Lenin sweeping the world clean
An alternative view of the world – up to end of 2022
An alternative view of the world – 2023
An alternative view of the world – 2024
An alternative view of the world – 2026
An alternative view of the world – 2025
Comedian (Josh Johnson) says what no one else will about healthcare CEO shooting. (1st January 2025)
We mean nothing to them. Video.
Judge threatens to break the UK’s wall of secrecy around Assange’s persecution. (10th January 2025)
For years, the UK and Sweden stymied Freedom of Information requests to hide why prosecutors under Keir Starmer pursued the Wikileaks founder. Finally the game may be up.
Maduro arms Venezuelan citizens against expected coup. (10th January 2025)
Popular mobilisation against US-backed ‘opposition’ as western media spin ‘threat’ of elected candidate’s swearing-in for third term.
Fire weather. (12th January 2025)
The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.
Skripal poisoning victim disputed UK narrative, official inquiry reveals. (13th January 2025)
An official inquiry into a notorious 2018 Novichok poisoning case has found the victim briefly emerged from a coma, revealing information which wholly undermined the British government’s narrative. While the medical professional she told was muzzled, mainstream media has ignored the new finding.
Academies haven’t raised pupil achievement – there’s no need for them to have privileges that other schools do not. (14th January 2025)
The UK education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, is planning to cut some of the freedoms academy schools currently enjoy in England to refocus on improving outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. Critics say academies are hugely successful but my research has shown there are better ways to make education fairer.
Judge threatens to expose Starmer’s role in state persecution of Assange. (14th January 2025)
Court order exposes nonsense of Crown Prosecution Service cover-up.
Iraq’s ancient marshes are running out of time. (24th January 2025)
A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from environmental and political mismanagement. As the water disappears, so too does a 5,000-year-old culture.
Starmer’s ‘AI superpower’ plan in tatters after China’s DeepSeek causes US tech share collapse. (28th January 2025)
Starmer’s ‘flagship’ plan was touted to offset his trashing of UK social good and protections – it lasted less than a fortnight (surprise)
SAS ‘rogue heroes’ – or just rogues? (30th January 2025)
How many more shocking allegations about the SAS must emerge before the ‘who dares wins’ regiment is subject to transparency laws?
Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network? (31st January 2025)
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.
Emilia Pérez: the film’s wildly unrealistic representation of Mexican narco-violence and trans lives is insulting. (4th February 2025)
You would think that Jacques Audiard’s 13-time Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez was the most watched film of the year given the discussion it has generated. The Mexican-set, French-made film’s opening weekend in Mexico tells a different story.
Streeting appoints health privatiser to oversee 10-year NHS slash-and-burn plan. (4th February 2025)
Health Secretary who has threatened to let NHS die if he doesn’t get his way with it appoints former health privatiser partner to draft implementation plan.
France’s economic collapse: how the Sahel nations ended decades of exploitation. (8th February 2025) Video.
For decades, France relied on Africa’s wealth to sustain its economy—but the winds of change are sweeping across the Sahel. In this explosive documentary, we uncover how Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have expelled French military forces, corporations, and political influence, sending shockwaves through France’s economy.
Labour executive seizes control of Tameside council and selections – to facilitate Reeves’s pension-grab. (9th February 2025)
Reeves plan to take control of public sector pension plans for ‘risky’ investments sees resisters on council likely to be deselected.
Where does the money go? A look at USAID spending in Haiti. (10th February 2025)
‘We’re shutting it down’, Elon Musk said over the weekend in reference to USAID, the country’s main aid agency, which oversees around $40 billion a year in spending and has been around since the early 1960s.
How refrigeration ruined fresh food. (10th February 2025)
Refrigeration is such a significant contributor to global warming and ozone depletion that Project Drawdown points to refrigerant management as the No. 1 thing we can do to mitigate climate change.
How the West destroyed Congo’s hopes for independence. (16th February)
In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.
UnitedHealth, deeply embedded in NHS, says its ‘critical’ role is to prevent ‘unsustainable’ treatment’. (16th February 2025)
22yo US man died after price of asthma inhaler increased by $473 – CEO’s comments put spotlight on government’s NHS health rationing plans.
The Mafia State. (16 February 2025)
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims.
The demise of USAID: few regrets in Latin America. (17th February 2025)
‘Take your money with you’, said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, ‘it’s poison’.
Cardiff to see first ever city-wide facial recognition network this weekend. (19th February 2025)
‘Big Brother’ concerns as South Wales Police to snoop on whole city with ‘semi-permanent’ AI cameras.
German police beat up demonstrators commemorating victims of far-right mass shooting. (20th February 2025)
No violence toward neo-nazi demo in Dresden, but Berlin police pound anti-fascists.
‘I had to move away from everything that I ever had’: Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind. (20th February 2025)
‘I don’t think it’s safe. If I go into my house, I get sick… our animals get sick… These are serious issues. We’re seeing serious things go on and, from where we were in the beginning to now, it’s just progressing’.
