Vanderbilt oligarch heir Anderson Cooper worked at CIA in college
CNN and 60 Minutes host Anderson Cooper, a scion of the Vanderbilt oligarch dynasty, worked in CIA headquarters...
Ben Norton
Chile’s US-backed gov’t is shooting anti-austerity protesters, blinding and maiming by the thousands
Chile has responded to anti-neoliberal protests with brutally violent repression. 10,365 people have been detained; 3765 treated for...
After US terrorist war and sanctions, Nicaragua fights for justice at international court
In Managua, Ben Norton interviews Nicaragua’s representative to the UN’s International Court of Justice, Carlos Argüello Gómez, who...
Bloomberg surrogate was PR guru for Brazil’s extreme-right leader Bolsonaro
Former Michael Bloomberg aide Arick Wierson, who is pushing the billionaire’s 2020 presidential campaign and attacking Bernie Sanders,...
Right-wing Nicaraguan opposition boasts of support from US and EU in campaign to oust Sandinista gov’t
The US embassy and European Union are meeting with right-wing Nicaraguan opposition leaders and pressuring them to unite...
HuffPost UK editor works with gov’t censorship program while smearing anti-war scholars as tools of Russia
HuffPost UK ran yet another hit piece smearing academic critics of the dirty war on Syria as Russian...
While Trump cuts food stamps, USAID bankrolls Venezuela regime change with half a billion in tax dollars
The Trump administration has spent $654 million in “aid” to try to overthrow Venezuela’s government, including $435 million...
OPCW investigator testifies at UN that no chemical attack took place in Douma, Syria
In testimony before the United Nations Security Council, former OPCW inspection team leader and engineering expert Ian Henderson...
Brazil’s far-right government backed terror plot against Venezuela, top newspaper reveals
Brazil’s extreme Bolsonaro government backed an attack on Venezuela in a plot to overthrow its elected president. The...
Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts
As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that...
PayPal blocks donations to The Grayzone that mention Iran (and free speech)
Small donations to The Grayzone were delayed and reversed by PayPal because they mentioned the word “Iran” in...
Iranian and Hezbollah leaders oppose attacking civilians as Trump threatens to bomb cultural sites
Washington’s top bogeymen, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, called to protect civilians and only hit military...