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@AlanRMacLeod
Oct 17, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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[Video Thread] In response to the Israeli attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza earlier today, huge, spontaneous demonstrations have broken out across the Middle East tonight.

Let's go through them:

1) In Iran 🇮🇷, crowds have gathered in Palestine Square.
2) In Jordan 🇯🇴, protestors have surrounded the Israeli Embassy and set it on fire.

3) A similar situation might be brewing in Ankara, Turkey 🇹🇷, where enraged crowds have besieged the Israeli Embassy.

Iraqis are out again in full force, showing their solidarity with Palestine. Footage from central Baghdad 🇮🇶.

5) Tunisians gather outside the French Embassy in Tunis 🇹🇳, voicing their opposition to Israeli war crimes and Western complicity.

6) Large numbers of Lebanese protestors are marching through Beirut 🇱🇧 as we speak.

7) Giant crowds demonstrate outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul 🇹🇷.

8) Not to be left out, Yemenis 🇾🇪 march against the slaughter in Gaza.

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Alan MacLeod Profile picture
Jan 28
This is one of the most extraordinary and illuminating passages in all journalism.

CNN frames Maduro as a paranoid liar for claiming the CIA is trying to overthrow him.

Yet in the very next sentence, it casually notes that the CIA did, in fact, overthrow him.

The level of cognitive dissonance and imperial brain rot you must have to write this, and then have it read by an editor and published, is truly breathtaking.Image
In Western media, the US government is always presented as a force for good, even when it is attempting regime change ops.

Meanwhile, the idea that the CIA might be trying to overthrow foreign governments, when considered at all, is presented as a ludicrous accusation from a "dictator" that they've been defaming for years, as my academic paper explored.

You can read it here for free with this link.

frontiersin.org/journals/commu…
As @ryangrim pointed out, there is ample concrete evidence that the CIA and US government have been trying over overthrow Maduro for years.

Multiple books from cabinet members have confirmed that the CIA was carrying out terror operations in Venezuela during Trump's first term, and John Bolton's book all-but-confesses that the US government was behind the 2018 assassination attempt against Maduro.

And in 2020, a CIA agent was caught outside Venezuela's largest oil refinery carrying explosives.

You probably haven't heard about this, because it was completely ignored in the Western press.

Here's my article about it:

mintpressnews.com/media-complete…
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Alan MacLeod Profile picture
Nov 30, 2025
Venezuelan citizens join local militias to defend their homeland from a US attack 🇻🇪 Image
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I haven't promoted this much, but I've published a ton of academic articles about Venezuela and the media distortions against the country.

Check them out here:

frontiersin.org/journals/commu…

journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/a…

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
I've been to Venezuela many times, including to observe the 2024 elections.

I spoke to dozens of US election observers, who were impressed by the quality +openness of proceedings.

All of them said Venezuelan elections were better than US ones

My report:
mintpressnews.com/venezuela-whil…
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Alan MacLeod Profile picture
Oct 16, 2025
[Thread 🇻🇪🇺🇸] Discussion of the phrase "Venezuela human rights" has hit a massive all-time high, according to Google Trends.

In this thread, I'll show how that is a clear sign that a potential US military intervention is imminent. Image
The United States has moved around 10,000 troops to the region, as the Trump administration openly states it is trying to carry out regime change in Venezuela.

Yesterday, Trump announced he had authorized "lethal" CIA missions inside Venezuela, in order to topple President Nicolás Maduro.

Interest & use of the phrase "Libya human rights" peaked in March 2011, just hours before the US led a massive intervention in the country, overthrowing President Gaddafi, and turning North Africa's most prosperous country into a failed state, replete with open-air slave markets.

Once the operation started, Western interest in Libyan human rights fell to almost zero.Image
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Alan MacLeod Profile picture
Sep 18, 2025
[Thread]

3 of the 6 largest VPN companies are owned and operated by an Israeli company, founded and led by "former" Israeli spies?

