Alan MacLeod

Alan MacLeod is a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. His latest book, Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, was published by Routledge in May 2019.

Stories by: Alan MacLeod

13 November 2019: Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez shakes hands with new commandant in chief of the armed forces General Sergio Orellana Centellas at the presidential palace in La Paz, Bolivia. (Photograph by Javier Mamani/Getty Images)

Analysis

Bolivia: Why the corporate media won’t call it a coup

The corporate media stands united in opposition to leftists in Latin America. That’s why it refuses to state the obvious: Bolivian President Evo Morales was deposed in a military coup.

By: Alan MacLeod
18 Nov 2019

Analysis

‘Civil society’ is a mask for privilege in Venezuela

The organised white middle and upper classes in Venezuela are deemed “civil society” but when the darker-skinned, working-class majority organise they are labelled as “thugs”.

By: Alan MacLeod
26 Feb 2019