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/
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/13/regime-change-coronavirus-nicaragua/
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As Nicaragua confronts Covid, its US-backed opposition exploits the pandemic to create chaos | The Grayzone
Nicaragua's right-wing opposition is waging Covid information warfare to undermine the Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus
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/
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/
The Grayzone
Coronavirus stimulus bill funds State Dept/USAID operations that once helped trigger polio outbreak in Syria - The Grayzone
A look at recent USAID schemes from Pakistan to Syria shows US empire can be very hazardous to your health. By Max Blumenthal While the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill was authored in the spirit of beating back a pandemic, buried deep within its text…
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/
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/28/opcw-insiders-ltamenah-chemical-weapons-report/
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OPCW insiders slam ‘compromised’ new Syria chemical weapons probe - The Grayzone
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…
The leaked contract between US coup puppet Juan Guaidó and the Silvercorp USA mercenary firm closely resembles the bounty the DEA placed on the head of actual President Nicolás Maduro and members of his inner circle this March.
The deal also tacitly authorizes the elimination of working-class Venezuelans in proposed death squad activities.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/10/guaido-mercenary-contract-venezuelas-maduro-us-bounty-death-squad/
The deal also tacitly authorizes the elimination of working-class Venezuelans in proposed death squad activities.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/10/guaido-mercenary-contract-venezuelas-maduro-us-bounty-death-squad/
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Guaidó’s mercenary hit contract on Venezuela's Maduro mirrors official US bounty, authorizes death squad killings | The Grayzone
Contract between Juan Guaidó and Silvercorp USA mercenary firm resembles DEA bounty US placed on Nicolas Maduro. It also authorizes death squad activities.
Crowdstrike, the firm behind the Russian email hacking allegation at the core of Russiagate, makes a bombshell admission: “We did not have concrete evidence.”
In newly released Congressional testimony, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry said that “we did not have concrete evidence” that alleged Russian hackers actually took the emails from DNC servers. “There’s circumstantial evidence, but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated,” Henry said.
Aaron Maté breaks down Henry’s testimony and why it adds new doubt about the core allegation at the heart of Russiagate.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/11/bombshell-crowdstrike-admits-no-evidence-russia-stole-emails-from-dnc-server/
In newly released Congressional testimony, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry said that “we did not have concrete evidence” that alleged Russian hackers actually took the emails from DNC servers. “There’s circumstantial evidence, but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated,” Henry said.
Aaron Maté breaks down Henry’s testimony and why it adds new doubt about the core allegation at the heart of Russiagate.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/11/bombshell-crowdstrike-admits-no-evidence-russia-stole-emails-from-dnc-server/
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Bombshell: Crowdstrike admits ‘no evidence’ Russia stole emails from DNC server - The Grayzone
Crowdstrike, the firm behind the Russian email hacking allegation at the core of Russiagate, makes a bombshell admission: "We did not have concrete evidence." In newly released Congressional testimony, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry said that "we did not…
The #RaniaAndAnyaShow is live on YouTube right now, discussing the attempted mercenary invasion of Venezuela, conspiracies about China and Covid-19, and the aftermath of the US-backed military coup against Bolivia's democratically elected government, with journalist Wyatt Reed, who was on the ground in Bolivia reporting on the violent repression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLUFVknskjM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLUFVknskjM
YouTube
Rania & Anya Show: Venezuela invasion, Bolivia coup, China conspiracies w/ Wyatt Reed
Rania Khalek and Anya Parampil discuss the attempted mercenary invasion of Venezuela, conspiracies about China and Covid-19, and the aftermath of the US-back...
This exclusive report by Max Blumenthal is huge:
It shows how the CIA spied on Julian Assange 24/7 when he was in Ecuador's embassy in London, by using the security firm UC Global, run by former Spanish special forces officer David Morales.
Morales was charged by a Spanish High Court in October 2019 with violating the privacy of Assange and abusing the publisher’s attorney-client privileges, as well as money laundering and bribery. The documents revealed in court, which were primarily backups from company computers, exposed the disturbing reality of his activities on “the dark side.”
Obtained by media outlets including The Grayzone, the UC Global files detail an elaborate and apparently illegal US surveillance operation in which the security firm spied on Assange, his legal team, his American friends, US journalists, and an American member of Congress who had been allegedly dispatched to the Ecuadorian embassy by President Donald Trump. Even the Ecuadorian diplomats whom UC Global was hired to protect were targeted by the spy ring.
The ongoing investigation detailed black operations ranging from snooping on the Wikileaks founder’s private conversations to fishing a diaper from an embassy trash can in order to determine if the feces inside it belonged to his son.
