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A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say about US empire – then refused to let me say it

Matthew Alford·May 13, 2021

A mainstream academic outlet called The Conversation green-lighted my article on foreign policy issues Western media refuses to... Read More

US Centcom General Kenneth McKenzie Iran

How CENTCOM Chief McKenzie manufactured an Iran crisis to increase his power

Gareth Porter·January 15, 2021

Seeking prestige and power within the military, CENTCOM chief Gen. Kenneth McKenzie has deployed a series of bureaucratic... Read More

VIDEO: Top Biden advisors Flournoy and Blinken promise smarter, more secretive permanent war policy

Dan Cohen·November 20, 2020

Biden’s likely pick for Secretary of Defense, Michele Flournoy, and his top foreign policy advisor, Tony Blinken, have... Read More

On Fox, The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil rips ‘criminal neocons’ in Biden & Trump camps

Anya Parampil·August 21, 2020

The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil joins Tucker Carlson Tonight to address the revival of Iraq war neocons and militarists... Read More

Did Washington use a false pretext for its bloody escalation in Iraq?

Helena Cobban·February 7, 2020

Iraqi officials indicate that ISIS – not Ketaib Hizbullah – attacked a US military base in Iraq, setting... Read More

Israel has played a key role in US aggression towards Iran

Aaron Maté·February 1, 2020

Before the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, Israel played a key and overlooked role in the Trump administration’s aggression... Read More

Ex-UN weapons inspector: Biden’s Iraq war vote excuse a ‘bald-faced lie’

Aaron Maté·January 19, 2020

Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter dismantles Joe Biden’s explanation for his Iraq war vote and recounts Biden’s... Read More

Ex-Bush official: OPCW’s Syria cover-up recalls Iraq war lies

Aaron Maté·January 13, 2020

Former Bush administration official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says that reports of US pressure on the OPCW’s Syria chemical... Read More

Ex-US intel officer: Pompeo ‘lying through his teeth’ on Iran

Aaron Maté·January 12, 2020

The Trump administration is imposing new sanctions on Iran and defying Iraq’s call for a US troop withdrawal.... Read More

US and Iran avoid war, but Trump’s war-mongering goes on

Aaron Maté·January 9, 2020

The threat of an immediate US-Iran military conflict has been averted, but President Donald Trump has vowed to... Read More

Lawrence Wilkerson on Trump’s Iran aggression: same neocon lies, new target

Aaron Maté·January 7, 2020

As millions of Iranians mourn the US murder of Qassem Soleimani, ex-Bush administration official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuses... Read More

Iranian and Hezbollah leaders oppose attacking civilians as Trump threatens to bomb cultural sites

Ben Norton·January 7, 2020

Washington’s top bogeymen, Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, called to protect civilians and only hit military... Read More

PUSHBACK

US suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost

Syrian insurgents guilty of ‘red line’ 2013 sarin chemical attack, study finds

US ties to suspected Haiti assassins follow long history of neocolonial intervention

REDLINES

What’s behind the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse?

Gaza resistance: beginning of the end for apartheid Israel?

USAID admits to Venezuela regime change fraud

ESPAÑOL

La contrarrevolución cultural cubana: raperos y artistas apoyados por el gobierno de EE.UU. ganan fama como “catalizadores de las protestas”

Cómo medios financiados por EEUU incitaron un golpe de estado en Nicaragua

Cómo USAID, fachada de la CIA, creó el aparato mediático anti-sandinista en Nicaragua

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