Voices
Perspectives on the news from Intercept columnists, reporters, and freelance contributors.
In Solidarity With a Free Press: Some More Blasphemous Cartoons
People profess affection for cartoons that offend a religion — until the targeted religion changes.
RT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion Into Crimea – On RT
The vast bulk of the commentary issuing from American commentators about the Russian military action in Ukraine involves condemning exactly that which they routinely advocate and which the U.S. itself routinely does. <!--more-->
On the UK's Equating of Journalism With Terrorism
As my colleague Ryan Deveraux reports, a lower UK court this morning, as long expected, upheld the legality of the nine-hour detention of my partner, David Miranda, at Heathrow Airport last August, even as it acknowledged that the detention was “an indirect interference with press freedom”. <!--more-->