Mnar Adley

Mnar Adley is an award-winning journalist and editor and is the founder and director of MintPress News. She is also president and director of the non-profit media organization Behind the Headlines. Adley also co-hosts the MintCast podcast and is a producer and host of the social media video series Behind The Headlines.  Adley is a recipient of the Women's Institute for the Freedom of the Press Award and the Serena Shim Award for independent journalism. Adley is a regular speaker on responsible journalism and Big Tech censorship. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at [email protected]. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at [email protected]. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh

Explained: The Gaza Concentration Camp

Mnar Adley explains the events that led up to the October 7th uprising that shook Gaza, occupied Palestine, and the world.

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You heard it. Media have decided that this attack was “unprovoked,” casually leaving out decades of occupation and oppression that have turned Gaza into the world’s largest concentration camp and open-air prison. In fact, this attack was very much provoked. And the violence did not just start on October 7th. To be clear, Israel and Gaza are

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Revealed: How Thousands of Ukrainian Nazis Were Smuggled Into Canada after WW2

MintPress founder Mnar Adley argues that Canada’s celebration of a Ukrainian Nazi in parliament continues its historical legacy of hosting Nazis post-World War II and arming Nazi-linked fascists in Ukraine.

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The Canadian parliament made headlines around the world after it gave a standing ovation to a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Nazi soldier. Yaroslav Hunka, a volunteer member of the Nazi battalion Waffen-SS Galicia Division – a unit infamous for its role in massacring civilians during World War Two – was also afforded a private meeting with Canadian

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Presidential Oligarchs

99% of the American population holds zero political power… meanwhile, our past five presidents, who claimed to represent the working class, are obscenely wealthy. 

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The United States is an oligarchy. That means a handful of rich individuals have control over our government, and 99% of the American population holds zero political power.  And our past five presidents, who claimed to represent the working class, are obscenely wealthy. Here’s how rich they truly are: First off is “working class” Joe

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The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke

More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. Yet mainstream media outlets would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change.

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More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. But corporate mainstream media outlets like the BBC, the New York Times, CNN and others would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change. But here’s how this deadly disaster has everything

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MintPress News Is Being Targeted: Join Us in Standing up to the War Machine

Stand up for truth. Stand up against war. Today, we invite you to join us in empowering MintPress News, the vanguard of fearless investigative journalism that unearths the hidden web of the military industrial complex.

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Hey everyone, I’m Mnar Adley, founder and director of MintPress News and editor of our video project  “Behind the Headlines.” This decade has felt like a whirlwind, watching in real time the crackdown on independent journalism and alternative voices. In the last year alone, MintPress was banned from PayPal with our balance seized, blocking

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Detained and Interrogated by British Counter-Terrorism Police, with Journalist Kit Klarenberg

Journalist Kit Klarenberg joins MintCast host Mnar Adley to discuss his detention and interrogation by British Counter-Terrorism Police.

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Last month, on his way back to Great Britain, MintPress contributor Kit Klarenberg was detained and interrogated. The investigative journalist was met at the airport by six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers, who seized his electronic devices, and memory cards and took his fingerprints and DNA. Under Schedule Three, Section Four of

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Thirst Trap Nation: How E-girls Are Luring Young Boys Into Joining Army, with Alan MacLeod

MintCast co-host Alan MacLeod reveals how the military exploits teens’ horniness, exposing the military’s influence in video games, movies, and partnerships with influencers. Unveiling a hidden agenda in this eye-opening discussion.

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MintCast Alan Macleod

Amid an ongoing crisis in recruitment, the military has found a novel way of enticing teens to enlist: thirst traps. “MintCast” co-host Alan MacLeod joins Mnar Adley for an in-house edition of the podcast to describe how the military is using young teens’ horniness against them, utilizing an army of attractive women posting sexually suggestive

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