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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.
  • A woman holds a sign as she attends a rally outside the Missouri Capitol to protest stay-at-home orders put into place due to the COVID-19 outbreak in Jefferson City on Tuesday. Jeff Roberson | AP

    New survey highlights effectiveness of anti-China COVID rhetoric

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 24, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A new YouGov survey reveals the real effects that Anti-China rhetoric is having on shaping public perception and the reality of COVID-19’s impact on the world.

  • Members of the public look on at a Seattle City Council before the council voted to approve a tax on large businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks to fight homelessness in Seattle. Elaine Thompson | AP

    “A disturbing milestone”: America’s top 12 plutocrats now own $1 Trillion in wealth

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

    New figures from the Institute for Policy Studies show that, despite a pandemic that has stunted the economy for months, America’s billionaire class is becoming richer than ever, adding nearly $700 billion to their fortune since the nationwide lockdown in March.

  • MintPress | Antonio Cabrera

    Popular viral video firm sues Facebook over Russian propaganda label

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 15, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The company behind In The Now, Soapbox and Waste-Ed is taking on media giant Facebook, who it claims is falsely labeling it as Russian state-controlled propaganda.

  • Media’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Debate Obscures Direct Threats to First Amendment

    Media’s ‘cancel culture’ debate obscures direct threats to first amendment

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on August 1, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    A short and rather vaguely worded open letter published in Harper’s Magazine(7/7/20) earlier this month caused an unlikely media storm that continues to rumble on.

  • A “brazen giveaway” GOP HEALS Act is a $30 billion bonanza for the Pentagon

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 29, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The new $1 trillion GOP HEALS act includes billions for F-35 fighters, Apache Helicopters, and other welfare programs for the Pentagon.

  • Black Lives Matter protesters gather outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Sunday, July 19, 2020, in Portland, Ore. Officers used teargas and projectiles to move the crowd after some protesters tore down a fence fronting the courthouse. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    Portland: “Wall of Moms” mobilizes to protect protests from police violence

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 20, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, injuring many.

  • In this Tuesday, May 31, 2016 photo, Ali, 22, poses for a photo showing off his tattoo of Shiite Muslims' first Imam Ali, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. A growing number of Shiite Muslims in Lebanon are getting tattoos with religious and other Shiite symbols since the civil war in neighboring Syria broke out five years ago, fanning sectarian flames across the region. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

    As white Jesus debate rages, Islam undergoes its own racial reckoning

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 10, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The worldwide push for racial justice has sparked discussion within some Muslim communities on the overly white illustrations of key figures in the Islamic tradition, particularly the twelve imams so revered in Shiaism.

  • Vanessa Neumann is pictured with disgraced Trump advisor John Bolton in Aug, 2019. (@vanessaneumann)

    Guaido representative threatens FBI investigation into journalists exposing her dealings

    Alan MacLeod

    Juan Guaido’s UK “ambassador” claims that she is working with the FBI in an investigation exposing a “transnational criminal network” of journalists and outlets, including Venezuelanalysis.

  • In ‘Russian Bounty’ Story, Evidence-Free Claims From Nameless Spies Became Fact Overnight

    In ‘Russian Bounty’ story, evidence-free claims from nameless spies became fact overnight

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on July 3, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Based upon a bombshell New York Times report (6/26/20), virtually the entire media landscape has been engulfed in the allegations that Russia is paying Taliban fighters bounties to kill U.S. soldiers.

  • A coca leaf producer kneels holding a bible with his arms outspread asking police to open the way so a march by supports of Evo Morales may continue to Cochabamba, Bolivia, Nov. 16, 2019. Juan Karita | AP

    Twitter targets accounts of MintPress and other outlets covering unrest in Bolivia

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 29, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    MintPress News, along with a number of independent Bolivian news outlets and journalists covering the unrest there, were all targeted for suspension at the same time.

  • Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, Sept. 5, 2018, in Washington. Jose Luis Magana | AP

    Hawkish, Gov’t funded think tank behind Twitter decision to delete thousands of Chinese accounts

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

    Twitter’s decision came after close collaboration with a deeply controversial U.S. and Australian government-funded think tank that has been denounced by Australia’s former ambassador in Beijing as “the architect of the China threat theory in Australia.”

  • A protester is arrested by NYPD officers for violating curfew beside the iconic Plaza Hotel on 59th Street, Wednesday, June 3, 2020, in the Manhattan borough of New York. Protests continued following the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    Fake taxis among the latest tools in the NYPD’s rights-busting crackdown on protesters

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 5, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The NYPD is famous for violating civil rights so it comes as no surprise that protests over the police brutality in the city have elicited a violent crackdown from the city’s finest.

  • A policeman walks in front of a burning vehicle as protesters demonstrate, May 30, 2020, in Salt Lake City. Rick Bowmer | AP

    Agent provocateurs: Police at protests all over the country caught destroying property

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 1, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Police all over the world commonly use plants and undercover cops to undermine protests.

  • A policeman shoots rubber bullets at protesters throwing rocks and water bottles during a demonstration next to the city of Miami Police Department, Saturday, May 30, 2020, downtown in Miami. Protests were held throughout the country over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

    George Floyd protests: Police escalating violence across America

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 31, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    While some in media have condemned the protests as violent “looters” imposing “tyranny” upon the country, much of the violence is being deliberately instigated and propagated by an out of control police force that appears to have gone berserk over the widespread public challenge to their authority and their impunity to act as they wish.

  • President Donald Trump speaks as he tours Ford's Rawsonville Components Plant that has been converted to making personal protection and medical equipment, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Ypsilanti, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    The power of propaganda: Americans think Trump’s COVID-19 performance better than China’s

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 22, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Americans rate their own government’s response, along with that of the UK and Italy, higher than that of China despite those countries having much higher death and infection rates.

  • Pictures of U.S. national flag and Chinese President Xi Jinping with mask, made by protestors are displayed in central district of Hong Kong’s business district, Oct. 14, 2019. Kin Cheung | AP

    U.S. Military planners advise expanded online psychological warfare against China

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 18, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Just three years ago, Americans had a neutral view of China (and nine years ago it was strongly favorable). Today, the same polls show that 66 percent of Americans dislike the country.

  • FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump, center, with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, behind him at right, addresses members of the military during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. President Donald Trump starts the new year knee-deep in daunting foreign policy challenges at the same time he'll have to deal with a likely impeachment trial in the Senate and the demands of a reelection campaign. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

    Experts warn of new nuclear arms race after Trump signals U.S. withdrawal from START Treaty

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 1, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    While much of the corporate press has blamed Russia and China for the sudden failure of multiple longstanding nuclear treaties, experts put the blame on squarely on the Trump administration.

  • Both Sides-ing Bleach Injection

    Both sides-ing bleach injection

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 28, 2020 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Media in the era of an incompetent president.

  • Bill Gates Bill Gates and Martina Navratilova at the French Open in Paris, France. Photo | NJO | STAR MAX | IPx

    America’s super-rich see their wealth rise by $282 Billion in three weeks of pandemic

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 27, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    America’s billionaires have accrued more wealth in the past three weeks alone than they made in total prior to 1980.

  • A civic worker sanitizes an area as policemen stand guard after a protest against the extension of the lockdown, at a slum in Mumbai, India, April 14, 2020. Rafiq Maqbool | AP

    BJP capitalizes on Coronavirus fears to take India’s fascist creep to the next level

    Originally published: MintPress News on April 17, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    India is accelerating down the track of religious strife, and the government itself is driving the vehicle.

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