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The Intercept Briefing
The Intercept
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is Jeremy Skahill coming to you from the offices of the Intercept |
| 0:09.4 | in New York City and I just want to take a moment during this holiday season to make the |
| 0:14.1 | case for supporting the Intercept. |
| 0:18.9 | If you want to be told that Donald Trump is the only thing wrong with US foreign policy, |
| 0:23.6 | the Intercept is not the media outlet for you. |
| 0:26.6 | This nation has consistently invaded other nations, sanctioned them, bombed them, overthrown |
| 0:32.9 | governments, interfered in elections, assassinated people across the globe. |
| 0:38.3 | Donald Trump is certainly a threat to democracy. |
| 0:42.0 | But the Intercept consistently asks why his democratic critics continue to offer him |
| 0:47.4 | sweeping surveillance and military powers. |
| 0:50.8 | If we want to change this country and confront its injustices, we have to confront the truth |
| 0:56.3 | about US history and its role in the world. |
| 0:59.8 | Trump did not create US imperialism. |
| 1:02.3 | He's a product of an American system that thrives on exploitation, war, and greed. |
| 1:09.2 | If you value the Intercept's challenge to the bipartisan war machine, we're counting |
| 1:14.4 | on you to keep going strong for next year. |
| 1:17.6 | We are in the process of a fundraising drive, or we are trying to raise $2.4 million in |
| 1:23.5 | listener and reader support. |
| 1:25.9 | We can go to theintercept.com slash support. |
| 1:28.9 | We have some great thank you gifts for people who decide to become sustaining members of |
| 1:32.9 | this podcast or of the intercept. |
| 1:35.4 | At the $10 a month level, we will send you a brand new intercepted t-shirt. |
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