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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Operation Orchard: In 2007, Israeli Intelligence Misled the CIA on a Syrian Nuclear Strike

In joining Israel and the White House selling military intervention in Syria, the CIA and international inspectors hid key evidence that would undermine the case.

Gareth Porter
By Gareth Porter

When Yousry Abushady studied the highly unusual May 2008 CIA video on a Syrian nuclear reactor that was allegedly under construction when Israeli jet destroyed it seven months earlier, the senior specialist on North Korean nuclear reactors on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s staff knew that something was very wrong. Abushady quickly

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Accusations Swirl That Israel ‘Assassinated’ A Former Political Prisoner Inside Palestinian Embassy

The blood-soaked body of Omar Nayef Zayed, a well-known Palestinian political prisoner who fled Israel decades ago, was found in the garden of the Palestinian Authority’s embassy in Bulgaria on Friday morning. Israeli media were quick to label it an ‘assassination.’

Megan Hanna
By Megan Hanna
Well-known Palestinian political prisoner Omar Nayef Zayed was found dead inside the Palestinian Authority’s embassy (Photo:freeahmadsaadat.org)

SOFIA, Bulgaria --- On Friday morning, the family of Omar Nayef Zayed, a well-known Palestinian political prisoner who fled Israel decades ago, confirmed the news that Zayed died inside the Palestinian Authority’s embassy in Bulgaria where he was seeking refuge. Zayed, 52, had been based at the embassy since December, after he was informed that

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