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Started: 2012
Founder: Mnar Muhawesh
Main focus: Epstein Affair, Unit 8200
Members: Alan Macleod, Lowkey, Lee Camp, Miko Peled, Ramzy Baroud, Elliott Gabriel, Max Blumenthal, Ali A. Taj, Jon Jeter, Rick Sterling, Anya Parampil, Adrienne Pine, Randi Nord, Ahmed AbdulRahmam, Ahmed Abdul-Kareem, Ian Berman, Medea Benjamin, Derrick Broze, Michael Nevradakis, Sarah Abed, Caleb Maupin, Joe Catron, Robbie Martin, Eric Draitser, Raul Diego, Kit O'Connell, Claire Bernish, Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, Roqayah Chamseddine, Robert Fantina, Billy Briggs, Carmen Russel-Sluchansky, Margaret Flowers, Kevin Zeese, Ramona Wadi, Catherine Shakdam, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Jeffrey Cavanaugh, Eleanor Goldfield, Dr. Edward Rhymes, Johnathon Simon, Mikala Reasbeck
MintPress News was listed on the PropOrNot list as a "fake news website".
Blacklisting
On 2019, Whitney Webb described How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia. The article describes, among other things, how Wikipedians referred to its unfavourable rating from Newsguard, "several months after MintPress authored a viral exposè of Newsguard’s connections to neoconservatives and former government officials, including former CIA director Michael Hayden."[1]
Epstein Affair
- Full article: Epstein Affair
- Full article: Epstein Affair
After Epstein's "suicide", Whitney Webb wrote an article on From “Spook Air” to the “Lolita Express”: The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship.[2]
"The Watchdog"
In July 2021, Lowkey hosted "The Watchdog", the new MintPress podcast show, and was joined by journalist Whitney Webb to examine the IDF’s military intelligence Unit 8200, which gave birth to the NSO Group responsible for Pegasus spyware, and how Israel’s national security state is merging with that of the United States to target free speech and dissent.[3]
Israeli spy
- Full article: Catherine Perez-Shakdam
- Full article: Catherine Perez-Shakdam
In March 2022, Iranian media[4] revealed that suspected Israeli spy Catherine Perez-Shakdam had used MintPress to gain credibility as an "independent journalist" to infiltrate Iran.[5]
References
- ↑ https://www.mintpressnews.com/pro-israel-activists-blacklist-mintpress-wikipedia/261022/
- ↑ https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/
- ↑ "Israel's Entryism to Create a Binational Security State with US"
- ↑ https://www.bartarinha.ir/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%DA%86%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%87-%D9%87%D8%A7-17/1197307-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%B2-%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%85-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C
- ↑ https://www.mintpressnews.com/api/infinite-scroll/action/infinite-scroll/category/870/page/2/?_format=assoc