White Helmets Archives | The Grayzone

Coronavirus stimulus bill funds State Dept/USAID operations that once helped trigger polio outbreak in Syria

Max Blumenthal·April 16, 2020

A look at recent USAID schemes from Pakistan to Syria shows US empire can be very hazardous to... Read More

US drops false charge against journalist Max Blumenthal

Aaron Maté·December 10, 2019

The US government has dropped a false charge of assault against The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal stemming from... Read More

White Helmets Whitewash: founder’s death, OPCW scandal lift mask on al-Qaeda’s ally in Syria

Aaron Maté·November 26, 2019

The recent death of White Helmets founder James Le Mesurier, and an unfolding cover-up at the OPCW of... Read More

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Trump gives $4.5 million to Syria’s White Helmets, which partnered with jihadists and joined Turkey’s ethnic cleansing

Ben Norton·October 28, 2019

While touting his efforts to end US involvement in Syria, Trump approved $4.5 million more for the White... Read More

Blowback: US-armed ‘moderate rebels’ slaughter Kurds in Syria

Aaron Maté·October 25, 2019

Amid outrage over Turkey’s atrocities against Kurdish civilians northern Syria, Max Blumenthal discusses how some of the Syrian... Read More

The US has backed 21 of the 28 ‘crazy’ militias leading Turkey’s brutal invasion of northern Syria

Max Blumenthal·October 16, 2019

Former and current US officials have slammed the Turkish mercenary force of “Arab militias” for executing and beheading... Read More

Top scientist slams OPCW leadership for repressing dissenting report on Syria gas attack

Aaron Maté·June 18, 2019

MIT rocket scientist Theodore Postol has accused the OPCW leadership of overseeing “compromised reporting” and ignoring evidence that... Read More

Presenting The Syria Deception: Al Qaeda Goes to Hollywood

Dan Cohen·September 15, 2018

An exclusive Grayzone investigative documentary rips the cover off of the most sophisticated and expensive campaign of humanitarian... Read More

Exclusive emails show how the White Helmets tried to recruit Roger Waters with Saudi money

Max Blumenthal·April 19, 2018

The Syria Campaign, the PR firm behind the White Helmets, tried to recruit Roger Waters by inviting him... Read More

Videos show US govt-funded White Helmets assisting public executions in rebel-held Syria

Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal·May 23, 2017

A new video shows the White Helmets, funded with millions of dollars by the US and British governments,... Read More

British gov-funded outlet offered journalist $17,000 a month to make propaganda for Syrian rebels

Rania Khalek·December 8, 2016

Emails reveal that the Revolutionary Forces of Syria (RFS) media office, a popular source for the mainstream Western press,... Read More

How a Syrian White Helmets leader played Western media

Gareth Porter·November 28, 2016

Reporters who rely on the White Helmets’ leader in Aleppo ignore his record of deception and risk manipulation.... Read More

PUSHBACK

Key Mueller witness exposes key Russiagate lies

As Trump rejects US election, Biden signals continued regime change abroad

UK Labour civil war? Jeremy Corbyn suspended even as report vindicates him on anti-Semitism smears

REDLINES

Biggest trade deal in history excludes United States

What Biden’s election means for Venezuela

US military seeks to “create new base in Syria” – Syrian journalist

ESPAÑOL

Como la nueva senadora socialista de Bolivia resistió el terror del golpe de estado: Conozca a Patricia Arce

Gobierno golpista boliviano detiene, expone y amenaza a observadores internacionales en vísperas de las elecciones

El ‘juicio del siglo’ contra Julian Assange: 10 razones para salvar el futuro del periodismo

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