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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.
  • Chinese military personnel march during the parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. Ng Han Guan | AP

    Atlantic Council pens anonymously authored expose calling for regime change in China

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 3, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The report outlines a plan for the United States to pursue a China without Xi Jinping, with a weakened Communist Party, and operating in a region dominated by the US and its allies.

  • Teachers prepare an outdoor learning demonstration for students to display methods schools can use to continue on-site education during the coronavirus pandemic, Sept. 2, 2020, at P.S. 15 in the Red Hook neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. John Minchillo | AP

    Corporate Media bash teachers unions for resisting school reopenings amid rising death toll

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 27, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Rather than attack the government for its poor handling of the COVID crisis, corporate media have opted for a return to a favorite pastime of theirs: union bashing.

  • Andres Arauz, the presidential candidate for the political coalition National Union for Hope, UNES, flashes a number one finger sign as he leaves a press conference, in Quito, Ecuador, Jan. 13, 2021. Dolores Ochoa | AP

    With likely victory of Andrés Arauz, Ecuador will join Latin America’s anti-Imperialist surge

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on January 27, 2021 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    Ecuador is just weeks away from becoming the latest Latin American nation to move away from the IMF and United States and elect a strongly progressive, anti-imperialist government.

  • A woman takes a photo with a phone that has a United States flag themed cover outside the United States Consulate in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan province on, July 26, 2020. Ng Han Guan | AP

    China tech ban mirrors 1980s attempts to destroy Japanese competition

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 15, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In the 1980s, the U.S. imposed a 100% tariff on virtually all Japanese electronics and forced Tokyo to sign a one-sided trade deal that reserved much of its domestic semiconductor sector for American companies.

  • Ex-combatants of the disbanded FARC and social activists march to demand the government guarantee their right to life and compliance with the 2016 peace agreement, in Bogota, Colombia, Nov. 1, 2020. Fernando Vergara | AP

    Fingers point to U.S.-backed Gov’t in Colombia’s ninetieth massacre of the Year

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 30, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    “The Trump administration waged a full scale campaign to undermine Colombia’s peace accords. We must not waste our time hoping the Biden administration might reverse course, we must demand it.” — James Jordan, Alliance for Global Justice

  • Photo used to promote CNN‘s Saudi puff piece on Twitter (12/5/20).

    ‘Freedom is blossoming’: After dismembering a journalist, Saudi Arabia goes on a PR spree

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 23, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    “Freedom is blossoming.” That is how, without a shred of irony, CNN International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson describes Saudi Arabia in his recent article.

  • Government supporters walk past a mural depicting the late president Hugo Chavez during a closing campaign rally for the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. The South American nation is caught in a deepening political and economic crisis, despite holding the world's largest oil reserves. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

    U.S. Embassy caught scrubbing Tweets urging Venezuelans not to vote

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 14, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It is not clear why the embassy decided to go back and delete its posting history, especially as undermining Venezuela’s elections continues to be the official line of the U.S. government.

  • Government supporters chant for parliamentary candidates representing the Great Patriotic Pole party at a closing campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 3, 2020. Ariana Cubillos | AP

    U.S. media, pols rage after Venezuelans defy U.S. empire to re-elect socialists

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 7, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Despite the fact that the election was overseen by 1,500 international observers, U.S. pols and media pundits alike labeled it a sham before it even took place.

  • President-elect Joe Biden's Director of National Intelligence nominee Avril Haines removes her face mask to speak at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    “Superheroes” and “Nice” guys: Coverage of Biden’s hawkish cabinet picks is predictably lacking

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 25, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Just as they failed to hold power to account in the run-up to the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, corporate media is refusing to ask the hard questions about Biden’s hawkish cabinet picks.