According to witness statements obtained by The Grayzone, weeks after Morales proposed breaking into the office of Assange’s lead counsel, the office was burglarized. The witnesses also detailed a proposal to kidnap or poison Assange. A police raid at the home of Morales netted two handguns with their serial numbers filed off, along with stacks of cash.
One source close to the investigation told The Grayzone that an Ecuadorian official was robbed at gunpoint while carrying private information pertaining to a plan to secure diplomatic immunity for Assange.
Throughout the black operations campaign, US intelligence appears to have worked through billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands, a company that had previously served as an alleged front for a CIA blackmail operation several years earlier. The operations formally began once Adelson’s hand-picked presidential candidate, Donald Trump, entered the White House in January 2017.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/14/american-sheldon-adelsons-us-spy-julian-assange/
It shows how the CIA spied on Julian Assange 24/7 when he was in Ecuador's embassy in London, by using the security firm UC Global, run by former Spanish special forces officer David Morales.
Morales was charged by a Spanish High Court in October 2019 with violating the privacy of Assange and abusing the publisher’s attorney-client privileges, as well as money laundering and bribery. The documents revealed in court, which were primarily backups from company computers, exposed the disturbing reality of his activities on “the dark side.”
Obtained by media outlets including The Grayzone, the UC Global files detail an elaborate and apparently illegal US surveillance operation in which the security firm spied on Assange, his legal team, his American friends, US journalists, and an American member of Congress who had been allegedly dispatched to the Ecuadorian embassy by President Donald Trump. Even the Ecuadorian diplomats whom UC Global was hired to protect were targeted by the spy ring.
The ongoing investigation detailed black operations ranging from snooping on the Wikileaks founder’s private conversations to fishing a diaper from an embassy trash can in order to determine if the feces inside it belonged to his son.
According to witness statements obtained by The Grayzone, weeks after Morales proposed breaking into the office of Assange’s lead counsel, the office was burglarized. The witnesses also detailed a proposal to kidnap or poison Assange. A police raid at the home of Morales netted two handguns with their serial numbers filed off, along with stacks of cash.
One source close to the investigation told The Grayzone that an Ecuadorian official was robbed at gunpoint while carrying private information pertaining to a plan to secure diplomatic immunity for Assange.
Throughout the black operations campaign, US intelligence appears to have worked through billionaire Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands, a company that had previously served as an alleged front for a CIA blackmail operation several years earlier. The operations formally began once Adelson’s hand-picked presidential candidate, Donald Trump, entered the White House in January 2017.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/14/american-sheldon-adelsons-us-spy-julian-assange/
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‘The American friends’: New court files expose Sheldon Adelson’s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange - The…
An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson's Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious…
The Intercept published a Russiagate story that landed Reality Winner in prison, burning its third source. That article was co-authored by Richard Esposito, an embedded police reporter who is now the NYPD's top spokesperson.
We investigate the shocking scandal here:
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/20/the-intercept-reality-winner-richard-esposito-nypd/
We investigate the shocking scandal here:
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/20/the-intercept-reality-winner-richard-esposito-nypd/
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New NYPD press officer co-wrote The Intercept Russiagate story that landed source in prison - The Grayzone
The Intercept published a story that landed Reality Winner in prison, burning its third source. That article was co-authored by Richard Esposito, an embedded police reporter who is now the NYPD's top spokesperson. By Ben Norton A co-author of a controversial…
There is a shocking update in this massive corruption scandal: A US judge just approved moving forward with the liquidation of Venezuela's most valuable foreign asset, Citgo, which is worth billions of dollars.
Venezuela's real, elected government used this publicly owned company to fund social programs for the Venezuelan people. But the Trump administration illegally stole Citgo in order to fund the coup gang of Juan Guaidó.
Now a US judge is going to sell Citgo off to oil corporations, and then use that money to pay a Canadian mining company. Other US oil corporations will take some of the money as well.
This is textbook vulture capitalism. These corporate vultures are going to work together to pick apart their prey -- and the Venezuelan people are the ones who suffer greatly because of it.
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/03/the-citgo-conspiracy-opposition-figures-accuse-guaido-officials-of-scam-to-liquidate-venezuelas-most-prized-international-asset/
Venezuela's real, elected government used this publicly owned company to fund social programs for the Venezuelan people. But the Trump administration illegally stole Citgo in order to fund the coup gang of Juan Guaidó.
Now a US judge is going to sell Citgo off to oil corporations, and then use that money to pay a Canadian mining company. Other US oil corporations will take some of the money as well.
This is textbook vulture capitalism. These corporate vultures are going to work together to pick apart their prey -- and the Venezuelan people are the ones who suffer greatly because of it.
