Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant

A new MintPress News study has found dozens of former agents of the Israeli spy agency, Unit 8200, working at tech giant Apple.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Apple Israel Unit 8200

Apple has made headlines in recent weeks for touting its commitment to privacy and human rights, rolling out tools to limit surveillance and spyware. But behind the corporate messaging lies a much darker reality. The company has quietly brought in dozens of veterans from Unit 8200, Israel’s shadowy military intelligence unit known for blackmail,

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Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America’s News

Media personalities like Barak Ravid, an ex-Israeli spy turned Washington journalist, play a key role in shaping media coverage that protects Israeli military actions and influences unwitting American audiences.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Revealed The Israeli Spies Writing America's News Feature photo

One year after Oct. 7 attacks, Netanyahu is on a winning streak." So reads the title of a recent Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military "successes," its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah

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Cyabra: The Intelligence Cutout Waging Israel’s Online Propaganda War

An online fact-checking organization at the center of attacks on UK rapper Lowkey is likely an Israeli intelligence cut-out operation with ties to controversial IDF spying organization, Unit 8200, MintPress can reveal.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Cyabra Investigation Feature photo

MintPress News’ Lowkey, one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent and outspoken opponents of the Israeli onslaught against Gaza, has been under attack. In May, The Daily Telegraph, one of Britain’s largest newspapers, published a report claiming that Russia, China and Iran were boosting the rapper’s messaging on social media “in an effort to stoke

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State Department Credits Pandemic with IT Privatization

A revamped IT infrastructure at the State Department is almost complete — thanks to the global COVID-19 pandemic —  leaving some of the Executive branch’s most sensitive communications – and the potential ability to start a war – in the hands of the private sector.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
Stuart McGuigan Feature photo

In a text-book application of former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's infamous quote of never letting "a serious crisis go to waste," the State Department's Chief Information Officer (CIO), Stuart McGuigan, credits the COVID-19 pandemic with spurring the "modernizations" that are currently taking place in the IT infrastructure at the U.S. Bureau of

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Microsoft’s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections

“The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come in and take whatever you want.’ It’s obviously dangerous.” — Investigative journalist Yasha Levine

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
ElectionGuard | Voting Machines

Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to “protect” American elections from interference, which it has named “ElectionGuard.” The election technology is already set to be adopted by half of voting machine manufacturers and some state governments for the 2020 general election. Though it has been heavily promoted by the

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Firm Linked to Israeli Intelligence Ran Pro-Trump Propaganda During Presidential Election

Rick Gates, the former deputy chairman of the Trump Campaign was allegedly in contact with an Israeli intelligence firm about a social-media disinformation campaign.

SouthFront
By SouthFront
Rick Gates Israel

Rick Gates, the former deputy chairman of the Trump Campaign was allegedly in contact with an Israeli intelligence firm about a social-media disinformation campaign targeted at Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton and to the benefit of Trump, according to the New York Times. According to the NYT, Rick Gates contacted a company called Psy-Group which is

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