Jessica Corbett

The US Government’s Secret Rules for Spying on Journalists Are «Terrifying»

«It makes me wonder, what other rules are out there, and how have these rules been applied?»

Jessica Corbett
Por Jessica Corbett
Surveillance

Journalists and free press advocates are responding with alarm to newly released documents revealing the U.S. government's secret rules for using Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court orders to spy on reporters, calling the revelations "important" and "terrifying." The documents—obtained and released by the Freedom of the Press

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‘Major Victory’: Legal Challenge Halts Construction of Bayou Bridge Pipeline

While celebrating the win, activists noted that «construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline continues in other parts of the Atchafalaya Basin» and vowed to keep fighting to completely shut down the project.

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Por Jessica Corbett
Bayou Bridge

In a "major victory" for local landowners and pipeline activists who are fighting to block the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana, the company behind the project agreed to halt construction on a patch of private property just ahead of a court hearing that was scheduled for Monday morning. The path of the 163-mile pipeline runs through

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Trump Administration Slammed for Secret Meetings About Venezuela Coup

«There are few nations that can lecture other nations on human rights & democracy but the one nation that can never lecture anyone is the United States of America.»

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Por Jessica Corbett
Venezuela's US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote

Critics across the globe are expressing alarm over the "stunning but not surprising" revelation reported by the New York Times on Saturday that, according to 11 American officials and a former Venezuelan military commander, "the Trump administration held secret meetings with rebellious military officers from Venezuela over the last year to discuss

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Damning UN Report: Myanmar Generals Should Be Prosecuted for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

«The gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Kachin, Rakhine, and Shan states,» the report charges, «undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law.»

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Por Jessica Corbett
Lalmoti, an elderly Rohingya Muslim woman, lies in a sling as her son and grandson ask for direction to the hospital in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017. Bangladesh has been overwhelmed with more than 400,000 Rohingya who fled their homes in the last three weeks amid a crisis the U.N. describes as ethnic cleansing. Refugee camps were already beyond capacity and new arrivals were staying in schools or huddling in makeshift settlements with no toilets along roadsides and in open fields. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Following a United Nations Human Rights Council fact-finding mission in Myanmar, a damning U.N. report published Monday concludes that the nation's military leaders, including its top commander, should be further investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims in the wake of a

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Facebook Suspends teleSUR English Without Explanation, Again

«It seems like the censorship power many people on the left want Silicon Valley executives to unilaterally exercise might end up being wielded against the left. One good way to know that would happen is that is already is happening.»

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Por Jessica Corbett
Facebook Suspends teleSUR

For the second time this year, Facebook has suspended teleSUR English's page, claiming the left-leaning Latin American news network violated the social media platform's terms of service without any further explanation—a move that provoked outrage and concern among journalists, free speech advocates, and Big Tech critics. In a

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Secret Report Reveals How Israel Used Armed Drone to Kill Children in Gaza

Israel’s use of the technology to kill Palestinians, says the families’ attorney, raises «many questions concerning human judgment, ethics, and compliance with international humanitarian law.»

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Por Jessica Corbett
Israel killed children

A secret report by the Israeli military police—obtained by The Intercept's Robert Mackey—reveals that a week into Israel's Operation Protective Edge in 2014, "air force, naval, and intelligence officers" mistook four 10- and 11-year-old boys who were playing on a beach in Gaza for Hamas militants and killed them by firing missiles from an armed

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Cables From Secret CIA Black Site Read Like Gina Haspel’s Torture Journal

Critics say this «detailed account» of the CIA director’s role «in horrendous acts of torture» further confirms «that she is totally unfit to lead the agency.»

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Por Jessica Corbett
gina haspel torture

Government cables reported in the New York Times on Friday "read like torture journaling," critics said after reviewing the "loud noise, sleep deprivation, forced nudity, wall-slamming, and waterboarding" that CIA interrogators used on an al-Qaida suspect in 2002 at a secret prison run by Gina Haspel, whom the Senate confirmed as agency chief in

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