Intercepted Podcast
Mohammed bin Salman, Donald Trump, and the Bipartisan Brotherhood with Saudi Arabia
Journalists Rula Jabreal and Sam Husseini are this week’s guests along with Indigenous historian Nick Estes and actor Ismail Khalidi.
World
Making a Killing
Mohammed bin Salman Wanted to Fund a Film About a Heroic Journalist. Scarlett Johansson Said No.
"Scarlett Johansson said absolutely not. She said, 'This guy is perpetuating the war in Yemen. He has women in prison.'"
Making a Killing
The UAE’s Powerful Ambassador Is Still Hobnobbing in Washington After Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder
Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE's ambassador to the U.S., was key in marketing Mohammed bin Salman as a reformer to Washington's foreign policy establishment.
Making a Killing
Jamal Khashoggi's Murder Could Drive Congress to Finally End Support for Brutal Saudi War in Yemen
To help them decide whether to keep backing the war in Yemen, members of Congress are asking what the U.S. knew about plans to capture the Saudi dissident.
Voices
MSNBC and Daily Beast Feature UAE Lobbyist David Rothkopf With No Disclosure: a Scandalous Media-Wide Practice
This is as extreme a perversion of journalism as can be imagined, yet it pervades the nation's largest corporate media outlets.
Post-Cold War U.S. Foreign Policy Has Been a Near Total Failure. Two New Books Look at Why.
Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer are back — this time with dueling books about why U.S. foreign policy has utterly failed.
Voices
In Jair Bolsonaro's New Brazil, Far-Right Evangelical Billionaire Edir Macedo's Media Empire Is Being Exploited to Investigate Journalists — Including The Intercept
The vast resources of a pro-Bolsonaro “bishop” are being used to deter investigations of the candidate by targeting journalists and their families.
Jair Bolsonaro Wants Brazilian Cops to Kill More. So Why Are Victims of Police Violence Voting for Him?
Many young black and brown men from poor communities suffer at the hands of Brazilian police and support hard-line security policies at the same time.
Deconstructed Podcast
Why Won't Trump Condemn the Saudis? (Hint: It's Israel. Also, Iran)
The Trump administration's reluctance to speak out against Saudi crimes is all politics.
Why Israel's — and America's — Legal Justifications for Assassinations Don't Add Up
Former IDF lawyer Gabriella Blum explained Israel's justifications for its targeted killing program, but Noura Erakat says they have no basis in law.