🧵WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is moving swiftly towards freedom. While many free speech advocates celebrate, MintPress looks back at the many top media outlets that helped, or even campaigned, to keep him locked up for the crime of journalism.
Julian Assange is finally free. The WikiLeaks co-founder struck a plea deal with American authorities. After more than a decade in prison or under effective house arrest, MintPress looks back at some of the Australian publisher’s most important stories.
WikiLeaks publicized a wide array of U.S. military war crimes in the Middle East, including the infamous July 2007 massacre in Baghdad, where U.S. strikes killed at least 12 people in cold blood.
Wikileaks exposed US collaboration with surprising allies in Iraq and Syria
🧵According to a New York Times investigation, during the Gaza conflict, Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs financed a $2 million covert influence effort aimed at American lawmakers and the general public.
Using hundreds of fictitious profiles on X, Facebook, and Instagram, the political marketing firm Stoic, located in Tel Aviv, conducted an advocacy campaign for sustained military funding directed at members of Congress and the American public.
The campaign used fake AI generated accounts posing as American students, concerned citizens and local constituents impersonating made-up people to target U.S. lawmakers, black Americans and Democrats.
🧵Melanie Ward, the current CEO of Medical Aid for Palestinians, is facing calls to resign after announcing she will run as an MP for pro-Israel Keir Starmer's Labour Party.
MintPress can exclusively reveal her decades of work with Israel lobbyists and hatred for Jeremy Corbyn.
Melanie Ward first travelled to Palestine with the Israeli Embassy-funded Union of Jewish Students in the early 2000s.
On her blog, she recounted, "It was fascinating; we met Israeli politicians and academics and discussed a huge range of issues... We talked about the fear that ordinary Israelis felt about suicide bombings."
Ward's relationship with the Union of Jewish Students continued for two decades, with her delivering a speech for their panel entitled "Bridges, Not Boycotts" in 2017.
She was accompanied on the panel by Izzy Lenga, who trained with the Israeli military, and infamous Israel lobbyist and fellow Labour candidate Luke Akehurst.
🧵Amal Clooney is a liberal human rights icon. The Lebanese lawyer of Palestinian descent has built up a reputation as a moral force in international politics.
In this new investigation from @AlanRMacLeod , we explain the potential reasons behind her silence.
Together with her movie star husband, George, she built the Clooney Foundation for Justice, a human rights NGO that works in over 40 countries.
Clooney rarely fails to offer her perspective on controversial human rights issues.