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Emma Watson, J.K. Rowling, and the Connections Between Hollywood and the National Security State, with Alan MacLeod

January 21, 2022January 22, 2022 Lowkey 0 Comments Alan MacLeod, BDS, Daily Digest, Department of Defense, Emma Watson, Foreign Affairs, Hollywood, jk rowling, Lowkey, Podcasts, Top Story

[embed]https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_IthLAM7l0[/embed] Both “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson and the book’s author, J.K. Rowling, have been courting controversy: the former for posting a message of solidarity with the Palestinian people on her official Instagram page; the latter after comedian Jon Stewart took her to task for the insensitive and antisemitic portrayal of goblins in her book and movie franchise. Yet while Rowling was defended by a wide range of pro-Israel groups who rushed to her side, Watson was slandered as a secret anti-Jewish bigot by figures as official as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Joining Lowkey today on The Watchdog to discuss this blatant double standard is MintPress Senior Staff Writer and Podcast Producer Alan MacLeod. Before joining MintPress News in 2019, Alan was an academic whose work focused on propaganda, media and power. He has published a number of peer-reviewed academic papers on the subject, as well as two books: “Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting,” and “Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent.” His latest article, “J.K. Rowling’s Hypocrisy: The Author who Smeared Jeremy Corbyn Gave Us Books and Films Full of Antisemitic Stereotypes,” can be read on

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Want Regime Change with Plausible Deniability? Call Creative Associates International

September 3, 2021September 4, 2021 Mnar Adley 0 Comments Alan MacLeod, CIA, Creative Associates International, Daily Digest, National, Podcasts, Regime Change, Top Story

After organizing coups, overthrowing democratically-elected heads of state, and arming death squads all around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, it was clear that the CIA had an image problem. The Reagan administration, therefore, began constructing a network of outsourced private organizations that would do the dirty work of the U.S. empire, shielding the U.S. government from the prying eyes of investigators and journalists. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” Allen Weinstein, co-founder of the National Endowment for Democracy, told The Washington Post. One of these groups is Creative Associates International, the subject of an in-depth MintPress News investigation by Senior Staff Writer Alan MacLeod. Alan joins MintCast host Mnar Muhawesh Adley today to discuss his findings. Creative Associates International (CAI) was founded by Bolivian ex-pat M. Charito Kruvant in 1979. Visiting the organization’s website, viewers are met with images of smiling African children being taught how to read and write, happy Latino farmers, and pictures of Asian women going to school. The image CAI projects of itself is that it is a progressive charity helping many of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable groups. And it does

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A US Navy Destroyer Just Entered Venezuelan Waters. Is Trump Trying to Start a War?

June 24, 2020June 25, 2020 Alan Macleod 0 Comments 2016, 2020, about, aircraft, Alan MacLeod, America, American, American Herald Tribune, armed forces, Article, boeing, books, borders, Brazil, California, capitalist, china, Class, common, consent, Control, coup, Craig, Cuba, Daily Digest, De, deal, death, Deputy, economic, Economy, Election, embargo, Exclusive, fake news, flag, Fleet, Foreign Affairs, FREEDOM, freedom of navigation, Freedoms, Government, GrayZone, Green, head, History, Hot, humanity, hybrid warfare, INCIDENT, International, International Law, IRAN, Iranian, island, Jair Bolsonaro, James Stavridis, John Bolton, Johnson, Journalist, Latin America, law, Lindsey Graham, maduro, Maine, manufacturing, Military, MintPress News, National, national security, National Security Adviser John Bolton, navy, NEW, News, North, Oil, Other, political, president, primary, Prime Minister, Products, Propaganda, Region, research, rights, Russia, sanctions, Security, Ship, Southern Command, The Guardian, trade, Trump, Twitter, U.S., U.S. Navy, UN, United States, university, US, USS Nitze, Venezuela, vietnam, War, Washington, White House, WHO, writer

Heightening already increased tensions with the country, a Navy destroyer, the USS Nitze, entered Venezuelan waters yesterday, conducting what the