I crashed an anti-Syria lobby meeting where they pushed for a new Caliphate and more starvation sanctions
I crashed the meeting of a lobbying front that ended the life-saving General License 2023 on Syria, and... Read More
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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
Questions about BBC producer’s ties to UK intelligence follow ‘Mayday’ White Helmets whitewash
The BBC’s Chloe Hadjimatheou produced a podcast serial designed to rehabilitate the White Helmets’ late, scandal-stained founder, while... Read More
Fake news hoax exposed: NY Times podcast star lied about joining ISIS
The main source for the hit New York Times podcast Caliphate lied about serving as an ISIS executioner.... Read More
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... Read More
Max Blumenthal on Baghdadi’s death and Trump’s fake withdrawal in Syria
Max Blumenthal explains how the US-backed proxy war in Syria helped create the al-Qaeda safe haven where US... Read More
By protecting Syria’s Idlib, the US created a safe haven for Baghdadi and ISIS
With the killing of self-proclaimed ISIS “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shoddy narrative pushed by US government officials... Read More
Trump gives $4.5 million to Syria’s White Helmets, which partnered with jihadists and joined Turkey’s ethnic cleansing
While touting his efforts to end US involvement in Syria, Trump approved $4.5 million more for the White... Read More
Pushback: Aaron Maté and Ben Norton discuss Syria war, US withdrawal, Turkish invasion
Aaron Maté and Ben Norton·
The Grayzone hosted its first YouTube livestream of Pushback with Aaron Maté, featuring Ben Norton. We discussed the... Read More
Israeli attacks provoke Iran, Hezbollah – and could help jihadists
With its bombings of Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, is Israel trying to stop an attack from Iran and... Read More
This celebrated Western-funded nonprofit collaborated with al-Qaeda to wage lawfare on Syria
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton·
Mainstream reporting on Syria has relied heavily on the work of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability... Read More
Behind the Syrian Network for Human Rights: How an opposition front group became Western media’s go-to monitor
Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions,... Read More
