Alan Mcleod

By Alan Macleod, Published on MintPress News, July 25, 2022: Google – one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world – is filled with ex-CIA agents. Studying employment [...]

“Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to [...]

While staff members of The Kyiv Independent grandstand about how “independent journalism is the cornerstone of democracy,” they are quietly being funded by Western governments – a fact that [...]

This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine [...]

While Washington cannot choose the president of Venezuela, it can make life impossible for officials, such as Alex Saab, who attempt to defy its sanctions regime. By Mnar Adley and Alan Macleod [...]

While there is no evidence that Enes Kanter is a CIA employee, the 29-year-old hoops star does have a great many troubling relationships with some of America’s most powerful state officials. By [...]

Less than a week before Nicaragua’s presidential election, social media giant Facebook deleted the accounts of hundreds of the country’s top news outlets, journalists and activists, all of whom [...]

The primary reason the U.S. government opposes the Lukashenko administration is not its authoritarianism, real as that might be. Instead, Lukashenko’s steadfast refusal to privatize state assets, [...]

The involvement of foreign nationals in the domestic affairs of Cuba is on a level that can scarcely be conceived of in the United States. By Alan Macleod Published on MintPress News, Oct 5, 2021 [...]

“Holy cow, I was living like Scarface…I was paying out anywhere between $300-400,000 per week to $5 million per week at times. All in cash.” Matthew Hoh, U.S. Marine Corps Captain and former [...]