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About Aaron Maté

Aaron Maté is a host/producer for The Real News.
  • 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.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Mapping U.S. Imperialism
    The Mapping Project U.S. military bases around the world. (Photo: Al Jazeera)

    This article deals with U.S. imperialism since World War 2. It is critical to acknowledge that U.S. imperialism emanates both ideologically and materially from the crime of colonialism on this continent which has killed over 100 million indigenous people and approximately 150 million African people over the past 500 years.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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