After decoupling the United States from Israel [1], Donald Trump has begun to decouple it from the European Union. As with Israel, he initially gave the impression of giving carte blanche to EU members and the UK, then began to undock. Remember: President Trump allowed Western leaders to convince themselves that they could fight Russia in…
Voltaire Network | Islamabad (Pakistan) | 20 May 2025 “We categorically reject the allegations that Pakistan attempted to target the Golden Temple, the most revered place in the Sikh faith. We hold all places of worship in the highest esteem and cannot think of targeting a holy site like the Golden Temple. In fact, it…
A report from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) outlines how the government agency has been encouraging governments, tech platforms, establishment media outlets and advertisers to work together to censor huge swaths of the Internet. The 97-page “disinformation primer,” obtained by conservative firm America First Legal under the Freedom of Information Act, purports…
Hey everyone, I’m Mnar Adley, founder and director of MintPress News and editor of our video project “Behind the Headlines.” This decade has felt like a whirlwind, watching in real time the crackdown on independent journalism and alternative voices. In the last year alone, MintPress was banned from PayPal with our balance seized, blocking donations…
On Jan. 11, Israel’s new minister of strategic affairs, Ron Dermer, named Facebook senior employee, Jordana Cutler, as the ministry’s director general. The ministry is notorious for combatting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and promoting a positive image of Israel abroad. Yet with Cutler’s biography and Facebook’s history of censoring Palestinian content, experts and…
Katie Halper is a comedian and political commentator who has made a name for herself by fearlessly sharing her progressive viewpoints on a range of issues. She hosts “The Katie Halper Show”, where she interviews guests and discusses current events, and she is also the co-host of the podcast, “Useful Idiots”. Despite the popularity of…
Prolific academic Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Leftword books, a publishing house out of India. Recently he published a book with Noam Chomsky, “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S.” Vijay collaborates with social movements on an international level, including with the leadership of many left-wing Latin American governments. On…
The latest victim of cancel culture wave is MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief Mnar Adley. Adley had been booked to host and moderate an event discussing anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) laws in the United States, and how Palestinians are under increasing pressure to silence themselves, when she was herself, ironically, removed from the panel…
In October, three Palestinian journalists lost out on work and awards because of pressure from Israel lobby groups. The Thomson Reuters Foundation rescinded the Kurt Schork Award from Middle East Eye correspondent Shatha Hammad just two days after pro-Israel media watchdog, Honest Reporting, released a report describing her social media posts as anti-Semitic. Earlier in…
Roger Waters’ concert tour titled, “This is Not a Drill,” is a display of both fantastic music and enormous courage, generosity and urgency. He delivers a message that is clear and unapologetic. It calls for justice for Palestine, justice for all oppressed people, it is an anti-war, anti-gun, anti-nukes, pro-environment, pro human rights message. But…
In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Fuhrer. She told me that the ‘patriotic messages’ of her…
Nothing I am about to write should be read as diminishing in any way my sympathy for Salman Rushdie, or my outrage at the appalling attack on him. Those who more than 30 years ago put a fatwa on his head after he wrote the novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made this assault possible. They deserve…
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM — On April 29, Inès Abdel Razek woke up to 80 new Twitter followers. “These accounts were following the exact same people that were tweeting about Palestine, but from France or Francophone accounts that work on Palestine,” Razek said of her new followers. The advocacy director of Rābet, the Palestine Institute for…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Earlier this month, Google AdSense sent a message to a myriad of publishers, including MintPress News, informing us…
After decoupling the United States from Israel [1], Donald Trump has begun to decouple it from the European Union. As with Israel, he initially gave the impression of giving carte blanche to EU members and the UK, then began to undock. Remember: President Trump allowed Western leaders to convince themselves that they could fight Russia in…
Voltaire Network | Islamabad (Pakistan) | 20 May 2025 “We categorically reject the allegations that Pakistan attempted to target the Golden Temple, the most revered place in the Sikh faith. We hold all places of worship in the highest esteem and cannot think of targeting a holy site like the Golden Temple. In fact, it…
The horrific famine that the Israel Occupation Forces has imposed on Gaza is world news. The IOF has cut off all deliveries of any food or medicine to Gaza for nearly three months. The Madleen, carrying aid from Italy to Gaza, with activists from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, June 2, 2025. (Photo Credit: Credit: Middle…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » People’s power frees Lewelyn “Aunty Lynn” Dixon from ICE detention After three months of community and union protests, Lewelyn Dixon, a migrant worker from the Philippines and a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) member, was finally allowed to walk out of the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center…
