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Alexander Rubinstein

Alexander Rubinstein is a former staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He writes about police, prisons, and protests in the United States. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News.

How Ukraine’s Jewish President Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries

While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters.

March 4th, 2022
Alexander Rubinstein
Max Blumenthal
March 4th, 2022
By Alexander Rubinstein
And Max Blumenthal
Zelensky Nazi Feature photo

KIEV, UKRAINE (THE GRAYZONE) — Back in October 2019, as the war in eastern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Zolote, a town situated firmly in the “gray zone” of Donbas, where over 14,000 had been killed, mostly on the pro-Russian side. There, the president encountered the hardened veterans of extreme right

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US Shouldn’t Be Invited to Summit for Democracy, Let Alone Be Its Host

In every one of the countries the United States has intervened in over the past decades, anti-democratic means are almost always used towards anti-democratic ends, all in the name of promoting democracy.

December 8th, 2021
Alexander Rubinstein
December 8th, 2021
By Alexander Rubinstein
US Democracy Summit

This week, the United States is convening a virtual “Summit for Democracy,” the first of its kind in what the State Department hopes to make an annual event. “The summit will focus on challenges and opportunities facing democracies and will provide a platform for leaders to announce both individual and collective commitments, reforms, and

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Facebook ‘Whistleblower’ Frances Haugen Represented by US Intelligence Insiders

The background of Frances Haugen’s Whistleblower Aid legal team indicates she was cultivated to complete Facebook’s transformation into a vehicle for the US national security state.

October 21st, 2021
Alexander Rubinstein
October 21st, 2021
By Alexander Rubinstein

(The Grayzone) — A former employee of Facebook named Frances Haugen earned national renown after appearing before Congress on October 5, 2021 to accuse the company where she once worked of everything from poisoning the minds of young American women to aiding and abetting global evildoers. While Haugen has presented herself as a “whistleblower”

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Did the US Support the Growth of ISIS-K in Afghanistan?

Regional players have long accused the US of supporting the group with midnight helicopter transport into Afghanistan.

August 30th, 2021
Alexander Rubinstein
August 30th, 2021
By Alexander Rubinstein
ISIS-k Feature Photo

WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) — The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have accused the US of supporting ISIS-K is expansive and includes the Russian government, the Iranian government, Syrian government media, Hezbollah, an Iraqi state-sponsored military outfit and even former Afghan

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MintPress News Confronts Senator Cruz on Murderous US Sanctions

It was clear that the senator had no actual defense of the murderous policies for which he has advocated; he didn’t even bother to defend them, opting instead to echo a predecessor of his: Senator Joseph McCarthy.

August 23rd, 2021
Alexander Rubinstein
August 23rd, 2021
By Alexander Rubinstein
Ted Cruz Feature Photo

LAS VEGAS -- On Saturday, MintPress News’ Ben Rubinstein ran into Senator Ted Cruz at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport. Recognizing the senator’s long-standing support for economic warfare on the Global South via unilateral coercive measures, or sanctions, Rubinstein jumped at the chance to confront Cruz. “Senator, can you tell me how

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Did Business Insider Censor My Lab Leak Article?

The company offered me a contract, killed my first article, then completely cut ties with me.

July 12th, 2021
Alexander Rubinstein
July 12th, 2021
By Alexander Rubinstein
Business Insider Lab Leak Feature photoa

WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) — Demonstrating the mainstream media’s aversion to publishing alternative foreign policy views, my contract with Business Insider was put in the shredder before they published a single word of mine on their website. The whole process began and ended quicker than a CIA orchestrated interim presidency. It

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Lab Leak Theory Mainstreamed By Journalistic Frauds Who Love War

After more than a year of the media holding it in utter disesteem, the theory that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China has been picking up steam.

June 29th, 2021
Alexander Rubinstein
June 29th, 2021
By Alexander Rubinstein
Lab Leak Theory Feature photo

WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) -- Now that the dust has settled, Donald Trump is no longer president, and the United States has demonstrably handled the virus poorly, a need for a new scapegoat has arisen, and China is the perfect pretend culprit. This narratives' power has the potential to ignite major conflict between the world's

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