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/

With encouragement from its hawkish patrons in Washington, Ukraine is escalating against Russia -- and provoking a harsh response.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/16/us-escalates-ukraine-battleground/

While the media defends KHive’s disturbing attacks on critics of Kamala Harris, new findings reveal a Democratic Party-linked bot farm amplified its leaders.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/16/kamalas-khive-trolls-harassment/

Facing new outcry over the Syria cover-up scandal, the chief of the chemical weapons watchdog the OPCW has been caught lying, while the US-UK-France are desperately trying to change the subject.

Aaron Maté recaps recent meetings at the EU and UN, where the growing Douma controversy was center stage:

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/24/challenged-on-syria-cover-up-opcw-chief-lies-and-us-uk-france-evade/

Western media coverage of the conflict in Myanmar has been carefully crafted by organizations funded and developed by a notorious US intelligence cutout and UK Foreign Office partner. Can they be trusted?

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/27/us-government-media-myanmar-propagandize-western-intervention/

Demonstrating the power the ultranationalist Ukraine lobby has attained in Biden’s Washington, the White House has withdrawn consideration of a moderate, DC-friendly Russia specialist accused of being "too soft" on the Kremlin.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/29/ukrainian-ultranationalist-lobby-biden-russia/

In violation of international law, the US is seeking to extradite and imprison foreign businesspeople for circumventing its unilateral sanctions.

Washington’s targets — who have essentially been kidnapped — include a Venezuelan government envoy buying food for his people, a North Korean businessman seeking basic goods, and a top executive of China's tech giant Huawei.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/27/us-extradite-foreign-businesspeople-sanctions-saab-wanzhou/

A campaign against supposed "forced labor" in China's Xinjiang region, led by led by US government-funded groups, has forced Uyghur workers out of their jobs, while extracting a handsome payout from a US apparel company to Uyghur exile groups lobbying against China.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/30/xinjiang-forced-labor-china-uyghur/

The Netherlands investigated fraud by the foundation that funded the Syrian White Helmets with over $120 million in Western government contracts. But top Dutch officials covered up the corruption.

This is yet another example of the deep rot at the heart of the dirty war on Syria, which almost no Western media outlets will touch.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/07/syria-white-helmets-mayday-fraud-netherlands/

An internal report from the US government's so-called "humanitarian" agency USAID admitted that its policy on Venezuela was driven by the State Department and National Security Council to push for regime change.

USAID attempted to use the US military to force "aid" through Venezuela’s border with Colombia in a failed coup attempt on February 23, 2019.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/06/usaid-admits-to-venezuela-regime-change-fraud/

When socialist Rafael Correa became Ecuador’s president, CIA cutouts poured money into environmental and Indigenous groups, while the US embassy cultivated opportunistic leaders to undermine his constituency. These forces helped secure victory for right-wing banker Guillermo Lasso in 2021.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/04/ecuador-election-us-pachakutik-lasso-yaku/

A mainstream academic outlet green-lighted an article on Western-backed foreign policy atrocities that the corporate media refuses to discuss. But then the piece was suddenly censored.

This is a story about how media propaganda works:

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/13/mainstream-outlet-media-refuses-say/

We have published the documentary "Killing Gaza," by journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal, which shows life under Israel's bombs and siege.

You can watch the entire film for free here. We have subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Arabic.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/18/killing-gaza-documentary-cohen-blumenthal-israels-siege/

We spoke with a Chilean activist and politician who is the grandson of the legendary President Salvador Allende (who was overthrown in a 1973 CIA coup) about the historic elections this month, in which left-wing and independent candidates won two-thirds of the seats for a convention to rewrite the constitution, which dates back to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

He also discussed Chile’s enormous copper reserves, which are some of the largest in the world, and are now being targeted by US corporations, after Goldman Sachs dubbed copper “the new oil.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/20/chile-election-pinochet-constitution-copper/