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  • | Illustration by Mr Fish | MR Online

    America’s theater of the absurd

    Originally published: MintPress News on January 11, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Our political class does not govern. It entertains.

  • | LARGEST LEAK IN BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY IGNORED BY MEDIA | MR Online

    Largest leak in British political history, ignored by media

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 27, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    For those of you who aren’t British, you might not have kept up with what happened to the once almost-prime minister Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party over the past few years. Here’s a 30-second, way to reductive rundown. Jeremy Corbyn is like Britain’s Bernie Sanders, except more left-wing. And he never gave 135 speeches […]

  • | US POLICE KILL TWICE AS MANY PEOPLE EVERY YEAR AS WEVE BEEN TOLD | MR Online

    U.S. police kill twice as many people every year as we’ve been told

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 20, 2022 by Lee Camp (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Oct 22, 2022)

    Most countries are far different from the U.S. when it comes to murderous police..

  • | Illustration by MintPress News | MR Online

    Israel experiments on Palestinians with AI-powered gun at checkpoints

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 5, 2022 by Jessica Buxbaum (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Oct 20, 2022)

    The Israeli military installed an automatic weapon at a heavily-trafficked checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil in September.

  • | Lee Camp President Joe Biden | MR Online

    Biden frees all marijuana prisoners–except not at all

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 13, 2022 by Lee Camp (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Oct 14, 2022)

    Joe Biden just pardoned everyone arrested for marijuana possession! Right?

  • | Marvel Heads | MR Online

    Marvel heads revealed to be closely connected to Israeli intelligence

    Editor

    Earlier this month, activists and comic book fans alike were in uproar over Marvel Studios’ announcement that Israeli actress Shira Haas will play Zionist superhero Sabra in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Captain America: New World Order. Many Palestine advocates accused Marvel’s decision to add Sabra to the MCU as exalting Israeli abuse […]

  • | FOSSIL FUELS SUBSIDIZED AT RATE OF $11 MILLION PER MINUTE | MR Online

    Fossil fuels subsidized at rate of $11 million per minute

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 29, 2022 by Lee Camp (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Oct 03, 2022)

    Eleven million dollars per minute! That’s how much all the countries in the world spend to subsidize fossil fuels. That’s what we pay.

  • | Graphic by MintPress News | MR Online

    How one spook-run London college department is training the worlds social media managers

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 22, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London is also providing the workforce for many of the largest social media companies. This includes Facebook, TikTok, Google, and Twitter. A MintPress study of professional databases and employment websites […]

  • | Graphic by MintPress News | MR Online

    Those angry at Rushdie’s stabbing have been missing in action over a far bigger threat to our freedom

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 16, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    The appalling attack on him. Those who more than 30 years ago put a fatwa on his head after he wrote the novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made this assault possible. They deserve contempt. I wish him a speedy recovery.

  • | Graphic by MintPress News | MR Online

    Most of the “fact-checking” organizations Facebook uses in Ukraine are directly funded by Washington

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 2, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

  • | photo | Graphic by MintPress News | MR Online

    National Security search engine: Google’s ranks are filled with CIA agents

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 25, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Google–one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world–is filled with ex-CIA agents.

  • | photo | Graphic by MintPress News | MR Online

    Leaked Docs: Facebook ‘Bot’ adviser secretly in pay of U.S. regime change agency

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 14, 2022 by Kit Klarenberg (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Jul 16, 2022)

    Platforms such as Facebook on alleged state-backed online influence campaigns–has itself received $1.2 million from U.S. intelligence front USAID, for “counter disinformation and communications support.”

  • | Graphic by MintPress News | MR Online

    Meet the ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook’s content policy

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 12, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It is an uncomfortable job for anyone trying to draw the line between “harmful content and protecting freedom of speech. It’s a balance”, Aaron says. In this official Facebook video, Aaron identifies himself as the manager of “the team that writes the rules for Facebook”, determining “what is acceptable and what is not.”

  • | Graphic by MintPress News | MR Online

    As anti-BDS bills become the norm, ACLU takes free speech fight to the Supreme Court

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 7, 2022 by Jessica Buxbaum (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted Jul 09, 2022)

    In June, a federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States.

  • | Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks during military ceremonies Saturday June 13 2020 in West Point NY John Minchillo | AP | MR Online

    Mark Esper’s tell-some reveals U.S. plans for war and terror against Venezuela

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 23, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    While barely covered in Western media, Esper’s confessions have caused a storm of commotion in the South American nation. However, Diego Sequera, a Caracas-based investigative journalist, told MintPress that few were taken aback by the news.

  • | Troubling Past Nina Jankowicz | MR Online

    From UK troll farms to covert psyops: the troubling past of Nina Jankowicz

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 20, 2022 by Kit Klarenberg (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted May 23, 2022)

    The Washington Post revealed Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s highly controversial “Disinformation Governance Board,” launched with much fanfare just three weeks earlier, was to close, and that its director, Nina Jankowicz—former fellow at the quasi-state Wilson Center think tank, and Ukrainian foreign ministry communications adviser–had resigned.

  • | Facebook | MR Online

    Cambridge Analytica reborn? Private spy agency weaponizes Facebook again

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 11, 2022 by Kit Klarenberg (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted May 14, 2022)

    For all the public outcry, official probes and hearings, financial penalties, apologies and proposed regulations, Facebook remains the world’s foremost surveillance tool–weaponized in all manner of malevolent ways by any number of hostile elements.

  • | People walk past a mural of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Katlehong south of Johannesburg South Africa | MR Online

    My Nelson Mandela is dead

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 6, 2022 by Miko Peled (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted May 11, 2022)

    The Zionist campaign is vicious and relentless because they know that once a crack is made in their line of defense–a line that is made of deception, falsehoods and fabrication–they will fall, never to rise again.

  • | Ukraines Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova speaks during a news conference at the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington Feb 26 2022 Jose Luis Magana | AP | MR Online

    It’s different, they’re White: Media ignore conflicts around the World to focus on Ukraine

    Originally published: MintPress News on March 2, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A MintPress News analysis found that in a single week Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC ran almost 1,300 separate stories on the Ukraine invasion, two stories on the Syria attack, one on Somalia, and none at all on the Saudi-led war on Yemen.

  • | photo | A man inspects the damage at a building in Kiev Ukraine Feb 25 2022 Emilio Morenatti | AP | MR Online

    Russia, Ukraine and the chronicle of a war foretold

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 25, 2022 (more by MintPress News)  |

    After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near-universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.

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