Articles by Alan MacLeod | MintPress News

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Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

13 Oct 2023 – After Hamas launched a surprise attack, Israeli Defense Forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people but Western media have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as spokespersons for IDF.

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Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions about What US Was Doing All Along
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Aug 2023

4 Aug 2023 – The Taliban government in Afghanistan, which produced 90% of the world’s heroin, has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country; up to 99% in some provinces. This raises questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years of occupation.

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How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America’s Training Ground for Global Torture
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

5 Jul 2023 – The School of the Americas (now known as Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC), where around 84,000 Latin American soldiers and police officers have been taught how to kill, torture and how to stamp out political activists.

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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter’s bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.

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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

15 Feb 2023 – Hersh, the journalist who broke the stories of the My Lai Massacre, the CIA spying program and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, reports that U.S. Navy divers attached C4 explosive charges to the pipeline and President Biden himself ordered its destruction, an operation that began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, corporate media have overwhelmingly ignored the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter’s bombshell.

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Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

31 Oct 2022 – A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have positions of influence in the biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The Israeli Defense Forces’ Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population.

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The Israel Files: WikiLeaks Docs Show Top Hollywood Producers Working with Israel to Defend Its War Crimes
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

23 Sep 2022 – Exploring and highlighting the many revelations about the Israeli occupation of Palestine that WikiLeaks documents disclosed in hopes of shedding light on many of the most important and underreported revelations the publishing group exposed. 

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An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

25 Apr 2022 – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Old Propaganda, New Cold War

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NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia over Ukraine
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Feb 2022

4 Feb 2022 – This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describing Putin as Hitler incarnate.

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“Every Option Is on the Table”: US Prepping for Libya-Style Intervention in Ethiopia
Alan Macleod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Dec 2021

10 Dec 2021 – War Drums Sounding – While many in the Horn of Africa clearly need help, the Biden administration’s idea of “help” might not be exactly what they had in mind.

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Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021

The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites.

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