The veteran Tory and City lobbyist advising Starmer’s business team. (21st February 2025)
Iain Anderson’s newfound love for Labour has raised eyebrows across Westminster and worried some in the party.
Majority of Unite union’s elected exec calls for special meeting to remove pro-Graham chair. (22nd February 2025)
Chair whose actions led to walk-out by key exec committee last year faces ousting.
The old world order couldn’t stop wars in Ukraine and Gaza; the new world order will accelerate more wars like them. (24th February 2025)
Even the fiction of the US-enforced “rules-based international order” has collapsed, and a new, terrifying world disorder—one that more closely resembles the geopolitical periods preceding World Wars I and II—is emerging. What does global working-class solidarity look like in this new era?
Orange Peace. (25th February 2025)
Is Donald Trump a racist, misogynistic, ethnic cleansing, climate denying opponent of war?
Health privatisers’ nightmare vision for 2040 NHS co-created by man running Streeting’s ’10 year plan’. (26th February 2025)
Davos document ‘Vision of England’s Health System in 2040’ by McKinsey, scandal-ridden UnitedHealth and others lays out nightmarish end for the NHS.
Trump’s aggressive policies and the struggle for a multipolar world. (2nd March)
In this discussion on The Duran, hosted by Glenn Diesen, Max Blumenthal and Alexander Mercouris analyze the United States’ foreign policy under the Trump administration, particularly its approach to a multipolar world.
How Britain allowed Pinochet to escape justice for atrocities. (4th March 2025)
25 years ago, the UK government allowed Chile’s former dictator to evade extradition to Spain. Declassified files reveal how the decision was made.
How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know it today. (6th March 2025)
Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation and specialization of industrial production required written record keeping, standardization of weights and measures, and surveying and allocation of land planning.
Rachel Reeves softened non-dom plans after Blackstone CEO ‘raised concerns’. (6th March 2025)
Revealed: Head of world’s biggest asset manager lobbied chancellor on tax rules weeks before policy was tweaked.
1965: The Indonesian coup. (7th March 2025) [An important omission here is that there is no mention it was under the Labour Government of Harold Wilson when this slaughter took place – although originally planned under the ‘Thirteen years of Tory misrule’.]
Sixty years ago a bloody coup wiped out the Indonesian communist party, and along with it all the trade unions and peasant associations.
Trump’s war on education. (11th March 2025)
Trump’s assault on education comes out of the playbook used by all authoritarian regimes.
Starmer just abolished the NHS, not just the ‘NHS England’ quango. (14th March 2025)
Move represents final step toward replacement of NATIONAL Health Service with 42 ‘Integrated Care Boards’ incentivised to close hospitals and ration treatment.
Starmer-Kendall disability benefit change is targeted war on people with mental health issues. (15th March 2025)
New points structure is designed to deny support to those with mental illness or neurodivergence.
Stories of Resistance: Mothers of Argentina’s 30,000 disappeared half-century struggle for justice. (24th March 2025)
Today is the Day for Memory, Truth & Justice in Argentina, honoring the victims of the military dictatorship. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo are still marching.
Trump demonstrates his ignorance in ordering development of ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense. (26th March 2025)
Impressed with the success of Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense against a attack by Iranian missiles and drones, President Trump has ordered the US war department to begin research on developing what he calls a ”Golden Dome” defense system like it to supposedly protect the entire US from a nuclear attack.
Erasing history: how fascism works – with Jason Stanley. The Chris Hedges Report. (27th March 2025)
Jason Stanley joins The Chris Hedges Report to give proper context to what fascism means and how the Trump administration’s second term could really mean the completion of the American fascist state.
Restoring lies and insanity to American history. (31st March 2025)
The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of the present.
The secret military history of the internet – with Yasha Levine. The Chris Hedges Report. (2nd April 2025)
The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.
Meet the DC think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans. (7th April 2025)
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.
Bombshell investigation exposes Ecuador government cartel conspiracy. (9th April 2025)
An investigative report has placed Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa at the center of a vast conspiracy to transform his government into a laundromat for transnational drug cartels.
The economics of a dying empire – with Richard Wolff, The Chris Hedges Report. (9th April 2025)
Professor Richard Wolff dissects the erratic and unpredictable nature of the Trump administration’s economic policy, and how it signals the decline of American Empire.
‘Mystery’ at Foreign Office over file hidden from media. (10th April 2025)
Government cannot explain why it withheld a Downing Street document for up to six years after it was cleared for release. [Relating to Thatcher Government and support for the killing of Tamils in Sri Lanka.]
Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador. (14th April 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.
The unusual non-profit that helps ICE spy on wire transfers. (14th April 2025)
A little-known database logs hundreds of millions of wire transfers sent to or from Mexico, Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
‘Full-blown constitutional crisis’ deepens as Bukele refuses to release Maryland resident. (15th April)
‘If this holds’, said one critic, ‘there is no law but Trump’s law’.
ICE declares certain ideas ‘illegal’. (15th April)
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the Immigration and Custom Service’s now-deleted post declaring its intention to stop ‘illegal’ ideas at the border.
