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.

De la revolución al renacimiento: Russell Brand abraza a Trump e Israel

El ex "revolucionario" ahora bendice los mítines del Partido Republicano, elogia a JD Vance y defiende a Israel, mientras sus antiguos aliados se resisten.

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Por Alan Macleod
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Not so long ago, Russell Brand was a socialist icon, preaching global revolution and the redistribution of wealth and power to the masses. Today, he is a born-again Christian who endorses Donald Trump and has headlined events at the Republican National Convention and Turning Point USA. Where once he preached eco-socialism, anti-racism, and

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La CIA, el Mossad y Epstein: desentrañando los vínculos de inteligencia de la familia Maxwell

Todo el mundo conoce a Epstein y a Ghislaine, pero pocos conocen la oscura dinastía familiar que los respalda. Desde vínculos con el Mossad y la CIA hasta Silicon Valley y Washington D. C., Alan MacLeod destapa el imperio secreto de los Maxwell.

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Por Alan Macleod
The Maxwells: Epstein’s Partners, Israel’s Spies, Washington’s Insiders The CIA, Mossad, and Epstein: Unraveling the Intelligence Ties of The Maxwell Family

With speculation mounting that Trump could pardon her, MintPress profiles the family of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. From her media baron father, who acted as a high-level spy for Israel, her sister, working to push Tel Aviv’s interests in Silicon Valley, her brothers, who founded a dubious but highly influential anti-Islamic

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Apostando por el apartheid: cómo Israel usa el sexo para encubrir el genocidio

La maquinaria de relaciones públicas de Israel promueve imágenes sexualizadas de sus soldados para atraer a los jóvenes, desde trampas para la sed en redes sociales hasta viajes de Birthright con contenido sexual. Esta táctica, respaldada por el Estado, busca distraer la atención de los crímenes de guerra y vender el apartheid a una generación más joven cada vez más crítica con Israel.

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Por Alan Macleod
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Amid an ongoing assault on its neighbors, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is attempting to improve its image by posting highly sexually suggestive content featuring its soldiers, changing the prevailing emotion of onlookers from outrage to lust. A wide range of IDF thirst trap accounts—many with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of

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El fundador de African Stream habla sobre la censura estadounidense, el panafricanismo y el auge de la resistencia en África

Ahmed Kaballo se une a MintCast para analizar el desmantelamiento de African Stream liderado por Estados Unidos, el ascenso del líder revolucionario de Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, y la resistencia panafricana que está transformando el Sahel.

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On this episode of the MintCast, hosts Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod speak with Ahmed Kaballo, the man behind the viral media outlet that the U.S. government has been trying to silence. In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech smearing media platform African Stream as secretly funded and controlled by Vladimir Putin

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El mayor donante estadounidense a Israel ahora es dueño de CBS

David Ellison, aliado de Trump, acaba de comprar CBS. ¿Su primera decisión? Contratar a la ideóloga sionista Bari Weiss para dirigir la cobertura informativa y purgar la disidencia.

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Por Alan Macleod

After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News. Larry Ellison, the largest private funder of the Israel Defense Forces, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Prime Minister

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80 años de mentiras: Estados Unidos finalmente admite que sabía que no necesitaba bombardear Hiroshima y Nagasaki

En el 80º aniversario de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, un conjunto de admisiones militares y presidenciales desmantelan el mito de la necesidad.

Alan Macleod
Por Alan Macleod
A man looks over the expanse of ruins left the explosion of the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan. Some 140,000 people died here immediately. Photo | AP

As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, the world is drifting as close to another nuclear confrontation as it has been in decades. With Israeli and American attacks on Iranian nuclear energy sites, India and Pakistan going to war in May, and escalating violence between Russia and NATO-backed forces

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La CIA creó cientos de sitios web encubiertos. Esto es lo que ocultaban.

Desde las páginas de Star Wars hasta los foros rasta, los sitios web secretos de la CIA ayudaron a los espías a comunicarse, rastrear objetivos y manipular narrativas, incluso entre los amigos de Estados Unidos.

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Por Alan Macleod
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The CIA didn't just infiltrate governments; it infiltrated the internet itself. For over a decade, Langley operated a sprawling network of covert websites that served as global spy terminals disguised as harmless blogs, news hubs, and fan pages. Beginning in 2004, the CIA established a vast network of at least 885 websites, ranging from Johnny

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