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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

Did you know the first alleged "ISIS attack" in the US was instigated by the FBI?

An undercover FBI agent encouraged an extremist in Garland to “tear up Texas,” and was even present at the attack, mere feet away from the shooters.

(From our 2017 archive)

https://thegrayzone.com/2017/03/28/fbi-isis-garland-texas-shooting-undercover-agent/

Around $24 billion of Venezuelan public money has been looted, and the Trump administration has used at least $601 million of it to construct a militarized wall on the US-Mexico border.

@BenjaminNorton
explores the extensive foreign pillaging of Venezuela

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/29/trump-stolen-venezuelan-money-border-wall-mexico/

We break down the flaws of the “Russian bounty” story and how it aims at prolonging the war in Afghanistan -- and uses Russiagate tactics to continue pushing the Democratic Party to the right.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/30/us-claim-of-russian-bounty-plot-in-afghanistan-is-dubious-and-dangerous/

We just published a detailed, damning exposé on billionaire Bill Gates, and how his powerful Gates Foundation has effectively privatized global public health infrastructure:

Behind a veil of corporate media PR, the Gates Foundation has served as a vehicle for Western capital while exploiting the Global South as a human laboratory. The pandemic is likely to intensify this disturbing agenda.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/08/bill-gates-global-health-policy/

Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud — although the dodgy story had its intended impact of blocking the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/07/pentagon-afghan-bountygate-us-intelligence-agencies/

We just published an extended interview with Julian Assange’s father John Shipton, who condemned the US, UK, and Australian governments for their “11 years of ceaseless psychological torture” of the WikiLeaks publisher.

"The oppression of Julian is the great crime of the 21st century," Shipton said.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/15/john-shipton-julian-assange-wikileaks/