An Ecuadorian presidential candidate from a US-backed party, Yaku Pérez, has requested a military takeover and nullification of election results to prevent the popular socialist Correista movement from returning to power.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/10/ecuador-yaku-perez-military-nullify-election/

Five former officials from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are calling on the watchdog to address the cover-up of its chemical weapons investigation in the Syrian city of Douma, and to hear out the dissenting scientists whose findings were censored.

Their “Statement of Concern” was signed by five former OPCW officials, including the organization’s founding leader, José Bustani, and others including Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Tulsi Gabbard, John Pilger, Lord West of Spithead, as well two former senior UN officials, Denis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/14/5-former-opcw-officials-join-prominent-voices-to-call-out-syria-cover-up/

Appointed in the final days of Trump’s presidency to remove all US troops from Afghanistan, Douglas Macgregor tells The Grayzone how military leadership undermined the withdrawal and pressured Trump to capitulate.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/16/trump-us-military-peace-agreement-war-afghanistan/

A blogger who writes absurd articles for corporate media outlets smearing anti-war leftists as crypto-fascists engaged in a supposed Kremlin-backed “red-brown” alliance with the far-right, named Alexander Reid Ross, describes himself as an "anarchist" and "libertarian socialist."

Well he is now openly collaborating with a network of former cops, CIA spies, right-wing Republicans, and Department of Homeland Security agents at a militaristic think tank funded in part by conservative billionaire Charles Koch.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/14/anarchist-alexander-reid-ross-cops-cia-dhs/

Today is the 10th anniversary of NATO's war on Libya.

On March 19, 2011, the US-led military cartel began bombing what had been the most prosperous country in Africa, collapsing its state and murdering its leader.

A decade later, Libya still has no central government, and a civil war (fueled by international intervention) still drags on. But NATO did bring it the next best thing: open-air slave markets.

https://t.co/SGIRsXcbtA

Corporate media outlets hailed a report accusing China of Uyghur genocide as a “landmark” independent analysis. A look beneath the surface reveals it as a regime-change propaganda tool by neoconservative operatives at a sham "university."

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/17/report-uyghur-genocide-sham-university-neocon-punish-china/

The hawkish, Western government-funded, new cold war disinformation website Bellingcat has been exposed yet again: After publishing fraudulent claims in a bid to smear OPCW Syria whistleblowers, Bellingcat has been caught copying and pasting material given to it by a mysterious external author.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/author-bellingcat-opcw-whistleblower/

We are doing a livestream today at 9:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm PT / 0130 UTC

Max, Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Ben Norton, and Ajit Singh will discuss the American war on Syria, China and US-backed Uighur separatists, Ukraine crisis, Matt Gaetz scandal, new cold war, and more.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QxtzgHRHxQU

Watch on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/TheGrayzoneNews

Cultivated by the US government, far-right Uighur separatists are partnering with conservative US lawmakers and running a militia-style gun club that trains with ex-US special forces.

Their goal is to overthrow the Chinese government and carve up China on ethno-sectarian lines.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/31/china-uyghur-gun-soldiers-empire/

The Grayzone spoke with Noam Chomsky, who says that ongoing US claims of Russian interference are a joke — all the more so as the US continues to ravage multiple states with savage sanctions that target civilian populations and COVID-19 bullying that denies countries Cuban doctors and Russian vaccines.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/chomsky-on-the-joke-of-russian-interference-and-the-savagery-of-us-sanctions/

A regime-change organization called CIJA was funded with tens of millions of tax dollars from Western governments, then collaborated with al-Qaeda, and now has lied to entrap a British academic in a sting operation.

Its goal was to discredit critics of the dirty war on Syria – and cover up its own extreme corruption.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/27/cija-sting-operation-syria-corruption/

After convincing itself Vietnam would grant it access for missile bases against China, the Pentagon got a hard dose of reality.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/08/pentagon-vietnam-military-china-us-war/

An anti-war activist was visited by California Highway Patrol officers after posting video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bumbling comments on Israel-Palestine.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/09/anti-war-activist-police-aoc-video/

A BBC producer who made a podcast designed to rehabilitate the Syrian White Helmets’ late, scandal-stained founder, while blaming critics for his demise. Was she a channel for a wider British intelligence operation? We investigated:

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/07/bbc-white-helmets-mayday-uk-intelligence/

Memorialized by Western diplomats, the Lebanese activist Lokman Slim worked for US government cutouts, wished war and suffering on fellow Shias and informed on his community. Did these activities lead to his demise?

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/06/lokman-slims-war-death-western-collaborator-lebanon/

Today Ecuador has a historic presidential election between a rich US-backed right-wing banker who is complicit in extreme corruption, Guillermo Lasso, and a leftist economist, Andrés Arauz, who pledges to continue the socialist Citizens’ Revolution launched by former President Rafael Correa.

We travelled to Ecuador to see what average working people had to say:

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/06/ecuador-election-citizens-revolution/

Ecuador's historic election explained: Inside the Citizens' Revolution

This video report explains just how high the stakes are in Ecuador's presidential election today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BGSDlJg3vQ

We spoke with a former hostage of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate about a top diplomat referring to the extremist group as a US "asset" in Syria.

She slammed the New York Times' whitewash of Syria's al-Qaeda-controlled Idlib province

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eb-z-QLXw

Biden isn’t ending the Afghanistan War, he’s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, and intelligence operatives will remain.

As of January, more than 18,000 contractors were still in Afghanistan, while official US troops numbered 2,500.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/16/biden-afghanistan-war-privatizing-contractors/

In remarks to the UN Security Council, Aaron Maté of The Grayzone debunks the OPCW’s lies about its Syria cover-up scandal and challenges the US and UK on their role in silencing whistleblowers.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/18/at-un-aaron-mate-debunks-opcws-syria-lies-and-confronts-us-uk-on-cover-up/

Biden’s foreign policy team refuses to relieve Iran from sanctions illegally imposed by the Trump administration, setting the stage for the collapse of negotiations and a major crisis.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/18/vienna-biden-sanctions-iran-deal/