Trump’s Penal Colony. (18th April 2025)
‘Every time I enter these doors, I ask myself, ‘Why them and not me?’
‘Dirtiest campaign we’ve ever seen’: Ecuador’s President Noboa accused of election fraud. [Yet the ‘democracy loving’ West consider it to be OK. Who’s telling the truth?] (18th April 2025)
Right-wing billionaire Daniel Noboa has claimed victory in Ecuador’s election—but challenger Luisa González and international experts claim the election has been stolen.
Why April 30th should be a National Holiday. (30th April 2025)
Fifty years ago today, on April 30, 1975, Vietnam defeated the United States of America. We have never admitted our guilt in our Southeast Asian genocide, never apologized, never shown a speck of remorse, never made any reparations.
The first forever war. (30th April 2025)
The Vietnam War is still killing people, 50 years later.
Liberal NGO pushes for harsher Venezuela sanctions. (7th May 2025)
It’s been over 100 days since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. Most NGOs to the right of the Heritage Foundation are alarmed about his confrontational international posture and related erosion of the rule of law.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), a supposedly liberal organization, is also concerned. But their problem is that the president hasn’t gone far enough – at least in the case of Venezuela.
The Soviet Union defeated more than just the Nazis in 1945. (9th May 2025)
For Africans, Victory Day was not just about the fall of Hitler, but about the idea that brutal regimes could fall at all.
The Empire never died. (19th May 2025)
The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.
Brunei: Britain’s neo-colonial oil hub near China. (20th May 2025)
With its super-rich Sultan guarded by Gurkhas, Brunei is a relic of empire where Britain and Shell still wield enormous influence.
How Britain’s colonial cover-ups continued in Northern Ireland. (29th May 2025)
A new book, Decades of Deceit, pierces the veil of official secrecy around one of the darkest episodes of the Troubles.
Inside Singapore: From British colony to global finance nerve centre. (2nd June 2025)
Protected by British gunboats and Gurkhas, Singapore plays an outsized role in the world’s banking and oil system.
Journalists and their shadows – with Patrick Lawrence. The Chris Hedges Report. (13th June 2025)
Patrick Lawrence and Chris Hedges chronicle the decline of mainstream media and the craft of journalism, and the dark psychological reality behind media complicity in schemes of the powerful.
Privatization and commercialization of space fail to deliver on promises… again… (28th June 2025)
23.37 27 May 2025 UTC, 33 Raptor engines roared to life in a glorious return to flight for the Starship Super Heavy program, carrying with it hope for the future and the promises of commercial spaceflight providing cheap access to space. It failed, just as had the previous eight flights of Starship in chorus with the previous 51 years of private spaceflight.
Ryan Dawson: The Epstein client list! (14th July 2025)
If a ‘list’ exists it was put together by this reporter.
Evo Morales to The Grayzone: ‘We are fighting the second coup d’etat’. (15th July 2025)
In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show how an electoral council member took money in exchange for disqualifying him from running for president again.
The City’s big investment in Starmer’s Labour is about to pay dividends. (16th July 2025)
The big question that has increasingly dogged Labour throughout its first year in power, as it lurched from one crisis to the next, putting noses out of joint among everyone from private school parents to PIP claimants, is who is this government actually for?
Soft power, hard cash: How the UK secretly buys influencer. (16th July 2025)
The British Foreign Office is at it again: ‘strengthening democracy’ and ‘fighting misinformation’ by paying YouTube personalities.
Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks – with Nick Bryant. The Chris Hedges Report. (17th July 2025)
Despite a strong desire from the public to get to the bottom of the Epstein case, the cabal associated with Epstein continues its conspiracy to suppress the ugly truth of the ruling class.
Watchdog probing Starmer aide’s secret lobbying of Tory ministers. (17th July 2025)
A secret meeting between finance executives and a senior Tory cabinet minister arranged by Keir Starmer’s top business aide Varun Chandra has prompted the lobbying watchdog to launch an investigation into his former firm, Hakluyt & Company.
Jeffrey Epstein is a policy issue. (18th July 2025)
There’s an incorrect belief that the Epstein case is somehow separate from the real concerns facing America, a conspiracist concoction. But it’s actually about the two-tiered system of justice and accountability in America.
US intel concealed high-level doubts about ‘Russian interference’, documents reveal. (22nd July 2025) Audio.
The NSA and FBI expressed ‘low confidence’ that Russia hacked and leaked DNC emails to help Trump, documents show. US intelligence leaders concealed this dissent and told a different story.
House GOP has ‘shut down Congress’ to avoid voting on Epstein files. (22nd July 2025)
‘Who’s he gonna pick?’ Republican Thomas Massie asked of Speaker Mike Johnson. ‘Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?’
Trump, Epstein and the Deep State – The Chris Hedges Report. (22nd July 2025)
The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.
