Mnar Adley

Mnar Adley is an award-winning journalist and editor and is the founder and director of MintPress News. She is also president and director of the non-profit media organization Behind the Headlines. Adley also co-hosts the MintCast podcast and is a producer and host of the social media video series Behind The Headlines.  Adley is a recipient of the Women's Institute for the Freedom of the Press Award and the Serena Shim Award for independent journalism. Adley is a regular speaker on responsible journalism and Big Tech censorship. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at [email protected]. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at [email protected]. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh

Rompiendo el apagón de los medios sobre el encarcelamiento de Julian Assange

Los mismos medios que han pasado años arrastrando el nombre de Assange a través del barro ahora están participando en un apagón en su tratamiento. Si está esperando que los expertos de los medios corporativos defiendan la libertad de prensa, se sentirá decepcionado.

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Julian Assange feature photo

  The role of journalism in a democracy is publishing information that holds the powerful to account -- the kind of information that empowers the public to become more engaged citizens in their communities so that we can vote in representatives that work in the interest of “we the people.”  There is perhaps no better example of watchdog

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Un Newsguard sesgado honra a MintPress con calificación "Roja": Aquí está nuestra respuesta punto por punto

La revisora de NewsGaurd, Jeannie Kamin, parece confundir los informes críticos de los grupos terroristas respaldados por Estados Unidos en Siria, como el Frente Al-Nusra y otros grupos extremistas, con el apoyo de Bashar al-Assad.

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Newsguard | Censorship

In January, MintPress was contacted by Jeannie Kamin, a contributor to the news rating site and browser plug-in “Newsguard.” As I, MintPress Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh, wrote at the time, Kamin had sent “a list of eight loaded questions that were crafted to put me on the defensive and undermine MintPress’ credibility from the get-go. Not only

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Periodista de MintPress soporta el apagón y el asedio del gobierno de los EE. UU. En la embajada de Venezuela en DC

La administración de Trump está violando el derecho internacional y acosando a los periodistas estadounidenses a simple vista. Lamentablemente, estas acciones se llevan a cabo en un país que se enorgullece de defender la Primera Enmienda de su Constitución, que debería proteger la libertad de prensa.

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Embassy Protection Collective

WASHINGTON -- MintPress News journalist Alexander Rubinstein and a reporter for The Grayzone, Anya Parampil, are besieged inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, and have been since April 30, in an egregious attack against press freedom. On Wednesday evening, events took a turn for the worse as the Metropolitan DC police cut off the power and

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Mientras los pescadores yemeníes arriesgan sus vidas para alimentar a su nación, los saudíes los usan para la práctica de tiro al blanco

Dado que ni los agricultores ni los pescadores están a salvo de los ataques de la coalición saudí, la hambruna se ha convertido en una crisis masiva en Yemen, exacerbada aún más por el bloqueo del país por parte de la coalición que impide en gran medida que se importen alimentos a la nación en problemas.

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Yemen | fisherman

 HODEIDA, YEMEN --  “They told us that if we didn't confess they would kill us and throw our bodies into the sea for the fish and birds to eat,” recalls Omar Ghalib, a Yemeni fisherman who was kidnapped by Saudi fighters and then tortured while out in his boat late one evening in Yemen’s port city of Hodeida. We arrived to our usual fishing

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NeoCons Test Drive Newest Weapon to Crush Indie Media, Put MintPress in Their Crosshairs

The website [MintPress] does not disclose its liberal bent. For example, a January 2019 story was titled, “New Senate anti-BDS Bill Unconstitutional and Ineffective at Curbing Boycotts.” … Would you like to comment about making any political leanings transparent to online readers? — Question submitted by Newsguard to MintPress News

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MINNEAPOLIS --  A recently founded venture claiming to be “a news rating agency” is making its big breakout in 2019 by claiming to be an authority at the forefront in the fight against “fake news.” Newsguard -- which describes itself as an organization dedicated to “restoring trust and accountability” and using “journalism to fight false news,

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Help MintPress News Fight for Truth in the Face of Social Media Censorship

Our future depends on your support. We need your financial help to not only sustain MintPress operation costs but to help us make a comeback against the powers that be who are trying to silence us — before these social media giants wipe us off the map.

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MintPress Fundraiser

After the October 11th, 2018 Facebook and Twitter purge of over 800 activist sites and pages -- many of which were partner sites with MintPress -- we believe our days as an independent journalism organization on authoritarian social media platforms are numbered. Since 2012, MintPress News has been at the forefront of exposing the dangers of the

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Ver | Grupos del lobby israelí que intentan despedir a Marc Lamont Hill

Exponer a los grupos detrás del despido de CNN de Marc Lamont Hill y los grupos de presión de Israel que intentan despedirlo de la Universidad de Temple.

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Marc Lamont Hill

 MintPress editor in chief, Mnar A. Muhawesh exposing the groups behind CNN's firing of Marc Lamont Hill, and the Israel lobby groups trying to get him fired from Temple University. Top Photo | Activist, author, and now former CNN host Marc Lamont Hill gestures during an interview with VladTV. YouTube | VladTV Mnar Muhawesh is

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