"I Would Like Bob Vylan to Come to Colombia" — Colombian President Gustavo Petro

In response to the United States revocation of the punk rap duo's visas, Colombian president Gustavo Petro has invited the pair to South America.

Bob Vylan made worldwide headlines last week, leading a chant of "Death to the IDF" at the Glastonbury music festival in England.

A former guerilla fighter, Petro became president in 2022. He is his nation's first left-wing head of state.

Source: https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/1939745389306843624

With one word, the State Department just killed one of the biggest and fastest-growing anti-imperialist alternative media outlets.

Read my report into how Antony Blinken killed Africa Stream.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/african-stream-removed-us-accusations/290109/

The Israeli government is spending millions targeting Europeans with propaganda on YouTube.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry alone has upped its budget for foreign propaganda by more than 2000%, to $150 million per year.

Read my new investigation to see which countries are being most targeted:


https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-europe-youtube-ad-campaign/290163/

New investigation from me:

Apple is hiring dozens of former spooks from Israeli spying agency, Unit 8200, to run its affairs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly expressed his support for Israeli policy, has met Netanyahu, and his company has disciplined or fired employees who express support for Palestine.

The company also has a policy of matching employee donations to organizations like Friends of the IDF.

Read it all here:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/apple-israel-unit-8200-hiring/290226/

Argentina Announces Privatization of State Water, With Israeli State Firm Principal Beneficiary

The government of Argentina have announced plans to privatize the country's water resources, selling it off to foreign firms.

Israeli state-owned water company, Mekorot — accused of complicity in war crimes against Palestine — is in pole position to take advantage.Mekorot has already made confidential deals with 12 Argentinian provinces.

The move is part of far-right "anarcho-capitalist" president Javier Milei's fire sale of state assets. Milei's administration has fired tens of thousands of public employees, shuttered 13 government ministries, and removed price controls on rent and key goods. As a result, poverty has drastically increased.

Internationally, Milei has been among Israel's loudest supporters, designating Hamas as a terrorist group and flying to Israel to support his "dear friend" Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel could not be doing what it is doing without significant support from the West. And they have found some very powerful allies in Silicon Valley. Chief among these is Google, which has allowed the Israeli government to use its platforms to target tens of millions of Europeans with propaganda.

I spoke with Mnar Adley about the collaboration between Israel and Google.

Watch it here now:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/alan-macleod-israel-google-genocide/290317/

The CIA created and secretly ran hundreds of websites. These ranged from news platforms in dozens of languages to fan websites about Johnny Carson and Star Wars.

This helped CIA spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America's friends.

Read my new investigation into this crazy story:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-secret-network-885-fake-websites/290325/

For decades, we have been told that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary.

But my latest article draws upon testimony from a wide range of people in top positions in the US government and military to prove that this is completely false.

And even as we commemorate 80 years since the bombings, the world is advancing as close to nuclear war as it has been in decades.

My latest article for MintPress News


https://www.mintpressnews.com/hiroshima-nagasaki-us-nuclear-lies/290336/

Una traducción en español

The article has been translated into Spanish. Read it here

misionverdad.com/traducciones/eeuu-admite-que-no-necesitaba-bombardear-hiroshima-ni-nagasaki

After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News.

Larry Ellison, the largest private funder of the Israel Defense Forces, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends.

David has already announced significant changes at CBS, promising “unbiased” news coverage and “varied ideological perspectives,” which are widely understood to signal a shift toward right-wing, pro-Trump coverage. Worse still, Bari Weiss, a journalist with a long history of zealous pro-Israel advocacy, is being considered as the network’s new ombudsman, shaping its political direction, precisely because of her “pro-Israel stance.”

My new investigation examines Ellison’s close ties to both Trump and Israel, Weiss’s extensive career as Israel’s most vocal supporter in the U.S., and what this means for the future of free and diverse speech in America.

Read it here, and share it widely.


https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs/290347/

Since he's back in the news for his disgraceful statement on Gaza, it's worth revisiting my profile of U2 frontman, Bono.

Bono supported the Iraq War, counts George Bush and Tony Blair among his friends, pals around with people like Henry Kissinger at Davos, describes himself as a disciple of Israeli Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, and wrote a fawning poem to Vlodimir Zelensky, described by many as the "literally the worst poem ever written."


https://www.mintpressnews.com/frontman-empire-bono-activism-serves-powerful/281017/

I spoke with with Ahmed Kaballo, the man behind the viral media outlet that the U.S. government has been trying to silence.

