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A nine-year-old crosses checkpoints, watches classmates disappear from school when roads close, and learns what it feels like to live under a police state. Years later, she’s back in the green calm of Minneapolis with PTSD and a different kind of shock: turning on US cable news and realizing the coverage doesn’t just miss the story, it helps justify the violence. That personal break between reality and narrative is what drives our conversation with Mnar Adley, founder and editor of MintPress News.

I felt like the only way to really express myself was to expose these architects and profiteers of the war machine.