Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. A Department of Homeland Security election alert spawning new Russia fears was so incoherent and inconsistent with previous findings, it suggested a state of political panic inside the agency. Just days before...
How a Key Pentagon Official Turned China Policy Over to Arms Industry and Taiwan Supporters
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. When the United States finalized a set of seven arms sales packages to Taiwan in August, including 66 upgraded F-16 fighter planes and longer-range air-to-ground missiles that could hit sensitive targets on...
Dark Web Voter Database Report Casts New Doubts on Russian Election Hack Narrative
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. A September 1 report in the Moscow daily Kommersant on a “dark web” site offering a database of personal information on millions of registered American voters undermines one of the central themes of the Russia...
After Beirut Blast, Israel Revives Tale of Hezbollah Ammonium Nitrate Terror Plots
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. Israeli officials have exploited the massive explosion at the Port of Beirut this August to revive a dormant propaganda campaign that had accused the Lebanese militia and political party Hezbollah of storing...
Don’t Delay Military Withdrawal From the Middle East
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft with the author's permission. The Quincy Institute’s “New Paradigm for the Middle East” calling for a definitive end to the disastrous policy the United States has pursued in the region for nearly two decades offers the first...
How a Police Spy’s Stunning Testimony Threatens the Official US-Israeli AMIA Bombing Narrative
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. The July 18, 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina was one of the worst pre-9/11 terrorist attacks in the Western hemisphere, killing...
How the Pentagon Failed to Sell Afghan Government’s Bunk ‘Bountygate’ Story to US Intelligence Agencies
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. The New York Times dropped another Russiagate bombshell on June 26 with a sensational front-page story headlined, “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.” A...
Israel Leverages Dubious ‘Nuclear Archives’ To Secure New IAEA Demands on Iran
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. The approval by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of a June 19 resolution calling on Iran to comply fully with agency demands for cooperation marks a new stage in the long-running Israeli...
FBI Launches Open Attack on ‘Foreign’ Alternative Media Outlets Challenging US Foreign Policy
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. The FBI has publicly justified its suppression of dissenting online views about US foreign policy if a media outlet can be somehow linked to one of its adversaries. The Bureau’s justification followed a...
Washington’s Tall Tale of Iranian-Al Qaeda Alliance Based on Questionably Sourced Book, The Exile
Reprinted from The Grayzone with the author's permission. The U.S. assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani in January touched off a new wave of disinformation about Soleimani, with Trump administration allies branding him a global terrorist while...