Graphika: The Deep State’s Beard for Controlling the Information Age

Semi-state actors play a very important role in today’s online landscape and in the 1970s, Graphika employees would likely have been working directly for the CIA.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Graphika Feature photo

NEW YORK – Graphika is the toast of the town. The private social-media and tech-intelligence agency that tracks down bots and exposes foreign influence operations online is constantly quoted, referenced and profiled in the nation’s most important outlets. For example, in 2020, The New York Times published a fawning profile of the company’s head of

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The Notorious London Spy School Churning Out Many of the World’s Top Journalists

The fact that the very department that trains high state officials and agents of secretive three letter agencies is also the place that produces many of the journalists we rely on to stand up to those officials and keep them in check is seriously problematic.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Kings College London Feature photo

LONDON -- In a previous investigation, MintPress News explored how one university department, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, functions as a school for spooks. Its teaching posts are filled with current or former NATO officials, army officers and intelligence operatives to churn out the next generation of spies and

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In Britain, Criticism of Saudi Arabia Seeps Through Cracks

Saudi Arabia “is a case study in what happens when a country’s supposed economic interests come into conflict with its stated norms and values and its international obligations.

Dr. James M. Dorsey
By Dr. James M. Dorsey
Saudi Arabia ministers enter the Moncloa Palace for ceremony presided by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, in Madrid, Spain, April 12, 2018. Paul White | AP

Signs of opposition to policies of Saudi King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and potentially increased domestic polarization have in the past week spilled on to the streets of London while a just-released report questioned the economic and political benefits of Britain’s relationship with the kingdom. The London incidents,

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