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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.
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    From Lionel Messi, Kanye West to Taylor Swift: Celebrities are “protected” by Israeli security teams

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 21, 2026 (more by MintPress News)  |

    From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces.

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    U.S. meddling in Brazilian elections, preparing for possible military intervention

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 18, 2026 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

  • Math Destruction

    How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are propagandizing children to support war through STEM

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 31, 2026 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In the United States, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and others have stepped in to bolster cash-strapped education departments.

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    The Israeli spy behind PragerU’s plan to rewrite American education to indoctrinate children

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 8, 2026 (more by MintPress News)  |

    PragerU is trying to take over American schools.

  • Greg Brockman

    Greg Brockman: Meet the ChatGPT billionaire funding Trump, Pushing A.I. and designing hi-tech weapons

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 4, 2026 (more by MintPress News)  |

    OpenAI is increasingly becoming a military contractor, as 21st century battlefields become progressively automated.

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    DHS Docs: Govt bracing for Nationwide anti-AI riots, preparing to crack down on dissent

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 11, 2026 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It remains to be seen to what extent A.I. will actually become a revolutionary technology, but what is clear is that the U.S. government is preparing for major economic and social disruption in its wake.

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    From dunks to drones: The NBA has a Israel problem

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 16, 2026 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Many of the National Basketball Association’s biggest stars are quietly allying themselves with the State of Israel, making official visits to the country, meeting IDF troops, and investing in its national security industry.

  • Havana Syndrome

    The return of “Havana Syndrome’ as Cuba faces renewed U.S. pressure campaign

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 17, 2026 (more by MintPress News)  |

    As the Trump administration turns the screw on Cuba in an attempt at regime change, media are showing renewed interest in Havana Syndrome, the discredited theory that U.S. officials and secret agents are being targeted by a heretofore unknown directed energy weapon, making them sick.

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    The seven richest billionaires are all media barons

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 25, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    What the planet’s mega-rich capture of our media system shows is that billionaires are not only a serious drain on resources, but an existential threat to an open society and the free flow of information.

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    Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft aids the Gaza genocide

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 27, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    MintPress has detailed the deep collaboration between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Amazon, Google, TikTok, Apple, Palantir, and Oracle, but Microsoft’s relationship with the government and armed forces of Israel is potentially the closest, leading then-CEO Steve Ballmer to state that “Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company.”

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    Israel’s biggest U.S. donor now owns CBS

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 7, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News.

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    The CIA built hundreds of covert websites. Here’s what they were hiding

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 1, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The CIA didn’t just infiltrate governments; it infiltrated the internet itself.

  • Activist Greta Thunberg stands near the stage during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Mannheim, Germany, on Dec. 6, 2024. Uwe Anspach | AP

    From media darling to persona non grata: Greta Thunberg’s journey

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 6, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite.

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    Facing prison time in Germany for criticizing an Israeli journalist: The case of Hüseyin Dogru

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 18, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post, claiming that red. media, MintPress News, and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

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    Wiz acquisition puts Israeli Intelligence in charge of your Google data

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 17, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion.

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    Betar: The far-Right hate group helping Trump deport Israel’s critics

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 25, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States.

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    The Pentagon is recruiting Elon Musk to help them win a nuclear war

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 10, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Donald Trump has announced his intention to build a gigantic anti-ballistic missile system to counter Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons, and he is recruiting Elon Musk to help him.

  • Keren Yarhi-Milo poses with Hillary Clinton during Clinton’s 2023 guest teaching stint at Columbia. Photo | Facebook | Hillary Clinton

    Professor at center of Columbia University deportation scandal is former Israeli spy

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 11, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Although she is now an academic, she has never left the world of international security, making the subject her area of expertise. She has made a point of trying to lift women’s voices in the field. One of these was the then-U.S. Director of National Security, Avril Haines, whom she spoke with in 2023.

  • President of Argentina Javier Milei arrives on stage with a custom chainsaw before Elon Musk and Nesmax Host Rob Schmitt before speak, during day 1 of the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference, February 20, 2025. Graeme Sloan | AP

    Chainsaw diplomacy: Javier Milei’s Argentina destruction is a nightmarish model for Musk, DOGE

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 28, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The Argentinian president gifted Elon Musk a custom chainsaw, which he promised to use to drastically reduce public spending in his new role as the de facto leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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    The Pentagon is recruiting Elon Musk to help them win a nuclear war

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 10, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Donald Trump has announced his intention to build a gigantic anti-ballistic missile system to counter Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons, and he is recruiting Elon Musk to help him.

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