Alan MacLeod

2021’s Most Pressing Humanitarian Crises Are All Victims of US War, Regime Change
The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) yearly report on the world’s most pressing humanitarian situations has just been published, with the three most disastrous cases — Yemen, Afghanistan, and Syria — all the product of decades of interventionist U.S. foreign policy.…

Calls for Snowden Pardon Amid Speculation of a Trump Decision
While the idea of pardoning one of the most prolific whistleblowers of our era drew together an alliance of those on the left and right, the centrist establishment reacted with predictable vitriol to the idea. Amid mounting speculation…

Corporate Media Silence Deafening as Former Clinton Aide Confirms Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
The bombshell that Clinton’s closest confidant confirmed the former president’s many trips aboard the “lolita express” has been totally ignored by the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, MSNBC, CBS News, and CNN. A top Clinton insider…

If Biden Gets Into the White House, This Will Be The Filthy Rich War Hawks That Trump Failed To Prosecute Who Will Make Up His Foreign Policy Team
Editor’s Note: I am holding off until the legal battles are done, the Electoral College votes and Congress certifies the winner. And that is simply how the Constitution works in this matter. I point that out because the…

Angelina Jolie’s MI6 Interview Shows Just How Connected Hollywood Is To the Deep State
To some, the pairing of a Hollywood star and a veteran spymaster might seem strange. But, in reality, the silver screen and the national security state have always been intimately intertwined. With election fever still gripping the U.S.,…

The Knives Come Out as Greenwald Splits From the Intercept Citing Censorship
Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of investigative news outlet The Intercept, very publicly resigned from his position yesterday. The immediate trigger for his decision was a refusal to publish his article exploring corruption in the Biden campaign by his editors, but, as…

Times Editorial Lets Slip Joe Biden’s Latin America Policy: More Obama-Style Coups
With less than a week to go, polling shows Democratic candidate Joe Biden to hold a 7.1 point average lead on incumbent president Donald Trump. Thus, thoughts of what his foreign policy would look like have come to the fore.…

Reporters Claim Facebook is Censoring Information on Julian Assange Case
“90% of my traffic has just been cut off by what seems to be a general algorithm command of some kind to downplay Assange.” “I think it is as simple as that.” Craig Murray, the former British ambassador…

Despite Trump’s Boast, Insulin in America Among the Most Expensive Liquids on Earth
Editor’s Note: The only place it seems that costs were slashed is if a person is dependent upon socialized American government medicine through Medicare, and basically that’s because it is subsidized by fellow Americans. The New York Post…

As His Extradition Trial Drags on, Media & Rights Groups Are Still Ignoring Julian Assange
The extradition case of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continues in London. The U.S. government is indicting the Australian living on the other side of the world under its own Espionage Act, with the case widely seen as setting an important…

As Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, Here Are Some of Its Worst Winners
While there have been some worthy winners in its 119-year history, the Nobel Peace Prize has very often been handed to some of the world’s worst warmongers and war criminals. Donald Trump has been nominated for the prestigious…
Snowden – Assange CENSORSHIP: Discussion of Wikileaks or any “Hacked Information” Banned Under New YouTube Rules
YouTube’s decision to ban discussion of hacked information on its platform is unlikely to improve election integrity in the US, it will, however, continue to tilt the balance in favor of established corporate-funded outlets like Fox News and…

New Report Reveals US Special Forces Active in 22 African Countries
The US has roughly 6,000 military personnel scattered throughout the continent with military attachés outnumbering diplomats in many embassies across Africa. A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light on the opaque world of the…

With Microsoft Purchase of TikTok, US Tightens Grip Over International Media
Even as the government attempts to frame the debate over the banning of Chinese companies like TikTok and Huawei over privacy concerns, it continues to try to ban the encryption of data and communications at home. Following Donald…

Partisan Media Coverage of Epstein Masks His Links to Both Sides of the Political Establishment
The Jeffrey Epstein saga continues to rumble on. Earlier this month, the deceased sexual predator’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested and charged with luring and grooming children into his sex ring. Epstein, who died in prison in…

Trump Rips up Decades-Old WMD Treaty in Order to Sell Drones to Saudi Arabia
The Trump administration has decided to break the 33-year-old Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) treaty in order to sell high-tech American drones to whomever it wants. First on that list, Reuters reports, are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan,…

Flights Logs Suggest Bolivia Coup May Have Been Planned in Brazil
Flight logs of the Bolivian presidential jet show that on November 11, the day of the coup, the aircraft was not in La Paz or any other Bolivian airport, but flying to Brazil’s capital Brasilia. Bolivian President Evo…