African Stream reached 30-40 million people per month with their radical message, including millions of Black Americans. Quite simply, they became too powerful. That is when the US State Department stepped in.

Find out more by watching the full interview here:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/african-stream-founder-on-us-censorship-pan-africanism-and-the-rise-of-africas-resistance/290355/

New Investigation from me:

Amid an ongoing assault on its neighbors, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is attempting to improve its image by posting highly sexually suggestive content featuring its soldiers, changing the prevailing emotion of onlookers from outrage to lust.

A wide range of IDF thirst trap accounts—many with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of followers—proliferate on social media. These accounts are quietly sanctioned by the Israeli government, in an attempt, in its own words, to “appeal” to a young male demographic.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-sexualized-idf-whitewash-war-crimes/290363/

New investigation from me:

With speculation mounting that Trump could pardon her, MintPress profiles the family of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. From her media baron father, who acted as a high-level spy for Israel, her sister, working to push Tel Aviv’s interests in Silicon Valley, her brothers, who founded a dubious but highly influential anti-Islamic extremism think tank, and nephews in influential roles at the State Department and White House, the Maxwell clan have wide-ranging ties to U.S. and Israeli state power. This is their story.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/maxwell-family-epstein-mossad-cia/290379/

New investigation from me:

Not so long ago, Russell Brand was a socialist icon, preaching global revolution and the redistribution of wealth and power to the masses. Today, he is a born-again Christian who endorses Donald Trump and has headlined events at the Republican National Convention and Turning Point USA..

What explains Brand’s dramatic shift? My article explores the political evolution of the comedian, host, and self-appointed thought leader.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/russell-brand-right-wing-pro-israel-pivot/290413/

Hey everyone. A very different post from usual, but an important one. A message from MintPress founder and CEO, Mnar Adley, signed off by me.

MintPress News is facing an existential threat. After 14 years of providing fearless, independent investigative journalism that holds the military-industrial complex accountable, we're now at risk of shutting down.

THE CRISIS:
🚨Our main line of funding has been cut and we've also been:

• Banned from PayPal with our funds seized
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• Our journalists have been detained, interrogated, and surveilled
• Algorithmic blacklisting by Google, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok
• Ongoing censorship attacks from powerful interests we expose

WHY WE'RE AT RISK:
For years, reader donations and fundraising have been the lifeblood that keeps MintPress News alive. Now, with multiple platforms banning us and critical funding sources disappearing, we're fighting to survive.

Big Tech and powerful government agencies don't want us to continue exposing war profiteers, government corruption, and corporate malfeasance. But we believe journalism is not a crime—and the truth deserves to be told.

HELP US KEEP FIGHTING:
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A video explaining the situation.

Back in December, I wrote about how Trump's electoral victory made a Venezuelan invasion much more likely.

With Trump ramping up tensions in the Caribbean, it is worth revisiting the article.

Read it here: 🇻🇪

https://www.mintpressnews.com/with-trump-reelection-venezuela-invasion-on-the-cards/288809/

New video interview from me:

The Trump administration is drumming up a new war in Latin America. In a bid to topple Venezuela’s government, Washington placed a $50 million bounty on President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of running a cocaine empire called the Cartel of the Suns. At the same time, it dispatched a fleet of warships and blew up a Venezuelan vessel — without offering a shred of proof for its claims.

What is Trump thinking? Will he invade Venezuela? In this interview, me and Mnar Adley speak with two Venezuelan analysts, Diego Sequera and Leonardo Flores, about the situation.

Watch here: 🇻🇪

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWUn_rLomTs

With the Trump administration angling for a war with Venezuela, it is worth revisiting my article on Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

A neoconservative hawk, Rubio has always dreamed of overthrowing socialism in Latin America.

Find out why many describe him as "the most dangerous man alive."


https://www.mintpressnews.com/marco-rubio-perfect-little-puppet-most-dangerous-man-alive/288757/

New article from me:

The Trump administration is building up for war against Venezuela 🇻🇪, under the ridiculous guise of fighting narco-traffickers.

Read more about this potential Iraq War 2.0 here:

https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-venezuela-drug-war-claims/290475/