Articles by Alan Macleod
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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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Media Play Up Protests, Play Down Effect of US Sanctions in Cuba
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
16 Jul 2021 – The Media were quick to give the protests front and center coverage. Far larger and more deadly movements in Chile and Ecuador were mostly ignored by the corporate press. Meanwhile, the political situation in Haiti, which has seen three continuous years of nationwide protest, was overwhelmingly ignored until the assassination of US-backed President Jovenel Moïse last week.
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Trump’s Twitter Ban May Be Justified, but That Doesn’t Mean Tech Giants’ Power Isn’t Scary
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2021
15 Jan 2021 – In the wake of the dramatic storming of the Capitol last week, a host of big media companies, including Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok, have all taken measures against Donald Trump. Making the most headlines, however, was the decision of the president’s favorite medium, Twitter (8 Jan 21), to permanently suspend him “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
→ read full articleAs His Extradition Trial Drags On, Media and Rights Groups Are Still Ignoring Julian Assange
Alan MacLeod | Intrepid Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2020
28 Sep 2020 – The extradition case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues in London. Many mainstream rights groups and media organizations have a mixed history when it comes to opposing Washington’s agenda. This case has been no exception even though widely seen as setting an important precedent for freedom of speech and of the media worldwide.
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Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
25 Sep 2020 – Labeled the media “trial of the century,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing is currently taking place in London—although you might not have heard if you’re relying solely on corporate media for news. If extradited, Assange faces 175 years in a Colorado supermax prison, often described as a “black site” on US soil.
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Media Show Little Interest in Israeli Bombing of Gaza
Alan MacLeod | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – Israel is bombing Palestine again, although you wouldn’t guess that from watching TV news. For the eleventh straight night, Israeli Defense Force warplanes have been bombing the densely populated Gaza Strip causing considerable damage and forcing the shutdown of the area’s only power plant. But the corporate media, focused on the coronavirus and US elections, have shown little interest in the renewed violence in the Middle East.
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Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel
Alan Macleod – MintPress News,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – After refusing to sign a pledge of allegiance to the state of Israel, the state of Georgia shut down a media literacy conference featuring journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin at Georgia Southern University. “This censorship of my talk based on forced compliance to anti-BDS laws in Georgia is just one level of a nationwide campaign to protect Israel from grassroots pressure.” — Abby Martin
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Jeff Bezos Donates Three Minutes’ Income to Help Australia Fight Wildfires
Alan Macleod – MintPress News,
27 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the newly crowned richest person in the world, announced yesterday that his company was donating one million Australian Dollars (around 690,000 U.S. Dollars) to help the country deal with the continent-wide fires. The donation would be equivalent to someone who earned $500 per week announcing that they had just donated five cents to help tackle the blazes.
→ read full articleFrom Resistance to Assistance: Little Pushback to Trump’s Iran Assassination
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
9 Jan 2020 – The allegation is that he targeted US troops or “contractors”—i.e., mercenaries—stationed not at home, but in a region on the other side of the world that the US illegally attacked and has occupied for most of this century. “Soleimani provided effective military resistance to foreign occupying forces,” though, sounds very different from “killed hundreds of Americans.”
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Russia Has ‘Oligarchs,’ the US Has ‘Businessmen’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
In 150 NYT, CNN and Fox articles, ‘oligarch’ seems reserved for Slavic billionaires.
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How the Western Media Support State Terror – While Millions Die
Matthew Alford, Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn and Daniel Broudy | Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
Issue Aug/Sep 2019 – Five academics examine our media’s coverage of foreign affairs, in a piece censored (and then rejected) by a leading liberal publication.
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(Français) Comment les médias occidentaux soutiennent le terrorisme d’Etat qui fait des millions de victimes
Florian Zollman, Alan Macleod, Jeffery Klaehn, Daniel Broudy and Matthew Alford | Peace News – Le Grand Soir,
19 Aug 2019
21 juillet 2019 – Quatre universitaires examinent la couverture médiatique des affaires étrangères dans un article censuré (puis refusé) par une grande publication libérale.
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Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
Alan MacLeod and Noam Chomsky discussed the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Dictator: Media Code for ‘Government We Don’t Like’
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – Let’s start with a quiz: Quick! Name some dictators! I’m willing to bet most of you responded with just a few of the same names: Assad, Putin, Castro, Kim Jong-un, Gaddafi, Maduro. This is not because they are the only dictators in the world (far from it), or that all of them even necessarily qualify for the title, but precisely because these are the figures most constantly labeled as such by our media.
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The ‘Venezuelan People’ Are Whoever Agrees with Donald Trump
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
31 Jan 2019 – The latest bizarre episode in the Trump presidency is currently playing out in Venezuela. Just weeks after President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration, Trump officially recognized Juan Guaidó, the 35-year-old head of the National Assembly—a man who has never even run for president—as the rightful head of state.
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‘Resistance’ Media Side with Trump to Promote Coup in Venezuela
Alan MacLeod | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – After winning re-election in 2018, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela was recently sworn in for a second term. However, Trump has taken the extraordinary step of declaring the elections void. He also arranged to have National Assembly head Juan Guaidó name himself the country’s new leader. This has spurred the Venezuelan right wing onto the streets to try to force Maduro out of office, leading to the deaths of 14 people. On Trump’s support for regime change in Venezuela, the “resistance” media are lining up shoulder to shoulder with the president.
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That Facebook Will Turn to Censoring the Left Isn’t a Worry—It’s a Reality
Alan MacLeod | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018 – That Facebook’s stated concern about stopping the spread of hate speech is genuine is challenged by the fact that the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland party went to Facebook headquarters in Berlin in 2017 to discuss how it could use the platform for recruitment and for micro-targeting in the German elections.
→ read full articleMedia Delegitimize Venezuelan Elections amid Complete Unanimity of Outlook
Alan MacLeod | Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting-FAIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
23 May 2018 – Despite an opposition boycott making the result predictable, Maduro received the vote of 28 percent of the eligible electorate, around the same as Barack Obama received in 2008 and more than he got in 2012, or Trump in 2016. Ignoring this, Reuters (5/20/18) claimed poor Venezuelans were voting for Maduro because they believed they were going to “win a prize.”
→ read full articleTwo Deaths: Hugo Chavez and Margaret Thatcher
Alan MacLeod - Countercurrents.org,
15 Apr 2013
Hugo Chavez and Margaret Thatcher, two great statespeople of our age, representing fundamentally opposing world views, have died. Just as contrasting as their ideologies was the reaction to their deaths, from both the media and the public.
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