| It was suggested the other day that the ZeroHedge story we ran smelt of propaganda. It seems the suggestor was correct. |
MintPress was started last year in Minneapolis by Mnar Muhawesh, a Shia and a St. Cloud State college graduate with Paleostinian immigrant parents who hired a start-up slate of experienced correspondents with funds from mysterious unnamed investors.
Correspondents and staff writers include writers and analysts with experience contributing to Iran's Press TV, J Street, Russia Today, Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
, Occupy Wall Street, AlterNet, TruthOut and Electronic Intifada. The site promises to run stories through a "social justice" lens.
The Anti-Defamation League has mentioned Muhawesh as it keeps track of anti-Israel press.