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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.
  • Nepal

    As criticism grows over landslide inaction, leaks show Nepal’s new leaders groomed by U.S. regime change outfit

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 9, 2026 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone)  |

    As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the U.S. government.

  • war on history

    Ukraine’s ultranationalist war on history

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on August 18, 2026 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    A new study warns that Ukraine’s expanding system of memory laws has turned historical narratives into a tool of state enforcement, deepening restrictions on public discourse and intensifying efforts to shape national identity amid the conflict with Russia.

  • Sino-Indian war

    How CIA secretly triggered Sino-Indian war

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on November 2025 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    Decades of determined U.S. efforts to foment antagonism between the vast neighbours have come spectacularly undone, due to the sheer weight of geopolitical reality.

  • White Helmets in Venezuela as rescuers, raising concerns over forgiegn influence and political intervention. (Mahdi Rteil)

    The White Helmets invade Venezuela

    Originally published: Al Mayadeen on July 4, 2026 (more by Al Mayadeen)  |

    White Helmets’ deployment to Venezuela is portrayed as a humanitarian mission that also advances Western influence through parallel state-building and regime change.

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    Leaked emails reveal British intel instigated riots in occupied Ireland with twisted ploys

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 24, 2026 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which they then exploited to justify repression. In private diatribes, veterans of occupied Ireland who later became MI6 officers still obsess over “keeping Northern Ireland British” and mock the death of Bobby Sands.

  • Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists flags at a December 2013 Maidan protest

    How the CIA conjured Ukrainian Nationalism

    Originally published: Global Delinguents on June 9, 2026 (more by Global Delinguents)

    As this journalist has previously revealed, in August 1957 the CIA secretly drew up elaborate plans for a U.S. special forces invasion of Ukraine.

  • Soros’ OSF helped stir Indonesian rebellion, leaks reveal

    Soros’ OSF helped stir Indonesian rebellion, leaks reveal

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 5, 2026 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone expose how the Soros-run Open Society Foundations plotted to “prevent the continuation” of Indonesia’s elected government by bankrolling opposition media, youth activists groups and lawfare operations to remove President Prabowo Subianto.

  • Photo: The Cradle

    Stalked in real time: Intellexa, the Israeli Predator in your pocket

    Originally published: The Cradle on December 8, 2025 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Leaked training videos and new evidence expose Intellexa as more than just a rogue surveillance company. The Israeli firm stands as a pillar of Tel Aviv’s global cyberwarfare infrastructure, infiltrating phones worldwide through ‘zero-click’ methods, ad-based infections, and covert partnerships with authoritarian governments.

  • Mexico’s ‘Gen Z rebellion’

    Mexico’s ‘Gen Z rebellion’ exposed as viral right-wing plot

    Originally published: The Grayzone on November 19, 2025 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Presented as a spontaneous youth-led uprising against corruption, violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs and an international right-wing network determined to topple the popular President Claudia Sheinbaum.

  • Russia / Ukraine War

    Declassified: CIA’s covert Ukraine invasion plan

    Originally published: Global Delinguents on August 17, 2025 (more by Global Delinguents)

    Public support for Kiev “fighting until victory” has plummeted to a record low “across all segments” of the population, “regardless of region or demographic group.” In a “nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022,” 69% of citizens “favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible.” Just 24% wish to keep fighting.  However, vanishingly few believe the proxy war will end anytime soon.

  • 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.

  • Illustration by MintPress News

    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 […]

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  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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