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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.
  • Joe Biden, projected on screens, gestures as he addresses the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2013 Policy Conference, March 4, 2013, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. Susan Walsh | AP

    Blood money: The top ten politicians taking the most Israel lobby cash

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 18, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    As the Israeli attack on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria intensifies, the U.S. public watch on aghast. A new poll finds that Americans support a permanent ceasefire by a more than 2:1 ratio (including the vast majority of Democrats and a plurality of Republicans).

  • Illustration by MintPress News

    Propaganda war: Pro-Israel trolls are mobbing X’s (Twitter’s) community note

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 24, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Almost as important as its military campaign for Israel is its battle to control its public image.

  • Illustration by MintPress News

    Propaganda Blitz: How mainstream media is pushing fake Palestine stories

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 13, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    After Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, IDF forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence so far has claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people. Western media, however, show far more interest and have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as unofficial spokespersons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

  • A map of Western Africa provides the backdrop for a brief during Western Accord at Harskamp, the Netherlands, July 24, 2015. Western Accord 2015 is a command post exercise that simulates Western intervention in Mali. Photo | US Army

    Africa’s NATO? How ECOWAS became a tool for Western Imperialism

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 11, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In this venture, ECOWAS has been fully supported by the United States and Europe, leading many to suspect it is being used as an imperial vehicle to stamp out anti-colonial projects in West Africa.

  • Taiwan’s Vice President William Lai, left, chats with Ingrid D. Larson, managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan/Washington Office upon arrival in New York, Aug. 13, 2023. Photo | Taiwan Presidential Office | Editing by MintPress News

    Documents show Taiwan working with FBI to prosecute Chinese Americans, intimidate U.S. politicians

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 18, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Amid a controversial visit from Vice President William Lai (the front-runner to be his country’s next leader), official documents reviewed by “MintPress News” show that the Taiwanese government is attempting to drum up anti-China hostility, influence and intimidate American politicians and is even working with the FBI and other agencies to spy on and prosecute Chinese American citizens.

  • A map of Western Africa provides the backdrop for a brief during Western Accord at Harskamp, the Netherlands, July 24, 2015. Western Accord 2015 is a command post exercise that simulates Western intervention in Mali. Photo | US Army

    Beyond Niger: How ECOWAS became a tool for Western imperialism in Africa

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on August 12, 2023 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Niger is shaping up to be the surprising frontline of the new Cold War.

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    From simp to soldier: How the military is using e-girls to recruit Gen Z into service

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 1, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Amid a crisis in recruitment, the U.S. military has found a new way of convincing a war-weary Generation Z to enlist: thirst traps.

  • Illustration by MintPress News

    From Georgetown to Langley: The controversial connection between a prestigious university and the CIA

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 15, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    If you have ever wondered, “where do America’s spies come from?” the answer is quite possibly the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University.

  • Seymour Hersh (Photo: Illustration by MintPress News)

    Media ignore Seymour Hersh bombshell report of U.S. destroying Nord Stream II

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 15, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It has now been one week since Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report claiming that the Biden administration deliberately blew up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline without Germany’s consent or even knowledge–an operation which began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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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 […]

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    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.

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