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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

Chomsky on the ‘joke’ of ‘Russian interference’ and the savagery of US sanctions

Aaron Maté·March 24, 2021

Noam Chomsky says that ongoing US claims of Russian interference are a joke — all the more so... Read More

Biden Iran envoy boasted of depriving civilians of food, driving up Iranian inequality in sadistic sanctions manual

Max Blumenthal·March 8, 2021

Richard Nephew has taken personal credit for depriving Iranians of food and driving up their unemployment rates, celebrating... Read More

UN expert details crushing human toll of US sanctions on Venezuela

Anya Parampil·February 16, 2021

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Alena Douhan, UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of the... Read More

Biden admin’s coercive Iran policy threatens serious new regional crisis

Gareth Porter·January 25, 2021

Team Biden is planning to hold on to what it apparently sees as its “Trump card”— the Trump... Read More

Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodriguez details new measures to break the US blockade

Max Blumenthal·January 22, 2021

In a wide-ranging interview with The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez details her government’s new... Read More

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US Congress and corporate media deploy massive lie, claiming Venezuela’s gov’t threatened to starve non-voters

Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil·December 6, 2020

Spun out by the US Congress and Wall Street Journal, the cynical deception is part of an assault... Read More

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Why did Amnesty UK, Bellingcat and White Helmets sabotage Roger Waters webinar on corporate pollution?

Max Blumenthal·October 12, 2020

The Grayzone obtained audio of a call in which Roger Waters confronted Amnesty leadership over efforts by Syria... Read More

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Grandson of overthrown Chilean President Salvador Allende defends Venezuela against US coup attempt

Ben Norton·September 12, 2020

The grandson of Chile’s former elected socialist President Salvador Allende, who was toppled in a 1973 CIA-orchestrated military... Read More

US govt-funded Coda Story smears American journalists who undermine new Cold War propaganda

Ben Norton·August 18, 2020

With backing from the US government’s regime-change arm, an Operation Mockingbird-style website called Coda Story is attacking American... Read More

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How the US helped push Lebanon to the brink of collapse, and now threatens more sanctions

Ben Norton·August 13, 2020

While the media blames the crisis in Lebanon solely on corruption, the US government unleashed a “maximum pressure”... Read More

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How a US and Qatari regime-change deception produced ‘Caesar’ sanctions driving Syria towards famine

Max Blumenthal·June 25, 2020

Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate... Read More

PUSHBACK

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

Russiagate target Kilimnik speaks out on ‘spy’ claims, Trump-Russia conspiracy theories

Challenged on Syria cover-up, OPCW chief lies and US-UK-France evade

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

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

Chile gira a la izquierda para re-escribir su constitución pinochetista – y las empresas norteamericanas quieren su cobre

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