Mnar Adley

Mnar Adley is an award-winning journalist and editor and is the founder and director of MintPress News. She is also president and director of the non-profit media organization Behind the Headlines. Adley also co-hosts the MintCast podcast and is a producer and host of the social media video series Behind The Headlines.  Adley is a recipient of the Women's Institute for the Freedom of the Press Award and the Serena Shim Award for independent journalism. Adley is a regular speaker on responsible journalism and Big Tech censorship. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at [email protected]. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at [email protected]. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh

African Stream Founder on US Censorship, Pan-Africanism and the Rise of Africa’s Resistance

Ahmed Kaballo joins MintCast to discuss the US-led takedown of African Stream, the rise of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Ibrahim Traoré, and the pan-African resistance reshaping the Sahel.

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On this episode of the MintCast, hosts Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod speak with Ahmed Kaballo, the man behind the viral media outlet that the U.S. government has been trying to silence. In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech smearing media platform African Stream as secretly funded and controlled by Vladimir Putin

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Alan MacLeod on Israeli Propaganda and Google’s Complicity in Genocide 

Alan MacLeod discusses his explosive new investigations into how Google has become a key Israeli ally in war propaganda, data surveillance, and economic support—spending billions to boost Tel Aviv’s image and infrastructure amid its genocidal campaign in Gaza.

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Alan MacLeod on Israeli Propaganda and Google’s Complicity in Genocide

Israel could not be doing what it is doing without significant support from the West. And they have found some very powerful allies in Silicon Valley. Chief among these is Google, which has allowed the Israeli government to use its platforms to target tens of millions of Europeans with propaganda. Joining the MintCast today to talk about his

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Documenting Israel’s War Crimes with Motaz Azaiza

Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza joins MintCast host Mnar Adley to recount surviving Israel’s assault on Gaza, his rise to global prominence, and why documenting genocide is more urgent than ever.

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Documenting crimes against humanity has never been more dangerous. Since October 2023, Israel has killed well over 200 journalists covering the war—an average of 13 per month. Today, MintCast host Mnar Adley is joined by one journalist who both shot to worldwide fame during the attack on Gaza and managed to survive the catastrophe. Motaz

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Mohammad Marandi: This War Was Supposed to Break Iran. It’s Breaking Israel Instead

As the bombs fall, Tehran isn’t collapsing—it’s galvanizing. Marandi reveals how Israel’s war effort is failing on every front.

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Seyed Mohammad Marandi with burning Tel Aviv skyline and headline: "Israel Is Losing This War"

The Israeli attack on Iran continues. Since Friday, IDF jets and missiles have hit sites across the country, carrying out targeted assassinations of key leaders and hitting buildings and other civilian infrastructure. Iran has retaliated in kind, firing missiles into Israel. The Trump administration, which knew about the secret Israeli attack

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“Israel Is the Rabid Dog of American Empire”: Gaza War Surgeon Exposes the Truth

“There were beheaded children, burned bodies, a sea of mangled civilians.” Gaza surgeon Dr. Tahir reveals what Western media won’t: the full horror of Israel’s war.

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On this week’s edition of “MintCast,” host Mnar Adley speaks with Dr. Mohammed Tahir about his time working in hospitals in Gaza, Greta Thunberg’s “Freedom Flotilla,” Iraq’s unwavering support for Palestine, and the urgent need for unity in the Islamic world. Dr. Tahir is a British-Iraqi surgeon specializing in trauma, orthopedics, and

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“So They’ll Never Have Children”: American Nurse Says Israeli Soldiers Deliberately Shot Boys in the Penis

Willy Massay describes the horror of Gaza’s hospitals: children suffocating without electricity, no medicine, and Israeli soldiers shooting boys in the genitals. His account is a chilling indictment of genocide as it unfolds.

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American ICU nurse Willy Massay next to a traumatized Palestinian boy, representing firsthand testimony from Gaza’s hospitals

The scenes Willy Massay witnessed in Gaza were harrowing: children shot multiple times in the head, chest and groin; hospitals reduced to rubble; the smell of burning flesh and gunpowder lingering in the air. For the American ICU nurse, recently returned from the besieged enclave, Israel’s assault on Gaza was not just war; it was deliberate,

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“They Were Shot in the Groin”: American ICU Nurse Exposes Gaza War Crimes

American ICU nurse Willy Massay has returned from Gaza with a heart-wrenching account of life inside bombed-out hospitals. In an exclusive interview with MintPress News, he details the deliberate targeting of civilians, children, and medical workers — and the heavy burden of American complicity.

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American ICU nurse Willy Massay next to a traumatized Palestinian boy, representing firsthand testimony from Gaza’s hospitals

It's like nothing I have ever seen in my life," said American ICU nurse Willy Massay of his time in Gaza. Massay recently returned from a spell in the densely populated strip, where he was on the front lines of Israel's campaign against a civilian population. He worked at numerous health centers, including the Al-Aqsa, Nasser, and Indonesia

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