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Aaron Maté is a host/producer for The Real News.
  • Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria

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

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 9, 2022 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    By enlisting the sectarian insurgent-allied, U.S.-funded White Helmets for chemical weapons probes in Syria, the OPCW abandoned impartiality and broke its fundamental rules for collecting evidence.

  • Above: Syria's Al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra. Obama officials now back in office under President Biden coordinated with the jihadist franchise in an effort to topple the Syrian regime – while claiming they backed only the "moderate opposition."

    ‘Al Qaeda is on our side’: how Obama/Biden team empowered terrorist networks in Syria

    Originally published: RealClearInvestigations on April 20, 2022 (more by RealClearInvestigations)

    Hours after the Feb. 3 U.S. military raid in northern Syria that left the leader of ISIS and multiple family members dead, President Biden delivered a triumphant White House address.

  • US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to ‘weaken Russia’: fmr. NATO adviser

    U.S., EU sacrificing Ukraine to ‘weaken Russia’: fmr. NATO adviser

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 15, 2022 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Former Swiss intelligence officer and NATO adviser Jacques Baud on the roots of the Ukraine-Russia war and its growing dangers.

  • US suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost

    U..S suffocates Cuba for unwavering, victorious anti-imperialism at great cost

    Originally published: The Grayzone on August 2, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today. 

  • Chemical attack exposed

    Syrian insurgents guilty of ‘red line’ 2013 sarin chemical attack, study finds

    Originally published: The Grayzone on July 26, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013. The explosive findings add to a growing body of public evidence that undermines U.S.-led efforts to blame the Syrian government, which almost led to U.S. military intervention.

  • Chomsky

    Chomsky: OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is ‘shocking’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 20, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Noam Chomsky says that the OPCW’s cover-up, under U.S. pressure, of a Syria chemical weapons probe raises “very severe suspicions.”

  • OPCW Syria whistleblower and ex-director attacked by US, UK, France at UN

    OPCW Syria whistleblower and ex-director attacked by U.S., UK, France at UN

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 7, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Ian Henderson, a veteran OPCW inspector who challenged a cover-up of his organization’s investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, recently testified before the United Nations Security Council.

  • Book Review- Live from Nicaragua- Uprising or Coup? A Reader

    Max Blumenthal: Nicaragua beat U.S. regime change, but sanctions and sabotage continue

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 3, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal explains how Nicaragua celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution just one year after defeating a U.S.-backed coup effort — and how U.S. sabotage efforts continue today.

  • Trump starves Venezuela, Democrats are silent

    Trump starves Venezuela, Democrats are silent

    Originally published: The Grayzone on August 12, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Trump administration is intensifying its economic warfare on the people of Venezuela with a crippling embargo—and facing no resistance from the Democratic Party.

  • Aaron Mate interviews Professor Stephen F. Cohen on the Real News Network

    Who will stop the U.S.-Russia arms race?

    Originally published: The Real News on March 25, 2018 (more by The Real News)  |

    President Trump is drawing heat for congratulating Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election victory. During a phone call with Putin this week Trump reportedly ignored a written directive from his aides that instructed him, quote, do not congratulate. Speaking to MSNBC, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner echoed the outraged response from Republican Sen. John McCain.

  • Seymour Hersh

    Trump ignored intel before bombing Syria

    Originally published: The Real News on June 27, 2017 by Aaron Maté (more by The Real News)  |

    When the US bombed a Syrian military airfield in April, the White House said US intelligence had confirmed the Assad regime used chemical weapons in the town of Khan Sheikhun.… Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh reports US intelligence actually warned president Trump it had no evidence that the Syrian military had used sarin gas.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Aaron Maté

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Aaron Maté

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Aaron Maté

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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