Alan MacLeod

@AlanRMacLeod

Senior Staff Writer/Podcast Producer, . I mostly tweet about US and Latin American politics + complain bitterly about corporate media.

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Joined February 2014
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    Aug 25

    [Thread] In my new article, I explored how the US managed to spend $2 trillion in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 and how embarrassing and incompetent the whole operation was.

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  2. 12 hours ago

    Poverty exists not because we can't feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.

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  3. 13 hours ago

    We've got another candidate hot off the presses

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    15 hours ago

    The US spent billions, during the occupation of Afghanistan. Where'd the money go? And what was it all really about? Read this excellent article by to find out.

    [Thread] In my new article, I explored how the US managed to spend $2 trillion in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 and how embarrassing and incompetent the whole operation was.
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  5. Sep 2

    My article for :"With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board"

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  6. Sep 2

    lmao they literally put a picture of their boss on this article.

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  7. Sep 2

    My article on how, with Jeff Bezos at the helm, democracy has died at the WaPo.

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  8. Sep 2

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  9. Sep 2

    It's been like 2 weeks since the US pulled out of Afghanistan and already Washington Post columnists are demanding an attack on another country.

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    Sep 2

    "For twenty years, two dominant narratives have shaped our view of the illegal US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan..." -By Read now:

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  11. Sep 1

    Before the tanks are sent in, think tanks do their work first.

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  12. Sep 1

    If well-paid media pundits start talking about democracy and human rights in your country all of a sudden, the chances are high that you're about to get bombed.

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  13. Aug 31

    Still thinking about this...

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  14. Aug 31

    We've got a media whose owners make $10 billion per year and pay TV anchors $10 million per year to tell people earning $100 thousand per year that people making $10 thousand per year are the probem.

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  15. Aug 30

    When the media sends their pundits, they're not sending their best.

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  16. Aug 30

    This image was literally given to newswires AP and AFP by the US military itself. Yet the Guardian, MSN, EuroNews and El Nacional still chose to print this blatant propaganda.

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  17. Aug 30

    I also interviewed an ex-State Dept/DoD official who was in charge of spending $$$ of US money in Afghanistan and Iraq. He told me stories about the extraordinary waste and corruption of the whole operation. "I was living like Scarface," he said.

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    Aug 30

    Yes, I am going to stop buying things made by the Taliban

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  19. Aug 30

    On Afghanistan, I recently exposed how the CIA turned the country into the world's first true narco-state, sparking a regional opioid addiction crisis that dwarfs the one in the US. Read here >>

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  20. Aug 30

    Unless your name is Cheney, Bush or Rumsfeld, this article from is just gaslighting you.

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  21. Aug 30

    Link to Louis Allday's tweet. I don't know if he was the first to comment on this, but he was the first one I saw anyway.

    One of the most depraved front pages I’ve ever seen.
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