Pro-war pundit Nick Cohen’s sexual abuse accusations were well-known in British media for years. Yet his friends at the Guardian, Financial Times and Private Eye kept them under wraps while Cohen’s lawyers threatened potential accusers. The New York Times has published a devastating investigation r...

The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, new leaks show. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social ...

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Sedition #11 of my print-friendly treason zine is now available and ready for download . As usual anyone is free to print, copy, republish, distribute, or use any and all of these materials in any way they choose, either digitally or out there in the analog world. This month’s Treazine, “ Propag...

A congressional Squad star seems to have no idea how or why the Ukraine proxy war started. But he he says he’s voting for military aid to Kiev anyway. On Monday, the New York Democratic congressman and star member of the progressive Squad Jamal Bowman told The Grayzone that he continues to support ...

Go West – by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost Dr. Cornel West, the moral philosopher and civil rights activist, will formally announce today he is running for president on the  People’s Party  ticket. Cornel will be a singular voice for serious social and politic...

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The US military has released video footage of a Chinese navy ship cutting across the path of an American Destroyer in the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, reportedly forcing the US vessel to slow down to avoid a collision. A ...

The Grayzone participated in what appears to be the first independent expedition investigating the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. Near one of the blast sites, we discovered a diving boot used by US Navy divers. How did Swedish investigators miss this? Video above by Agnes Andersson On the e...

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ If you watch western news media with a critical eye you eventually notice how their reporting consistently aligns with the interests of the US-centralized empire, in almost the same way you’d expect them to if they were governmen...

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Republican politicians have found a way to reconcile the fact that scrutinizing the behavior of the US war machine appeals to their base and wins votes with the fact that the Republican Party is built around facilitating war and ...

By Chris Hedges / The Real News Network The terror of police power is a recurring fact of American life, particularly in this country’s poorest communities and in communities of color. The power of officers comes not only from the strength of arms, but also from a legal system th...

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ The biggest problem with the western left is that it doesn’t exist. To look at leftist discourse you’d think the left’s biggest problem is that some leftists have the wrong beliefs about this or that issue, or that the left pays...

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ We’re already seeing a ton of ridiculous drama queenery about Trump’s second presidential run, claiming he’s grown even more extremist and fascistic than when he was president in what amounts to a repeat of the “Trump is a second...

US citizen Gonzalo Lira faces a long prison term in Ukraine for criticizing the country’s government. Shunned by the US government, his father is fighting to stop the “slow death of a son.” When US media have demonstrated any interest in the arrest of an American citizen, Gonzalo Lira, it has been ...

The BBC’s new Verify service won’t hold its own journalists to account. It will help the UK government justify greater censorship.

Little is known about the history of Marianna Spring, the BBC’s first “disinformation correspondent.” But her record of churning out disinfo of her own in the service of British government objectives sends a bright red flag up over the new Verify project.  The launch of BBC Verify, “a new brand to ...

The death of novelist and essayist Martin Amis on 19 May triggered a ‘mainstream’ wave, not just of admiration, but of adoration. It is clear from the obituaries that Amis died with his reputation intact and untarnished. In tweeting a link to his obituary for the Guardian, the Independent’s ...

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Today in tyranny we’ve got three stories on the rapidly increasing authoritarian abuses in western “free democracies”. Let’s dig in. 1. Grayzone reporter detained by British counter-terrorism police for doing journalism. The G...

British counter-terror police detained journalist Kit Klarenberg upon his arrival at London’s Luton airport and subjected him to an extended interrogation about his political views and reporting for The Grayzone. As soon as journalist Kit Klarenberg landed in his home country of Britain on May 17, ...

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Well it’s that time again. Time for everyone to spend a year and a half pouring mountains of mental energy into arguing about who should be the next President of the United States of America. Friendships will be shattered. Famil...