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.

Selling War: How Raytheon and Boeing Fund the Push for NATO’s Nuclear Expansion

A MintPress investigation reveals that the Atlantic Council’s call for NATO nuclear deployments is directly tied to millions in donations from weapons manufacturers who profit from war escalation.

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作者 Alan Macleod
US Think Tanks Take Millions From Weapons Companies Feature photo

To “counter Russia’s nuclear blackmail,” the Atlantic Council confidently asserted, “NATO must adapt its nuclear sharing program.” This includes moving B-61 atomic bombs to Eastern Europe and building a network of medium-range missile bases across the continent. The think tank praised Washington’s recent decision to send Tomahawk and SM-6 missiles

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Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN

A new report uncovers the troubling ties between top VPN services like ExpressVPN and the Israeli security state, raising alarms about how much control Israel’s Unit 8200 has over your online privacy.

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作者 Alan Macleod
Israel VPNs Feature photo

An estimated 1.6 billion people rely on VPNs to carry out the most sensitive tasks online, from watching illegal videos to engaging in sexual or political activities. But few people know that a considerable chunk of that market—including three of the six most popular VPNs—is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to

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从与权力斗争到为权力而努力：查克·D、全民公敌以及中情局如何消除说唱

Chuck D 已从“对抗权力”完全转变为“与权力合作”。MintPress 新闻探讨了这项将 YouTube、流行音乐家和美国国家安全融合在一起的新事业。

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作者 Alan Macleod
Chuck D State Department Feature photo

Surprising many, legendary rapper and activist Chuck D appeared at the White House earlier this summer, announcing that he was joining forces with YouTube and Antony Blinken’s State Department to become one of Washington’s “global music ambassadors” – a role directly modeled on Washington’s Cold War-era efforts to use the arts to inspire

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委内瑞拉：美国政客称选举舞弊，美国选举观察员却认可选举结果

尽管美国政界人士和媒体一如既往地谴责委内瑞拉的社会主义胜利，但数十名美国选举观察员却支持这一进程。MintPress 从加拉加斯报道。

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作者 Alan Macleod
Venezuela Election Fraud Feature photo

Much to the chagrin of the U.S. government, socialist candidate Nicolas Maduro won a third successive term in office on Sunday, convincingly beating his U.S.-backed opponents, Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, by seven points. Almost immediately after the results were announced, American officials began decrying the elections as a

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巴勒斯坦声援委内瑞拉：会见观察委内瑞拉选举的巴勒斯坦人

委内瑞拉的巴勒斯坦选举观察员揭示了对帝国主义的共同抵抗。MintPress 探讨了两国之间坚定不移的支持。

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作者 Alan Macleod
Venezuela Palestine Solidarity Feature photo

President Nicolas Maduro won a third term in office on Sunday, promising to continue and deepen Venezuela’s anti-imperialist Bolivarian Revolution. Many in the U.S. quickly denounced the elections as a sham presided over by a dictatorship. Yet the proceedings were presided over by more than 900 electoral observers from over 100 countries,

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鲁珀特·默多克、比尔·盖茨和杰夫·贝佐斯的有毒亲战媒体帝国

据说，自由媒体是民主的基石。但自由是从何而来？当然，政府对媒体的干预是存在的。但富豪精英也对媒体施加了巨大的压力。

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作者 Alan Macleod
Website Billionaires media Feature photo

These are the sorts of headlines we can expect from a newspaper owned and controlled by one of the world’s richest individuals. In 2013, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos (whose net worth far exceeds $200 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaire list)  bought the Washington Post and turned it into a vehicle for promoting his own interests. In

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鲁珀特·默多克：以色列最强大的支持者

鲁珀特·默多克几十年来一直支持以色列的事业，现在正全力推动他的媒体帝国捍卫那些不可辩驳的事情。如果笔确实比剑更有力量，那么默多克就是以色列最有力的武器之一。

Alan Macleod
作者 Alan Macleod
Rupert Murdoch Bio Feature photo

Without a sympathetic media, Israel’s powerful military would be next to useless in its attempts to ethnically cleanse Gaza. It relies on crucial Western support for its project, and no one is as important in manufacturing consent for Israel as Rupert Murdoch. The Australian-born press baron has close and extensive personal ties to the Israeli

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