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/

More fake news spread by corporate media and the US government:

Taiwan’s claim that it provided early warning to the WHO about Covid and “human-to human-transmission” has been exploited by the Trump administration to attack the multi-lateral body and turn up the heat on China. There’s just one problem: it’s totally false.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/17/us-taiwan-lied-warning-world-health-organization-coronavirus/

Today, July 19, is the 41st anniversary of Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution against a brutal US-backed military dictatorship.

Last year, we made this documentary on the revolution and the ongoing US regime-change attempts

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/22/nicaragua-sandinista-revolution-40th-anniversary/

The influential DC-based US-Ukraine Foundation hosted a notorious neo-Nazi extremist in a webinar this month.

While legitimizing Ukrainian white supremacists, the think tank has forged close ties with foreign policy elites in Washington.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/20/ukrainian-think-tank-neo-nazi-racist-violence/

We reported from inside Nicaragua’s capital on the 41st anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, covering a speech by President Daniel Ortega, showing how the leftist government has responded to the coronavirus pandemic, and surveying the rising tide of US and corporate media disinformation.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/23/nicaragua-sandinista-revolution-41-anniversary/

Revelations by a former police spy upend the official story blaming Iran for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and suggest a cover-up by dirty war elements may have let the real culprits off the hook.


https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/26/police-spys-testimony-official-us-israeli-amia-bombing/

A disturbing new document outlines plans for a US regime-change scheme against Nicaragua's elected leftist government, overseen by supposed "humanitarian" agency USAID, to bring about a “market economy” and purge of leftist Sandinistas.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/04/usaid-document-nicaragua-coup/

The Biden campaign is now working with Republican strategist Ana Navarro, a staunch supporter of the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contra death squads.

Ana Navarro also lobbied for corrupt right-wing Latin American regimes and leaders imprisoned for corruption

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/01/contras-cnn-ana-navarro-lobbying-corruption/