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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 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.

  • Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during the JFK Space Summit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, June 19, 2019. Charles Krupa | AP

    Jeff Bezos, World’s richest man, wants your donations to help Amazon employees

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 23, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A man worth over $100 billion, who makes, on average, $230,000 per minute calling on the public to help his own impoverished employees was not met well by many.

  • A pedestrian wears a surgical mask on a busy street in mid-town Manhattan, as concerns grow around COVID-19, Tuesday March 3, 2020, in New York. A man from New York City's suburbs was hospitalized in serious condition with COVID-19 on Tuesday, a case that prompted school closings and quarantines for congregants of a now-shuttered synagogue. The state's second confirmed case also raised the possibility that the virus is spreading locally. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

    Big banks call for Wall Street deregulation to “fight Coronavirus”

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

    As Naomi Klein laid out in her bestseller “Shock Doctrine,” the wealthy elite use the confusion caused by economic and other disasters to quickly force through pro-free-market legislation.

  • Unidentified people embrace during the funeral of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka, 15, at the cemetery in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday June 10, 2010. Mexico condemned the fatal shooting of Hernandez Huereka by a U.S. Border Patrol agent through diplomatic correspondence and some Mexican politicians called for the agent's extradition to face Mexican justice. (AP Photo)

    Supreme Court ruling hands U.S. Border Patrol a license to kill with impunity

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

    The Supreme Court set a dangerous precedent yesterday when it ruled in favor of the U.S. Border Patrol in the cross-border murder of a young teenage boy who was shot in the face by an overzealous agent.

  • Police detain a protester in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Student and labor groups called for new protests as they hope to reignite demonstrations against President Ivan Duque that brought thousands to the streets late last year with a wide range of grievances with his conservative government. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

    As media amplifies unrest in Venezuela and beyond, millions are quietly revolting in Colombia

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 21, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Despite protests of historic proportions fueled by anger over corruption and a brutal right-wing crackdown, the unrest in Colombia has garnered remarkably little international media attention compared to Venezuela.

  • News Flash- Billionaires Don’t Like Socialism

    News flash: Billionaires don’t like socialism

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

    Big news, everyone! Billionaires don’t like socialism.

  • Firefighters gather during a demonstration Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 in Paris. Participants want a raise in risk pay from 19% to 25% to fulfil their missions which they say reductions in personnel have made increasingly difficult. They say attacks against them are also on the rise.(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

    Riot Police beat up striking Firefighters as media looks the other way

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

    The media, quick to condemn violence against protesters elsewhere in the world, largely ignored the brutal crackdown on firefighters joining months-long nationwide protests in France.

  • President Donald Trump delivers the opening remarks at the World Economic Forum, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, in Davos. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

    World’s super rich meet in Davos to discuss the climate change problem they created

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

    Research has shown that the people most responsible for a warming planet were disproportionately the same people attending the summit and an increasing number of observers see climate change, inequality and capitalism as bound together.

  • Protestors carry a poster depicting French President Emmanuel Macron during a demonstration Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 in Lille, northern France. Protesters are denouncing French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to overhaul the national pension system.(AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

    In France’s longest protests since 1968, striking workers continue the fight against neoliberalism

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

    From bus drivers to ballet dancers, workers from across France have taken to the streets in opposition to President Emmanual Macron’s attempts to reshape the country into a U.S.-style neoliberal state.

  • Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos answers questions during his news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Bezos announced the Climate Pledge, setting a goal to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    Jeff Bezos donates three minutes’ income to help Australia fight wildfires

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

    The donation would be equivalent to someone who earned $500 per week announcing on social media that they had just donated five cents to help tackle the blazes.

  • A press conference announcing the arrest of Hospital Administrator, Mirtha Sanjinez, center, in La Paz, Bolivia. Screenshot | YouTube

    Bolivia’s new right-wing government intensifies crackdown on journalists, doctors

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

    The U.S.-backed administration of Jeanine Añez is arresting prominent members of the press and even doctors in what it calls a “dismantling of the propaganda apparatus of the dictatorial regime of Evo Morales.”

  • Corporate Media Find All the Wrong Lessons for US Left in Corbyn’s Defeat

    Corporate media find all the wrong lessons for U.S. left in Corbyn’s defeat

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 21, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Conservative leader Boris Johnson swept to power in the UK’s December 12 elections, winning 365 of a possible 650 seats. Labour’s socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn announced his resignation, after a bitterly disappointing night for his party.

  • Getting Away With Murder- ‘Clash’ as Media Euphemism for ‘Massacre’

    Getting away with murder: ‘clash’ as media euphemism for ‘massacre’

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 13, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    After deposing Evo Morales in a U.S.-backed coup November 11, Bolivia’s military selected Jeanine Añez as president. Añez immediately signed a decree pre-exonerating security forces of all crimes during their “re-establishment of order,” understood by all sides as a license to kill. Those same forces have now conducted massacres of Morales supporters near the cities of Cochabamba and La Paz.

  • Feature photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera

    Harvesting the blood of America’s poor: the latest stage of capitalism

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 3, 2019 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Blood has become big business in the United States and there is no shortage of corporations ready to exploit America’s most vulnerable populations in order to get a piece of the pie.

  • Relatives mourn over the body of Antonio Quispe, killed by security forces, during a funeral at the San Francisco de Asis church in El Alto, outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, Nov. 20, 2019. Natacha Pisarenko | AP

    How Human Rights Watch whitewashed a right-wing massacre in Bolivia

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 20, 2019 (more by MintPress News)  |

    While some may be surprised by its response to the Bolivia crisis, Human Rights Watch’s support for a U.S.-backed right-wing coup is no aberration.

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