Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » Trans community confronts bigot invasion in Seattle Seattle protest, May 24, 2025. Seattle — On May 24, the transgender community fought back against an invasion of religious bigots rallying in Seattle’s LGBTQIA2S+ neighborhood on Capitol Hill. The anti-trans event, with the questionable name of “Mayday USA,” was led by Rev.…
Between Trump’s “big, beautiful tax bill” that would give trillions of dollars to the wealthiest at the expense of the workers and his on-again, off-again tariffs, the capitalist economy in the U.S. faces an uncertain future. Central to this crisis is a pending $3.8 trillion increase to the already $36.2 trillion U.S. government debt should…
On April 13, Iran, alongside Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Ansar Allah, executed Operation True Promise, a vast wave of drone, cruise and ballistic missile strikes on Israel, launched in retaliation to Tel Aviv’s criminal bombing of Tehran’s Damascus embassy less than two weeks earlier, which killed two Iranian generals. As a result, history was made,…
In November 2023, NATO’s “Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats” published a disturbing ‘working paper,’ “Humour in online information warfare: Case study on Russia’s war on Ukraine.” It received no mainstream attention. Yet, the contents offer unprecedented insight into the military alliance’s insidious weaponization of social media to distort public perceptions and manufacture consent…
On January 9, MintPress News probed a newly unsealed tranche of documentation on official police investigations into and civil lawsuits leveled against Jeffrey Epstein – specifically, papers mentioning Alan Dershowitz. At that time, the veteran Zionist legal activist had been mooted as Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s top pick to defend Tel Aviv at the International…
On December 6, it was announced with much fanfare that the 10/7 Project, a new “centralized communications operation to promote continued US bipartisan support for Israel; push for accurate, complete coverage of the Israel-Hamas war,” and achieve a “stronger” media “focus” on the victims of October 7’s Al-Aqsa Flood would be launched, by a quintet…
November 21 marked the 28th anniversary of the signing of the US-brokered Dayton Agreement, which brought an end to the proxy war in Bosnia after three years and eight months. It is an event few celebrate – although there was much cheering in Sarajevo two days later when Stuart Seldowitz, the man who led negotiations…
Since Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza began, Zionist officials, pundits, journalists, and their Western opposite numbers have endlessly invoked the sinister specter of “terrorism” to justify the industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians. It is because of “terrorism,” twice-failed U.S. Presidential candidate and unconvicted war criminal Hillary Clinton representatively wrote for The Atlantic on November 14 that…
In a shocking turn of events, YouTube has abruptly taken down the official music video of “Terrorist?”, a chart-topping anthem by activist rapper and MintPress News contributor Lowkey. No rationale was provided, leaving the renowned artist and his record label, Global Faction, bewildered. Yet, when one considers the track poses profound inquiries about the identities…
Documents passed anonymously to MintPress News reveal the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a notorious CIA front, is laying the foundations for a color revolution in Indonesia. In February 2024, citizens will elect their President, Vice President, and both legislative chambers. Current maverick leader Joko Widodo, widely beloved by Indonesians, is ineligible for a third…
Last month, on his way back to Great Britain, MintPress contributor Kit Klarenberg was detained and interrogated. The investigative journalist was met at the airport by six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers, who seized his electronic devices, and memory cards and took his fingerprints and DNA. Under Schedule Three, Section Four of the U.K. 2019 Counter-Terrorism…
For months, mainstream media across the Western world – in particular English-language outlets based in the constituent members of the ‘Five Eyes’ global spying network – have been rabidly awash with terrifying news of secret “Chinese police stations” operating the world over. It is claimed these “stations” are unofficial, covert Chinese Communist Party (CPC) security…
The MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on…
The MintPress podcast “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby, and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on…
Home » LGBTQIA2S+ liberation » Trans community confronts bigot invasion in Seattle Seattle protest, May 24, 2025. Seattle — On May 24, the transgender community fought back against an invasion of religious bigots rallying in Seattle’s LGBTQIA2S+ neighborhood on Capitol Hill. The anti-trans event, with the questionable name of “Mayday USA,” was led by Rev.…
Between Trump’s “big, beautiful tax bill” that would give trillions of dollars to the wealthiest at the expense of the workers and his on-again, off-again tariffs, the capitalist economy in the U.S. faces an uncertain future. Central to this crisis is a pending $3.8 trillion increase to the already $36.2 trillion U.S. government debt should…
Home » Im/migrants and Refugees » Free them all: Protest at the Northwest Detention Center Tacoma protest, May 31, 2025. Tacoma, Washington — A rally on May 31 calling for an end to detention of migrants in the privately run ICE concentration camp in Tacoma, Washington, known as Northwest Detention Center brought people together from…
The scenes Willy Massay witnessed in Gaza were harrowing: children shot multiple times in the head, chest and groin; hospitals reduced to rubble; the smell of burning flesh and gunpowder lingering in the air. For the American ICU nurse, recently returned from the besieged enclave, Israel’s assault on Gaza was not just war; it was…