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Guaido Representative Threatens FBI Investigation Into Journalists Exposing Her Dealings

From the Twitter account of her communications firm, Asymmetrica, Vanessa Neumann accused four journalists of a “criminal conspiracy” to support Venezuelan vice-president Delcy Rodriguez. “There is a price on your head,” she threatened.

July 06th, 2020

By Alan Macleod @AlanRMacLeod

Guaido Representative Threatens FBI Investigation Into Journalists Exposing Her Dealings

Vanessa Neumann, the U.K. ambassador of self-declared President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, claims that she is working closely with the FBI in an investigation exposing a “transnational criminal network” of journalists, including John McEvoy,

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Alan Macleod

Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, and Common Dreams.

FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign

Previously sealed FBI documents indicate close contacts between Israel and the Trump campaign and that the Mueller investigation found evidence of Israeli involvement, but largely redacted it.

May 04th, 2020

By Alison Weir @alisonweir

FBI Documents Hint at Israeli Collusion with 2016 Trump Campaign

Menifee, CA (IAK) — Newly released FBI documents suggest that Israeli government officials were in contact with the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and offered “critical intel.” In one of the extensively redacted documents, an official who

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Alison Weir

Alison Weir is an author and activist. Her book, Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel is an Amazon best-seller and has been called a “must-read for all Americans.” Learn more about it here.

Media Blackout as Israel’s Largest Banks Pay Over $1 Billion in Fines for US Tax Evasion Schemes

Similar revelations about other banks and offshore tax-evasion schemes — such as those contained in the Panama Papers — led to global protests and even the resignations of some world leaders,

March 21st, 2019

By Whitney Webb Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb

Media Blackout as Israel’s Largest Banks Pay Over $1 Billion in Fines for US Tax Evasion Schemes

WASHINGTON -- Israel’s three largest banks -- Hapoalim Bank, Leumi Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank -- have all been ordered to pay record fines, which collectively are set to total over $1 billion, to the U.S. government after the banks were found to have actively colluded with thousands of wealthy Americans in massive tax-evasion schemes. The

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a writer and researcher for The Last American Vagabond and a MintPress News contributor and former staff writer. She has contributed to several independent media outlets and her work has been featured by The Real News Network, The Ron Paul Institute, The Zero Hour, and The Jimmy Dore Show, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.

American-Iranian TV Anchor Marzieh Hashemi Released From FBI Custody Without Charge

Hashemi will reportedly be staying in Washington DC for a demonstration organized by her supporters scheduled for Friday.

January 24th, 2019

By Middle East Monitor

American-Iranian TV Anchor Marzieh Hashemi Released From FBI Custody Without Charge

U.S. citizen Marzieh Hashemi, an anchor on Iran's English-language service Press TV, has been released without charge after being illegally detained for ten days by the FBI.

Hashemi was

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Middle East Monitor

US Detention of American-Iranian Journalist Draws Local, International Protests

Iran’s Foreign Ministry lodged a protest on Tuesday with the Swiss ambassador to Tehran, who has represented the U.S. in diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980, when diplomatic ties were severed between the countries.

January 23rd, 2019

By Alexander Rubinstein @RealAlexRubi

US Detention of American-Iranian Journalist Draws Local, International Protests

WASHINGTON -- It has been more than 10 days since the FBI arrested Iranian American journalist for Iran’s Press TV Marzieh Hashemi. She is due to testify before a grand jury for a third time in an unknown criminal case on Wednesday, as protesters rally for her release outside the courthouse. Her three children are expected to testify on

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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.

Twitter Calls on US to #FreeMarziehHashemi as Lawyers Attempt to Unseal Case

One may be inclined to think that the arrest of Hashemi on Sunday would infuriate those who uphold the sanctity of the fourth estate. But Hashemi, a black American Muslim woman who works for Iran’s state-funded Press TV, is no friend of the establishment media.

January 18th, 2019

By Alexander Rubinstein @RealAlexRubi

Twitter Calls on US to #FreeMarziehHashemi as Lawyers Attempt to Unseal Case

American journalist Marzieh Hashemi was arrested on Sunday by the FBI as a witness in a criminal case with no further information provided. On Friday, a motion was introduced to at a DC court to unseal proceedings in her case in an apparent effort to shed some light on what has become an international incident shrouded in mystery. Records reveal

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Kidnapping Dissent: The Whitmer Plot and the End of Freedom

A plot to kidnap the Democratic governor of Michigan has laid bare the persistence of ideological manipulation on the eve of the total surveillance state.