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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.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins talks to the press at College Green in London, October 9, 2018. David Mirzoeff | PA Wire | Alamy

    How Bellingcat launders National Security State talking points into the press

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

    For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, including high-level positions in military and intelligence agencies.

  • Former President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva.

    Financial press fears Brazilians will be allowed to elect president of their choice

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 17, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Brazilian Supreme Court this month dismissed all charges against former President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva. A towering figure in national politics, Lula was the country’s president for eight years between 2003 and 2011.

  • MintPresss News

    NATO video talks ‘diversity, respect, embrace’ but critics see through the wash job

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 5, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    NATO’s latest video is yet another example of how superficially progressive language is used to put a gloss on fundamentally regressive institutions.

  • Humanitarian Imperialism

    Humanitarian imperialism

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 3, 2021 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    How corporate media sell regime change, Intervention and war to progressive audiences.

  • Chinese made children’s shoes embroidered with Chinese maps and U.S. flags are on display at a shop in Beijing. Andy Wong | AP

    After years of propaganda, American views of Russia and China hit historic lows

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

    Both pro- and anti-war voices have stated that the U.S. is on the cusp of entering a second Cold War, and a new Gallup poll suggests that the groundwork for such a conflict has already been laid.

  • Vice Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of US Strategic Command, speaks during a change of command ceremony at Offutt AFB in Nebraska, Nov. 18, 2019. Nati Harnik | AP

    Head of Strategic Command: U.S. must prepare for “very real possibility” of nuclear war with China

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 5, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In an era when international cooperation in the face of pandemics and climate change is essential, the world appears to be racing towards a new Cold War, and unfortunately, few except the military top brass are talking about it.

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