Immiserated, humiliated, yet resilient: how Syrians survive America’s economic siege
Syrian-American journalist Hekmat Aboukhater traveled across Homs, Lattakia, Tartous, and Aleppo this April, reporting for The Grayzone on... Read More
Al-Qaeda
Bombshell filing: 9/11 hijackers were CIA recruits
At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up... Read More
A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight... Read More
A history of naked imperialism continues as Biden approves Somalia redeployment
Biden has reversed Donald Trump’s withdrawal of US forces from Somalia and will redeploy Special Operations Forces. It... Read More
Propaganda Today: How US created Taliban & al-Qaeda, and behind Afghanistan war profiteering
The Grayzone’s Ben Norton launches his show Propaganda Today discussing US war profiteering in Afghanistan and how the... Read More
How Washington is positioning Syrian Al-Qaeda’s founder as its ‘asset’
Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal·
A PBS Frontline special is the latest vehicle in a PR campaign to legitimize rebranded Syrian al-Qaeda, HTS,... Read More
Former hostage responds to top diplomat calling Al Qaeda a US ‘asset’ in Syria
Lindsey Snell, a journalist who escaped Al Qaeda captivity in Syria, responds to a top US diplomat calling... Read More
Did the CIA pressure Yemen to release al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki?
Recordings released by the Houthi government of Yemen raise new questions about Washington’s support for the same jihadist... Read More
US backs al-Qaeda in Yemen while dubbing its Houthi enemies ‘terrorists’
The US State Department designated Yemen’s Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as... Read More
How a US and Qatari regime-change deception produced ‘Caesar’ sanctions driving Syria towards famine
Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate... Read More
Washington’s tall tale of Iranian-Al Qaeda alliance based on questionably sourced book ‘The Exile’
A disinformation campaign aimed to justify the assassination of Qassem Soleimani by painting him and Iran as willing... Read More
Coronavirus stimulus bill funds State Dept/USAID operations that once helped trigger polio outbreak in Syria
A look at recent USAID schemes from Pakistan to Syria shows US empire can be very hazardous to... Read More
