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/

With deceptively edited videos and dubious allegations, the Israel lobby has manufactured an "antisemitism" epidemic to turn the media’s gaze away from dead children in Gaza.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/24/gaza-slaughter-israel-lobby-antisemitism/

Western governments and media outlets have heroized a Belarusian regime-change activist who was arrested on a forcibly grounded plane, named Roman Protasevich.

What they aren't mentioning is that he's a far-right extremist who joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine and was cultivated by the US government’s propaganda apparatus.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/belarus-roman-protasevich-plane-nazis-ukraine/

After Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu paved its way into Israel’s parliament, the fascist Jewish Power party sparked anti-Palestinian pogroms, giving him a pretext to attack Gaza.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/fascist-party-netanyahu-israels-parliament-war/

With tens of millions of dollars over years of work, CIA front USAID helped create and train Nicaragua’s anti-Sandinista opposition.

At the center of its operations is the elite Chamorro Foundation, which stands accused of money laundering.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/06/01/cia-usaid-nicaragua-right-wing-media/

The US government and corporate media are running a cynical PR campaign to legitimize rebranded Syrian al-Qaeda, HTS, and market its leader Mohammad Jolani as a strategic American “asset.”

A top US diplomat admitted that Washington has communicated with Syrian al-Qaeda “through people in the media, people in the NGO world who did have direct contacts with them.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/06/09/washington-positioning-syrian-al-qaeda-mohammad-jolani-asset/

A wealthy, entitled heiress who received millions of dollars seized from the Iranian people by the US government, named Sulome Anderson, waged an absurd McCarthyite lawfare campaign to try to censor and destroy The Grayzone.

Now that a judge has dismissed her frivolous million-dollar lawsuit, we can expose her sham journalism and the powerful neoconservative forces that egged on her legal assault.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/06/29/lawsuit-sulome-anderson-hezbollah/

A US-trained Honduran army intelligence officer who was president of a hydroelectric corporation has been found guilty for murdering renowned environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

We travelled to rural Honduras to visit Cáceres' home and interview her mother.
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/21/interview-mother-berta-caceres-honduran-dictatorship/

Facing growing outcry, OPCW Director General Fernando Arias went before the UN and told new falsehoods about his organization’s Syria cover-up scandal — along with more disingenuous excuses to avoid addressing it.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/07/02/pressed-for-answers-on-syria-cover-up-opcw-chief-offers-new-lies-and-excuses/

We are doing a livestream today, discussing the crisis in Haiti, assassination of President Moïse, foreign meddling, role of mercenaries, and history of UN occupation.

It starts at 3 pm ET / noon PT / 1900 UTC

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEufQ2Ol0Q8

The US government is using rhetoric about "freedom of expression" to meddle in Cuba's internal politics and destabilize the country.

CIA cutouts are cultivating anti-government musicians and artists, turning them into a counter-revolutionary weapon.

We exposed the internal workings of the regime-change operation:

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/07/25/cubas-cultural-counter-revolution-us-govt-rappers-artists-catalyst/

Former British diplomat and independent journalist Craig Murray is the first person imprisoned in the UK over media contempt in 50 years.

The top Scottish court's decision to imprison him has put the final nail in the coffin of citizen journalism. The judges have ruled they will be the ones to decide who is considered a journalist and thereby who receives legal protections for their work. This is a barely concealed way for the state to license or “credentialize” journalists. It turns journalism into a professional guild with only official, corporate journalists safe from legal retribution by the state.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/07/31/craig-murrays-jailing-national-security-state-independent-journalism/

We reported from inside Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.

We spoke with everyday Nicaraguans ignored by mainstream corporate media about how their lives have changed under the revolutionary government:

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/07/24/nicaragua-sandinista-revolution-42-anniversary/

Biden picked up where Trump left off and has been aggressively bombing Somalia.

Successive US administrations have cycled through a myriad of excuses to bomb the country, not acknowledging that they are bombing the very "terrorists" they created.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/08/13/in-somalia-the-us-is-bombing-the-very-terrorists-it-created/

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are doing a livestream today, August 19, at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT / 1800 UTC.

We will discuss the US military pullout from Afghanistan with journalist Pepe Escobar, who has extensive experience reporting in the country and was even arrested by the Taliban.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiF3TQZSxhs

After the stream, join Ben Norton at 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT / 2000 UTC for his show Propaganda Today over at Rokfin, where he will discuss how the US government gave birth to the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: https://rokfin.com/benjaminnorton