US sanctions

Cuba rapper NED USAID CIA

Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’

Max Blumenthal·July 25, 2021

Painting itself as a grassroots collective of artists fighting for freedom of expression, the San Isidro Movement has... Read More

Lokman Slim Lebanon US collaborator

Lokman Slim’s war: The life and mysterious death of a Western collaborator in Lebanon

Rania Khalek·April 6, 2021

Memorialized by Western diplomats, Lokman Slim worked for US government cutouts, wished war and suffering on fellow Shias... 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

Caesar sanctions Syria US Congress Eliot Engel

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