Dear MintPress supporters,
Mnar Adley here, founder and director of MintPress News and editor of our video project “Behind the Headlines”.
We’re LIVE on Indiegogo, here’s why:
This decade has felt like a whirlwind, watching in real time the crackdown on independent journalism and alternative voices.
In the last year alone, MintPress was banned from PayPal with our balance seized, blocking donations to our website. Leaked emails imply that may have taken place with the involvement of British intelligence. At the same time, GoFundMe took down our fundraisers and banned us from their platform.
Our journalists have been detained, interrogated, surveilled, canceled and lobbied against by national security agencies and special interest groups, including directly by the Israel lobby. Our Wikipedia page has been written and managed by a mafia of pro-NATO editors and Israel lobby groups. This, in addition to aggressive algorithmic blacklisting by Google’s Project Owl and shadow banning from the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok, all of whom we’ve exposed to have a deep relationship with the military industrial complex.
We wear this as a badge of honor. This is just a taste of what we’ve faced as an independent media outlet that has been at the forefront of exposing the profiteers of the permanent war state—holding the military class accountable, as every journalism outlet should be doing as defined by our First Amendment.
Journalism is being criminalized.
This is why we’re turning to our readers and supporters to help us sustain our watchdog journalism. While Big Tech ramps up their efforts to make our journalism algorithmically disappear, we’re ramping up our efforts to circumvent this censorship and provide our readers with the most hard-hitting journalism to empower the people.
But to continue to do this and keep our investigative journalism free and accessible without a paywall, we’re appealing to our readers for their financial support. Needless to say, big governments and corporations are not exactly banging down our door to support us.
We just launched our annual fundraiser on Indiegogo to help keep us sustained, and I hope that you will join us as we continue to fight against the war machine in this information battle.
No matter the war waged against us, we refuse to be backed into a corner and bullied by tech giants who have a deep relationship with the weapons manufacturers that profit off of the blood of millions of people around the world. The only way forward is for us all to unite on a broader front of non-partisanship and help fund our own media. There are no governments or corporations who will move in to save us. We are completely dependent on you.
Join us in reviving the Fourth Estate and protecting our First Amendment. Join our campaign today.
