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US troops occupy Washington DC in massive show of force

@MaxBlumenthal heads to DC's "Red Zone" to report on the presence of 28,000 National Guard soldiers ahead of Biden's inaugural ceremony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfkBhvlcen0&t=1s

US troops occupy Washington DC in massive show of force

@MaxBlumenthal heads to DC's "Red Zone" to report on the presence of 28,000 National Guard soldiers ahead of Biden's inauguration
https://youtu.be/nfkBhvlcen0

After condemning the pro-Trump invasion of the Capitol, the incoming Biden administration sent an inaugural invite to @carlosvecchio – a coup leader charged in the 2014 torching of the Venezuelan Attorney General’s office

By @anyaparampil
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/17/biden-inaugural-guest-venezuelan-coup-leader-inciting-violent-assault/

How CENTCOM Chief Kenneth McKenzie manufactured an Iran crisis to increase his power

@GarethPorter examines how a top general deployed bureaucratic moves and the media to generate an atmosphere of crisis, increasing his policy influence in the process
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/15/centcom-chief-mckenzie-iran-crisis-power/

John Sullivan has been arrested and charged in federal court for his role in the US Capitol riot.

Read @MaxBlumenthal's investigation exposing the notorious instigator after the FBI initially let him go. https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/chaos-agent-right-wing-us-capitol-riot-black-lives-matter/

Sadistic US sanctions imposed on Syria under the Caesar Act are decimating war-ravaged civilians, are illegal, and should be lifted, the UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions tells @aaronjmate https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/14/un-expert-crippling-us-sanctions-on-syria-are-illegal-and-hurting-civilians/

Chaos agent: Right-wing blames US Capitol riot on notorious instigator banished by Black Lives Matter

@MaxBlumenthal investigates the strange and shocking saga of John Sullivan, who filmed Ashli Babbit's death as he egged on the Trumpist mob
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/chaos-agent-right-wing-us-capitol-riot-black-lives-matter/

A Spanish judge wants to investigate a member of the Sheldon Adelson security team for his apparent role in a criminal CIA spying operation against Julian Assange. Tellingly, the US Department of Justice has been refusing to comply

Scoop by @MaxBlumenthal
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/29/spanish-judge-sheldon-adelson-assange-spying/

Billionaire Republican mega-donor and Trump financier Sheldon Adelson has just died.

@MaxBlumenthal exposed the critical role Adelson's security team played in a CIA spying operation targeting journalist Julian Assange
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/14/american-sheldon-adelsons-us-spy-julian-assange/

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture @NilsMelzer discusses the persecution of journalist Julian Assange, the horrific conditions the @wikileaks publisher is held in in prison, and the lies employed to keep him behind bars.

via @aaronjmate
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/10/un-torture-expert-on-julian-assanges-persecution-and-the-lies-behind-it/

The US State Department designated Yemen’s Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as a “terrorist” organization. Meanwhile Washington and Saudi Arabia have been supporting al-Qaeda in the country.

via @benjaminnorton
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/us-al-qaeda-yemen-houthis-terrorists/

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Trump is overseeing a barbaric federal killing spree on his way out of his office, executing more prisoners in 2020 than all states combined. Reporter @georgehale tells @aaronjmate what he's witnessed inside the death chamber. https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/05/inside-trumps-outgoing-federal-execution-spree/

UK judge Vanessa Baraitser justified CIA spying on Julian Assange by citing a falsehood-filled CNN report.

Her disturbing judgment highlighted corporate media's enthusiastic role in a state-sponsored assault on press freedom.

via @benjaminnorton https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/05/uk-judge-cia-spying-assange-ecuador-cnn/

Our top 12 stories of 2020: From Julian Assange's persecution to the defeat of Bolivia's coup, the corporate war on free speech, the US hybrid war on Venezuela to the OPCW cover-up, we brought you investigative journalism that broke the media blockade. https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/01/top-the-grayzone-stories-of-2020/

US govt-sponsored @bellingcat has attacked defense attorneys and smeared witnesses in the trial over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

@beek38 asks: is the website being used by Western intelligence to steer the trial in a particular direction?
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/02/bellingcat-disrupts-mh17-trial-netherlands/

Exclusive video: The Grayzone's @anyaparampil visits Megasis, an Iranian supermarket which recently opened in Venezuela, and explores cooperation between Tehran and Caracas against a crushing US economic blockade https://thegrayzone.com/2020/12/30/inside-irans-supermarket-venezuela/