The Trump administration has spent $654 million in “aid” to try to overthrow Venezuela’s government, including $435 million through USAID and $128 million directly to Juan Guaidó and his corrupt coup gang — all while imposing crippling austerity at home: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/23/usaid-venezuela-regime-change-trump

Trump's fake 'peace plan' is permanent apartheid for Palestine. Palestinian attorney and author Noura Erakat says it's a con that seeks to cement Israeli apartheid in the Occupied Territories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzc9EW8zoCU

Social media corporations are censoring anti-coup Venezuelans

Venezuelan citizen journalist @OrlenysOV, who has exposed the deceptions of the US-backed right-wing coup-mongering opposition, discusses how social media corporations are censoring Chavistas in her country.

Twitter already suspended Orlenys' account and restricted another, and other Big Tech companies are doing the same.

“This is a digital inquisition,” she says.

(En español) Periodista ciudadana venezolana @OrlenysOV habla de la censura de los chavistas por parte de grandes corporaciones mediáticas

Dice que es una "inquisición digital, pero por razones enfáticamente políticas"

https://twitter.com/GrayzoneES/status/1224453383093776384?s=19

Behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results is a dark money operation funded by anti-Sanders billionaires. Its top donor, Seth Klarman, is a Buttigieg backer who has dumped money into pro-settler Israel lobby groups. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/04/pro-israel-buttigieg-seth-klarman-iowas-voting-app/

HuffPost UK ran yet another hit piece smearing academic critics of the dirty war on Syria as Russian stooges. The outlet’s editor-in-chief Jess Brammar assists a British government program that censors journalism that may “compromise UK military and intelligence operations.”

A few hours after this article was published, Brammar was promoted.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/03/huffpost-uk-editor-censorship-dsma-russia-jess-brammar/

Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman funded the creation of ACRONYM, the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus results, after bankrolling voter manipulation campaigns including the notorious online “false flag operation” in Alabama’s 2017 senate race.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/06/acronym-iowa-caucus-billionaire-alabama-disinformation/

The US embassy and European Union are meeting with right-wing Nicaraguan opposition leaders and pressuring them to unite against elected leftist President Daniel Ortega in the lead-up to the 2021 election.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/nicaragua-opposition-support-us-eu-coalition/

A fringe far-right Evangelical leader in Nicaragua revealed opposition forces are meeting with advisers from the US embassy and EU, who pledged support and are pressuring them to unite to try to oust the elected leftist Sandinista Front.

Read more here: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/nicaragua-opposition-support-us-eu-coalition/

While the Buttigieg campaign denies online allegations that he was a CIA asset, military records reveal Mayor Pete was in a unit that worked with the spy agency in Afghanistan.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/pete-buttigieg-cia-afghanistan/

Facing accusations that it issued a doctored report alleging a chemical attack in Syria, the OPCW has released an inquiry attacking two whistleblowers as rogue actors.

Leaked documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal serious distortions in the OPCW inquiry as well as a campaign of intimidation against internal dissenters.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/11/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-attacks-douma-whistleblowers/

Iraqi officials indicate that ISIS – not Ketaib Hizbullah – attacked a US military base in Iraq, setting off the escalation that led to the US attacking the latter group and killing Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

Were we lied to again?

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/07/washington-false-pretext-escalation-iraq/

The Trump administration’s case against Venezuelan embassy protectors was severely biased, but ended up with a hung jury. The mistrial is a victory for sovereignty and democracy, and another failure in the coup attempt.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/14/mistrial-trump-case-venezuelan-embassy-protectors/

Renowned journalist John Pilger: The truth is that Australia could have rescued Julian Assange and can still rescue him. Leaders of his homeland who have betrayed him should be called out; history and decency will not forget them or those who remain silent now.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/17/john-pilger-julian-assange-saved-betrayed/

We published this piece back in 2018 showing how regime change-lobbying fake "Syria experts," from Bellingcat to pro-war journalists, helped promote ISIS' top recruiter and propagandist on Twitter.

https://thegrayzone.com/2018/10/29/shamiwitness-how-bellingcat-and-neocons-collaborated-with-the-most-influential-isis-propagandist-on-twitter/

Exclusive: Randy Credico, a key figure in the Roger Stone trial, talks about his 40-month sentence and how Stone’s lies, free airport liquor, and media spin fueled endless Russiagate falsehoods about a fictitious "Trump-Wikileaks backchannel"

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/22/exclusive-randy-credico-key-witness-in-roger-stone-case-on-stones-40-month-sentence/

In Managua, Ben Norton interviews Nicaragua’s representative to the UN’s International Court of Justice, Carlos Argüello Gómez, who speaks about his country’s case against the US over its terrorist Contra war, the 2018 coup attempt, and why sanctions are an illegal form of warfare on civilians.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/22/us-war-sanctions-nicaragua-icj-carlos-arguello/

The company that spied on Assange in Ecuador's embassy 24/7 for the CIA is run by a former Spanish military officer who was allegedly contracted by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, one of President Donald Trump’s biggest donors.


https://t.co/xVJsMRQa6B

The company that spied on Assange 24/7 for the CIA is called Undercover Global.

Its owner, a former Spanish military officer, was in Alexandria, Virginia, 10 kms from Washington, DC, in 2017, right next to the US federal court that is investigating Assange.

Was he collaborating with the court that is trying to extradite and imprison Assange?
https://t.co/xVJsMRQa6B

Ben Norton travelled to Jinotepe, Nicaragua to report the shocking story of how the US embassy and OAS successfully lobbied for the release of violent criminals who led a coup attempt in 2018. Some of these so-called “political prisoners” have stabbed their pregnant girlfriends to death, raped, and murdered.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/02/28/us-oas-nicaragua-political-prisoners-murder/

How Joe Biden’s privatization plans helped doom Latin America and fuel the migration crisis

Colombians and Hondurans told us about the extreme damage the Democratic primary front-runner's plans did to their societies.

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/28/biden-privatization-plan-colombia-honduras-migration/