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About Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann’s Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.
  • Ukraine and the New Al Qaeda

    Ukraine and the new Al Qaeda

    Originally published: The Last American Vagabond on March 2, 2022 (more by The Last American Vagabond)

    The eruption of war between Russia and Ukraine appears to have given the CIA the pretext to launch a long-planned insurgency in the country, one poised to spread far beyond Ukraine’s borders with major implications for Biden’s “War on Domestic Terror”

  • Former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, who is the U.N.’s special envoy for climate change, speaks at a Bank of England Financial Stability Report Press Conference, in London, Dec. 16, 2019.

    UN-backed banker alliance announces “green” plan to transform the global financial system

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 8, 2021 (more by MintPress News)

    The most powerful private financial interests in the world, under the cover of COP26, have developed a plan to transform the global financial system by fusing with institutions like the World Bank and using them to further erode national sovereignty in the developing world.

  • This Biden Proposal Could Make the US a “Digital Dictatorship”

    This Biden proposal could make the U.S. a “digital dictatorship”

    Originally published: Unlimited Hangout on May 5, 2021 (more by Unlimited Hangout)

    A “new” proposal by the Biden administration to create a health-focused federal agency modeled after DARPA is not what it appears to be. Promoted as a way to “end cancer,” this resuscitated “health DARPA” conceals a dangerous agenda.

  • Medical personnel arrive to perform COVID-19 coronavirus infection testing procedures at Glen Island Park, Friday, March 13, 2020, in New Rochelle, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    U.S. Intel Agencies played unsettling role in classified and “9/11-like” Coronavirus response plan

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

    As the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis comes to dominate headlines, little media attention has been given to the federal government’s decision to classify top-level meetings on domestic coronavirus response and lean heavily “behind the scenes” on U.S. intelligence and the Pentagon in planning for an allegedly imminent explosion of cases.

  • 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.

  • Graphic by Claudio Cabrera for MintPress News

    How government and media are prepping America for a failed 2020 election

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 28, 2020 (more by MintPress News)

    Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020 election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were created by a web of companies with deep ties to Israeli intelligence.

  • Accompanied by his wife Fabiana Rosales, Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido waves to supporters outside the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 1, 2019. Guaido is in tour of several South American capitals as part of a campaign to build international pressure on Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro. Natacha Pisarenko | AP

    Guaido set to enact uprising rooted in U.S. Regime-change operations manual

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 29, 2019 (more by MintPress News)

    With its hands tied when it comes to military intervention, only covert actions—such as those described in the RED Team document—are likely to be enacted by the U.S. government, at least at this stage of its ongoing “regime change” effort in Venezuela.

  • The Christchurch shooting and the normalization of anti-Muslim terrorism

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 15, 2019 (more by MintPress News)

    The real forces responsible for the destruction of many Muslim-majority countries and the current chaos present in many Western countries are not generated by civilian populations or religions but instead by the global oligarchy that engineers and profits from this chaos.

  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez participates in a town hall held in support of Kerri Evelyn Harris, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Delaware, Aug. 31, 2018, at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. Patrick Semansky | AP

    Corporations see a different kind of “green” in Ocasio-Cortez’s “green new deal”

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 18, 2018 (more by MintPress News)

    The plan claims that it seeks to “transform the U.S. economy in an effort to fight climate change” that would ostensibly push the U.S. from fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable energy in a little over a decade.

  • An anti-government protester covers her face with a Venezuelan flag

    Washington follows Ukraine, Syria roadmap in push for Venezuela regime change

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 26, 2019 (more by MintPress News)

    What happens in Venezuela going forward will have major consequences for the entire region and the world; and, with the U.S. already pushing countries to pick sides, the world may soon become as divided as it was immediately preceding WW II.

  • This photo, edited by MintPress News, shows Primedia chairman and CEO Tom Rogers, left, talking with Newsguard CEO Steven Brill after a New York news conference announcing Brill as the chariman and CEO of Media Central, Jan. 4, 2001. Ed Bailey | AP

    How a neocon-backed “fact checker” plans to wage war on independent media

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 9, 2019 (more by MintPress News)

    As Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the United States.

  • Volunteers with the right-wing paramilitary Azov National Corps light flares during a rally on the snowy streets in front of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Nov. 26, 2018. Protesters from far-right party National Corps brandished yellow-and-blue flags with the Ukrainian national trident symbol, and a banner reading ‘Don’t back down!” Efrem Lukatsky | AP

    With tensions mounting over Kerch Strait incident, will Ukraine replace Syria as focus for U.S.’ Russia containment strategy?

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 26, 2018 (more by MintPress News)

    As has been the case in the past, it seems that the U.S.’ botched proxy war in Syria will spur Washington to seek to revive the proxy war in Ukraine.

  • Trump’s rules of engagement for troops at U.S.-Mexico border mirror those used by the IDF in Gaza

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 2, 2018 (more by MintPress News)

    The intent behind Trump’s new rules of engagement and considerable militarization of the U.S. border appears to be greenlighting the U.S. military to function as an IDF-style military police force whenever the next “threat” emerges, whether it be “foreign invaders” or “internal enemies.”

  • Energy Independence Day Tea Party PA

    With “Troika of Tyranny,” Bolton’s long standing push to target Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua finally pays off

    Originally published: MintPress News on November 2, 2018 (more by MintPress News)

    Bolton’s new “Troika of Tyranny” speech will serve as the foundation for the next and more aggressive stage of the Trump administration’s Latin America policy.

  • Saudi Arabia Yemen

    After Trump pushed NATO members to spend more, Lockheed doubles production as orders “explode”

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 13, 2018 (more by MintPress News)

    The precipitous increase in Lockheed missile sales comes after the launch of Trump’s “Buy American” weapons-selling initiative to foreign allies, as well as his efforts to rewrite U.S. policy and regulations in order to make it easier to export more military-grade weapons.

  • wikileaks

    Outcome of Assange case could undermine the rights of millions

    Originally published: Mint Press News on June 12, 2018 (more by Mint Press News)

    If Australia reneges on its obligations to protect Assange and fight for his rights, the implications such actions would hold for every other citizen of the country are as vast as they are chilling.

  • Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman

    Israel aiding Saudi Arabia in developing nuclear weapons

    Originally published: Mint Press News on June 4, 2018 (more by Mint Press News)

    Saudi interest in developing nuclear weapons dates back to the 1970s, when the kingdom learned of major steps taken by both Israel and India in the development of nuclear armaments.

  • Trump U.S. Japan

    Will Bolton cost Trump his Nobel? Powerful interests lined up against Korean peace

    Originally published: Mint Press News on May 2, 2018 (more by Mint Press News)

    Libya is now a textbook example of a failed state and – more importantly from North Korea’s perspective — a testament to what the U.S. government does to countries who threaten its agenda or superpower status, especially ones it persuades to disarm and denuclearize.

  • Syria UN

    U.S., fearing unfavorable OPCW results, blames Russia for “hacking” Douma evidence

    Originally published: Mint Press News on April 21, 2018 (more by Mint Press News)

    Though Western governments have influenced the outcome of OPCW investigations in the past, this time they appear to be discrediting the results of the investigation before it even begins.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone © UN Photo/Martine Perret | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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