Max Blumenthal: Trump, Epstein, and the unraveling of America’s pro-Israel consensus. (23rd July 2025)
In this explosive interview with Professor Glenn Diesen, Max Blumenthal exposes how the Epstein scandal is fracturing Trump’s MAGA movement and revealing deep ties between Trump’s inner circle and Israel’s political elite.
Trump’s Epstein fiasco takes darker turn as Democratic Senator drops new bomb. (24th July 2025)
Sen. Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue, if she’s interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal. His investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers.
How they planned the Coup. Larry Johnson and Lt Col Daniel Davis. (26th July 2025)
Fake Intelligence? Tulsi Gabbard’s bombshell and the Deep State’s paper trail.
Epstein transparency: What a joke. Lt Col Daniel Davis. (26th July 2025)
An insult and disgrace.
Russiagate’s shaky foundation: what the public wasn’t told. (29th July 2025)
According to intelligence files released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, key agencies such as the FBI and NSA privately expressed low confidence that Russia was behind the 2016 DNC email hack.
Taking back the narrative on Zohran Mamdani. (1st August 2025)
On June 24, 2025, Zohran Mamdani defeated the AIPAC-funded Democratic juggernaut Andrew Cuomo in the primary election for the New York mayoral race, which will be held in November….. However, this is only the beginning of a much larger class struggle that Mamdani and his campaign have helped to renew in New Yorkers and in Americans more broadly.
Terror and torture in the ‘heart of darkness’, the world’s only private colony. (4th August 2025)
Under the guise of ‘progress’, colonial authorities in the Congo subjected the local population to brutal tyranny.
38 million lives. (4th August 2025)
A study by the Center of Economic and Policy Research has revealed that, between 1971 and 2021, US and EU sanctions killed 38 million people around the world.
US backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs, top diplomat secretly told Croat leader. 95th August 2025)
The ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Serbs by a US-backed Croatian leader was premeditated, according to newly-uncovered files revealing the operation’s planning.
‘The silent holocaust’ — The Israeli and CIA sponsored Guatemalan genocide with Jennifer Harbury. The Chris Hedges Report. (7th August 2025)
Lawyer Jennifer Harbury discusses the gruesome details of the Guatemalan genocide, and the role that the CIA and Israel played in facilitating this gruesome erasure of the indigenous population.
Airbrushing the Ghettoes. (7th August 2025)
From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.
Venezuela responds to Trump’s $50m bounty on Maduro – with $50m reward for unreleased Epstein files. (8th August 2025)
Far-right US president Donald Trump appears to have thought he was being clever by increasing the US reward on the head of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from $25M TO $50M, but it soon backfired.
British Navy behind radioactive leaks. (10th August 2025)
A weapons storage base allowed irradiated water flow into a Scottish loch several times, a watchdog has revealed.
When religious mafia and right-wing extremists take over – with Rollo Romig. The Chris Hedges Report. (14th August 2025)
The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of the expanding tide of authoritarianism worldwide that is now infecting the United States.
How UK security agencies use telecoms firms to spy on us. (18th August 2025)
British spies have required BT to give them access to public communications since 1985, declassified files show.
Government spends £8m compensating children sexually abused by British troops. (21st August 2025)
Taxpayer payouts for historic child sex abuse paint ‘stark and worrying picture’ for Ministry of Defence, lawyers say
UK Labour Government opens up the National Health Service to further privatisation. (25th August 2025)
The NHS in the United Kingdom was set up following the Second World War. Perhaps one of the best achievements of the ‘old’ Labour Party it was a major reform. It followed the realisation by the British ruling class that:
i) The USSR in 1945 exerted a huge influence on British workers;
ii) the working class of Britain was not healthy enough to either create the most profit for the ruling class; or to be the best recruits for the armed forces.
Police ‘overzealous’ in censoring MI5 report on Northern Ireland. (26th August 2025)
Campaigners in Belfast have criticised police for not releasing a file from the Troubles after similar documents were discovered in Foreign Office archives.
A century of oppression, and all they get is a tooth. (26th August 2025)
The issue of reparations has been facing resistance from former colonial powers, including the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Reporting on war – with Ben Anderson. The Chris Hedges Report. (29th August 2025)
War correspondent Ben Anderson joins host Chris Hedges to detail the numbing physical and psychological elements of war reporting — and ponders whether or not the truth can really change anything.
UK funded radio show to sway Nigerian voters, leaked docs show. (4th September 2025)
Amid the US refusal to provide military support to Nigeria in its fight against Boko Haram in 2014, then-President Jonathan Goodluck turned to Russia and China for arms. New documents show that all the while, British state media was engaged in an influence campaign which would help see the African nation’s leader ousted.
Katrina set the stage for New Orleans’s capture by investors. (5th September 2025)
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago. In the years after the storm, the city became a laboratory of Frankenstein proportions for the most extreme forms of privatization and deregulation.
Trump can’t defend Venezuelan boat strike. (5th September 2025)
Senator Rand Paul and other anti-war lawmakers are demanding answers from President Trump after he ordered a deadly strike on a Venezuelan boat. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.