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/09/03/the-citgo-conspiracy-opposition-figures-accuse-guaido-officials-of-scam-to-liquidate-venezuelas-most-prized-international-asset/
The Grayzone
The Citgo conspiracy: Opposition figures accuse Guaidó officials of ‘scam’ to liquidate Venezuela’s most prized international asset…
Venezuela's opposition has long accused the Bolivarian government of corruption and mismanagement. But with Citgo on the verge of liquidation, Guaidó's officials are too incompetent — or too devious — to save it. By Anya Parampil Lee este artículo en español…
How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor?
The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares much more about Jamal Khashoggi than a quarter of a million Yemenis killed in a Western-backed war
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/25/media-saudi-arabia-yemen-khashoggi-war-nerd/
The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares much more about Jamal Khashoggi than a quarter of a million Yemenis killed in a Western-backed war
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/25/media-saudi-arabia-yemen-khashoggi-war-nerd/
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How many dead Yemenis does it take to equal one Washington Post contributor? - The Grayzone
The War Nerd dissects reporting on Saudi Arabia to show how the corporate media cares more about a dead Washington Post columnist than a quarter of a million Yemenis killed in a Western-backed war. By Gary Brecher Republished from the Radio War Nerd subscriber…
From The Grayzone vault: The record of a pro-Trump Minneapolis police leader defending the killers of George Floyd reveals a past marred in accusations of racist violence, including charges from fellow police officers that he once wore a “white power” badge on his motorcycle jacket.
This report from our 2016 archives details a long history of racist brutality by the Minneapolis Police Department and the presence of a “white power” biker club within its ranks. Minneapolis Police Officer’s Federation leader Lt. Bob Kroll is one among many members of the club, called City Heat.
Following the videotaped killing of Floyd, Kroll – who has been implicated in a long string of violent abuses and publicly endorsed Donald Trump – stated, “Now is not the time rush to judgement and immediately condemn our officers.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/minneapolis-police-george-floyds-white-power-biker-gang/
This report from our 2016 archives details a long history of racist brutality by the Minneapolis Police Department and the presence of a “white power” biker club within its ranks. Minneapolis Police Officer’s Federation leader Lt. Bob Kroll is one among many members of the club, called City Heat.
Following the videotaped killing of Floyd, Kroll – who has been implicated in a long string of violent abuses and publicly endorsed Donald Trump – stated, “Now is not the time rush to judgement and immediately condemn our officers.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/minneapolis-police-george-floyds-white-power-biker-gang/
The Grayzone
Minneapolis police leader defending George Floyd's killers tied to 'white power'-linked biker gang | The Grayzone
From The Grayzone vault: The record of a pro-Trump Minneapolis police leader defending the killers of George Floyd reveals a…
EXCLUSIVE: Photographs surreptitiously taken inside a British courtroom and provided to The Grayzone show a visibly disoriented Julian Assange confined to a glass cage and unable to communicate with his lawyers.
Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann was guaranteed more rights in court than Julian Assange.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/british-court-assanges-physical-deterioration/
Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann was guaranteed more rights in court than Julian Assange.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/29/british-court-assanges-physical-deterioration/
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Exclusive images from inside British court expose Assange's un-democratic treatment, physical deterioration - The Grayzone
Photographs taken in a British courtroom show a visibly disoriented Julian Assange confined to a glass cage and unable to communicate with his lawyers.
Top leaders of Venezuela's US-backed right-wing opposition are trying to blame The Grayzone and President Nicolás Maduro for the protests across the US.
Why? Because of Max Blumenthal's t-shirt
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/02/top-venezuelan-opposition-leaders-blame-the-grayzone-and-nicolas-maduro-for-us-uprising-against-police-brutality/
Why? Because of Max Blumenthal's t-shirt
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/02/top-venezuelan-opposition-leaders-blame-the-grayzone-and-nicolas-maduro-for-us-uprising-against-police-brutality/
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Top Venezuelan opposition leaders blame The Grayzone and Nicolas Maduro for US uprising against police brutality | The Grayzone
Venezuelan opposition leaders blamed anti-racist protests in the US on President Nicolas Maduro and The Grayzone, because of a Max Blumenthal Chavez t-shirt
In response to a massive uprising in May 2020 against racism, police brutality, and US state violence, Wells Fargo bank-backed activist DeRay Mckesson launched “8 Can’t Wait.”
This campaign is being heavily criticized by grassroots activists, who have called it the status quo’s milquetoast response to protesters’ demands to defund US police departments and a corporate-sponsored attempt to “derail the movement.”
The Grayzone is thus republishing this 2016 report investigating Mckesson’s origins in the corporate education privatization movement
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/deray-mckesson-tfa-corporate-school-privatization/
This campaign is being heavily criticized by grassroots activists, who have called it the status quo’s milquetoast response to protesters’ demands to defund US police departments and a corporate-sponsored attempt to “derail the movement.”