  • Crying Wolf on Election Fraud Is OK at NYT—if Targets Are Official Enemies

    Crying wolf on election fraud is OK at NYT—if targets are official enemies

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 20, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    President Donald Trump’s categorical refusal to accept what seems like an inevitable and increasingly crushing election loss has many in media rightly worried about the political repercussions of such a move, with some sounding the alarm over a potential coup d’etat in the U.S. (e.g., Salon, 11/11/20; Washington Post, 11/12/20; Guardian, 11/13/20; New Republic, 11/13/20).

  • Graphic by Anontio Cabrera for MintPress

    Meet the filthy rich war hawks that make up Biden’s new foreign policy team

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 13, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    “I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of “limited engagement,” – Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic

  • Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

    Media silence marks ongoing OPCW cover-up of Syria chemical weapons scandal

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 6, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    “Clearly the U.S. and its allies do not want transparency and open debate about the OPCW Douma investigation, and one can only conclude that this is the case because they know full well that their claims cannot be substantiated. Smears and censorship are the only tactics they have left.” – Propaganda Expert Piers Robinson

  • Glenn Greenwald

    The knives come out as Greenwald splits from the Intercept citing censorship

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 30, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Funded by a billionaire oligarch and increasingly seen as a mouthpiece for the neoliberal establishment, The Intercept suffered its biggest blow yet with the very public departure of Greenwald.

  • An anti-government protester raises his arms at Plaza Italia on the day Chileans voted in a referendum to decide whether the country should replace its 40-year-old constitution, written during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, in Santiago, Chile, Oct. 25, 2020. Luis Hidalgo | AP

    In stunning display of popular will, protests in Bolivia to Chile force public reckoning of “Chicago Boy” economics

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 26, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Like in Bolivia, the strength of public opinion in Chile was so immense that the government, led by Chile’s richest man Sebastian Piñera, immediately conceded.

  • Former Bolivian President Evo Morales attends a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after general elections in his home country, Oct. 19. 2020. Marcos Brindicci | AP

    Media responds with apathy, disappointment as U.S.-backed coup Gov’t concedes defeat in Bolivia

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 19, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Across the spectrum, corporate media has endorsed last year’s rightwing takeover of Bolivia, refusing to label it as a coup. Coverage of Sunday’s historical elections hasn’t been much better.

  • An Afghan boy watches Cpt. Chris Esrey of Havelock, North Carolina, with India, 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, First Marine Division, company, scan the area during a patrol in Sangin, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Dusan Vranic | AP

    In Afghanistan, American Troops patrol the same routes their fathers did

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 12, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Thousands of U.S. soldiers continue to pace and patrol exactly the same routes as their predecessors did in 2001, fighting a seemingly endless conflict that both the American and Afghan public have long since soured on.

  • Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’

    Julian Assange: Press shows little interest in media ‘trial of century’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 25, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Yet the case has been met with indifference from the corporate press. Even as their house is burning down, media are insisting it is just the Northern Lights.

  • People queue at the entrance of the Old Bailey court in London, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, as the Julian Assange extradition hearing to the US continues. Frank Augstein | AP

    As his extradition trial drags on, media and rights groups are still ignoring Julian Assange

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 25, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Many mainstream rights groups and media organizations have a mixed history when it comes to opposing Washington’s agenda. The case of Julian Assange has been no exception.

  • Media Blame Gender Reveal Parties, Not Climate Change, for West Coast Fires

    Media blame gender reveal parties, not climate change, for West Coast fires

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 18, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The West is on fire, quite literally. A record-breaking heatwave has sparked unprecedented wildfires up and down the coast, turning the sky an apocalyptic, terrifying shade of red.

  • Maria Centeno, right, from Mexico, is consoled by her neighbor Hector Rocha after seeing their destroyed mobile homes at the Talent Mobile Estates, Sept. 10, 2020, in Talent, Ore., after as wildfires devastate the region. Paula Bronstein | AP

    Oregon can’t fight wildfires because its helicopters were sent to Afghanistan

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 11, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Many of Oregon’s largest firefighting aircraft are not available because the Department of Defense has sent them to Afghanistan to fight in the 20-year-old war.

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