Is your VPN affected? My investigation reveals all:

mintpressnews.com/exposed-how-is…
Kape Technologies controls much of the online privacy market, including ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, Intego Antivirus, and a host of tech websites that promote its products.

Kape's co-founder and longtime CEO, Koby Menachemi began his tech career as a developer for Unit 8200, the IDF's most elite, and most controversial spying unit.

Menachemi’s successor as Kape CEO, Ido Erlichman, is a veteran of Unit 217, the IDF's Duvdevan Unit, an elite commando group that carries out intelligence operations and assassinations against the local Arab population.Image
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What are the Duvdevan and Unit 8200?

Duvdevan: Described as Israel's top "death squad", Duvdevan members are given special training to disguise themselves as Palestinians in order to infiltrate enemy groups and carry out extrajudicial killings. Both the selection process and the training are exceptionally rigorous, and Duvdevan commandos often spend months or even years undercover before being assigned a mission.

Unit 8200: Unit 8200 is the centerpiece of Israel's hi-tech surveillance state. Unit 8200 uses big data to compile giant dossiers on every single Palestinian, so it can be used for blackmail and extortion.

Information, such as if a person was cheating on their spouse or was homosexual, is also used as bait for blackmail. One former Unit 8200 soldier said that as part of his training, he was assigned to memorize different Arabic words for “gay” so that he could listen out for them in conversations.

Unit 8200 created a gigantic, AI-generated kill list for Gaza, allowing the IDF to bomb targets virtually indiscriminately. It was also the brains behind the 2024 Lebanese pager attack.

Unit 8200 agents have gone on to produce much of the world's top spyware devices, used to hack into the phones of governments and world leaders.

An example of this is Pegasus, the invasive software that was used to spy on more than 50,000 prominent individuals around the world, including politicians such as President Emmanuel Macron of France, Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan, and President Barham Salih of Iraq.

Known purchasers of the software include the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, as well as the governments of the UAE, Panama, and Saudi Arabia, who used the software to surveil Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was assassinated by Saudi agents in Türkiye.
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Alan MacLeod Profile picture
Jun 27, 2025
Thread🧵: Facebook is controlled by the US national security state.

Let me explain how and why the world's largest social media company has been penetrated by intelligence agencies.

For the full investigation, based on years of research, click below:

mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-ag…
In 2018, Facebook announced a deal with the Atlantic Council, which would give the latter significant influence over the world's news feeds, controlling what billions see -- and what they don't see.

The Atlantic Council is a Pentagon-funded think tank with no fewer than 7 former CIA directors on its board. It was founded as a NATO offshoot project, is staffed by NATO generals, and acts as the military alliance's brain.

In other words, giving the Atlantic Council control over 3 billion people's newsfeeds is a half-step away from state censorship, but on a global level.

about.fb.com/news/2018/05/a…Image
Even more worryingly, Facebook is absolutely teeming with US spies.
My research has uncovered dozens of former national security state agents working in key positions in politically sensitive departments like Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, and Security.

Here, in this official Meta (Facebook) video, a guy called "Aaron" is identified as the company's face of content regulation.

You'd never guess from this video that Aaron is a CIA agent.
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Alan MacLeod Profile picture
Jun 23, 2025
Football legend Diego Maradona showing his Fidel Castro tattoo to Castro himself (2001).

A poor boy from the slums of Buenos Aires, Maradona grew up to become a sporting legend.

Despite his riches, he remained a revolutionary socialist throughout his life; one who described Castro as a "father," and said that he "hated the United States with all my strength".

He also supported liberation struggles around the world. "In my heart I am Palestinian," Maradona saidImage
Maradona with his Che Guevara tattoo. Image
Maradona with socialist president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sporting a "Stop Bush" t-shirt.

He considered the US to be the center of capitalism and imperialism. "I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength," he said. Image
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