For the past decade, foreign powers have sought to destroy Syria. Most people are unaware since the western corporate media pretend the violence is the result of a revolution or civil war. The truth is that Israel wants to reclaim southern Syria, Turkey wants to...
US Bombings in Africa: Why Are People Unaware?
On Sept. 15, the New York Times reported: “U.S. Military Seeks Authority to Expand Counterterrorism Drone War to Kenya.”The Times reported: “The US military’s Africa Command is pressing for new authorities to carry out armed drone strikes...
Chomsky, Cockburn and Worthington Forced To Testify Only in Writing in Assange Case
I really do not know how to report Wednesday’s events. Stunning evidence, of extreme quality and interest, was banged out in precis by the lawyers as unnoticed as bags of frozen chips coming off a production line. The court that had listened to Clair Dobbin...
Debate ‘Train Wreck’ Shows US in No Position To Lecture the World
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.It was called ‘“the worst debate in American history” by more than one pundit and cable news anchor.The graphic descriptions of Tuesday night’s presidential debate between incumbent Donald Trump...
Assange Faces Living Hell of America’s ‘Special Administrative Measures’
Tuesday has been another day on which the testimony focused on the extreme inhumane conditions in which Julian Assange would be kept imprisoned in the USA if extradited. The prosecution’s continued tactic of extraordinary aggression towards witnesses who are...
We Are the Children of Gaza: The Poet, the Fashionista and the Footballer
The inevitable has finally happened, and the coronavirus pandemic is now ravaging the besieged Gaza Strip. On August 24, a total lockdown was imposed by the Gaza authorities following the discovery of several COVID-19 cases outside designated quarantine areas. Since...
Aaron Maté Testifies at the UN Security Council on the OPCW Syria Cover-Up
At an Arria-Formula Meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Aaron Maté of The Grayzone delivers remarks on the OPCW's ongoing Syria scandal. Veteran OPCW inspectors who investigated an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018 say that their probe...
10 Foreign Policy Questions That Should Be Asked at the Presidential Debate (But Probably Won’t)
Reprinted from Responsible Statecraft (Quincy Institute) with permission.Tuesday’s highly anticipated debate between President Trump and Democratic challenger Vice President Joe Biden is expected to delve into several broad topics critical to today’s...
Locking Assange in Solitary
Today was the worst day for the defense since the start of the trial, as their expert witnesses failed to cope with the sheer aggression of cross-examination by the US Government and found themselves backing away from maintaining propositions they knew to be true. It...
Don’t Expand the Drone War to Kenya
From The American Conservative:Priyanka Motaparthy calls attention to the possible expansion of the drone war into Kenya:The U.S. military is seeking new authorities to expand its program of lethal drone strikes into Kenya, in order to target al-Shabab fighters in the...


