The head of the Joe Biden transition team for the US Agency for Global Media has branded himself the “chief propagandist,” urged the government to use propaganda against its “own population,” and called to “rethink” the First Amendment.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/11/richard-stengel-propaganda-usagm-biden/

Biden’s transition team is stacked with war profiteers, Beltway chickenhawks, and corporate consultants.

We compiled the disturbing details on the Obama retreads filling out the Biden-Harris agency review teams.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/14/bidens-transition-team-war-profiteers-chickenhawks-corporate-consultants/

The Biden team has sent signals that there will be little to no transition away from US regime change abroad. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discusses Trump’s rejection of the election results at home, and the records of the likely Biden cabinet members who have adopted the same attitude to governments around the world.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/13/as-trump-rejects-us-election-biden-signals-continued-regime-change-abroad/

Self-styled "whistleblowers" and mainstream "journalists" earned film deals and flashy awards by blaming Brexit and Trump on a sweeping conspiracy between data firm Cambridge Analytica and Russia.

But a British government investigation utterly shattered their claims to fame.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/02/huckster-hack-uk-govt-report-undermines-stars-of-cambridge-analytica-russiagate/

The US government is claiming new powers to censor alternative media outlets and even seize their web domains by blaming Iran and other foreign countries.

This troubling development could have serious implications for the basic American freedom to publish and access news and opinion.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/20/fbi-justice-takedown-iranian-american-herald-tribune-website/

The BBC created a podcast called Mayday as a desperate attempt to repair the reputation of the Syrian White Helmets and their late founder.

It also tries to discredit OPCW Syria whistleblowers with glaring falsehoods and omissions.

Aaron Maté poked holes in the extremely factually challenged podcast, and tried to get answers to many questions the BBC has ignored.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/30/questions-bbc-podcast-opcw-whistleblowers/

US President-elect Joe Biden has nominated top Clinton ally Neera Tanden to serve as Office of Management and Budget director.

As much as she hates Trump, Tanden agreed with him on Libya: They both proposed taking its oil in return for bombing the once prosperous country into oblivion.

(Today, 9 years after the US-led war on Libya, the oil-rich North African nation still has no central government.)
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/11/30/trump-neera-tanden-libya-oil

Israel’s Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program – and legitimizing its assassinations of Iranian academics.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/02/israel-intelligence-deception-killing-mohsen-fakhrizadeh/

The US Congress and corporate media spread an incredibly misleading lie, falsely claiming Venezuela's government threatened to starve non-voters by using an intentional mistranslation of humorous slang.

We debunked the latest absurd media misinformation:
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/06/congress-corporate-media-venezuelas-government-food-voters/

Exclusive: We obtained documents showing that OPCW executives privately criticized the manipulation of a Syria chemical weapons probe, and supported a dissenting veteran inspector. One official, however, feared helping the “Russian narrative.”

These private admissions further expose the public whitewash of the Douma cover-up, and undermine the ongoing attacks on the whistleblowers who challenged it.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/07/opcw-executives-whistleblower-syria-leaks/

Liberal media outlets are aiding a US economic war on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, calling for a boycott of “conflict beef” based on deeply flawed opposition accusations.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/10/media-nicaragua-conflict-beef/

In Venezuela, Max Blumenthal sat down for an interview with Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa.

They discussed the brutal US attacks on democracy in Latin America, the corrupt regime of current authoritarian leader Lenín Moreno, and the historic betrayal of asylee Julian Assange.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/13/ecuador-rafael-correa-venezuela-assange/

The US Congress’ $900 billion Covid-19 relief bill was packaged with $1.4 trillion in omnibus spending that includes tens of billions for war, weapons, and regime change abroad, from anti-Russia and anti-China initiatives to $3.3 billion for Israel’s military.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/22/covid-regime-change-us-pandemic-relief/

While the US government and corporate media glorify right-wing Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López as the supposed new MLK, he is conspiring with corrupt politicians who sponsor death squads and drug cartels in neighboring Colombia.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/26/leopoldo-lopez-venezuela-colombia-drugs/

President-elect Joe Biden's Treasury secretary nominee, Janet Yellen, made more than $7.2 million in the past two years alone in speaking fees from Wall Street and large corporations including Citi Bank, Goldman Sachs, Google, UBS, Barclays, and more
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/01/yellen-made-millions-in-wall-street-speeches-453223

Biden's warmongering "liberal interventionist" secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken has recently advised many top corporations, including CIA contractor McKinsey, Facebook, Uber, military contractor Boeing, Bank of America, AT&T, and Blackstone https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1344840283352010752

In 2020, we continued shining a light on the machinations of empire, from the persecution of imprisoned journalist Julian Assange to the defeat of a US-backed coup regime in Bolivia, from the growing corporate war on free speech to the OPCW’s scandalous Syria cover-up.

These are our top 12 stories from last year.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/01/top-the-grayzone-stories-of-2020/

The British judge ruling in the US government’s extradition against journalist Julian Assange justified a CIA spying operation targeting both the WikiLeaks publisher and the Ecuadorian government by pointing to debunked accusations published by CNN.

Yet in a self-referential loop, the American media outlet’s dubious claims about Assange themselves ironically originated with a security firm that was spying on Assange for the CIA – and which is now facing prosecution in Spain for illegal activity.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/05/uk-judge-cia-spying-assange-ecuador-cnn/

Join us for a livestream on Assange, Force the Vote, "Stop the Steal" violence, and more.

7 pm ET / 4 pm PT

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBPDfbPkTlU

Twitch: https://twitch.tv/TheGrayzoneNews

The US State Department designated Yemen’s Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as a “terrorist” organization. Meanwhile Washington and Saudi Arabia have been supporting al-Qaeda in the country.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/us-al-qaeda-yemen-houthis-terrorists/

After condemning the pro-Trump invasion of the US Capitol, the incoming Biden administration invited Carlos Vecchio – a corrupt coup leader charged in the 2014 torching of the Venezuelan Attorney General’s office – to its inaugural ceremony.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/17/biden-inaugural-guest-venezuelan-coup-leader-inciting-violent-assault/