MintCast Interviews Oliver Vargas On US Election Meddling In Bolivia and
Country's Indigenous Uprising
March 2, 2020
Welcome to the re-launch of [MintCast,](https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/mintcast/) the official weekly _MintPress News_ podcast hosted by [Mnar Muhawesh](https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/mnarmuhawesh/) and [Whitney Webb](https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/). MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence. One such voice is independent Bolivian-British journalist Oliver Vargas. He joins MintCast to …
Welcome to the re-launch of [MintCast,](https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/mintcast/) the official weekly _MintPress News_ podcast hosted by [Mnar Muhawesh](https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/mnarmuhawesh/) and [Whitney Webb](https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/). MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists who the establishment would rather silence. One such voice is journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin. She joins MintCast to …
MintCast Interviews Doug Valentine, Author of The Phoenix Program and The CIA
as Organized Crime
July 29, 2019
MintCast co-host Whitney Webb interviews author, investigative journalist and poet Doug Valentine about his extensive work on exposing the dark underbelly of the CIA and some of the agency’s most notorious covert programs. Webb and Valentine begin the interview discussing how Valentine’s journalistic work on the CIA led him to …
MintCast Interviews Yasha Levine, Author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret
Military History of the Internet
June 26, 2019
MintCast hosts Whitney Webb and Alan MacLeod recently interviewed investigative journalist Yasha Levine about his most recent book [_Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet_](https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History- Internet/dp/1610398025) and his most recent articles on the xenophobia that lies beneath Russiagate and how this new anti-Russia fervor has impacted the Russian-American …
MintCast Episode 4: The Real Motivation behind Russiagate, the Global War on
Journalism and the Hidden Face of American Empire
June 17, 2019
MintCast hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb discuss the latest current events including how U.S. political reactions to Trump’s Iran policy reveal the true motivations behind the Russiagate scandal and how big tech firms are teaming up with government players to suppress and intimidate journalists around the world. Also discussed …
MintCast co-hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb recently spoke to Robbie Martin ([@FluorescentGrey](https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)), a filmmaker whose recent documentary series [_A Very Heavy Agenda_](https://averyheavyagenda.com/) explores how prominent Bush-era neo- conservatives have continued to dominate the Washington foreign policy debate and have been instrumental in creating and fomenting Russiagate and Cold War …
MintCast Episode 3: Iran, Chelsea Manning, ElectionGuard and the Embassy
Protection Collective
May 24, 2019
MinCast hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb discuss the week’s top stories, including U.S. attempt to escalate the situation in Iran, the unjust re- imprisonment of Chelsea Manning, Microsoft’s new ElectionGuard product and get a first-hand account of the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective from Alex Rubenstein. **Segment 1** : Is …
MintCast Interviews Matt Kennard: The Real Powers that Run the World and the
Future of Truth-Telling
May 10, 2019
MintCast co-hosts Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb were recently joined by Matt Kennard, a journalist at the Latin American Bureau in London who was previously a reporter for the _Financial Times_ and has written for the _Guardian_ , the _New York Times_ and _Mother Jones_. The discussion focused first on …
Failed Coup in Venezuela, Forgotten US Atrocities in the Koreas, and Joe
Biden’s Race Problem
May 3, 2019
In this installment of MintCast, Alan MacLeod and Whitney Webb discuss recent _MintPress_ headlines such as efforts to exploit the Sri Lankan Easter bombings, next steps for the Yellow Vest movement in France, and the tightening nexus between social media companies and the U.S. government. Special attention is given to …
Interview with Lisa Pease: Revisiting the RFK Assassination is Crucial to
Palestinian Rights and BDS Today
May 2, 2019
_MintCast_ recently interviewed [Lisa Pease](https://twitter.com/lisapease), a researcher, former UN expert witness, and author of the recently released book [_A Lie Too Big To Fail_](https://www.amazon.com/Lie-Too-Big-Fail- Assassination/dp/1627310703), which has been hailed as the “Magnum Opus of Robert F., Kennedy assassination research.” She spent 25 years researching this book and her research skills …
Whitney Webb and Alan MacLeod discuss this week’s headlines, including Venezuela leaving the OAS, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election in Israel on the anniversary of the Deir Yassin Massacre and Lenin Moreno’s move towards authoritarianism in Ecuador. [Support the show](https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/) _MintPress News is a fiercely independent. You can support us …