29 million deaths linked to EU and US sanctions. (7th September 2025)
The unilateral measures were associated with more than 560,000 excess deaths annually from 1971 to 2021, a recent study suggests.
Drugboat diplomacy – The Grayzone live. (7th September 2025)
With the US military assembling a naval strike force off the coast of Venezuela, and the Trump administration leveling dubious charges of ‘narco-terror’ at Caracus, The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews journalist Diego Sequera of Venezuela’s Mision Verdad.
The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk. (11th September 2025) Audio
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.
Thoughts on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. (11th September 2025)
American rightists have been losing their fucking minds about the Charlie Kirk assassination, bawling their eyes out and babbling about ‘civil war’ and how ready they are to use any amount of violence to crush the ‘radical left’.
There is a country where the British army has retained impunity for years. Soldiers use it to escape their crimes. (12th September 2025)
The investigation into British army abuses in Kenya is progressing very slowly, hampered by a lack of publicity and the reluctance of authorities from both countries.
Who is behind regime change in Nepal and how to follow the money… New Atlas. (14th September 2025)
Nepal is an Asian country, which borders India and China, in the Himalayan mountains. It has approximately 30 million people. And in less than 5 days, we are told, that a bunch of Gen Z kids just all suddenly woke upset about the same thing on the same day and they all decided to go out to the same places and burn everything down and run the government out of power in less than a week.
How JPMorgan enabled the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. (15th September 2025)
A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting — and profiting from — the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.
US: Maritime strikes amount to extrajudicial killings. (18th September 2025)
Attacks on alleged drug-smuggling vessels violate International Human Rights Law.
Charlie Kirk and his killer were spawned by the same dark soul of US politics. (19th September 2025)
A declining US superpower needs to rationalise its failures – glaring, monstrous crimes abroad, economic collapse at home – as a war against home grown terrorists.
Harrison Berger: The CIA attacks civil liberties. (22nd September 2025)
Video.
Britain’s fate is decline, not upheaval – and history explains why. (22nd September 2025)
Protests in London will change nothing – Britain’s people were bred to endure. [An extremely flawed article with many omissions – but an interesting point of view about the British nonetheless.]
The bullet as shitpost: media won’t publish manifestos but reproduces scrawls on casing. (25th September 2025)
From “ANTI-ICE” to “Notices bulges OwO,” the media latches onto memes on bullets. At its core, it’s the shooters trolling.
What liberals get wrong about Trump’s executive order on antifa. (27th September 2025)
Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea — instead of acting to defend the activists, researchers, and organizers facing persecution.
Digital ID: the blueprint for a global digital prison. (29th September 2025)
They told us it was a conspiracy. They mocked, ridiculed, and silenced anyone who dared to warn about the coming system of control. Digital IDs, they said, were nothing more than paranoid fantasies.
It’s time to fight back against Trump’s fascist regime – with Ralph Nader. The Chris Hedges Report. (30th September 2025)
As the Trump administration’s repression increases by the day, Ralph Nader reminds us that we are not ‘nobodies’, and that together, with collective power, we can invoke serious change.
The next three articles/videos address the meeting that took place between Trump, Hegseth and all the US Generals and Admirals Monday 29th September 2025.
Lt Col. Karen Kwiatkowski: Trump spoils Hegseth’s party. (30th September 2025)
Video.
‘Most loser shit I have ever seen’: Pete Hegseth’s unhinged speech to generals sparks instant ridicule. (30th September 2025)
One critic expressed astonishment that Hegseth ‘summoned all the US generals from around the globe at great expense to fat shame them’.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump lectures the Generals. (1st October 2025)
Video.
The Nobel Prize goes to… war on Venezuela. (12th October 2025)
Awarded by the Nobel Committee for advancing a “peaceful transition,” US govt-sponsored politician Maria Corina Machado is a veteran coup leader who’s called for Israel to invade Venezuela.
Trump puts two B-52H strategic bombers in Venezuelan airspace. (16th October 2025)
The US has put at least two B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers into Venezuela’s airspace on Wednesday 15 October, as the Trump regime’s plan to steal Venezuela’s huge oil reserves ramps up.
Drug trafficking and murder in the special forces with Seth Harp. The Chris Hedges Report. (16th October 2025)
Seth Harp chronicles how Special Forces atrocities fuel a cycle of crime and violence that starts overseas and makes it way back home — especially in and around the secretive Fort Bragg military base.
The Nobel Prize goes to… war on Venezuela. (17th October 2025)
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal breaks down the sinister record of 2025 Nobel “Peace” Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, a radical pro-war Venezuelan opposition figure backed by the US government who has personally appealed for Israel to invade her country to place her in power.
Jordan Goudreau exposes US government role in disastrous Venezuela coup plot. (17th October 2025)
Facing years in prison on federal arms trafficking charges, former US Green Beret and mercenary Jordan Goudreau presents his side of the story in this explosive tell-all interview with The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal.
