White Helmets Archives - The Grayzone

Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria

Aaron Maté·September 9, 2022

By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, US-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality... Read More

Bellingcat funded by US and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists in Syria

Kit Klarenberg·October 9, 2021

Supposedly “independent” website Bellingcat raked in money from scandal-ridden Western intelligence firms that wreaked havoc – and reaped... Read More

How a network of UK intel-linked operatives helped sell every alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack

Kit Klarenberg·August 4, 2021

While Western media covers up their credibility issues, these pseudo-experts and spooks have helped drive the dirty war... Read More

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Why is OPCW chief Fernando Arias afraid of his own inspectors?

Aaron Maté·July 11, 2021

Rather than address the concerns of two veteran inspectors about a Syria cover-up, OPCW Director General Fernando Arias... Read More

White Helmets corruption scandal deepens: Dutch gov’t investigated parent org for fraud, but covered it up

Ben Norton·May 7, 2021

The Netherlands investigated fraud by the Mayday Rescue Foundation, which funded the Syrian White Helmets with over $120... Read More

Questions about BBC producer’s ties to UK intelligence follow ‘Mayday’ White Helmets whitewash

Kit Klarenberg·April 7, 2021

The BBC’s Chloe Hadjimatheou produced a podcast serial designed to rehabilitate the White Helmets’ late, scandal-stained founder, while... Read More

Ex-UK ambassador: War on Syria continues with US occupation, sanctions, propaganda

Aaron Maté·December 20, 2020

Former UK ambassador to Syria Peter Ford on how the US and its allies continue to wage war... Read More

Questions for BBC on new White Helmets podcast series attacking OPCW whistleblowers

Aaron Maté·November 30, 2020

A new BBC podcast, “Mayday,” uses smears, gaping omissions, leaps of logic, and factual errors in a desperate... Read More

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

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British media protected pro-war serial sex pest Nick Cohen for decades

Troubling questions surround BBC ‘disinformation correspondent’ Marianna Spring

British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone

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Más explotación y ganancias para las mineras: las promesas de EEUU a África

Juicio en Estados Unidos al diplomático venezolano Alex Saab revela espionaje diplomático

Informe de seguridad en Estados Unidos advierte sobre los neonazis que regresan de combatir contra Rusia y Venezuela

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