Beyond Niger: How ECOWAS Became a Tool for Western Imperialism
By Alan MaCleod / MintPress News Niger is shaping up to be the surprising frontline of the new Cold War. Yesterday, the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)…
Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions About What US Was Doing All Along
It has already been called “the most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history.” Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country, doing something the US…
Anti-Imperialist Satire and Going Against the Mainstream, with James Rehwald
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News In this day and age, it can sometimes feel like satire is dead. This is doubly true if one turns on a television to…
How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America’s Training Ground for Global Torture
Fort Benning is home to a shadowy academy where around 84,000 Latin American soldiers and police officers have been taught on the U.S. dime on how to kill, torture and…
Shadowy, Israel-Linked Group Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestine Spotify Artists
Alan Macleod uncovers how a shadowy pressure group linked to Israel is attempting to silence artists advocating for Palestinian liberation on Spotify.
Alfred de Zayas on Ukraine, Human Rights, and International Law
By Alan MacLeod / MintPressNews You can indict Vladimir Putin over war crimes in Ukraine. But if you do, you’d better indict Joe Biden as well. That is the message…
Chris Hedges on Weapons to Ukraine, Military Buildup to China and Pentagon Spending
By Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod / MintPress News The war in Ukraine is well into its second year, and the United States is insistent on pumping billions more into…
TIKTOK: Chinese “Trojan Horse” Is Run By State Department Officials
For quite some time, TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to run its operations.
Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
A MintPress study of the 20 most influential U.S. news outlets found virtually no coverage of the esteemed journalist’s revelations linking Washington to the pipeline attacks.
Call of Duty Is a Government Psyop: These Documents Prove It
A closer inspection of Activision Blizzard’s key staff and their connections to state power, as well as details gleaned from documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that…
Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Studying employment databases, MintPress has ascertained that hundreds of agents from Israeli military intelligence and spying organization Unit 8200 are now employed in influential roles in many of the world’s…
How One Spook-Run London College Department is Training the World’s Social Media Managers
By Alan MacLeod / 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…
Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook’s Content Policy
By Alan MacLeod / 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…
The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late, hiring a host of former feds and spies. Studying a number of…
“Top Gun: Maverick” is Military Propaganda. Official Documents Prove It.
By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF – “Top Gun: Maverick” is a box-office smash, a massive hit with both critics and the public alike. Navy and Air…