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Zencity: Israel’s Spy Agency Is Exporting Occupation Tech to America

Israel’s Unit 8200 isn’t just spying on Palestinians — its Zencity software is now stalking Americans, tracking protests, and shielding U.S. police from accountability. From Gaza to Minneapolis, the occupation has gone global.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
ZenCity

Truth Under Siege: MintPress News Needs You This is an urgent call to action. After 14 years, one of our main funding lines has been cut and MintPress News could be forced to shut down without your support. Help us keep independent, antiwar journalism alive. Support the MintPress Fundraiser

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The CIA, Mossad, and Epstein: Unraveling the Intelligence Ties of The Maxwell Family 

Everyone knows Epstein and Ghislaine—but few know the shadowy family dynasty behind them. From Mossad and CIA ties to Silicon Valley and D.C., Alan MacLeod uncovers the Maxwells’ secret empire.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
The Maxwells: Epstein’s Partners, Israel’s Spies, Washington’s Insiders The CIA, Mossad, and Epstein: Unraveling the Intelligence Ties of The Maxwell Family

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

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Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory

Chris Hedges on Israel’s destruction of Gaza City, where bombs, famine, and bulldozers are erasing Palestinians and centuries of cultural heritage. The West remains complicit.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
BibiArt

Originally published at ScheerPost on July 02, 2025. Republished with permission. As Israel ticks off its list of Nazi-like atrocities against the Palestinians, including mass starvation, it prepares for yet another – the demolition of Gaza City, one of the oldest cities on Earth. Heavy engineering equipment and gigantic armored bulldozers

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Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide

Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. This state-backed tactic aims to distract from war crimes and sell apartheid to a younger generation increasingly critical of Israel.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Gooning IDF Feature photo

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

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African Stream Founder on US Censorship, Pan-Africanism and the Rise of Africa’s Resistance

Ahmed Kaballo joins MintCast to discuss the US-led takedown of African Stream, the rise of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Ibrahim Traoré, and the pan-African resistance reshaping the Sahel.

Mnar Adley
Alan Macleod
By Mnar Adley
And Alan Macleod

On this episode of the MintCast, hosts Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod speak with Ahmed Kaballo, the man behind the viral media outlet that the U.S. government has been trying to silence. In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech smearing media platform African Stream as secretly funded and controlled by Vladimir Putin

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Israel’s Biggest US Donor Now Owns CBS

Trump ally David Ellison just bought CBS. His first move? Bring in Zionist ideologue Bari Weiss to direct news coverage and purge dissent.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod

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

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