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Ato pró-Trump e anti-Clinton mostra como a direita brasileira está confusa sobre a política dos EUA

Em São Paulo, ontem, dia 29, manifestantes se reuniram para mostrar apoio à candidatura de Donald Trump e fazer acusações contra sua oponente, Hillary Clinton. Apesar de vários terem demonstrado no Facebook seu interesse em participar, apenas umas dúzias apareceram. O grupo de direita Juntos Pelo Brasil, organizador do evento, ridicularizou Clinton colocando-a como a “Dilma Americana”, afirmando que ambas as líderes “cometeram crimes, têm passado comunista, são absolutamente inaptas para coma...

Is Disclosure of Podesta’s Emails a Step Too Far? A Conversation With Naomi Klein

Some news organizations, including The Intercept, have devoted substantial resources to reporting on the newsworthy aspects of the archive of emails of Clinton campaign chairman John Podestathat was published last week by WikiLeaks. Numerousdocuments from that archivehave shed considerable light on the thought processes and previously secret behavior oftop Clintoncampaignaidesand often the candidate herself. While the significance of particular stories has been debated, there is no denying th...

On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call

For years, WikiLeaks has been publishing massive troves of documents online— usuallytaken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish — while news outlets report on their relevant content. In some instances,these news outlets work in direct partnership with WikiLeaks — as the New York Times and The Guardian, among others, did when jointly publishing the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and U.S. diplomatic cables — while other times media outlets simply...

On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive is an Easy Call

For years, WikiLeaks has been publishing massive troves of documents online– usuallytaken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish –while news outlets report on their relevant content. In some instances,these news outlets work in direct partnership with WikiLeaks – as the New York Times and the Guardian, among others, did when jointly publishing the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and U.S. diplomatic cables – while other times media outlets simply...

In the Democratic Echo Chamber, Inconvenient Truths Are Recast as Putin Plots

Donald Trump, forreasons I’ve repeatedly pointed out, is an extremist, despicable, and dangerous candidate, and his almost-certain humiliating defeat is less than a month away. So I realize there is little appetite in certain circles for critiques of any of the tawdry and sometimes fraudulent journalistic claims and tactics being deployed to further that goal. In the face of an abusive, misogynistic, bigoted, scary, lawless authoritarian, what’s a little journalistic fraud orconstantfearmonge...

U.S. and U.K. Continue to Actively Participate in Saudi War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians

From the startof the hideous Saudi bombing campaign against Yemen 18 months ago, two countries have played active, vital rolesin enabling the carnage: the U.S. and U.K. The atrocities committed by the Saudis would have been impossible without their steadfast, aggressivesupport.

The Obama administration “has offered to sell $115 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia over its eight years in office, more than any previous U.S. administration,” as The Guardian reported this week,and alsoprovid...

EXCLUSIVE: New Email Leak Reveals Clinton Campaign’s Cozy Press Relationship

Internal strategy documents and emails amongClinton staffers shed light onfriendly and highly useful relationships between the campaign and various members of the U.S. media, as well as the campaign’s strategies for manipulating those relationships.

The emails were provided to The Intercept by the source identifying himself as Guccifer 2.0, who was reportedly responsible for prior significant hacks, including onethat targeted the Democratic National Committee and resulted in the resignations...

U.S. Admits Israel Is Building Permanent Apartheid Regime — Weeks After Giving It $38 Billion

In 2010, Israel’s then-defense minister, Ehud Barak,explicitly warnedthat Israel would become a permanent “apartheid” state if it failed to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians that creates their own sovereign nation and vests them with full political rights. “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel, it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic,” Barak said. “If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, tha...

J.P. Cuenca deixa a Folha e passa a escrever para The Intercept Brasil

É com grande entusiasmo que anunciamos que o escritor J.P. Cuenca agora faz parte da equipe The Intercept Brasil. Cuenca deixa a Folha de S.Paulo, onde mantinha uma coluna, e passa a escrever às quintas no nosso site.

J.P. começou a escrever crônicas para jornais brasileiros em 2003. Passou por Tribuna da Imprensa, Jornal do Brasil, O Globo e Folha e já colaborou com El País e Süddeutsche Zeitung, entre outros.

É autor de cinco livros, traduzido para oito idiomas. Em 2007, foi selecionado pel...

Brazil’s Big Media Ignores Temer’s Confession — Except Estadão Columnist Who Falsely Claimed Video Was Altered

The Intercept Brasil’s Inacio Vieira yesterday reported one of the most significant pieces of evidence yet about the real reason for the impeachment of Brazil’s elected president, Dilma Rousseff.Speaking to a group of U.S. business and foreign policy elites, the country’s installed president, Michel Temer, admitted that what triggered the impeachment process was not any supposed “budgetary crimes,” but rather Dilma’sopposition to the neoliberalplatform of social program cuts and privatization...