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The Abrupt, Radical Reversal in How Public Health Experts Now Speak About the Coronavirus and Mass Gatherings

June 07, 2020: Protesters attend the Black Austin Rally and march for Black Lives at Houston Tillotson University. Austin, Texas. Mario Cantu/CSM.(Credit Image: © Mario Cantu/CSM via ZUMA Wire) (Cal Sport Media via AP Images)

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Watch today’s SYSTEM UPDATE on this topic on The Intercept’s YouTube channel, with guest Adam Gaffney of the Harvard Medical School, or on the player below.

Remember the coronavirus? That was the pandemic which we were told by public health experts since February was ...

Mídia americana finalmente admite que era falho relatório da OEA que ajudou a espalhar e levou a golpe na Bolívia

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The New York Times Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year's Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., Its Media, and the Times

certified as the winner of his fourth consecutive presidential election. It was unsurprising that Morales won. As the Assoc...

The NYT Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year's Coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled by the U.S., its Media, and the NYT

certified as the winner of his fourth consecutive presidential election. It was unsurprising that Morales won. As the Asso...

What is the Goal of the Protests, and Which Tactics are Morally Justified and Strategically Wise?

As the nationwide protests over police brutality enter their second week following the horrific killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police, the debate over the moral justifiability and strategic wisdom of various tactics intensifies. This week’s SYSTEM UPDATE, which can be viewed on the player below or on The Intercept’s YouTube channel, is devoted to an exploration of those questions.

Numerous black political leaders — from Barack Obama to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar — have vehemently denou...

Hidden Video and Whistleblower Reveal Gruesome Mass-Extermination Method for Iowa Pigs Amid Pandemic

This article and accompanying video include graphic images some readers may find disturbing.

Video footage of dead pigs being removed from an Iowa Select Farms barn on May 19, 2020, after “ventilation shutdown” was used to “depopulate” thousands.

Still: DxE investigation

Iowa’s largest pork producer, Iowa Select Farms, has been using a cruel and excruciating method to kill thousands of pigs that have become commercially worthless due to the coronavirus pandemic. As is true for so much of what...

The CIA's Murderous Practices, Disinformation Campaigns, and Interference in Other Countries Still Shape the World Order and U.S. Politics

In the weeks before the 2016 presidential election, the most powerful former leaders of the Central Intelligence Agency did everything they could to elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump. President Obama’s former acting CIA chief Michael Morrell published a full-throated endorsement of Clinton in the New York Times and claimed “Putin ha[s] recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation,” while George W. Bush’s post-9/11 CIA and NSA Chief, Gen. Michael Hayden, writin...

Ben Smith's NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: "Resistance Journalism"

The New York Times recently hired media columnist Ben Smith, who spent the previous nine years as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed as it grew into a media behemoth, did something Sunday night that very few other U.S. journalists would be willing to do: He published an unflinching and sometimes scathing critique of former-MSNBC-daytime-host-turned-widely-beloved-New-Yorker-star-investigative-reporter Ronan Farrow.

Farrows work in exposing Harvey Weinstein as a serial predator earned him...

New Documents From the Sham Prosecution of Gen. Michael Flynn Also Reveal Broad Corruption in the Russiagate Investigations

Watch the debut of our latest episode of SYSTEM UPDATE exploring this topic today at 2pm ET, on the Intercepts YouTube channel.

Gen. Michael Flynn, President Obamas former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and President Trumps former National Security Advisor, pled guilty on December 1, 2017, to a single count of lying to the FBI about two conversations he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak while Flynn served as a Trump transition team official (Flynn was never charged...

Watch: Is China Merely a Competitor of the U.S., or an Adversary or Even an Enemy?

China has become, over the past two decades, the planets second-most powerful nation after the United States. Booming economic growth has lifted millions of its citizens out of poverty and catapulted it to the worlds second-largest economy, while increased military spending has made it the second-largest military power (though its military spending, and nuclear stockpile, are still a small fraction of the U.S.s).

That growth in both economic and military power has led U.S. officials to...