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.

Los cuchillos salen cuando Greenwald se separa de la intercepción citando censura

Financiado por un oligarca multimillonario y visto cada vez más como un portavoz del establecimiento neoliberal, The Intercept sufrió su mayor golpe hasta ahora con la salida pública de Greenwald.

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Por Alan Macleod

Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of investigative news outlet The Intercept, very publicly resigned from his position yesterday. The immediate trigger for his decision was a refusal to publish his article exploring corruption in the Biden campaign by his editors, but, as the cult journalist explained on his Substack page, there were also long term and

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El editorial del Times deja caer la política de Joe Biden en América Latina: más golpes al estilo Obama

Figuras tanto de derecha como de izquierda presentan a Biden como un campeón progresista, sin embargo, la realidad es que siempre ha representado a la derecha del Partido Demócrata, y su política hacia América Latina no es una excepción.

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Por Alan Macleod
Joe Biden Feature photo

With less than a week to go, polling shows Democratic candidate Joe Biden to hold a 7.1 point average lead on incumbent president Donald Trump. Thus, thoughts of what his foreign policy would look like have come to the fore. Yesterday, The New York Times published a long piece discussing the 77-year-old’s plans for Latin America. The Times was

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Gobierno cristiano de línea dura de Bolivia acusado de masacrar a manifestantes mientras Morales regresa del exilio

En sus últimos días en el cargo, la mujer fuerte respaldada por Estados Unidos, Jeanine Añez, está tratando de impulsar reformas judiciales que podrían ayudarla en los próximos meses si enfrenta un juicio por sus crímenes.

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Por Alan Macleod
Bolivia Jeanine Anez Feature photo

Almost exactly one year after he was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup, former Bolivian president Evo Morales is set to return to his homeland. Earlier this week, a Bolivian court threw out terrorism charges leveled by Jeanine Añez’s coup government against Morales. Today Senator-Elect Andronico Rodriguez, a senior official from the

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Funcionarios de la era Obama piden más control gubernamental de su feed de Facebook

El contenido de Facebook ya está parcialmente curado por think tanks vinculados al gobierno, pero para Samantha Power y otros, eso simplemente no es suficiente.

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Por Alan Macleod
Facebook disinformation Feature photo

Writing in the Washington Post, senior Obama-era official Samantha Power has called on social media giant Facebook to do more to crush what she calls conspiracy theories and disinformation circulating on its platform. Describing it as being “overrun with foreign disinformation,” Power demanded Mark Zuckerberg “take far more drastic steps” to

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En una impresionante demostración de voluntad popular, las protestas en Bolivia contra Chile obligan al público a reconocer la economía del "chico de Chicago"

Como en Bolivia, la fuerza de la opinión pública en Chile fue tan inmensa que el gobierno, encabezado por el hombre más rico de Chile, Sebastián Piñera, cedió de inmediato.

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Por Alan Macleod
Chile protest Feature photo

With almost all votes counted, the people of Chile have overwhelmingly chosen to discard their old constitution, written and implemented under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. 78 percent of Chileans voted “Sí” yesterday for a new constitution, paving the way for a new era in the country’s history and a possible break from the

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Informe: Facebook es "cómplice" en su papel como "motor mundial de la violencia contra los musulmanes"

Un nuevo estudio realizado en nueve países reveló que Facebook desempeñó un papel de liderazgo en la facilitación de la violencia antimusulmana al proporcionar una plataforma para que los grupos islamófobos se organizaran y se negaran a detenerlos cuando se le informaba sobre sus actividades.

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Por Alan Macleod

Facebook has been described as “the world’s engine for anti-Muslim violence” in a new report on Islamophobia. Entitled “Complicit: the human cost of facebook’s disregard for Muslim life,” the report was written by Muslim Advocates and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and details how in nine countries studied, Facebook has played a

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Las protestas contra la codicia y la desigualdad se propagan como la pólvora por América Latina

Se están produciendo protestas históricas en toda América Latina mientras la gente toma las calles para expresar su descontento con el FMI, la corrupción del gobierno y la propagación del fascismo.

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Por Alan Macleod
Latin America Protests Feature photo

With attention fixed on this week’s events in Bolivia, you would be excused for not realizing that much of the rest of the region has for weeks also been ablaze in the flames of protest. In Costa Rica, the neoliberal coalition government of Carlos Alverado attempted to force through a $1.75 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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