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About Kit Klarenberg

Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist and MintPress News contributor exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. His work has previously appeared in The Cradle, Declassified UK, and Grayzone.
  • USAID

    Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network?

    Originally published: The Grayzone on January 31, 2025 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode.

  • Illustration by MintPress News

    ‘Conspiracy Theory’ is now fact: Greater Israel has arrived

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 28, 2025 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’—the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God.

  • Britain Started Vietnam War

    How Britain started Vietnam War

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 12, 2024 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    In the post-World War II period, Britain waged a number of covert wars in every corner of the world, as its financial and military clout rapidly withered.

  • Collapsing empire

    Collapsing empire: The day sanctions died

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on July 31, 2024 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    By sanctioning so many countries so readily, the Empire has in effect sanctioned itself–and convinced an ever-increasing number of states to seek alternative economic and financial structures.

  • Anti-Maidan protesters gather in front of the occupied Donetsk Oblast regional administration building, April 2014

    Civil war in Donbass 10 years on

    Originally published: Global Delinguents on July 8, 2024 (more by Global Delinguents)

    July 1st marked the 10th anniversary of a brutal resumption of hostilities in the Donbass civil war.

  • U.S.-EU assets pushing color revolution in Georgia

    U.S.-EU assets pushing color revolution in Georgia

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 26, 2024 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Over 25,000 NGOs are active in Georgia, and most rely on funding from Europe and the U.S. A new bill aiming to reign in Western meddling has sparked furious anti-government protests explicitly encouraged by Washington.

  • DATA

    CIA targeting smartphone app data

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on May 19, 2024 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    The same agencies that used and abused private user data with total impunity for years are being granted responsibility for crafting their own internal policies for what is and isn’t acceptable to intercept, analyse, exploit, and act upon.

  • CIA and MI6 Created ISIS

    How CIA and MI6 created ISIS

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on March 30, 2024 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    Contrary to their mainstream portrayal, as inspired purely by religious fundamentalism, Daesh are primarily guns for hire.

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    Enslaved by nonprofits: How NGO’s colonize developing countries

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 12, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    November 21 marked the 28th anniversary of the signing of the U.S.-brokered Dayton Agreement, which brought an end to the proxy war in Bosnia after three years and eight months.

  • President Joe Biden is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport on Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. Evan Vucci | AP

    Top democrat-linked PR firm tapped by pro-Israel groups to control Gaza war narrative

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 22, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    On December 6, it was announced with much fanfare that the 10/7 Project, a new “centralized communications operation to promote continued U.S. bipartisan support for Israel; push for accurate, complete coverage of the Israel-Hamas war,” and achieve a “stronger” media “focus” on the victims of October 7’s Al-Aqsa Flood would be launched, by a quintet […]

  • 2014 Maidan massacre

    Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag

    Originally published: The Grayzone on December 11, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.

  • ‘Push’ notifications

    ‘Push’ notifications: A secret spying frontier

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on December 10, 2023 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    In this piece, Kit Klarenberg provides valuable insight into how push notifications are being used by governments to spy on users.

  • A June 5, 2017 ceremony marks Montenegro's accession to NATO

    Hostile takeover: NATO’s annexation of Montenegro

    Originally published: The Grayzone on November 22, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    NATO’s stealth takeover of the tiny but geopolitically significant nation represents the Balkans’ latest submission to U.S. global hegemony.

  • former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

    Leaked: British spies constructed Zionist propaganda network

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on November 12, 2023 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    It is uncertain what came of Lafayeedney’s meetings in “Israel”. But not long after, the campaign to torpedo Corbyn’s chances of becoming prime minister became turbocharged.

  • A tent city in Khan Younis, Gaza for Palestinians forced to flee the northern areas of the besieged strip

    Zionist think tank publishes blueprint for Palestinian genocide

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 24, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    As Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza entered its third week, leaving over 5000 dead and at least one million residents displaced, a Tel Aviv-based think tank published a blueprint for self-proclaimed Jewish state’s final solution.

  • photo | Illustration by MintPress News

    Files expose Syrian ‘revolution’ as Western regime change

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 27, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Throughout August and September, anti-government protests have rocked Syrian cities. While the crowds are typically small, numbering only a few hundred, they show little sign of abating.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Migrant Genocide: Toward a Third World Analysis of European Class Struggle
    Iker Suarez A banner at a memorial rally for victims of the 2014 massacre of migrants at Tarajal, 2021.

    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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