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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Coalition Pushing Beijing Olympics Boycott Comprised of US-Funded Destabilization NGOs

A syndicate of interconnected NGOs funded by the US government and hellbent on Balkanizing China is behind the #BoycottBeijing2022 campaign.

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WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) — The United States’ regime change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy, has funded at least half of the groups involved in the media offensive. Other groups involved are otherwise tied to the national security state. On Monday, the Associated Press ran a story about the campaign with the sole

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Andrew Yang [kee]: Champion of Memes, Math and Murder

While known for his outside-the-box ideas, Yang’s foreign policy views are very much within the realm of the swamp.

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WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) — Andrew Yang made a name for himself during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, primarily by being nothing like the other candidates. More interested in meme causes than bread and butter political causes, Yang’s name was synonymous with the words “outsider,” “memes,” and “math.” But how different

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CIA Pressured Yemen to Release al-Qaeda Leader From Prison

More evidence of CIA support for al-Qaeda exposed.

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WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) — Explosive new recordings released by the Houthi government of Yemen pile more earth atop mountains of existing evidence of the U.S. government’s support for the very same terrorists it has claimed to be waging war against for nearly two decades. The Moral Guidance Department, a branch of the Yemeni

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