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‘US economic terrorism will backfire’: Iranian foreign minister calls for unity in Nicaragua

Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal·July 22, 2019

In Nicaragua, Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal asked Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about US sanctions, Europe’s role... Read More

‘Canada Adopts America First Foreign Policy,’ US State Dept boasted in 2017, with appointment of FM Chrystia Freeland

Ben Norton·July 5, 2019

The US embassy in Ottawa boasted in a March 2017 memo, “Canada Adopts ‘America First’ Foreign Policy,” just... Read More

How Venezuela’s US-backed opposition distorts ‘human rights’ to push regime change

Ajit Singh·June 12, 2019

Venezuelan lawyer Lucrecia Hernández, director of the NGO Sures, discusses how US-funded opposition groups have politicized and weaponized... Read More

Bipartisan thirst for more war: 75% of Congress calls on Trump to boost intervention in Syria, to ‘pressure’ Iran and Russia

Ben Norton·May 24, 2019

While Trump threatens Iran and Venezuela with new wars, 400 Congress members, including leaders from both parties, want... Read More

US State Department publishes, then deletes sadistic Venezuela hit list boasting of economic ruin

Anya Parampil·May 6, 2019

The Grayzone has obtained a list of “key outcomes” on Venezuela deleted out of apparent embarrassment by the... Read More

Trump admin. behaves ‘like thugs in a barrio’: Interview with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza

Anya Parampil·April 30, 2019

Exclusive interview: Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza comments on new US sanctions, the Trump administration’s coup efforts, the... Read More

Watch Americans defend Venezuela’s embassy in DC from takeover by coup forces

Anya Parampil·April 26, 2019

An inside look at the grassroots Embassy Protection Collective comprised of Americans who have gathered from across the... Read More

UN Rapporteur: US Sanctions on Venezuela Are ‘Blunt’ Way to Engineer Regime Change, Causing Blanket Starvation

Michael Selby-Green·April 7, 2019

US sanctions against Venezuela are like “going into microsurgery with a kitchen knife” and are holding an entire... Read More

Trump official boasts crippling US sanctions on Venezuela are like Darth Vader’s death grip

Ben Norton·March 23, 2019

A Trump administration official bragged that US sanctions on Venezuela are “like in Star Wars when Darth Vader... Read More

Max Blumenthal Congress members if US is meddling in Venezuela

Max Blumenthal and Thomas Hedges·January 31, 2019

The responses from members of Congress painted a shocking picture of ignorance, hypocrisy, and bipartisan consent for the... Read More

Internal US Gov’t Document Outlines Program of ‘Economic Warfare’ on Venezuela

Ben Norton·January 30, 2019

An internal government document reveals tactics of “economic warfare” and “financial weapons” the US is using against Venezuela... Read More

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Washington’s warmongers warm up to Trump: Ex-CIA director Petraeus says he is ‘more continuity than change’

Ben Norton·September 20, 2017

Former CIA director General David Petraeus doesn’t see much difference between the Trump and Obama administrations, saying there... Read More

PUSHBACK

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

At UN, ex-Colin Powell aide calls out ‘egregious’ OPCW Syria cover-up

In moving UN speech, veteran diplomat confronts OPCW ‘stonewalling and smear tactics’ on Syria

REDLINES

USAID admits to Venezuela regime change fraud

US escalates in Ukraine battleground

Vijay Prashad explains Myanmar coup

ESPAÑOL

Cómo EEUU cultivó a grupos indígenas y ambientalistas en Ecuador para derrotar el correísmo

Policía mundial: Washington busca encarcelar a empresarios extranjeros por incumplir sanciones ilegales

En sádico manual de sanciones, enviado de Biden para Irán se jacta de privar de alimentos a los civiles, aumentando la desigualdad iraní

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