Bonus: Egypt’s Carceral Climate Summit
On October 6, 2022, University of British Columbia faculty members Mohammed Rafi Arefin and Naomi Klein from the new Centre for Climate Justice co-moderated a livestream discussion about the upcoming ...
10 Okt 20221h 18min
Inside the Chinese Government’s Growing Surveillance State
The Chinese government forcibly collects biometric markers like fingerprints, facial images, and DNA of Xinjiang residents, where 12 million Uyghurs live. In recent years, the country has expanded and...
5 Okt 202246min
No Way Home, Episode Four: Getting Out Alive
Marked as enemies of the new Taliban regime by his work with Westerners and his family’s Hazara ethnicity, Hamid, his wife, their 8-year-old daughter, and their new baby move furtively from place to p...
21 Sep 202227min
No Way Home, Episode Three: Born Again
Maryam Barak, an Afghan journalist, made it to Italy with her family last summer. In Rome, she met Qader Kazimizada, another newly arrived Afghan who is helping refugees find community in an alien pla...
18 Sep 202225min
No Way Home, Episode Two: The Desert of Death
As the Taliban claimed territory last summer, Mir Abdullah Miri and his cousin Aziz both planned to flee their homes in Herat, a city in western Afghanistan. Mir, an educational researcher, made it to...
14 Sep 202243min
No Way Home, Episode One: Life and Death
When the Afghan government collapsed last summer, Summia Tora, Afghanistan’s first Rhodes scholar, used her connections to get her father out. But when she tried to evacuate a longtime NGO worker name...
11 Sep 202242min
The U.S. Legacy in Iraq and the Fight Against ISIS
The U.S. government’s long-lasting occupation of Iraq led to “many killings, disintegrating the country, and opening old, previous wounds,” according to former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Th...
24 Aug 202230min
How Fiscal Hawks Are Using Inflation as an Excuse to Tamp Down Worker Power
On Sunday, after months of negotiation, the Senate passed a budget reconciliation bill called the Inflation Reduction Act. This week on Intercepted, we go behind the bill to look at the dynamics drivi...
10 Aug 202243min
