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Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data
• April 18, 2025
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Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military. In its press release, the Silicon Valley giant claimed that the purchase will “vastly improve how... Read More
President Trump at the Israel Museum. Jerusalem May 23, 2017. Matty Stern / U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Betar: The Far-Right Hate Group Helping Trump Deport Israel’s Critics
• March 26, 2025
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A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States. Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and... Read More
Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal Is Former Israeli Spy
• March 15, 2025
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The professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack... Read More
Pro-Israel Think Tank WINEP Outed as ‘Dark Money’ Operation Driving US Wars
• February 28, 2025
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The AIPAC-aligned Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), which often refers to itself simply as The Washington Institute, was recently outed as a “dark money” think tank for its lack of transparency on donors and is continuing to push the United States to engage in conflicts overseas to Israel’s benefit. Its case raises questions... Read More
From Anti-War Progressive to Pro-Drone Militarist: Tulsi Gabbard’s Odd Political Trajectory
• February 14, 2025
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MintPress News Editor’s Note | Originally published on November 24, 2021, this investigation by Alan Macleod delves into Tulsi Gabbard’s political metamorphosis—from self-proclaimed anti-war progressive to champion of military intervention. Given her recent confirmation as Director of National Intelligence, we are republishing the piece to shed light on the ideological journey that has led Gabbard... Read More
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The Pentagon Is Recruiting Elon Musk to Help Them Win a Nuclear War
• February 11, 2025
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Donald Trump has announced his intention to build a gigantic anti-ballistic missile system to counter Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons, and he is recruiting Elon Musk to help him. The Pentagon has long dreamed of constructing an American “Iron Dome.” The technology is couched in the defense language – i.e., to make America safe again.... Read More
Tom Brady & Snoop Dogg’ Super Bowl Ad Isn’t What You Think—Here’s Who’s Behind It
• February 7, 2025
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Football star Tom Brady and rap legend Snoop Dogg will appear in a big-money Superbowl ad denouncing hatred. The ad is paid for by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, a group staffed by Israel lobbyists that attempts to equate opposition to Israel’s destruction of Gaza with anti-Jewish racism. The group was founded by billionaire owner... Read More
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'Conspiracy Theory' Is Now Fact: Greater Israel Has Arrived
• January 29, 2025
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Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’ – the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God. The media typically dismisses... Read More
Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East Editor Exposed as CIA, Mossad Collaborator
• January 5, 2025
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A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a... Read More
Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News
• October 17, 2024
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One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and... Read More
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Follow the Money
How Israel-Linked Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests
• May 22, 2024
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America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has swept the nation, with encampments on college campuses in 45 of America’s 50 states. The crackdown has been swift; thousands of students have been arrested, charged, fined, lost their degrees, or even deported. Amid corporate... Read More
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United Against Nuclear Iran
The Shadowy, Intelligence-Linked Group Driving the US Towards War With Iran
• January 12, 2024
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Most of the world has watched the Israeli assault on Gaza in horror. As tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced, tens of millions of people around the world have poured onto the streets to demand an end to the violence. But a few select others have taken to the pages of our... Read More
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From Dallas to Gaza
The JFK Assassination Was Good for Zionist Israel
• December 13, 2023
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated sixty years ago. If he had lived and won a second term, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would have evolved differently. Possibly, the path toward Israeli apartheid and genocide in Gaza could have been avoided. In his short time in office, Kennedy significantly changed U.S. foreign policy. As documented in the... Read More
Exterminate All the Brutes
• October 31, 2023
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Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — During the siege in Sarajevo, when I was reporting for The New York Times, we never endured the level of saturation bombing and near total blockage of food, water, fuel and medicine that Israel has imposed on Gaza. We never endured hundreds of dead and wounded a day. We never... Read More
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Israel's Culture of Deceit
• October 19, 2023
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Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab armies that... Read More
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Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft
• October 31, 2022
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A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the notorious Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have attained positions of influence in many of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population, amassing kompromat on... Read More
A Lemming Leading the Lemmings: Slavoj Zizek and the Collapse of the Anti-War Left
• June 23, 2022
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Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the US and UK’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer of the left into joining the pro-NATO, pro-war camp? It is now hard to remember that many millions marched in the US and Europe against the attack on Iraq. It sometimes... Read More
British ‘watchdog’ Journalists Unmasked as Lap Dogs for the Security State
• June 21, 2022
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Events of the past few days suggest British journalism – the so-called Fourth Estate – is not what it purports to be: a watchdog monitoring the centers of state power. It is quite the opposite. The pretensions of the establishment media took a severe battering this month as the defamation trial of Guardian columnist Carole... Read More
Forget Liberating Ukraine – We First Need to Liberate Our Minds
• June 11, 2022
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Nothing should better qualify me to write about world affairs at the moment – and Western meddling in Ukraine – than the fact that I have intimately followed the twists and turns of Israeli politics for two decades. We will turn to the wider picture in a moment. But before that, let us consider developments... Read More
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The West’s Hands in Ukraine Are as Bloody as Putin’s
• March 10, 2022
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There is a discursive nervous tic all over social media at the moment, including from prominent journalists such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot. The demand is that everyone not only “condemn” Russian president Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification. Any reluctance to submit is considered certain proof that the person is... Read More
9/11 and the Politics of Fear and Self-Preservation
• September 10, 2021
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The 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is a particularly somber one, not just because of the horrific nature of events of that day reaching its second-decade milestone, but because of how little we seem to have learned in that amount of time. The fear and trauma generated by the events of 9/11 were used... Read More
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins talks to the press at College Green in London, October 9, 2018. David Mirzoeff | PA Wire | Alamy
How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points Into the Press
• April 9, 2021
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AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative journalism” (Big Think), and an unequivocal “force for good” (South China Morning Post). Indeed,... Read More
Faced with ICC Investigation, Apartheid Israel Asserts Moral Superiority Over the Victims of Its Terror
Having created enemies by its own criminal behavior, Israel then claims the right to protect itself from the very people...
