Jeremy Scahill
Cory amplifies 1×War, national-security, and state-power reporting (Drop Site News, ex-Intercept).
Jeremy Scahill is an investigative journalist and war correspondent, author of the bestsellers Blackwater and Dirty Wars, and one of the three founding editors of The Intercept. In July 2024 he left The Intercept to co-found Drop Site News with Ryan Grim, a reader-supported investigative outlet on Substack. As of 2026 he reports there on war, US foreign policy, and the Middle East.
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For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the
28d ago · 28,173 likes
Israel has been holding the body of Anis Dawla, a Palestinian who died on hunger strike in an Israeli prison in 1980, for 45 years, despite his family pleading for it to be returned. Israel currently holds hundreds of bodies of deceased Palestinians but no one talks about that.
11mo ago · 32,416 likes
During Gaza negotiations, Israel understood it would take time to recover all bodies of deceased captives. A specific mechanism for recovering the bodies was agreed. Now Israel is pretending that didn’t happen so it can violate the deal and cut the agreed aid shipments in half.
1y ago · 13,692 likes
The scene in the Knesset with Trump is like watching the inverse of a war crimes tribunal. The leaders and facilitators of the Gaza genocide are congratulating each other and applauding their crimes.
1y ago · 17,924 likes
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