UK arms trade serves US interests over British economy and security. (20th October 2025)
The UK’s arms trade is an example of strategic policy choices that repeatedly choose American and Israeli interests above all. At least, that’s according to recent analysis from the New Economics Foundation podcast featuring Khem Rogaly and David Wearing discussing Britain’s role as an arms dealer. The podcast shows how UK arms exports fuel conflicts globally while providing minimal economic benefit to the UK economy.
Former head of the UK military knew Blair’s WMD claims were a lie at the time. (20th October 2025)
A former top British general has revealed he knew Tony Blair was lying about Iraq having Weapon’s of Mass Destruction (WMD) before the 2003 war.
Spycops crimes against the left ‘are just the tip of the iceberg’. We must learn the lessons. (22nd October 2025)
The long-running Undercover Policing (Spycops) Inquiry is in the news again. And everyone on the left has a very good reason to follow its revelations. Because they give us important insights into how the rich and powerful keep their privilege at our expense.
The rise of the Thielverse and the construction of the surveillance state – with Whitney Webb. The Chris Hedges Report. (23rd October 2025)
Whitney Webb traces the Thielverse’s rise and the bipartisan construction of the modern surveillance state that Trump and his benefactors are deploying against dissidents and immigrants today.
‘We are nobody’s backyard’: Trinidad labor leader slams US war on Venezuela. 24th October 2025)
Trinidadian labor leader David Abdulah joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the mobilization of Caribbean social movements and multilateral organizations in resisting the US military build-up that has seen a wave of lethal American attacks on fishing boats on the dubious grounds of combatting ‘narco-terrorism’.
The U.S. isn’t even bothering with its usual lies to sell its regime change war in Venezuela. (22nd October 2025)
The days of justifying American military intervention anywhere in the world are on their way out.
Ghost of the Guildford Four. (22nd October 2025)
Fifty years on from the Guildford Four trials, the British state continues to criminalise resistance in an attempt to wash its hands of its colonial legacy.
Inside Labour’s pro-business push to ‘defang’ competitions watchdog. (24th October 2025)
How Keir Starmer’s government prioritised tech firms and the finance industry over British consumers.
25 years of war on Venezuela in 8 minutes. (25th October 2025)
Max Blumenthal describes how Washington’s war on Venezuela has hit new lows—decades of failed coups, brutal sanctions, and now narco-terrorism smears to justify Rubio/CIA-backed regime change ops. U.S. covert action risks destabilizing 28 million & sparking a migration tsunami. risks destabilizing 28 million & sparking a migration tsunami.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s attempt at Venezuelan regime-change and background to US interference (first 20 minutes). (27th October 2025)
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Venezuela and the Empire’s new war for ‘peace’. (28th October 2025)
You can always tell when Washington is preparing another “humanitarian” adventure. The language shifts first. Suddenly, phrases like freedom, democracy, human rights begin orbiting a country that happens to own resources American corporations want to own. Then the talking heads appear on television, senators start making casual threats, and within days, intelligence agencies receive new ‘authorizations’. The latest target in this recurring morality play is once again Venezuela.
How French troops murdered hundreds of their comrades in WWII. (30th October 2025)
More than 300 African soldiers were executed by the French colonial army in Thiaroye, Senegal
‘We had the Bible, and they had the land’: How the West plundered Africa under the guise of Christ. (1st November 2025)
History shows what was behind European humanitarian missions in Africa
Nobel Peace Prize winner calls for military attack on her own country. (2nd November 2025)
Washington’s anti-drug campaign off Venezuela’s coast is the only way to oust ‘illegitimate’ Nicolas Maduro, Maria Corina Machado has said.
AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities. (2nd November 2025)
Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tested on Palestinian civilians, the UAVs are now being used to surveil protesters across the US.
Draining practices: Amazon, water consumption and data centres. (3rd November 2025)
Amazon, ruthless, mean spirited, soulless and wedded to the obscene profit margin, is also in the business of habitual deception. When it comes to the use of water for its thirsty data centres, this is most telling. In its aggressive push towards artificial intelligence, more are set for construction. When one considers that, in 2021 alone, US data centres were found to be consuming approximately 415,000 acre-feet of water, the statistics are bound to be staggering.
How America left their own to die in the ’73 Chilean coup – with John Dinges. The Chris Hedges Report. (6th November 2025)
John Dinges dives deep into the real story of two American journalists who were killed in Chile in the aftermath of the CIA-backed military coup of Salvador Allende — and whether the US was involved.
Max Blumenthal: A predictable disaster. (6th November 2025)
Max Blumenthal breaks down the looming US invasion of Venezuela as a reckless, corporate-backed disaster. Trump’s regime change plan rests on false narco-terror charges against Maduro. The real stakes? Venezuela’s vast oil and lithium resources. The so-called ‘Cartel of the Suns’ is CIA fabrication.
Daylight robbery? How London’s skyscrapers deprive marginalised people of light. (7th November 2025)
It is a dream with a dark side, however, which plays out below in the shadows of London’s mushrooming cityscape.
