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  • | Leaked emails expose Paul Masons collusion with senior British intelligence agent | MR Online

    Leaked emails expose Paul Mason’s collusion with senior British intelligence agent

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 13, 2022 by Kit Klarenberg (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Jun 16, 2022)

    On June 7th, The Grayzone revealed how British journalist Paul Mason planned to wage all-out war on anti-imperialist and left-wing academics, activists, campaign groups, independent journalists and media sites–and particularly this outlet.

  • | Paul Mason | MR Online

    Paul Mason’s covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 7, 2022 by Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.

  • | Paul Gray | MR Online

    DHS ‘concerned’ over Nazis returning to U.S. after fighting in Ukraine. Why isn’t the media?

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 31, 2022 by Alexander Rubinstein (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2022)

    U.S. corporate media has provided glowing coverage to Paul Gray, a notorious American white nationalist fighting in Ukraine. A DHS document warns he’s not the only U.S. fascist drawn to Kiev.

  • | Above The torture of leftwing activist Alexander Matjuschenko on March 3 in Dnipro recorded by Azov members Below President Volodymyr Zelensky poses during a media engagement | MR Online

    “One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 17, 2022 by Esha Krishnaswamy (more by The Grayzone)  |

    While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.

  • | US EU sacrificing Ukraine to weaken Russia fmr NATO adviser | MR Online

    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 Maj John Alan Gavrilov right trains commanders of the neoNazi Azov Battalion as part of a November 2017 foreign delegation | MR Online

    ‘Gods of War’: How the U.S. weaponized Ukraine against Russia

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 1, 2022 by Taylor Cole (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Apr 05, 2022)

    Since the U.S.-engineered 2013-14 coup in Ukraine, American forces have taught Ukrainians, including neo-Nazi units, how to fight in urban and other civilian areas. Weaponizing Ukraine is part of Washington’s quest for what the Pentagon calls “full spectrum dominance.”

  • | BBC correspondentfixer shaping Ukraine war coverage is PR operative involved in warmessaging tool | MR Online

    BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine war coverage is PR operative involved in “war-messaging tool”

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 25, 2022 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    BBC reports on the suspicious destruction of a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were co-authored by a Ukrainian PR agent tied to a firm at the forefront of her country’s information warfare efforts.

  • | Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention | MR Online

    Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 18, 2022 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Testimony by evacuated Mariupol residents and warnings of a false flag attack undermine the Ukrainian government’s claims about a Russian bombing of a local theater sheltering civilians.

  • | Nicaraguan voters in Chinandega on November 7 2021 | MR Online

    Debunking myths about Nicaragua’s 2021 elections, under attack by USA/EU/OAS

    Originally published: The Grayzone on November 11, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The U.S., EU, and OAS are launching a new coup attempt against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, refusing to recognize its 2021 elections. The Grayzone observed the vote on the ground, and dispels myths aimed at discrediting the process.

  • | Super Imperialism The economic strategy of American empire | MR Online

    Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire with economist Michael Hudson

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 19, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire and the financial motivations behind the U.S. new cold war on China and Russia.

  • | Behind NATOs cognitive warfare Battle for your brain waged by Western militaries | MR Online

    Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 8, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”

  • | Bellingcat funded by US and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists in Syria | MR Online

    Bellingcat funded by U.S. and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists in Syria

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 9, 2021 by Kit Klarenberg (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2021)

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

  • | Farright Florida Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar holding up photos of USfunded coup leaders Felix Maradiaga and Arturo Cruz at a hearing on Nicaragua | MR Online

    U.S. Congress outlines new phase of economic attacks and hybrid war on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 24, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on September 21 set out plans for the next phase of the United States’ hybrid warfare on Nicaragua, which aims to destabilize and ultimately overthrow the Central American nation’s leftist Sandinista government.

  • | US Army trainers drill Nigerian soldiers in Jaji between Jan 15 and Feb 22 2018 | MR Online

    The U.S. is turning oil-rich Nigeria into a proxy for its Africa wars

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 13, 2021 by TJ Coles (more by The Grayzone)  | (Posted Sep 15, 2021)

    Last month, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times. It might as well have been written by the Pentagon. Buhari promoted Brand Nigeria, auctioning the country’s military services to Western powers, telling readers that Nigeria would lead Africa’s “war on terror” in exchange for foreign infrastructure investment.

  • | US suffocates Cuba for unwavering victorious antiimperialism at great cost | MR Online

    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. 

  • | Cubas cultural counterrevolution US govtbacked rappers artists gain fame as catalyst for current unrest | MR Online

    Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: U.S. gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on July 25, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Painting itself as a grassroots collective of artists fighting for freedom of expression, the San Isidro Movement has become a key weapon in the U.S. government’s assault on the Cuban revolution.

  • | Chemical attack exposed | MR Online

    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.

  • | Man holding flag | MR Online

    Nicaragua’s Sandinistas battle ‘diabolical’ U.S. empire and poverty on 42nd anniversary of revolution

    Originally published: The Grayzone on July 24, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone reports from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life, President Ortega condemns the dictatorial U.S. “empire that wants to dominate all countries,” and Vice President Murillo declares poverty an imperialist “crime against humanity.”

  • | Jabhat alNusra founder Mohammad alJolani before and after his image makeover | MR Online

    How Washington is positioning Syrian Al-Qaeda’s founder as its ‘asset’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 9, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A PBS Frontline special is the latest vehicle in a PR campaign to legitimize rebranded Syrian al-Qaeda, HTS, and market its leader Mohammad Jolani as a competent American “asset.”

  • | Eisenhower rejected military chiefs demand for nuclear war on China classified account of 58 Taiwan Strait crisis reveals | MR Online

    Eisenhower rejected military chiefs’ demand for nuclear war on China, classified account of ’58 Taiwan Strait crisis reveals

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 27, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Fearing a new conflict over Taiwan, Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has released a shocking account showing how the Joint Chiefs pressed Eisenhower to launch a nuclear war on China.

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    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common”. To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

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