The US let ISIS grow (and kill) to destabilize Syria's Assad. Iran stopped it.
Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal discuss how US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that the Barack Obama administration intentionally let ISIS grow to try to weaken the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. Iran and Qassem Soleimani — who was just murdered by Donald Trump — stopped the so-called Islamic State in its tracks.
We recount the insane story of how a pampered heiress and journalistic wannabe, enriched by millions of dollars seized from Iran by the US government, sued us for exposing her bogus Hezbollah sources, and hired an influential pro-Israel lawyer to try to bankrupt The Grayzone.
After 2.5 years of silence, Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak out about the McCarthyite legal assault. We expose Sulome Anderson and the powerful neoconservative forces supporting her lawfare campaign against us.
Read about the story here: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/06/29/lawsuit-sulome-anderson-hezbollah
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A new open-source study concludes that Syrian insurgents carried out the Ghouta sarin chemical attack in August 2013 -- not the Syrian government, as the White House, U.S. intelligence, and other Western sources publicly alleged.
Rockets carrying sarin killed hundreds of people and left thousands wounded. Based on their trajectories, the study traces all seven missile impact locations back to the most likely launch spot where they all intersected: a small area within insurgent-controlled territory.
In their first joint interview, the study's authors lay out their explosive findings.
Guests:
Michael Kobs and Adam Larson, co-authors of a new study on the 2013 chemical attack in Ghouta.
Saar Wilf: Founder of Root Claim, which published the Ghouta study.
Read the Ghouta report:
https://rootclaim-media.s3.amazonaws.com/syria2013evidence.pdf
Read a summary of the findings:
https://blog.rootclaim.com/new-evidence-2013-sarin-attack-in-ghouta-syria/#
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Saar Wilf: https://twitter.com/saarwilf
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Russell "Texas" Bentley returns to The Grayzone alongside fellow US socialist Fergie Chambers to detail their experiences documenting the Russian-Ukrainian war in the Donbas region. Chambers will discuss his recent visit to a dungeon of the Ukrainian state-backed Aidar Battalion, and his interviews with Donetsk-based communists, while Texas will describe being on the front lines with the Donetsk People's Republic militia.
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The Grayzone's Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal cover Ukraine's downing of a Russian plane carrying Ukrainian soldiers on their way to be released in a prisoner exchange, and Washington's absurd justifications for continuing the proxy war in the face of disastrous defeats.
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Pushback with Aaron Maté
OPCW whistleblowers have exposed a cover-up, under US pressure, of evidence that undermined allegations that the Syrian government committed a chemical weapons attack in Douma in April 2018. The allegation prompted US-led airstrikes on Syria that same month. Former Bush administration official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says that reports of US pressure on the Douma investigation recall the Bush administration's coercion of the IAEA and OPCW before the Iraq war.
Guest: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell. Currently a distinguished professor at the College of William and Mary.
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Ben Norton explains how Iran and its top General Qassem Soleimani, who was just killed in a US drone strike (a criminal act of war), were leading forces who militarily defeating ISIS. Meanwhile, Washington's allies like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey supported ISIS and al-Qaeda.
This is a clip from our livestream discussing these US acts of war on Iran and Iraq. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeQ_dx452WM
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Julian Assange turns 50 on July 3. Protesters rallied outside the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, demanding the release of the imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist.
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Film by Dan Cohen; music by Jackson Blumenthal: https://soundcloud.com/jacksonblumenthalmusic
This exclusive Grayzone investigative mini-doc by Dan Cohen exposes the cynical deceptions and faux humanitarianism behind the campaign to sell the dirty war on Syria. It will demonstrate the lengths that the US and its allies have gone to develop new ploys to tug at Western heartstrings and convince even liberal minded skeptics of war that a US intervention was necessary -- even if it meant empowering Al Qaeda's largest franchise since 9/11 and its theocratic allies among the insurgency. Big lies and little children have formed the heart of what is perhaps the most expensive, sophisticated, and shameless propaganda blitz ever conducted. Welcome to the Syria Deception.
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Aaron Maté explains why the US effort to extradite WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange is a war on press freedom – and nothing for the anti-Trump Resistance to cheer on.
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