This week on System Update, Glenn reports on Dept of Agriculture documents obtained via FOIA that reveal how factory farm industry groups surveil and malign industry critics. Glenn also talks to Crystal Heath, a bay-area veterinarian who has been the target of a vicious persecution campaign waged by the industrial agriculture lobby for having spoken out about mistreatment and abuse of animals. Follow Crystal Heath on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drcrystalheath Follow Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald Read Glenn’s work: https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/ Sy ..read more

This week on System Update, Glenn Greenwald talks to Shant Mesrobian, formerly with the Obama 2008 campaign and current co-host of ‘The Backchannel’, about the disdain establishment liberals and mainstream journalists express for Joe Rogan, and how his platform has been growing in importance despite this. Follow Shant Mesrobian: https://twitter.com/ShantMM The Backchannel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBackchannel Follow Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald Read Glenn’s work: https://theintercept.com/staff/glenn-greenwald/ System Update: https://theintercept.com/staff/syst ..read more

This week on System Update, guest host Victor Pougy talks to Jacobin Contributing Editor Benjamin Fogel about the state of affairs in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. About Brazil, they discuss the Bolsonaro government and the Flordelis scandal. Then they talk about the recent arrest of ex-president Alvaro Uribe in Colombia. Finally, they discuss the presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico. Follow Victor on twitter: https://twitter.com/vpougy Find Victor's work: https://theintercept.com/staff/victorpougy/ and https://theintercept.com/staff/systemupdate/ Follow Benjamin Fogel on twitter ..read more

This week on System Update, host Glenn Greenwald examines the crumbling of the US social fabric. Glenn explores the rise in so-called Deaths of Despair, and examines the symptoms of deep unhappiness across in America - from suicide to drug overdoses - and how this long-term trend has acutely intensified with the Covid pandemic. Previous episodes: https://interc.pt/30Ot2s3 Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe Chapters: 00:00 Intro Sequence 00:10 Glenn's Monologue 36:06 End Credits ..read more

This week on System Update, guest host Murtaza Hussain talks to Nesrine Malik and Yair Rosenberg to try to understand what will be the lasting impacts of the COVID pandemic on US culture and media, and what are likely to be its political implications. Follow Murtaza on twitter: https://twitter.com/MazMHussain Read Murtaza's work: https://theintercept.com/staff/murtaza-hussain/ Follow Nesrine Malik: https://twitter.com/NesrineMalik Follow Yair Rosenberg: https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg Previous episodes: https://interc.pt/30Ot2s3 Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe Chapters ..read more

As the coronavirus pandemic engulfs the U.S., Intercept reporter and guest host Lee Fang investigates who are the real winners and losers of the government response to the crisis. We hear from David Dayen, Executive Editor at The American Prospect, about how the pandemic can accentuate the monopolization of the U.S. economy, from American Economic Liberties Project Executive Director Sarah Miller about the economic consequences of the pandemic and from A.F.L-C.I.O. Policy Director Damon Silvers about the relationship between labor rights, workplace safety, and public health. Follow Lee on twit ..read more

This week on System Update, Glenn Greenwald speaks in-depth with Andray Domise, contributing editor at Macleans, about the still-growing BLM protests around the US, what objectives they have, whether their tactics and strategies are likely to produce success, what the Federal and police response reveals, and what unintended consequences they may produce. Follow Andray on twitter: https://twitter.com/andraydomise Previous episodes: https://interc.pt/30Ot2s3 Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe ..read more

This week on System Update, Glenn Greenwald hosts an in-depth exploration of the 2019 military coup that toppled Bolivia's democratically elected President Evo Morales, the ongoing repression there, and what it reveals about US propaganda. We speak with Bolivia-based activist Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network, about the situation on the ground, and from Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic & Policy Research, about the role of the OAS in legitimizing the coup. Watch Glenn Greenwald's Interview with Evo Morales: https://youtu.be/-hEwE64-kUQ Follow t ..read more

On this week's System Update, host Glenn Greenwald explores the recent discourse around "cancel culture", separating the self-serving elite grievances from the new free-speech constraints legitimately repressing powerless people in every sector. Read the article: https://theintercept.com/2020/07/14/c... Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:10 Glenn’s monologue ..read more

In this week's episode of System Update, host Glenn Greenwald takes a thorough look at what happens in congress when the public isn't looking, helping make sense of how the US keeps it’s endless war machine perpetually running. Subscribe to our channel: https://interc.pt/subscribe Watch it on youtube: https://youtu.be/ejqYrzEX14E Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:10 Glenn’s monologue Secretly Taped Audio Reveals Democratic Leadership Pressuring Progressive to Leave Race - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcgPyKt-ysY&feature=emb_title Markup of H.R. 6395 - Roll Call Vote No. 10 - Crow Amendment on Af ..read more