MintPress News Faces Shutdown Amid Unprecedented Attacks on Truth

For 14 years we’ve exposed empire, propaganda, and genocide. Now, with funding slashed, our future depends on you.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
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This is an urgent call to action. After 14 years of operations, MintPress News is in danger of being silenced. One of our main lines of funding has been cut, and if we don’t act now, MintPress could be forced to shut down. So we’re turning to you—our readers and viewers—for support. For the past two years, the world has watched in

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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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Kneecap vs. the Israel Lobby: How a Rebel Band Shook Britain

A small Irish hip-hop act is exposing the reach of the Israeli lobby—one canceled gig at a time.

Kit Klarenberg
By Kit Klarenberg
Kneecap performs live on stage at NorthSide Festival in Aarhus, Denmark, June 2025

A Belfast rap group with no record deal, no security detail, and no filter is now the target of British counter-terror police, tabloid smear campaigns, and the full force of the Israeli lobby. Their crime? Saying 'Free Palestine' too loudly. Over recent months, Irish rap trio Kneecap has been embroiled in a series of public controversies. In

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Susan Abulhawa: Censored at Oxford After Witnessing Gaza Genocide

Susan Abulhawa risked her life to enter Gaza and document Israel’s war on Palestinians. When she tried to share the truth at Oxford, they cut her speech. Now she’s speaking out.

Lowkey
By Lowkey
Susan Abulhawa and Lowkey speak on The Watchdog podcast, discussing Gaza, genocide, and censorship, with a background of Palestinian children behind bars

Few Western voices have braved the gates of Gaza during Israel's ongoing military assault. Fewer still have returned to tell the story. Susan Abulhawa, a Palestinian-American writer and humanitarian, is one of them. In this sobering episode of "The Watchdog," Abulhawa sits down with host Lowkey to describe the irreversible psychological toll of

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Meet The Think Tanks Behind MAGA’s New Free Speech Crackdown

The right once championed free speech. Now it’s building blacklists—fueled by a foreign-aligned donor machine.

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
Elon Musk speaks during a live interview with Ben Shapiro at an antisemitism symposium hosted by the European Jewish Association in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump—and many of his most prominent right-wing supporters—are directly linked to some of the most radically pro-war, pro-Israel organizations in the country. These connections form a sprawling web of lobbying groups, tech billionaires, and media figures who consistently promote Israeli interests above

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USAID’s Disinformation Primer: Global Censorship in the Name of Democracy

Shocking revelations from a leaked USAID report expose how the agency collaborates with tech giants and media outlets to stifle free speech, silence dissent, and manipulate public opinion under the guise of fighting fake news.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
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A report from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) outlines how the government agency has been encouraging governments, tech platforms, establishment media outlets and advertisers to work together to censor huge swaths of the Internet. The 97-page “disinformation primer,” obtained by conservative firm America First Legal

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