cold War stance toward China and Russia.
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Sues The Intercept Over Russian Mercenary Report
Mercenary Erik Prince filed a defamation lawsuit in a New York federal court after an earlier suit in Wyoming was dismissed. The Intercept stands by its reporting.
Human Rights Groups Call on Pentagon to Reinvestigate Civilian Deaths in Yemen
Activists want Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to open new investigations of past airstrikes, apologize for civilian deaths, and compensate relatives.
He Declined the FBI's Offer to Become an Informant. Then His Life Was Ruined.
Aswad Khan declined to become an FBI informant. His friends began getting questioned at the U.S. border.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Lawyers for Accused 9/11 Plotters Say Government Withheld Public Information
The sanitized summaries of CIA cables provided by the prosecution leave out vital details that journalists and others have obtained using FOIA.
Targeting Iran
Dark-Money Group Linked to Anti-Iran, Pro-Israel Network Targets Turkey but Has No Turks
The Turkish Democracy Project shares leadership and personnel with the most well-funded foreign policy pressure network in Washington.
From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier
Joe Biden's presidency demonstrates, once again, that U.S. commitments to militarism and permanent global war are enduring and bipartisan.
The U.S.-Led Bombings That Ended the ISIS "Caliphate" Killed Scores of Civilians
The aerial campaign in eastern Syria dislodged the terrorist group from the final patch of land it controlled but cost an untold number of lives.
British Wife of American ISIS Fighter Russell Dennison Dodges Questions About Union
In a new documentary, Tareena Shakil, whose marriage to Dennison was first revealed in an Intercept podcast, describes her journey to the Islamic State.