News from Alan MacLeod

Breaking: Iranian missile hits Israel, causing huge shockwave over the sky.

Tonight, for the first time in over 18 months of violence, parts of Tel Aviv resemble Gaza.

Images of tonight's Israeli bombing of Tehran.

In the past six hours, Israel has bombed three separate countries: Iran, Lebanon and Palestine.

New study from me: Persona Non Greta: How Corporate Media Have Shunned Greta Thunberg, once she embraced anti-capitalism, Palestine. Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite. My new study finds that…

New study from me: Persona Non Greta: How Corporate Media Have Shunned Greta Thunberg, once she embraced anti-capitalism, Palestine. Once the favored child of the establishment, Greta Thunberg has been dropped by the global elite. My new study finds that coverage of Thunberg in The New York Times and Washington Post has dwindled from hundreds of articles per year to barely a handful, precisely as she widens her focus from the environment to the capitalist system that is causing climate breakdown, and the Israeli attack on Gaza, which the Swedish activist has labeled a “genocide.” https://www.mintpressnews.com/greta-thunberg-canceled-capitalism-israel/289936/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/bukele-israel-dictatorship-surveillance/289578/ Nayib Bukele may be Palestinian, but the dictatorship he has built in El Salvador is very much made in Israel. From arming his security forces to supplying him with weapons and high-tech surveillance tools, my new article the Israeli influence helping to prop up the man who calls himself “the world’s coolest dictator.”

New from me: Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is remaking his nation, and in the process, making enemies in the West. Since taking power in 2022, the young military leader has expelled French troops, ejected Western corporations, and aligned his country with Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela. Promoting pan-African unity and national self-reliance while surviving coup attempts, Traoré is positioning himself as a radical anti-imperialist and has drawn fire from Washington and Paris. My article explores the project underway in Ouagadougou and the Western forces trying to stop it. https://www.mintpressnews.com/ibrahim-traore-burkina-faso-west/289538/

New from me: The Trump administration’s deal to send large numbers of people to prisons in El Salvador has thrust its president, Nayib Bukele, into the international spotlight. Bukele has been praised, especially in conservative media, as a dynamic and popular leader who has saved his country from the grips of gang violence. But beneath this polished image, he has cemented his rule based on assigning himself autocratic powers, jailing and persecuting his political opponents, and overseeing the creation and expansion of the world’s first prison state. https://www.mintpressnews.com/nayib-bukele-worlds-coolest-dictator/289493/

New investigation from me: Google has just spent $32 BILLION purchasing an Israeli cybersecurity company founded and staffed by "former" Israeli spies and secret agents. Find out why by reading it here: https://www.mintpressnews.com/oogle-wiz-cybersecurity-data-deal/289413/

In repeatedly targeting and destroying a cancer center in Yemen, the United States has carried on a long pattern of bombing hospitals. My new investigation catalogs how, since the end of World War Two, the US has bombed hospitals in 15 countries. https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hospitals-yemen-history-war-crimes/289368/

Cartoon from Carlos Latuff of MintPress mocking the ridiculous double standards of the media (and Piers Morgan in particular) when it comes to Gaza.