Raul Diego

Raul Diego is a former MintPress News Staff Writer, independent photojournalist, researcher, writer and documentary filmmaker.

The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda

An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.

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China Lockdown Propaganda Feature photo

A now-deleted fact sheet published by the U.S. State Department on January 15, 2021, claimed that for over a year, "the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has systematically prevented a transparent and thorough investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin." The official release of that fact sheet focuses on the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV); a

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Facebook, the ADL and the Brewing Battle to Label Zionism as Hate Speech

While a debate rages over whether Facebook should view the term ‘Zionist’ as a slur, the ADL continues on its crusade to make the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism the worldwide standard.

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Facebook censorship

The Biden administration is opening a new child prison along the United States-Mexico border. The center, located in Carrizo Springs, around 100 miles southwest of San Antonio, is being specifically built for unaccompanied migrant children attempting to cross the border and will hold around 700 people when finished, although plans noted it will be

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Janet Yellen’s Conflict of Interest Augurs Retail Investment Regulation

As the GameStop market swings continue to squeeze the brains of Redditors who don’t know whether to sell or hold, Wall Street’s big fish are counting on Janet Yellen to set their rules for the new retail investment game

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Wall Street Janet Yellen Feature photo

Robinhood Markets, Inc. was reportedly forced to re-impose trading restrictions on GameStop shares after the stock price began to soar again on news it had lifted the initial restraints on GME as a result of the now-infamous short squeeze play by the WallStreetBets community of Redditors. The minute-by-minute saga continues to play out on social

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UK Labour Party’s Hiring of Former Israeli Spy Completes the Post-Corbyn Transformation 

UK Labour is in the throes of a makeover as the new leader of the opposition taps a notorious Israeli Unit 8200 alumnus to lead its social media in the push for a 2024 victory.

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UK Labour Israel Feature photo

Jeremy Corbyn's successor as the UK's opposition party leader (LOTO), Keir Starmer, has stated unequivocally that the embattled former head of the opposition will not return as a Labour MP, despite being reinstated as a member of the Party following his controversial ouster, which was driven by what many have called a concerted smear campaign

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America’s Half a Century of War in Somalia Comes to an End. Sort Of

Despite Trump’s decision to remove troops from Somalia, ramped-up airstrikes and record death tolls prove that America’s bloody legacy in the region is not over.

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US airstrike in Somalia

Like so many of the conflicts around the world today, the ongoing war in Somalia dates back to the proxy wars between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. With the latter now a historical relic, American involvement in the East African nation has continued under the guise of the "war on terror," in order to maintain a geopolitical edge in the Horn of

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Cellebrite: Israel’s Good Cyber Cop is Big Tech’s Backdoor to Breaching Your Privacy

Israeli digital forensics company Cellebrite has been quietly providing law enforcement agencies with the tools to retrieve data from any device for years, but they want you to know they’re on the right side of the law.

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Surveillance Encryption Feature photo

Privacy and security have long-been one of the top selling points for iOS devices in the interminable marketing fracas between Apple and its competitors, with fancy additions to their suite of protection features like fingerprint scanning and facial recognition. Android devices, by contrast, always seemed to lag behind in the personal encryption

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Biden’s Faux Revolution: “Green Energy” Slated to Become World’s New Oil Industry

Visions of a clean energy future are being ascribed to the dirtiest companies on the planet as President Biden inaugurates the “green economy” by following in Trump’s footsteps.

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Joe Biden Mining Feature photo

Just before leaving office, Donald Trump asserted his executive privilege to deliver significant concessions to the mining industry, which culminated in the gift of sacred Apache territory to a foreign mining conglomerate covered earlier this month by MintPress. It also led to the irreversible loosening of industry regulations and greater access to

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