Join at 7 PM EST https://rokfin.com/stream/8355/Foreign-Agents-4-Afghanistans-endless-war-with-Scott-Horton

Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar argues the US defeat in Afghanistan “is even more important than 9/11.”

The invasion of Afghanistan marked the beginning of the US "war on terror," and Washington's withdrawal marks the end. US policymakers will now dedicate even more resources to the new cold war, to try to contain China and Russia, and Afghanistan will join the process of Eurasian political and economic integration.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/08/21/us-afghanistan-pullout-cia-opium-pipeline/

From "the CIA at Harvard" and his NED-funded think tank, the renowned "nonviolent" political strategist Gene Sharp created new tactics to overthrow governments that Washington (and US corporations) had targeted for regime change.

Sharp declared, "I say nonviolent struggle is armed struggle ... Only with this type of struggle, one fights with psychological weapons, social weapons, economic weapons, and political weapons ... This is a technique of combat; it is a substitute for war and other violence; it is not compromise."

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/08/17/regime-change-gene-sharp-coups/

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are doing a livestream today, August 26, to discuss how US meddling is fueling war in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and destabilizing the strategic Horn of Africa.

The stream starts at 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT / 2000 UTC

Join us on YouTube at https://youtube.com/watch?v=v8vRaWgI86Q

Afterward, join Ben for his show Propaganda Today at Rokfin, where he will discuss the warning signs of a soft coup in motion against Peru's elected leftist government, as well as US-sponsored corruption in Afghanistan: https://rokfin.com/stream/8568/Perus-leftists-warn-of-soft-coup--USsponsored-corruption-in-Afghanistan

Biden’s popular and long overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan triggered a big media meltdown that exposed its de facto merger with the military.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/08/30/afghanistan-beltway-medias-permanent-war-state/

As the US establishment grapples with its defeat in Afghanistan, military veterans explain how the war was lost, Afghans suffered, and military contractors profited – all while the American public was kept in the dark.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/08/22/anti-war-veterans-explain-how-us-lost-afghanistan-while-leaders-lied-profited/

Before he stole $169 million and fled his failed state in disgrace, Afghanistan’s puppet President Ashraf Ghani was formed in elite American universities, given US citizenship, trained in neoliberal economics by the World Bank, glorified in the media as an “incorruptible” technocrat, and coached by powerful DC think tanks like the Atlantic Council.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/09/02/afghanistan-ashraf-ghani-corrupt/

Under the cover of counterterrorism, AFRICOM is beefing up Nigeria’s military to ensure the free flow of oil to the West, and using the country as a proxy against China’s influence on the continent.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/09/13/us-oil-rich-nigeria-proxy-africa/

The US Congress invited neoconservative regime-change strategists to discuss the next stage of hybrid warfare on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, which will likely involve creating an economic blockade, refusing to recognize the legitimacy of President Daniel Ortega, and borrowing tactics the Trump administration used in its coup attempt in Venezuela.
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/09/24/us-congress-economic-war-nicaragua-sandinista/

We sat down for an interview with the Cuban Foreign Ministry's director general of the United States, to discuss continuing US attempts to overthrow his country’s government.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/09/29/top-cuban-diplomat-speaks-to-the-grayzone-about-renewed-us-assault/

As the Biden administration continues to seek the extradition of Julian Assange, new details have emerged about the Trump administration’s secret CIA-led war against Assange and his organization, Wikileaks.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/09/30/inside-the-cia-plot-to-kidnap-kill-julian-assange/

Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/08/nato-cognitive-warfare-brain/

Max Blumenthal and @BenjaminNorton are interviewing economist Michael Hudson today about his book "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire."

Hudson just published a new edition updated to address the new cold war on China and Russia.

The livestream starts at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiz934HVZjY

Much of the legal team of Facebook "whistleblower" Frances Haugen, from a shady group called Whistleblower Aid, consists of former US intelligence agency insiders.

Our investigation suggests Haugen was cultivated to complete Facebook’s transformation into a vehicle for the US national security state.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/21/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-us-intelligence/

Billionaire CIA-linked “overt operative” George Soros teams up on a shady media venture with tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, who financed a Facebook disinfo operation that framed Russia for meddling in US elections.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/27/billionaire-political-meddlers-disinformation-agents-launch-good-information-inc-to-fight-disinformation/

Join us today for a livestream with the president of Puerto Rican Association of University Professors to discuss the devastating austerity and neoliberal schemes imposed by the unelected US junta.

It starts at 4pm ET / 1pm PT

Watch at
YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nd8wRpVxTeU
Twitch: https://twitch.tv/thegrayzonenews

Facebook/Instagram suspended hundreds of prominent pro-Sandinista journalists and activists mere days before Nicaragua’s November 7 elections, falsely claiming they were government trolls.

Then when they posted videos on Twitter proving they're real people, Twitter censored them too.

We interviewed some of them to reveal the truth behind this blatant political censorship.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/11/02/facebook-twitter-purge-sandinista-nicaragua/

The US, EU, and OAS are launching a new coup attempt against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, refusing to recognize its 2021 elections.

We observed the vote on the ground, and dispels myths aimed at discrediting the process:

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/11/11/nicaragua-2021-elections/

A top Nicaraguan diplomat joined us for an exclusive interview to explain why his nation is leaving the Organization of American States (OAS), which he says is a “failed,” “coup-plotting” organization dominated by Washington.

He also responded to US attempts to discredit Nicaragua’s November elections.

https://thegrayzone.com/2021/11/21/nicaragua-leaving-oas-elections/