White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show. (13th November 2025)
Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates’ attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they clearly did not understand. This is an unprecedented look at the players and their plots – from terrorism to false flags – that may inform the looming US military assault on Venezuela.
War on multipolarism includes Latin America. New Atlas. (14th November 2025)
While some analysts have mistakenly concluded U.S. escalation toward Venezuela represents a ‘retreat’ from Asia or even Eurasia, and a transition from pursuing global primacy toward carving out an American ‘sphere of influence’, the U.S. is much more likely attempting to complement its continued encirclement, containment and confrontation with both Russia and China by eliminating one of their more vulnerable allies—Venezuela—in a bid to escalate rather than withdraw from Washington’s ongoing war against multipolarism.
Sheriff David Hathaway: breaks silence on government-sanctioned killings. (18th November 2025)
A former DEA agent (of 28 years) excoriates the CIA and its involvement in drug trafficking – and the baseless claims of the Trump administration on Venezuelan involvement in the drug epidemic in the US.
The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits. (18th November 2025)
In an interview with The Grayzone, author Andrew Lownie details shocking findings of his research into Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Describing Andrew as his ‘Super Bowl trophy’, Epstein used the prince for intel, which he passed to foreign spy agencies. Lownie says further revelations threaten to ‘bury’ the Royal Family.
‘All they have is lies’. (19th November 2025)
Watch Max Blumenthal wipe the smile off the face of former US Ambassador to Venezuela James Story by exposing his role in nefarious coup plots with violent, anti-democratic opposition figures. Story responds with a worn-out, baseless smear while refuting nothing.
Cocaine Import Agency. (19th November 2025)
‘The Cartel of the Suns was literally created by the CIA, also known as the Cocaine Import Agency’. Watch Max Blumenthal methodically expose the WMD-level lies justifying US attacks on Venezuela, and explain the devastating consequences of a regime change war.
Mexico’s ‘Gen Z rebellion’ exposed as viral right-wing plot. (20th November 2925)
Presented as a spontaneous youth-led uprising against corruption, violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs and an international right-wing network determined to topple the popular President Claudia Sheinbaum.
US panics as China and Venezuela does the unthinkable, entire oil industry in shock. (20th November 2025)
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Max Blumenthal: CIA cocaine empire and regime change play book. (20th November 2025)
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Operation Condor: a network of transnational repression 50 years later. (26th November 2025)
On General Augusto Pinochet’s 60th birthday, November 25, 1975, four delegations of Southern Cone secret police chieftains gathered in Santiago, Chile, at the invitation of the Chilean intelligence service, DINA. Their meeting—held at the War College building on la Alameda, Santiago’s downtown thoroughfare—was called ‘to establish something similar to INTERPOL’, according to the confidential meeting agenda but ‘dedicated to subversion’.
Trump pardons convicted narco-trafficking pol amid plot to rig Honduran election. (30th November 2025)
Donald Trump is threatening to destroy the Honduran economy unless the country elects the oligarch-run National Party. Now, he’s even pardoned the last party member to rule the country, who was convicted in 2024 of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the US.
Pete Hegseth seemingly confirms commitment to war crimes. (30th November 2025)
The technical term for what America is doing is an act of ‘extra-judicial killings’, which means they’re murdering people outside the confines of the law. While any sort of killing is bad, the problem with normalising unauthorised murder is simply this: where does it end?
Files expose Britain’s secret D-Notice censorship regime. (1st December 2025)
Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal how British soldiers and spies censor news reporting on ‘national security,’ coercing reporters into silence. The files show the Committee boasting of a ‘90% + success rate’ in enforcing the official British line on any controversial story – or disappearing reports entirely.
Ah, good old war propaganda. (2nd December 2025)
Just as the news breaks that Trump has issued Maduro an ultimatum to leave Venezuela immediately if he wants to escape with his life, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has published an amazingly brazen war propaganda piece titled “How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine.”
Max Blumenthal debates Venezuela war in NYC. (3rd December 2025)
Watch Max Blumenthal debate whether the US should wage war on Venezuela against pro-war journalists Orlando Avendano and Germania Poleo live in New York City as part of the Young Voices debates.
World’s most tyrannical government wants to free Venezuela from tyranny. (3rd December 2025)
President Trump has been holding talks with top advisors this week regarding potential US attacks on Venezuela in order to bring about regime change in yet another oil-rich nation.
Trump’s new Monroe Doctrine destabilizes South America. (5th December 2025)
Recently, the Trump regime has revealed that it authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela with the aim of regime change. This is just an admission of a long running policy against the South American state, which has found itself in the crosshairs of US imperialism since the Bolivarian revolution of 1999.
The radical who invented Robin Hood. (7th December 2025)
Mat Coward tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation.
‘It’s a fraud’: Trump and MS-13 helped rig Honduran vote, top official says. (10th December 2025)
Honduran Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Torres Zelaya spoke with The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed to explain what really happened in November’s widely-disputed election. They discuss how the cartel-linked opposition appears to have used their control of the electoral system to rig the vote, the hundreds of death threats reportedly made by MS-13 members supporting the Trump-backed candidate, and why his LIBRE Party is now calling for the questionable results to be annulled.
