Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow.org; TheIntercept.org
Death by Metadata: NSA's role |
Investigative journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald visited Democracy Now! for
their first interview after launching "The Intercept," their new digital
magazine published by First Look Media, the newly formed media venture
started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
Greenwald is the journalist who
first broke the story about Edward Snowden’s disclosures about the National
Security Agency's crimes. He was previously a columnist at The Guardian, a British
newspaper.
Army-run Egypt: "Silencing of dissent" |
Scahill is producer and writer of the documentary film "Dirty
Wars," which has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary
Feature. "We are really about a journalistic ethos -- which is not doing
things like helping the U.S. continue its targeting of U.S. citizens for
death, but by being adversarial to the government," Greenwald says.
"[We're] telling the public what it ought to know and targeting the most
powerful corporate factions with accountability journalism." Greenwald
and Scahill founded TheIntercept.org with filmmaker Laura Poitras. More
Kids for Cash: shocking U.S. scandal |
HEADLINES
Older Olympics (Reuters) |
The Sochi Olympic Games are rightly highlighting the constellation of
abuses that have become standard in Russia under Pres. Vladimir Putin. Most
notably is intense and often violent homophobia, tacitly endorsed by the
government with the recent passage of the law against “gay propaganda.”
While Sochi shines a light on Russian human-rights violations, it
affords an opportunity to expose the rampant capitalist corruption and abuse that
accompanies the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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