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/

EXCLUSIVE: In letters obtained by The Grayzone, OPCW whistleblowers confront official attacks on their credibility and challenge the organization's cover-up of the Douma, Syria deception.

https://t.co/lAHVKdJXoh

While posing as a grassroots human rights organization, the World Uyghur Congress is a US-funded and directed separatist network that has forged alliances with far-right ethno-nationalist groups.

The goal spelled out by its founders is clear: the destabilization of China and regime change in Beijing.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/05/world-uyghur-congress-us-far-right-regime-change-network-fall-china/

A fourth OPCW whistleblower has emerged to defend the two veteran inspectors who challenged a cover-up of the chemical weapons probe in Douma, Syria. The new whistleblower lamented that other staffers have been “frightened into silence.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/12/opcw-whistleblower-mistreatment-douma-investigators/

Promising to “smash” Venezuela’s government during a “maximum pressure March,” Trump has imposed crushing sanctions that force Venezuela to spend three times as much as non-sanctioned countries on coronavirus testing kits.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/17/us-sanctions-venezuelas-health-sector-coronavirus/

OAS head Luis Almagro’s new term promises more corruption, cronyism and coup-plotting.

Read the shocking history of the most incompetent, unethical and imperial-minded Secretary General in the history of the Organization of American States:

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/23/oas-luis-almagros-corruption-cronyism-coup-plotting/

Responsibility for pandemic preparation was privatized under the Obama and Trump administrations. It’s time to face down the national security state that wasted trillions on imperial wars and abandoned Americans to fight coronavirus alone.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/30/coronavirus-privatization-pandemic-national-security/

Human Rights Watch, the leading so-called rights organization in the US, has actively lobbied for Washington to impose suffocating sanctions on leftist governments in Latin America. The group has even praised the Trump administration for ramping up its regime-change measures.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/08/billionaire-human-rights-watch-sanctions-nicaragua-venezuela/

Nicaragua’s right-wing opposition is waging an information warfare campaign to undermine the elected Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus, while the state takes a balanced approach with close attention to the working class and poor.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/13/regime-change-coronavirus-nicaragua/

The new coronavirus stimulus bill includes $250 million for the State Department to implement “economic, security, and stabilization” activities.

Max Blumenthal looks at how these State Dept/USAID operations triggered a polio outbreak in Pakistan and Syria.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/16/coronavirus-stimulus-state-usaid-polio-syria/

Current and former staff members of the OPCW have denounced the organization’s IIT report alleging Syrian government sarin use at Ltamenah, criticizing its reliance on rumor, hearsay, “scientifically flawed” claims and the influence of unqualified, secret “experts” aligned with the Western-backed opposition.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/28/opcw-insiders-ltamenah-chemical-weapons-report/