Alan Macleod

Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. He completed his PhD in 2017 and has since authored two acclaimed books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, and Common Dreams. Follow Alan on Twitter for more of his work and commentary: @AlanRMacLeod.

Sir Trevor Chinn: El multimillonario que secuestró la democracia británica para Israel

Financiaba a Starmer, enterró a Corbyn y silenció la disidencia. Conozca al oligarca hermético que moldea la política británica entre bastidores, por Israel.

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Por Alan Macleod
Sir Trevor Chinn with Jacob Rothschild and Tony Blair

He likes to keep a low profile. But Sir Trevor Chinn is one of the most powerful men in British politics. The retired businessman has donated millions to politicians, facilitated Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s rise to power, helped destroy the movement around Jeremy Corbyn, and, above all, has made sure that both major parties support Israel and

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De favorita de los medios a persona non grata: el viaje de Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg, que en su día fue un ícono mundial abrazado por los medios y la élite política, ahora está marginada por hablar en contra de la guerra, el imperialismo y el ataque de Israel a Gaza.

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Por Alan Macleod
Greta Thunberg at a pro-Palestinian rally in Mannheim, Germany, December 2024

Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite. A MintPress News study finds that coverage of Thunberg in The New York Times and Washington Post has dwindled from hundreds of articles per year to barely a handful, precisely as she widens her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that

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La dictadura de Nayib Bukele en El Salvador: hecha en Israel

Nayib Bukele puede ser palestino, pero la dictadura que construyó en El Salvador se forjó en Israel. Desde armas hasta software espía, Alan Macleod examina el apoyo israelí al hombre que se autodenomina "el dictador más genial del mundo".

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Por Alan Macleod
President Nayib Bukele stands in front of red surveillance vortex; background shows Israeli flags, military scenes, and prisoners escorted by soldiers.

Nayib Bukele may be Palestinian, but the dictatorship he has built in El Salvador is very much made in Israel. From arming his security forces to supplying him with weapons and high-tech surveillance tools, MintPress explores the Israeli influence helping to prop up the man who calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator.”   Arming a

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Por qué Washington está preocupado por el joven líder revolucionario de Burkina Faso

Ibrahim Traoré ha expulsado a las tropas francesas, desafiado la presión estadounidense y abrazado la autosuficiencia panafricana. Su revolución está transformando África, y Washington observa atentamente.

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Por Alan Macleod

Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is remaking his nation, and in the process, making enemies in the West. Since taking power in 2022, the young military leader has expelled French troops, ejected Western corporations, and aligned his country with Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela. Promoting pan-African unity and national self-reliance while surviving coup

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Nayib Bukele: El lado oscuro del “dictador más cool del mundo”

Cómo EE.UU. ayudó a Nayib Bukele a convertir El Salvador en el estado penitenciario más grande del mundo y por qué Donald Trump lo ve como un modelo.

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Por Alan Macleod

The Trump administration’s deal to send large numbers of people to prisons in El Salvador has thrust its president, Nayib Bukele, into the international spotlight. Bukele has been praised, especially in conservative media, as a dynamic and popular leader who has saved his country from the grips of gang violence. But beneath this polished image, he

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Enfrentando pena de prisión en Alemania por criticar a un periodista israelí: el caso de Hüseyin Dogru

El periodista Hüseyin Dogru se enfrenta a una pena de prisión y podría ver a su familia deportada por una pegatina viral que critica a un periodista israelí.

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Por Alan Macleod
Baroque frame holding a protest sticker of Nicholas Potter, cradled in hands painted with the German flag

Amid a crackdown on pro-Palestine voices in Germany, a journalist regularly attacked as a Russian operative is facing up to three years in prison for defamation of an Israel-based journalist. Hüseyin Dogru, founder of red. media, has been charged with defamation for actions relating to a spat with Nicholas Potter, a German state-funded reporter

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La adquisición de Wiz pone a la inteligencia israelí a cargo de sus datos de Google

La compra de Wiz por parte de Google por 32 mil millones de dólares entrega su seguridad de datos global a una empresa israelí fundada y compuesta por ex espías cibernéticos militares de la tristemente célebre Unidad 8200 de las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel.

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Assaf Rappaport and Benjamin Netanyahu in front of a cloud data network background, Google’s Wiz acquisition and ties to Israeli intelligence.

Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military. In its press release, the Silicon Valley giant claimed that the purchase will “vastly

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