• March 29, 2021
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Israel’s army chief of staff, General Aviv Kochavi, recently commented on the International Criminal Court (ICC) decision to investigate Israel for war crimes. In his speech, General Kochavi said: Sounds like a pretty good opening statement for his defense once the trial at The Hague commences. The only problem is, none... Read More
US Army Cites Cybersecurity Concerns In Scrapping Planned Purchase of Israeli Military Tech
• March 11, 2020
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After spending $373 million to buy two batteries of the Israeli-made Iron Dome missile defense system, the U.S. Army has announced that it is unable to integrate the batteries it purchased with its other air defense systems because Israel has refused to provide the Army with the source code. The Army asserted that without the... Read More
How the New US-Afghanistan Peace Deal Rekindled a “Business Friendly Taliban”
• March 9, 2020
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resident Trump, who is up for re-election this year, has added another “peace” deal to his credentials, a deal that the president, his re-election campaign and his supporters have promoted as proof that Trump is willing and able to resist the U.S. foreign policy establishment and its ceaseless push to keep the U.S. embroiled in... Read More
Podcast: Kevin Gosztola Discusses the Latest Developments in the Case Against Julian Assange
and • March 5, 2020
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elcome to MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb that re-launched in February 2020. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence. One such voice is independent journalist and editor of ShadowProof, Kevin Gosztola. He joins MintCast to... Read More
Podcast: Oliver Vargas on US Election Meddling In Bolivia and the Country’s Indigenous Uprising
and • March 2, 2020
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Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas discusses Bolivia’s post-coup election crisis, US support for the country’s right-wing minority, the indigenous uprising and more. Welcome to the re-launch of MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment... Read More
MintCast Interviews Abby Martin About Her Anti-BDS Lawsuit & the Israel Lobby
and • February 26, 2020
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Welcome to the re-launch of MintCast, the official weekly MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh and Whitney Webb. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence.
With Grenell Appointment, the Israel Lobby’s Foothold on US Intelligence Grows Even Stronger
• February 25, 2020
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With Richard Grenell now overseeing all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies, Israel’s influence over the U.S. intelligence community has reached new and troubling heights. Last week’s appointment of U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell to the post of Director of National Intelligence (DNI) received criticism from both sides of the political divide, mainly for his lack... Read More
Netanyahu “Optimistic” Israel Can Use Political Pressure to Shut Down ICC War Crimes Probe
• February 19, 2020
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TEL AVIV — Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it would investigate war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank last December, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been attempting to rally Israel’s allies in a multilateral effort to stop the ICC’s probe. Those efforts have now left Netanyahu... Read More
NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Controversial Ties to Israeli Intelligence
• February 14, 2020
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Early last week, the city of New York launched — with little media scrutiny — one of two new massive cybersecurity centers that will be run by private Israeli firms with close ties to Israel’s government, the so-called “Mega Group” tied to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and prominent pro-Israel lobby organizations operating in the United... Read More
Scuffle Between Syrian Civilians and US Soldiers Reflects Increasing Hostility to US Troops
• February 12, 2020
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As resistance to U.S. troop presence in both Iraq and Syria gains steam, a rare scuffle between Syrian civilians and U.S. forces broke out on Wednesday resulting in the death of one Syrian, believed to be a civilian, and the wounding of another. A U.S. soldier was also reportedly injured in the scuffle. The event... Read More
Gruesome Details Emerge of Israel’s Torture of Palestinian Prisoners
• February 12, 2020
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New allegations have surfaced claiming that Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet or Shabak, is engaged in the brutal torture of Palestinian detainees, despite the practice being against both Israeli and international law. The new accusations, deemed “very credible” by both Israeli and Palestinian rights groups, come amid a recorded spike in the use of... Read More
How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election
• January 28, 2020
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As World War II drew to a close in Europe, British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that “neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” Though numerous examples in the post-World War II era have proven Russell’s point,... Read More
Another Whistleblower Bites the Dust as the Intercept Adds a Third Notch to Its Burn Belt
• May 10, 2019
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The Intercept, which has long been associated with the documents shared by whistleblower Edward Snowden, has yet to fire any of the reporters responsible for these breaches that have seen two whistleblowers already imprisoned and third, Daniel Hale, likely to be imprisoned. Early Thursday morning, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Daniel Everette... Read More
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