Alan MacLeod
Senior Staff Writer/Podcast Producer, @MintPressNews. I mostly tweet about US/Mid East & Lat Am. politics, but complaining about corporate media is my passion.
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(Thread) The State Department has removed a Uyghur group, ETIM, from its terrorist list, claiming it hasnt existed in 10+ yrs But in 2018 the same State Dept launched a major offe...
Last winter, the US govt removed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) from its terrorist list, claiming they hadn't existed in a decade. But in 2018, they were at war with t...
In 1971 Noam Chomsky debated Michel Foucault on human nature. In 2021 a debate nerd on Twitch who didn't finish a music degree (Destiny) tells @profwolff, an economics professor...
Exclusive: My new @Mintpressnews report into how Taiwanese cash is funding the push to war with China (thread). https://t.co/Hn99dMDS9o
New: My @MintPressNews investigation into a London university department that trains so many of the world's spies and defense analysts, and its links to supposedly independent int...
Exclusive: my @MintPressNews investigation into the London department training many of the West's spooks and spies, and its connections to supposedly independent intelligence outfi...
(Thread) Support the tropes: My @FAIRmediawatch investigation into how media use progressive rhetoric and human rights discourse to get liberals into supporting war, regime change...
(Thread) Bellingcat presents itself as a neutral intelligence service of and for the people. But my new @MintPressNews investigation blows the lid off their connections to Wester...
Support the Tropes: How media language encourages the left to support wars, coups and intervention My latest article published today for @FAIRmediawatch https://t.co/AxfBeLGOV6
My new @MintPressNews article exploring Bellingcat's close relationship with Western states and how it helps further government interests (thread) https://t.co/1gOrYufpbP
COVID-19 has already killed 2.9 million people. But health experts I spoke to told me the coming antibiotic resistance pandemic could make the coronavirus look minor in comparison....