To “counter Russia’s nuclear blackmail,” the Atlantic Council confidently asserted, “NATO must adapt its nuclear sharing program.” This includes moving B-61 atomic bombs to Eastern Europe and building a network of medium-range missile bases across the continent....
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Most of the 'Fact-Checking' Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Are Directly Funded by Washington
by Alan MacLeod | Aug 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the US government, either through the US Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In light of...
The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
by Alan MacLeod | Jun 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of employment and recruitment websites, MintPress has ascertained that the social media giant has, in recent years, recruited dozens of individuals from the...
Documents Reveal US Gov’t Spent $22M Promoting Anti-Russia Narrative in Ukraine and Abroad
by Alan MacLeod | Feb 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Amid soaring tensions with Russia, the United States is spending a fortune on foreign interference campaigns in Ukraine. Washington’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), has spent $22.4 million on operations inside the country since 2014,...
Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets
by Alan MacLeod | Nov 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
Up until his recent messy divorce, Bill Gates enjoyed something of a free pass in corporate media. Generally presented as a kindly nerd who wants to save the world, the Microsoft co-founder was even unironically christened “Saint Bill” by The Guardian. While other...
US Writes Belarus into Its Familiar Regime-Change Script
by Alan MacLeod | Oct 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
Minsk, Belarus - Quietly, the US national security state is turning up the heat on Belarus, hoping that the ex-Soviet country of 9 million will be the next casualty of its regime-change agenda. This sentiment was made clear in President Joe Biden’s recent speech at...
‘I Was Living Like Scarface’: The Ludicrous Costs of the War in Afghanistan Revealed in New Documents, Testimonies
by Alan MacLeod | Aug 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
The conflict in Afghanistan — for the US at least — appears to be over. Essentially admitting defeat, American planes are beating a hasty and ignominious retreat from Kabul, with images of the withdrawal bearing a striking resemblance to those from the fall of Saigon...
It’s Aggression When ‘They’ Do It, but Defense When ‘We’ Do Worse
by Alan MacLeod | May 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
Aggression, in international politics, is commonly defined as the use of armed force against another sovereign state, not justified by self-defense or international authority. Any state being described as aggressive in foreign or international reporting, therefore, is...
A School for Spooks: The London University Department Churning Out NATO Spies
by Alan MacLeod | Apr 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
LONDON — Last week, MintPress exposed how the supposedly independent investigative collective Bellingcat is, in fact, funded by a CIA cutout organization and filled with former spies and state intelligence operatives. However, one part of the story that has remained...
How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press
by Alan MacLeod | Apr 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming...
UK Court Decision on Venezuela Gold Deals Blow to Regime Change Efforts
by Alan MacLeod | Oct 6, 2020 | Featured Articles
A United Kingdom court has handed the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro a major win today, overturning a previous ruling from a lower court that legitimized the British government’s decision to freeze Venezuelan government gold reserves held in the Bank of...
A 'Brazen Giveaway' GOP HEALS Act is a $30 Billion Bonanza for the Pentagon
by Alan MacLeod | Jul 30, 2020 | Featured Articles
On Monday the Senate GOP released their outline for a new $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. A successor to March’s CARES Act, the 177-page document, named the HEALS Act, includes no funding for hazard pay, the Postal Service, state and local governments,...
Coronavirus Aid for Regime Change: Washington’s 13 Point Plan for Venezuela
by Alan MacLeod | Apr 3, 2020 | Featured Articles
The State Department released what it called its “democratic transition framework for Venezuela” this week; a 13-point plan for the removal of Nicolas Maduro and a radical overhaul of the country’s political system. The principal and most fundamental change Washington...
A New US Air Force Video Game Lets You Drone Bomb Iraqis and Afghans
by Alan MacLeod | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured Articles
The United States Air Force has a new recruitment tool: a realistic drone operator video game you can play on its website. Called the Airman Challenge, it features 16 missions to complete, interspersed with facts and recruitment information about how to become a drone...
Keeping with its Crackdown on Alternative Voices, Google Deletes Press TV from YouTube
by Alan MacLeod | Jan 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
Without warning, tech giant Google “permanently removed” Iranian government-owned media channel Press TV UK’s YouTube channel Monday night amid increasing American hostility to Iran. “This attack on the freedom of speech of Press TV’s journalists seems to be part of...
After 18 Years of US Occupation, Poll Finds Zero Percent of Afghans Thriving, 85 Percent 'Suffering'
by Alan MacLeod | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
American polling firm Gallup has found that Afghans are the saddest people on earth, finding that nearly nine in ten respondents are “suffering,” in their own words, with zero percent claiming that they are currently “thriving.” When asked to rate their life out of a...
‘Sexy Tricks’: How Journalists Demonize Venezuela’s Socialist Government, in Their Own Words
by Alan MacLeod | Dec 9, 2019 | Featured Articles
It is clear that mainstream US media correspondents are no fans of the Venezuelan government. But rarely do you hear them speak so openly about their biases. One Caracas-based correspondent now working for the New York Times told me on the record that he employs “sexy...
The New York Times’ Long History of Endorsing US-Backed Coups
by Alan MacLeod | Dec 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a US-backed military coup d’état earlier this month after Bolivian army generals appeared on television demanding his resignation. As Morales fled to Mexico, the army appointed right-wing Senator Jeanine Añez as his...
Bolivia’s Coup Gov’t Targets Alternative Media as Crackdown Turns Increasingly Violent
by Alan MacLeod | Nov 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Facing increased resistance to its rule, the new “transition” government of Jeanine Añez in Bolivia has begun to purge and censor potential threats to its authority, including in the media. TeleSUR, an international media network that began as a collaboration between...
Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
by Alan MacLeod | Mar 29, 2019 | Featured Articles
The Trump administration seems to have found their man in National Assembly leader and self-appointed president of Venezuela Juan Guaidó. Guaidó has been extremely attentive to US interests, promising to allow US oil companies to increase their activity in Venezuela....
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