MintPress News

An independent website.

 https://www.mintpressnews.com/     
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."

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.

"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.

Israeli spy

Full article: Catherine Perez-Shakdam

In March 2022, Iranian media revealed that suspected Israeli spy Catherine Perez-Shakdam had used MintPress to gain credibility as an "independent journalist" to infiltrate Iran.

 

Known members

13 of the 43 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Eva Bartlett	Canadian independent journalist much attacked by the deep state
Vanessa Beeley	British investigative journalist focused on the Middle East. Helped expose the White Helmets.
Medea Benjamin
Max Blumenthal	US journalist, blogger, film maker whom the Times Of Israel tagged an "anti-zionist"
Derrick Broze	US activist journalist
Lee Camp	US stand-up comedian, writer, actor, activist
Lowkey	UK musician and political activist with a focus on Palestine
Alan MacLeod	Staff writer at Mintpress, contributed to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and the Grayzone
Robbie Martin	Brother of Abby Martin
Caleb Maupin	US employee of Russia Today
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya	Independent journalist and author
Anya Parampil	Investigative journalist at The Grayzone.
Miko Peled	Israeli-American peace activist and author. Proponent of Israeli-Palestine single-state.
Catherine Perez-Shakdam	A suspected Israeli spy who infiltrated Iran under journalistic cover. To create a legend, she got herself hired by among others the independent media outlets MintPress News and American Herald Tribune.

 

Documents sourced from MintPress News

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:I've Been Banned From Facebook for Sharing an Article About False Flags	article	False flag Facebook Streisand effect Facebook/Censorship	17 November 2017	Caitlin Johnstone	Caitlin Johnstone's account of her Facebook censorship experience.
Document:Journey To Aleppo Part I: Exposing The Truth Buried Under NATO Propaganda	Article	Syria White Helmets James Le Mesurier	20 September 2016	Vanessa Beeley	The Syrian people are suffering under the ‘moderate rebels’ and ‘opposition forces’ backed by the US, NATO member states and their allies in the Gulf states and Israel. Yet their suffering is largely ignored in the mainstream media unless it furthers the agenda dictated by the US State Department.
Document:Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack	article	Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack	29 August 2013	Dale Gavlak Yahya Ababneh	Evidence that the chemical weapons attacks in Syria are the work of the Syrian rebels and not government forces.
Document:The Last Bus to Idlib: Terrorist Safe-Haven in Syria About to Face a Cleaning Out	Article	Al-Qaeda Russia Syria US Islamic State White Helmets	3 August 2018	Steven Sahiounie	One by one, all other areas in Syria under terrorist control have fallen, and now the final battle for Idlib province looms large on the horizon. The liberation of Idlib will begin soon, and the green buses can finally get back to their job of transporting Syrians as they live, shop and work in peace at last.
Document:Theresa May pushing for UK intervention in Syria following Manchester attack	Article	Theresa May Syria Boris Johnson Jeremy Corbyn Michael Fallon 2017 Manchester bombing	25 May 2017	Whitney Webb	Jeremy Corbyn Says What We All Knew: The War On Terror Isn’t Working
Document:Trump Set to Recognise Israel’s Claim to Occupied Golan Heights and its Sizeable Oil Reserves	Article	Sheldon Adelson Benjamin Netanyahu Jerusalem Golan Heights Donald Trump John Bolton	26 May 2018	Whitney Webb	Given that Genie Energy’s contract to conduct exploratory drilling in the Golan Heights expires this year, its investors are in urgent need of a way to extract and sell the region’s oil – and a US decision on Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights could be just the answer to the company’s problems.

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