TikTok: Chinese “Trojan Horse” Is Run by State Department Officials

A MintPress News investigation has found that dozens of former officials from the State Department, CIA and FBI are working in key positions at TikTok and affecting the content that over one billion users see.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
TikTok Feature photo

Amid a national hysteria claiming the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Trojan Horse, a MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok. Many more individuals with backgrounds in the FBI, CIA and other departments of the national security state also hold influential posts

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The United States is Organizing a Color Revolution in Cuba for November 15

It remains an open question as to how successful the upcoming action against the Cuban government will be. But who is behind the protests is hardly in doubt.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod

HAVANA -- The United States government is playing a key role in organizing, promoting and amplifying upcoming nationwide protests in Cuba planned for November 15. When directly challenged at a press conference as to whether the United States is directly involved in the planning of the overthrow of the Cuban government, State Department

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Intersectional Imperialism: A Wholesome Menace

The empire claps back.

Alexander Rubinstein
By Alexander Rubinstein
Intersectional imperialism Feature

WASHINGTON (Substack // Alex Rubinstein) -- With Trump-style nationalism out the door, a new era of imperial ideology is upon us. This mutation of the empire's dominant dogma is manifesting throughout global institutions of economic, political and social control and is materializing in a myriad of conflict theatres. In order to identify where

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Mike Pompeo Delineates Atlanticist Playbook To Target China, Russia and Iran  

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a teleconference call at the Economic Club of New York, where he spoke to the choir about the next phase of American foreign policy.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
Mike Pompeo Feature photo

Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down for a teleconference Q&A with Hudson Institute senior fellow, Marie-Josee Kravis at the Economic Club of New York; a think tank founded at the start of the 20th century, which broaches issues surrounding "social, economic and political questions." The organization is currently chaired by the

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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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Profit Move Underlies Trump Push to Place Foreign Aid Spending Under White House Control

The Trump administration is angling to move billions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid directly into the State Department, partially bypassing USAID and giving the White House near-total discretionary control over how and to who those funds are allocated around the world.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
Trump WHO Feature photo

The United States has long used foreign aid packages as the carrot in its approach to diplomacy and as a way to grease the wheels in the governments of other countries which might have something that beckons U.S. interests. For decades. though, the task of disbursing said assistance has fallen to USAID, the U.S. Agency for International

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