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About Alan MacLeod

Alan MacLeod is a MintPress Staff Writer as well as an academic and writer for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. His book, Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting was published in April.
  • Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova speaks during a news conference at the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, Feb. 26, 2022. Jose Luis Magana | AP

    It’s different, they’re White: Media ignore conflicts around the World to focus on Ukraine

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 2, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A MintPress News analysis found that in a single week Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC ran almost 1,300 separate stories on the Ukraine invasion, two stories on the Syria attack, one on Somalia, and none at all on the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

  • Graphika founder and CEO John Kelly testifies before the Senate with other leaders in the private intellegence community. Photo | AP | MPN

    Graphika: The Deep State’s Beard for Controlling the Information Age

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 25, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Semi-state actors play a very important role in today’s online landscape and in the 1970s, Graphika employees would likely have been working directly for the CIA.

  • “Every Option is On the Table”: US Prepping for Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia

    “Every option is on the table”: U.S. prepping for Libya-style intervention in Ethiopia

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on December 11, 2021 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    A considerable military buildup is now underway. Last week, the U.S. military announced it was sending over 1,000 National Guard members to nearby Djibouti.

  • People raise their mobile phone lights as they form a human chain on New Year’s eve in Hong Kong, Dec. 31, 2019.

    OTF – The “independent” internet freedom organization that makes all your favorite privacy apps–is staffed full of spies

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 6, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    While the OTF presents itself as independent internet freedom activists, their funding, staff, history and choice of targets all point to the conclusion that they are a digital weapon being used against Washington’s enemies.

  • Voters wait in line during general elections in Managua, Nicaragua, Nov. 7, 2021.

    The Facebook team that tried to swing Nicaragua’s election is full of U.S. spies

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 8, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state.

  • U.S. and Cuban flags hang from a wall with an old photo camera hung in between in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Ramon Espinosa | AP

    The United States is organizing a color revolution in Cuba for November 15

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 1, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It remains an open question as to how successful the upcoming action against the Cuban government will be. But who is behind the protests is hardly in doubt.

  • Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, right, pauses during a meeting with high level military officials in Minsk, Belarus, Aug. 5, 2021.

    U.S. writes Belarus into its familiar regime-change script

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 12, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The primary reason the U.S. government opposes the Lukashenko administration is not its authoritarianism, real as that might be. Instead, Lukashenko’s steadfast refusal to privatize state assets, join NATO, or open the country up for foreign exploitation are Washington’s principal objections.

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    Want regime change with plausible deniability? Call Creative Associates International

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 3, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In this frank discussion, we delve into the world of soft power and regime-change ops.

  • A nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas. John Locher

    Corporate Media joins the anti-vaxxers when it comes to Chinese- and Russian-made vaccines

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 27, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    “It’s striking how similar the techniques [are] that Fox News uses to frighten people about the U.S. vaccination campaign and those that The New York Times, Reuters and others use to scare people about Chinese vaccines.” — Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

  • Alan Macleod and Mnar Muhawesh Adley MintCast

    Breaking through the western media propaganda coverage of Cuba protests

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 16, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    While there are plenty of reasons for ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press.

  • Floridians from Cuba’s ex-pat community in Hialeah, Fla. protest

    The bay of Tweets: documents point to U.S. hand in Cuba protests

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 16, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The U.S. government can cause economic misery for the Cuban people, but it cannot, it appears, convince them to overthrow their government.

  • President Joe Biden visits the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md

    “Unchallenged Orientalism”: Why Liberals suddenly love the lab leak theory

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 9, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The lab leak theory bears a striking resemblance to the WMD hoax of 2002, not only in the fact that one of its key players is literally the same journalist using potentially the same anonymous sources, but also in the bipartisan political and media support it enjoys.

  • PressTV.com

    U.S. censorship is increasingly official

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 1, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Biden administration made headlines last week as it moved to shut down the websites of 33 foreign media outlets, including ones based in Iran, Bahrain, Yemen and Palestine. Officials justified the decision by claiming the organizations were agents of “disinformation.”

  • Graphic by Antonio Cabrera

    Jessica Ashooh: The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 11, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    How and why did a hawkish young mandarin hothoused at elite universities and in the halls of state power end up an executive at an anarchic messageboard site with an anti-establishment reputation?

  • Stability: Media Codeword for ‘Under U.S. Control’

    Stability: media codeword for ‘under U.S. control’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 4, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The world watched aghast last month as Israeli forces during Ramadan stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, attacking and injuring hundreds of worshipers.

  • Graphic by Antonio Cabrera

    Birds of a Fascist feather: why Israel is aiding Colombia’s crackdown on protesters

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 28, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Photos circulating on social media show Colombian government forces using Israeli weapons against protestors and Israeli-made Sand Cat armored vehicles patrolling the streets of Colombian cities. Alan Macleod investigates the growing ties between the unlikely allies.

  • Mahmoud Ahmed, 34, gives a tour of his apartment, which was severely damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a neighboring building, May 24, 2021, in Magazzi, the Gaza Strip. John Minchillo | AP

    Why the Overton window has suddenly shifted on Israel-Palestine

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 24, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    There is little doubt that the Overton window on Israel-Palestine is rapidly shifting. To understand why, MintPress spoke to academics, experts, and rights groups familiar with the subject.

  • It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse

    It’s aggression when ‘they’ do it, but defense when ‘we’ do worse

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 30, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Aggression, in international politics, is commonly defined as the use of armed force against another sovereign state, not justified by self-defense or international authority.

  • Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (second from left) inspects a naval destroyer during miliotary drills off the port of Su’ao ahead of planned war games by China. Photo | Military News Agency via AP

    Tanks and think tanks: How Taiwanese cash is funding the push to war with China

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 22, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Twenty years ago, a group of neoconservative think tanks used their power to push for disastrous wars in the Middle East. Now, a new set of think tanks staffed with many of the same experts and funded by Taiwanese money is working hard to convince Americans that there is a new existential threat: China.

  • Support the Tropes

    Support the Tropes

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 9, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    How media language encourages the left to support wars, coups and intervention.

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