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

Press Freedom On Life Support: Why It’s Harder Than Ever To Get Real News

Media literacy expert Mickey Huff joins ‘Behind The Headline’ host Mnar Muhawesh in a discussion of media censorship, America’s war on whistleblowers, and other threats to press freedom in the United States.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFKqZYp-FqU MINNEAPOLIS ---  The Obama administration’s war on whistleblowers was recognized by this year’s Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index. The NGO ranked the United States -- the supposed paradigm of press freedom -- at a disturbing 41 out of 180 countries. The timing of the release of the

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How The Drone King Turned Assassination Into Counter-Terrorism Policy

Barack Obama launched more drones strikes in his first year in office than George W. Bush did in both of his terms combined. ‘Behind the Headline’ host and MintPress News editor-in-chief Mnar Muhawesh exposes what one military scholar called a global policy of assassination.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMK5uB8XLvg MINNEAPOLIS --- As President Barack Obama reaches the final stages of his presidency, for the general public, he will most likely be remembered for denuclearizing Iran and opening the door back up to Cuba. But will the Drone King also be remembered for normalizing targeted killings as a pillar of

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How Wall Street Profits From Public Education While Students Drown In Debt

In this episode of ‘Behind The Headline,’ host Mnar Muhawesh meets Steve Mims, the writer and director of ‘Starving The Beast,’ a documentary about the privatization of college education. He explains that learning is now treated like a profitable commodity rather than a public good.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_QBiwxdfz4 MINNEAPOLIS --- An education crisis largely orchestrated by neoconservatives in both the Republican and Democratic Parties, has left some of the country’s oldest and most prestigious public universities struggling under deep cuts and severe budget shortfalls. Although these cuts are driven

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Dissecting The ‘Humanitarian’ Propaganda Driving US Intervention In Syria, Again

Speaking to Mnar Muhawesh on ‘Behind the Headline,’ investigative journalist Vanessa Beeley pulls back the curtain on the anti-Assad ‘freedom fighters’ and ‘moderate rebels,’ revealing a carefully calibrated propaganda campaign to drive US intervention in the war-torn country.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8j2aUSVmE MINNEAPOLIS --- In October, USA Today listed “16 times President Obama said there would be no boots on the ground in Syria.” The report came on the heels of Obama’s plan to send in 50 special ops troops, though reportedly not for combat. Flash-forward to April: What went from no boots on the

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‘Empire Strikes Back’: Eric Draitser On Western Destabilization Of BRICS

‘They see [the BRICS countries] as integral to the Western-centric worldview … and they don’t want to allow any competition to emerge,’ the geopolitical analyst tells Mnar Muhawesh on ‘Behind the Headline.’

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From left: Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff , Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of China Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma sit during a signing ceremony at the BRICS Summit in Ufa, Russia, Thursday, July 9, 2015. Ufa is hosting BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summits. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool photo via AP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFK5-4eVkXU MINNEAPOLIS --- NATO, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank are all touted as global organizations, in which every member is deserving of dignity, progress and support. Yet these organizations and others like them are dominated by economic and political heavyweights in Washington,

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Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Selects First Muslim Running Mate In US History

In this episode of ‘Behind The Headline,’ host Mnar Muhawesh meets Will Coley, founder of Muslims for Liberty and Libertarian Party member, who could become the first Muslim candidate for vice president in U.S. history.

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Will Coley, head of Muslims for Liberty, and America's first Muslim running mate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JouxD2YUAxc MINNEAPOLIS --- The first woman to receive a vote from the Electoral College wasn’t a Democrat or a Republican; she was a Libertarian. Tonie Nathan was the 1972 running mate of John Hospers, the presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party. In December of that year, Republican elector Roger

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Boycotting Israel May Soon Become Illegal In The US

Host and MintPress News Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh interviews Rula Rashid of a university chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine about recent efforts to urge the university to divest from Israel, and the resistance the group received from an unexpected source.

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Big donor money is leading to a growing number of efforts to legislate a ban on Boycotting Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgGiQSiNmRI MINNEAPOLIS --- An international movement is putting significant financial pressure on Israel to end its apartheid policies and illegal occupation of Palestine. But politicians and legislators are pushing back, trying to make the movement illegal and quash the free speech rights of participants

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