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  •  | Iranian diplomats | MR Online

    Iranian diplomats suspect Trump using talks as instrument of sabotage

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 21, 2025 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    In Tehran, bewildered diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife.

  •  | Daniel Noboa | MR Online

    Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 14, 2025 by Oscar León (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Apr 16, 2025)

    President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations–including his family business–at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees.

  •  | DC think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans | MR Online

    Meet the DC think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 6, 2025 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers.

  •  | Billionaire backed Global Citizen | MR Online

    Billionaire-backed Global Citizen whitewashes Kagame’s invasion of DRC

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 5, 2025 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth.

  •  | An IRI sponsored transgender dance performance on December 9 2020 in Dhakas National Theater | MR Online

    Why did Republicans fund a ‘transgender dance’ in Bangladesh?

    Originally published: The Grayzone on February 7, 2025 (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Feb 25, 2025)

    Since its founding in 1983, the congressionally-funded IRI has been run by Republican politicians and operatives dedicated to the cause of “democracy promotion” abroad.

  •  | USAID | MR Online

    Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network?

    Originally published: The Grayzone on January 31, 2025 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode.

  •  | Yosi | MR Online

    Atrocity Inc: How Israel sells its destruction of Gaza

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 7, 2024 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    In an exclusive new documentary, Max Blumenthal rips the cover off the media deceptions and atrocity hoaxes Israel pushed after October 7 to create political space for its gruesome assault on the Gaza Strip.

  •  | Ryan Routh | MR Online

    Alleged would-be Trump assassin recruited for Ukraine’s International Legion

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 15, 2024 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Before he was caught with an AK-47 on a golf course near Trump, Ryan Routh went to Kiev to fight for Ukraine’s military and recruit for its International Legion. Routh told U.S. media he “had partners meeting with [Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense] every week.”

  •  | US EU assets pushing color revolution in Georgia | MR Online

    U.S.-EU assets pushing color revolution in Georgia

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 26, 2024 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Over 25,000 NGOs are active in Georgia, and most rely on funding from Europe and the U.S. A new bill aiming to reign in Western meddling has sparked furious anti-government protests explicitly encouraged by Washington.

  •  | Roger Waters  BMG  ADL | MR Online

    ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past

    Originally published: The Grayzone on February 19, 2024 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    When the Berlin-based BMG music company terminated its business relationship with Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd co-founder claimed the decision was spurred by a concerted Israel lobby-directed campaign to financially retaliate against his outspoken support for Palestine. The Grayzone has obtained a threatening private letter sent by Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to BMG executives which confirms the musician’s accusation.

  •  | Israeli army gassed my son like Auschwitz mother of slain Israeli soldier says | MR Online

    Israeli army gassed my son ‘like Auschwitz,’ mother of slain Israeli soldier says

    Originally published: The Grayzone on January 18, 2024 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The mother of a now-dead Israeli soldier captured by Hamas militants on October 7 says it was the Israeli military, not Palestinian resistance fighters, who killed her son.

  •  | 2014 Maidan massacre | MR Online

    Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag

    Originally published: The Grayzone on December 11, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A massacre of protesters during the 2014 Maidan coup set the stage for the ouster of Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych. Now, an explosive trial in Kiev has produced evidence the killings were a false flag designed to trigger regime change.

  •  | A June 5 2017 ceremony marks Montenegros accession to NATO | MR Online

    Hostile takeover: NATO’s annexation of Montenegro

    Originally published: The Grayzone on November 22, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    NATO’s stealth takeover of the tiny but geopolitically significant nation represents the Balkans’ latest submission to U.S. global hegemony.

  •  | Ambassador David Friedman October 2017 | MR Online

    Leak shows ex-Trump ambassador to Israel threatening NYU over Palestine protests

    Originally published: The Grayzone on November 7, 2023 by Alexander Rubinstein (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Nov 09, 2023)

    The Grayzone has obtained a letter signed by former President Trump’s fanatically pro-settler ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, and sent to New York University leadership demanding the school crack down on free speech to satisfy Israeli interests.

  •  | Wikimedia Foundation CEO Katherine Maher right at a Disinformation Forum sponsored by the US government regime change entity NDI and the NATO  and Gulf monarchy backed Atlantic Council | MR Online

    U.S. regime change activist named Web Summit CEO after founder forced out for condemning Israeli ‘war crimes’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 31, 2023 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Nov 06, 2023)

    The CEO of one of the world’s leading tech conferences was forced to resign after criticizing Israel’s assault on Gaza. He was quickly replaced by one of the industry’s most prominent U.S. government-affiliated regime change specialists.

  •  | Palestinian journalist Wael Dahdouh cradles his child killed by Israel while he was on air October 27 | MR Online

    Israeli targets journalists, kills their families as Big Tech & Biden admin silence Palestinians

    Originally published: The Grayzone on OCtober 27, 2023 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Oct 31, 2023)

    With Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killing at least twenty Palestinian journalists—and the Biden administration working to muzzle others—Big Tech is quietly coordinating with Tel Aviv to muzzle Palestinian media outfits.

  •  | A tent city in Khan Younis Gaza for Palestinians forced to flee the northern areas of the besieged strip | MR Online

    Zionist think tank publishes blueprint for Palestinian genocide

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 24, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    As Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza entered its third week, leaving over 5000 dead and at least one million residents displaced, a Tel Aviv-based think tank published a blueprint for self-proclaimed Jewish state’s final solution.

  •  | David Ben Zion | MR Online

    Source of dubious ‘beheaded babies’ claim is Israeli settler leader who incited riots to ‘wipe out’ Palestinian village

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 11, 2023 by Alexander Rubinstein (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be “wiped out.”

  •  | As conservatives ramp up opposition to Ukraine war Dems dodge The Grayzone | MR Online

    As conservatives ramp up opposition to Ukraine war, Dems dodge The Grayzone

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 29, 2023 by Liam Cosgrove (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Oct 12, 2023)

    As a budget showdown looms in Congress, MAGA Republicans are alone in challenging the vast quantities of American weapons and cash being funneled to Kiev, with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warning The Grayzone that increasing escalation could turn the proxy war into a “potential nuclear conflict.” When approached for comment, progressive members of the ‘Squad’ dodged our questions.

  •  | Members of the Uhuru 3 and their defense lawyers outside the Sam Gibbons US courthouse in Tampa Florida | MR Online

    How U.S. gov’t prosecution of Uhuru activists threatens a ‘First Amendment exception’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 5, 2023 by Anya Parampil (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Oct 07, 2023)

    The Uhuru 3 are accused by the US DOJ of “sowing discord” on behalf of Russia. Their attorneys warn the case threatens to “blow a hole in the First Amendment.”

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