Some powerful forces have apparently deemed The Grayzone’s critical journalism incompatible with an event sponsored by military-intelligence contractors and attended by Ukrainian officials and activists lobbying Western governments for advanced weaponry to fuel their proxy war.
https://twitter.com/WebSummit/status/1585308814437273612
Our cancellation occurred within an atmosphere where calls for negotiation and dissent against a NATO proxy war that is ruining European economies and bringing the West to the brink of nuclear confrontation are ruthlessly silenced. Questioning the logic of escalation is verboten.
.@WebSummit explicitly framed our cancellation as a "stand with Ukraine" gesture
The summit lists mil-intel contractors & NATO states as partners and features Ukrainian officials and the Portuguese PM on stage
The summit lists mil-intel contractors & NATO states as partners and features Ukrainian officials and the Portuguese PM on stage
Pressure against our presence at @WebSummit featured a coordinated online lobbying campaign by Bellingcat, the US-UK govt-funded "intelligence by proxy" operation, Ukrainian nationalists actively involved in their country's information war, and droves of centrist blue checks.
During @WebSummit in Toronto, @aaronjmate and I noted how cheerleaders for NATO's proxy wars in Syria and Ukraine feverishly smear and deplatform us because they can't survive an in-person debate.
Once again, they've proven our point.
Once again, they've proven our point.
I'm grateful to @paddycosgrave for attempting to feature divergent opinions, critical journalism & debate on a disastrous proxy war that is fueling Europe's deindustrialization and global destabilization. Powerful, malign forces must silence these discussions to escalate the war.
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