How the elite behave when no one is watching: inside the Epstein emails. (11th December 2025)
A close read of the thousands of messages makes it less surprising. When Jeffrey Epstein, a financier turned convicted sex offender, needed friends to rehabilitate him, he knew where to turn: a power elite practiced at disregarding pain.
When did the Nobel Peace Prize become a tool for US resource grabs? (12th December 2025)
Regime-change pusher María Corina Machado getting the Nobel Peace Prize should make it clearer than ever that the award is just another tool for Western resource grabs in the Global South. But when did that start? Has it always been this awful?
The Nobel Peace Prize desecrated again. (12th December 2025)
With a few links to more analyses and criticism of this now fake peace prize that also violates Alfred Nobel’s will
White House refuses to rule out summary executions of people on its secret domestic terrorist list. (12th December 2025)
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
Lawmakers pave the way to billions in handouts for weapons makers that the Pentagon itself opposed. (12th December 2025)
The pilot program, added to the military budget behind closed doors, upends an 80-year precedent against covering contractors’ interest payments.
Hostage property and the global firestorm. (13th December 2025)
Sanctions burn the poor, not the powerful.
Don’t worry, be happy. All those who feared a dystopian future got it wrong.
A world where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and secretly manipulate public opinion through the media. Thankfully, these bleak visions never materialised.
US regime change front funded Nepalese youth revolutionaries, leaks reveal. (14th December 2025)
Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the US gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mobilized as the US sought to neutralize Chinese and Indian influence over Kathmandu – now controlled by a leader chosen by an informal social media poll.
Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado. (17th December 2025)
By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened the principles enshrined in its founding documents, as well as Swedish law.
Child poverty: how bad is it in the UK? (17th December 2025)
At the end of 2024, four and a half million children – 31% of all UK children – were in relative poverty, meaning that they live in households earning less than 60% of the UK’s median income.
End stage Zionist Hasbara and its trolls: The Israel as victim canard, it’s all over but the shouting. (19th December 2025)
A significant number of Zionist trolls plaguing the comment sections of my posts were, as I was, raised on Zionist hasbara i.e., outright lies.
US blockades Venezuela in a war still searching for an official rationale. (19th December 2025)
In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over a 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more recent ‘kinetic strikes‘. Yet the officially stated justification for the US empire’s escalating offensive remains elusive.
The problem with Machado: Assange sues the Nobel Foundation. (20th December 2025)
The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness of María Corina Machado as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient raises a few salient matters.
Did Bari Weiss delay 60 Minutes CECOT special on behalf of Marco Rubio? (23rd December 2025)
With the airing of 60 Minutes’ report on the torture of Venezuelan migrants in a Salvadoran dungeon, no one has more to lose than Marco Rubio.
Trump exposed as FBI leaks unredacted Epstein files by accident. (23rd December 2025)
Now, it seems like they’ve accidentally released files early, and with redactions yet to be finalised.
How the ‘Epstein Class’ fails to the top. The Chris Hedges Report – with Anand Giridharadas. (24th December 2025)
Noam Chomsky once said ‘The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have’.
Today, this profound quote from an important figure is ensconced in irony, not only in light of Chomsky’s close ties with Jeffrey Epstein, but also regarding the entire ruling class structure’s facilitation of the paedophile’s rise to the top.
The greater danger of war with Venezuela. Patrick Henningsen and Lt Col Daniel Davis. (23rd December 2025)
Video discussion.
U.S. risk repeating Iraq war disasters in Venezuela. Larry Johnson and Lt Col Daniel Davis. (24th December 2025)
Video discussion.
A new space race above Earth may determine who prevails upon it. New Atlas. (24th December 2025)
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Spook Story: Ex-US ambassador to Venezuela monetizes coup-plotting alongside former CIA officials. (27th December 2025)
While pushing for war on Venezuela in legacy media, former US ambassador Jimmy Story is soliciting clients for consulting firms run by notorious ex-CIA officials.
Decline and Fall. (27th December 2025)
The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.
Understanding Western praxis. (29th December 2025)
Review of Killing Democracy.
Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal. (29th December 2025)
After The Grayzone exposed CIJA – the Western government-funded regime change outfit – for collaborating with al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria, files show the group sought to penetrate and ‘intimidate’ European financial regulators who charged them with corruption.
Max Blumenthal: charting Trump’s senile empire on the road to fiasco. (31st December 2025)
Trump’s Venezuela adventure is being choreographed by Marco Rubio, the neocon golden boy with the highest approval in Trumpworld and the worst foreign policy record to match.
Dark Alliance: key US ally Daniel Noboa linked to S. American drug trade. (31st December 2025)
The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon interviews Andres Durán, an Ecuadoran investigative journalist who has had to flee his country due to his allegations that billionaire, US-allied President Daniel Noboa, the Noboa family and their inner circle are involved in the international drug trade.
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