The Grayzone is thus republishing this 2016 report investigating Mckesson’s origins in the corporate education privatization movement
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/deray-mckesson-tfa-corporate-school-privatization/
The Grayzone
DeRay Mckesson got his start in the corporate school privatization movement | The Grayzone
Activist DeRay Mckesson was ruthless school administrator and ally of Teach for America, boosting education privatization and attacks on teachers' unions
The sentencing of the final four from the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective marked another defeat for Juan Guaidó and his DC-based coup administration.
Prior to handing it down, however, an Obama-appointed judge delivered an unhinged law-and-order tirade denigrating the defendants.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/03/venezuelan-embassy-protection-collective-wins-legal-victory-in-face-of-hostile-obama-appointed-judge-govt-prosecution/
Prior to handing it down, however, an Obama-appointed judge delivered an unhinged law-and-order tirade denigrating the defendants.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/03/venezuelan-embassy-protection-collective-wins-legal-victory-in-face-of-hostile-obama-appointed-judge-govt-prosecution/
The Grayzone
Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective wins legal victory in face of hostile Obama-appointed judge & govt prosecution | The Grayzone
The sentencing of the final four from the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective marked another defeat for Juan Guaidó and his…
The eruption of national protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd have shed new light on Israel’s training of local police officers across the country.
100 members of the 800-strong Minneapolis police department were trained at a conference in Israel in 2012. That means at least one of every eight members the city’s force has been influenced by the methods of an occupying apartheid entity.
The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal produced one of the first comprehensive surveys of Israeli training of US local and federal law enforcement officials in the following article originally published in 2011.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/occupation-occupy-israel-us-police/
100 members of the 800-strong Minneapolis police department were trained at a conference in Israel in 2012. That means at least one of every eight members the city’s force has been influenced by the methods of an occupying apartheid entity.
The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal produced one of the first comprehensive surveys of Israeli training of US local and federal law enforcement officials in the following article originally published in 2011.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/occupation-occupy-israel-us-police/
The Grayzone
From Occupation to ‘Occupy’: The Israelification of American domestic security - The Grayzone
One of the first comprehensive surveys of Israeli training of US local and federal law enforcement officials. By Max Blumenthal Se puede leer este artículo en español aquí. (Editor's note: The eruption of national protests against police brutality following…
As a Hong Kong protest leader promotes far-right condemnations of US anti-racism demonstrations and activists shut down a Black Lives Matter rally in the city, Hong Kong organizers forge close ties with hardline Republicans in Washington.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/hong-kongs-far-right-us-politicians-crush-black-lives-matter/
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/09/hong-kongs-far-right-us-politicians-crush-black-lives-matter/
The Grayzone
Hong Kong's 'pro-democracy' movement allies with far-right US politicians that seek to crush Black Lives Matter - The Grayzone
Hong Kong protest leaders work with far-right Republicans, call for support from Trump, and condemn US anti-racist protests and Black Lives Matter
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia’s guidelines.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/10/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing/
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Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing - The Grayzone
On Wikipedia, a small group of regime-change advocates and right-wing Venezuelan opposition supporters have blacklisted independent media outlets like The Grayzone on explicitly political grounds, violating the encyclopedia's guidelines. By Ben Norton This…
Mexico’s oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power, with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street. Leaked documents lay out their devious strategy.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/18/mexico-overthrow-president-amlo-boa/
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/18/mexico-overthrow-president-amlo-boa/
The Grayzone
Leaked documents reveal right-wing oligarch plot to overthrow Mexico’s AMLO - The Grayzone
Mexico's oligarchs and establishment political parties have united in a secret alliance to try to remove left-wing President López Obrador from power, with help from the media, Washington, and Wall Street. Leaked documents lay out their devious strategy.…
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel, provoking a needless conflict with Iran.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/israel-nuclear-archives-iaea-iran/
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/22/israel-nuclear-archives-iaea-iran/
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Israel leverages dubious ‘Nuclear Archives’ to re-enlist IAEA in campaign against Iran - The Grayzone
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again lent itself to the political interests of the United States and Israel, provoking a needless conflict with Iran. Gareth Porter The approval by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency…
Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate deception by shadowy US- and Gulf-backed operatives. Instead of protecting Syrian civilians, the unilateral measures are driving them towards hunger and death.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/25/us-qatari-intelligence-deception-produced-the-caesar-sanctions-syria-famine/
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/25/us-qatari-intelligence-deception-produced-the-caesar-sanctions-syria-famine/
The Grayzone
How a US and Qatari regime-change deception produced ‘Caesar’ sanctions driving Syria towards famine - The Grayzone
Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate deception by shadowy US- and Gulf-backed operatives. Instead of protecting Syrian civilians, the unilateral measures are driving them towards hunger and death.…