Alan Macleod

Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two 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.

La desesperación de Biden y el costo humano de las municiones en racimo en Ucrania, con Medea Benjamin

Recién llegada de un viaje reciente a Ucrania, la veterana activista contra la guerra Medea Benjamin habla sobre la controvertida medida de la administración Biden de enviar municiones en racimo al país y más en esta reveladora entrevista con Alan Macleod.

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As the war in Ukraine continues to take lives, many people worldwide question its legitimacy and demand an end to the violence. Yet even as calls to cease the conflict grow, the Biden administration has announced that it will up the ante by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine – a weapon banned by more than 100 countries worldwide. Today’s

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De TikTok a enfrentarse a la CIA: el resurgimiento de la comedia política cortante con James Rehwald

Únase a MintCast para una conversación hilarante con James Rehwald mientras analiza la comedia antiimperialista, las limitaciones de los principales medios de comunicación y el auge de la sátira política en las redes sociales.

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In this day and age, it can sometimes feel like satire is dead. This is doubly true if one turns on a television to watch what passes for it. Yet genuinely sharp, cutting political comedy is enjoying a renaissance on platforms like TikTok, as young comedians who otherwise would not get a shot are stepping up to the plate. Today, MintPress speaks

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Cómo una notoria escuela del ejército de Georgia se convirtió en el campo de entrenamiento de Estados Unidos para la tortura global

A pesar de sufrir varios cambios de nombre y emplear astutas estrategias de reenvasado con el pretexto de la defensa de los derechos humanos, la notoria Escuela de las Américas sigue comprometida activamente con la formación de combatientes extranjeros, promoviendo firmemente la causa del imperio estadounidense.

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Fort Benning, the infamous Georgia U.S. military base, is once again in the news, changing its name to Fort Moore, thereby ditching its Confederate name. Yet none of the media covering the rebranding – not The New York Times, the Associated Press, CNN, ABC, CBS News, USA Today nor The Hill – mentioned the most controversial aspect of the

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The Problem with Environmentalism, and Why a Recession is Definitely Coming, with Second Thought’s JT Chapman

Alan MacLeod speaks with YouTube and podcast star JT Chapman (First Thought, Second Thought, The Deprogram) about what everyone should know about environmentalism, about why a recession is definitely coming (and how we could stop it) and about what progressives and radicals could learn about the economy from WalMart.

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It ain’t easy being a YouTuber—at least, not a political one. The platform is a giant, Byzantine organization filled with secret rules and algorithms that content creators constantly fall afoul of. This is especially true for radical voices, who are incessantly shadowbanned and suppressed by the Google-owned platform. One person who has broken

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La CIA, la OTAN y el imperio estadounidense con Aaron Good

Descubra las verdades ocultas detrás del imperio de Estados Unidos mientras el historiador Aaron Good profundiza en la historia del dominio estadounidense, el papel de la CIA y la OTAN, y el desafío inminente que plantea China, revelando la naturaleza frágil del poderío militar de Estados Unidos y la dinámica de poder que da forma a nuestro mundo. .

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The United States is an empire, even if its citizens don’t all realize it. That is the conclusion from historian and political scientist Aaron Good, who joins Alan MacLeod on this week’s edition of “MintCast.” Today, Good walks us through the history of how the United States came to dominate the world and the organizations it uses – especially the

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Un grupo oscuro vinculado a Israel intenta censurar a los artistas de Spotify pro palestinos

Alan Macleod descubre cómo un oscuro grupo de presión vinculado a Israel intenta silenciar a los artistas que abogan por la liberación palestina en Spotify.

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A shadowy, Israel-linked pressure group is attempting to remove artists supporting Palestinian liberation from Spotify. We Believe in Israel, an outgrowth of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM), is lobbying both the U.K. government and the popular music streaming platform in their efforts to censor a range of artists –

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Thirst Trap Nation: cómo las chicas electrónicas están atrayendo a los jóvenes para que se unan al ejército, con Alan MacLeod

El coanfitrión de MintCast, Alan MacLeod, revela cómo los militares explotan la excitación de los adolescentes, exponiendo la influencia de los militares en los videojuegos, las películas y las asociaciones con personas influyentes. Revelando una agenda oculta en esta discusión reveladora.

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Amid an ongoing crisis in recruitment, the military has found a novel way of enticing teens to enlist: thirst traps. “MintCast” co-host Alan MacLeod joins Mnar Adley for an in-house edition of the podcast to describe how the military is using young teens’ horniness against them, utilizing an army of attractive women posting sexually suggestive

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