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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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    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.

  • A rally believed to be attended by Betar members in Paris, February 9, 2025 | Credit: Cesar Vilette | Ola News | Sipa via AP Images

    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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    Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East editor exposed as CIA, Mossad collaborator

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 3, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group.

  • Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., talks to reporters at an election night watch party for Donald Trump, Nov. 5, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Alex Brandon | AP

    Marco Rubio: From ‘perfect little puppet’ to most dangerous man alive

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 2, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Trump, who promises to be the “most pro-Israel president ever,” has picked a cabinet replete with neoconservative, pro-war voices.

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    TikTok isn’t anti-Israel: It’s hired Unit 8200 agents to run its affairs

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 27, 2024 (more by MintPress News)  |

    TikTok has been under intense pressure as of late from U.S. officials, who accuse the video platform of being a hub of anti-Israel hatred.

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    Revealed: The Israeli spies writing America’s news

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 16, 2024 (more by MintPress News)  |

    One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs.

  • The North Atlantic Council meeting begins to fill during the meeting of Defence Ministerials at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, February 12, 2020. Photo |DVIDS

    Selling war: How Raytheon and Boeing fund the push for NATO’s nuclear expansion

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 18, 2024 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The B-61 bombs are assembled by Boeing, who, according to its most recent financial reports, gave tens of thousands of dollars to the organization. And the Tomahawk and SM-6 are produced by Raytheon, who recently supplied the Atlantic Council with a six-figure sum.

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    Exposed: How Israeli spies control your VPN

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 11, 2024 (more by MintPress News)  |

    An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities.

  • University Crackdown

    Follow the money: How Israel-linked billionaires silenced U.S. campus protests

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 22, 2024 (more by MintPress News)  |

    America’s universities are on fire.

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    From PropOrNot to New Lines: How Washington is weaponizing media

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 10, 2024 (more by MintPress News)  |

    If you read the Wikipedia entries for many alternative media outlets, they are written off as fringe conspiracy websites pushing debunked foreign propaganda. MintPress News, for example, is described as a “far-left news website” which “publishes disinformation and antisemitic conspiracy theories.”

  • An Agency for International Development flag flies in front of USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C. Graeme Sloan | Sipa via AP

    USAID’s disinformation primer: Global censorship in the name of democracy

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 21, 2024 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A report from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) outlines how the government agency has been encouraging governments, tech platforms, establishment media outlets and advertisers to work together to censor huge swaths of the Internet.

  • Palestinian soccer supporters watch a match between the Palestinian team and Thailand in the West Bank town of Al-Ram, near Ramallah. Bernat Armangue | AP

    Goalposts and gunfire: Israel’s deliberate attacks on Palestinian football and its players

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 1, 2024 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Amid an ongoing onslaught against the Gaza Strip by apartheid Israel, the Palestinian national football team was a Cinderella story at this year’s AFC Asian Cup, reaching the knockout stages, eventually falling only to hosts and eventual winners hosted in Qatar.

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