Kit Klarenberg

Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist and MintPress News contributor exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. His work has previously appeared in The Cradle, Declassified UK, and Grayzone. Follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenberg.

From the United States to Europe, Criticizing Israel Is Becoming a Crime

Accelerated after October 7, a growing network of laws across the Western world threatens free expression by conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism — a trend years in the making.

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By Kit Klarenberg
NYPD officers arrest a woman as pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters clash outside Baruch College in New York, June 5, 2024. Melissa Bender | AP

Across the United States and much of the West, criticism of Israel and solidarity with Palestine are increasingly being criminalized—a project long championed by Israel’s government and its powerful lobbying networks. In February 2020, Israeli leader and internationally wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu proudly declared that Tel Aviv had

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Leaked Files Reveal the Steele Dossier Was Discredited in 2017 — But Sold to the Public Anyway

Trump’s March 25 declassification order revives buried documents showing the Steele dossier was debunked by insiders before it ever hit the press — yet it was promoted as fact anyway.

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By Kit Klarenberg

On March 25, Donald Trump signed an executive order declassifying all documentation related to Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s 2016 investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. The order has unexpectedly resurrected buried documents that cast new light on the Steele dossier — and when it was known

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Trump Killed Public War Research. Stargate Will Make It Secret—and Far More Dangerous

The Pentagon’s academic program studied dissent, protest, and radicalization. Now it’s being replaced by a private AI surveillance network run in total secrecy.

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By Kit Klarenberg
Minerva Feature photo

Days after a Pentagon spokesperson celebrated the work of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Minerva Initiative—a little-known but influential research program—was killed without fanfare. No mainstream outlet covered it. But the reasons behind its demise reveal the next frontier of American war planning: AI, surveillance, and

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Sex, Politics, and Censorship: How a Sex Ed Organization Got Pulled Into the Israel-Palestine Conflict

AASECT, a respected institution in the field of sex education, became an unlikely battleground for the Israel Lobby. Whistleblower documents expose a relentless campaign to purge pro-Palestine voices, install pro-Israel leadership, and stifle dissent.

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By Kit Klarenberg
Project Shema AASECT Feature photo

In September 2024, MintPress News exposed how Project Shema, an Israel lobby group closely aligned with the notorious Anti-Defamation League (ADL), infiltrated U.S. public schools, seeking to inculcate pupils and teachers alike in liberal Zionist dogma and stifle debate and dissent on Tel Aviv’s deadly war on Gaza, under the bogus aegis of battling

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Larry Ellison Helped Track COVID Shots—Now Trump Wants Him Controlling AI’s Future

Oracle CEO and pro-Israel fanatic Larry Ellison, who played a central role in COVID vaccine data tracking, will now oversee America’s AI future.

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By Kit Klarenberg
Larry Ellison Helped Track COVID Shots—Now Trump Wants Him Controlling AI's Future

The early January launch of Chinese startup DeepSeek’s Artificial Intelligence models, which rival, if not outright eclipse, the capabilities of all current industry leaders at a negligible fraction of the cost, has been widely hailed by Western news outlets as a revolutionary disruption of the U.S.-dominated tech world order. Hundreds of billions

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‘Conspiracy Theory’ is Now Fact: Greater Israel Has Arrived

With strategic seizures in Syria and plans for further annexation, Israel’s expansionist aspirations are no longer a secret.

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By Kit Klarenberg
Israeli Syria Feature photo

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 this concept

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Privatizing Syria: US Plans to Sell Off a Nation’s Wealth After Assad

Sanctions, privatization, and reconstruction: Washington’s approach to post-Assad Syria offers a glimpse into the true nature of America’s foreign policy agenda.

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By Kit Klarenberg
Syria Rebel Economy Feature photo

In the immediate wake of the Syrian government’s abrupt collapse, much remains uncertain about the country’s future - including whether it can survive as a unitary state or will splinter into smaller states as did Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, a move that ultimately led to a bloody NATO intervention. Moreover, who or what may take power in

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