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.
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
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.
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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This article smears the millions of Americans growing disgusted with a Congress that pumps their tax dollars into the pockets of Ukrainian warlords and arms dealers as traitors
Its author, David Rothkopf, has been a literal foreign agent paid $50,000 a month by the UAE monarchy
The Cold War crazed Democrats found the perfect guy to brand millions of Americans as subversive foreign agents theintercept.com/2018/10/22/msn…
Bernie's former foreign policy advisor sports a shirt by @saintjavelin, a pro-war operation that fundraises for the Georgian Legion, a militia filled with war criminals, mercenaries & violent extremists who proudly exhibit their atrocities. #SlavaRaytheon
Protests against NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine and its boomerang sanctions are spreading across Germany. My friend Rami sent me these videos and images from one such demonstration this month in Leipzig.
“We are here, we are young people saying we are against this government making sanctions against its own people. So yeah, fuck them.”
The protester quoted in the previous tweet was referring to counter-protests by “antifa” elements which support NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine, and which hectored demonstrators against the war as “Nazis.”
Liberal Zionist operatives destroyed the Women's March from within with fake antisemitism allegations as they vied for control over a lucrative anti-Trump hustle.
But this laughable piece of propaganda claims "Russian trolls" were responsible while conceding there's no evidence.
The NYT offers no attribution proving the marginal accounts attacking Women's March were GRU/IRA.
Worse, its article is based on a paper absurdly claiming 10 Russian accounts "drove more than one-third of the Twitter conversations about feminism and women’s rights."
What?
The research the NYT relied on was sponsored by the Canadian govt's Global Affairs, which means it is itself government-sponsored propaganda.
This piece of academic self-satire also blames Venezuela's socialist, pro-feminist govt for the online assault on feminism inside the US
Lawsuit vs the Biden admin illustrates how extensive and coercive gov't censorship of social media has become.
Discovery reveals everyone from the White House to the State Dept, DHS and even Census dictating Covid content rules to Facebook & others. nclalegal.org/wp-content/upl…
White House Covid-19 team digital director Clarke Humphrey orders Facebook to remove a Fauci parody account on Instagram on 7/20/21. "Yep, on it," comes the reply from FB.
Here is a senior executive from Facebook texting Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to do damage control after Biden accused FB of "killing people" with misinformation. He thanks the "CISA team," referring to the DHS cybersecurity wing.
Murthy then calls for more "prebunk" actions.
This February, I interviewed Sonia Castro, top public health advisor to Nicaragua's Sandinista govt, on her country's response to Covid-19.
Among the issues we covered was her govt's decision to reject lockdown & protect livelihoods of informal workers thegrayzone.com/2022/08/16/nic…
Sonia Castro, top public health advisor to President Daniel Ortega, explains why Nicaragua kept its public schools open throughout the pandemic, and how that protected children while facilitating mass public health education
I asked Sonia Castro about Nicaragua's application of early treatments against Covid in public hospitals, including certain off-patent medicines demonized and forbidden by US authorities. These medicines are commonly used and easily obtained across the region.
This was sent to me by an account I don’t know, so I’m not sure @jimmy_wales’ comments denigrating @TheGrayzoneNews are authentic. But his politics and defense of Phillip Cross, a suspect editor who has vandalized my personal Wikipedia page and The Grayzone’s, suggest they are.
Wikipedia editor Phillip Cross spends nearly every waking our conducting industrial grade smear ops against anti-imperialist public figures. He has edited over 50% of my page with lies and distortions of half-truths - all with the support of @jimmy_walesthecanary.co/discovery/anal…
Wikipedia founder @jimmy_wales also happens to be on the board of Newsguard, the Pentagon and State Dept-funded “news rating” agency that gave The Grayzone a “red” rating.
As I noted in my reply to them, these war mongering spooks aren’t fit to judge us. newsguardtech.com/feedback/publi…