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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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    How one spook-run London college department is training the worlds social media managers

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 22, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London is also providing the workforce for many of the largest social media companies. This includes Facebook, TikTok, Google, and Twitter. A MintPress study of professional databases and employment websites […]

  • Graphic by MintPress News

    Most of the “fact-checking” organizations Facebook uses in Ukraine are directly funded by Washington

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

    Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

  • photo | Graphic by MintPress News

    National Security search engine: Google’s ranks are filled with CIA agents

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

    Google–one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world–is filled with ex-CIA agents.

  • Graphic by MintPress News

    Meet the ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook’s content policy

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 12, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It is an uncomfortable job for anyone trying to draw the line between “harmful content and protecting freedom of speech. It’s a balance”, Aaron says. In this official Facebook video, Aaron identifies himself as the manager of “the team that writes the rules for Facebook”, determining “what is acceptable and what is not.”

  • Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks during military ceremonies, Saturday, June 13, 2020, in West Point, N.Y. John Minchillo | AP

    Mark Esper’s tell-some reveals U.S. plans for war and terror against Venezuela

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 23, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    While barely covered in Western media, Esper’s confessions have caused a storm of commotion in the South American nation. However, Diego Sequera, a Caracas-based investigative journalist, told MintPress that few were taken aback by the news.

  • 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.

  • Alan Macleod

    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.

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    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.

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