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The catastrophic explosion in Beirut followed years of ignored warnings about the ammonium nitrate stored at the port.

@rania_masri tells @PushbackShow why the disaster is the product of a corrupt sectarian political system supported by foreign powers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLMDKa9juH8

The Biden campaign is now working with Republican strategist Ana Navarro, a staunch supporter of the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contra death squads.

@ananavarro also lobbied for corrupt right-wing Latin American regimes and leaders imprisoned for corruption
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/01/contras-cnn-ana-navarro-lobbying-corruption/

A disturbing new document outlines plans for a US regime-change scheme against Nicaragua's elected leftist government, overseen by supposed "humanitarian" agency USAID, to bring about a “market economy” and purge of leftist Sandinistas.

By @benjaminnorton
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/04/usaid-document-nicaragua-coup/

From Bolivia, @OVargas52 details the human toll of the military coup, as an incompetent US-backed regime leaves its citizens to die amid a pandemic.

In Cuba, meanwhile, the country’s socialized system has saved its population from the worst of Covid-19. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/02/while-bolivias-coup-regime-lets-its-citizens-die-cuba-has-nearly-defeated-covid-19/

El escándalo de sobornos petroleros expone el doble juego corrupto del ‘procurador general’ de Guaidó https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/25/corrupcion-procurador-general-guaido-venezuela/ por @anyaparampil

Cómo el sorprendente testimonio de un espía de la policía amenaza la narrativa oficial del atentado al centro de la comunidad judía de Buenos Aires en 1994 https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/29/testimonio-espia-policia-amenaza-la-narrativa-oficial-atentado-amia/ por @GarethPorter

#RedLinesShow host @anyaparampil speaks with Beijing-based journalist @isgoodrum about a draft Chinese-Iranian trade agreement and China's role in challenging US financial hegemony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDBrPWfjmnU

Revelations by a former police spy upend the official story blaming Iran for the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and suggest a cover-up by dirty war elements may have let the real culprits off the hook.

By @GarethPorter
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/26/police-spys-testimony-official-us-israeli-amia-bombing/

A long-awaited UK report found no evidence of Russian meddling, but that hasn’t stopped the fear-mongering.

@aaronjmate debunks the paranoia with @afshinrattansi
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/25/uk-russia-report-fear-mongers-about-meddling-yet-finds-no-evidence/

We reported from inside Nicaragua's capital on the 41st anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution

@benjaminnorton covers a speech by President Daniel Ortega, shows how the government has responded to Covid, and exposes US and corporate media disinformation
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/23/nicaragua-sandinista-revolution-41-anniversary/

For over a year, top Western anti-corruption NGO Transparency International has been silent on Julian Assange – the world’s most prominent jailed transparency activist.

Is US and UK govt funding a factor in the organization’s silence? https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/21/state-dept-transparency-international-silent-jailed-julian-assange/ By @patrickmaynard

At the 41st anniversary of Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution, President Ortega said the failure of the US and Europe to protect their citizens in the Covid-19 pandemic is a "wake-up call" that "savage capitalism" has failed and a new economic model is needed.

By @benjaminnorton

This month, the @usukraine Foundation hosted a notorious neo-Nazi militant with a history of racist violence.

While legitimizing Ukrainian white supremacists, the think tank has forged close ties with Washington foreign policy elites.

By @mossrobeson__
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/20/ukrainian-think-tank-neo-nazi-racist-violence/