Venezuela's socialists win elections in landslide - so US tries to discredit them
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won the November 21 mega-elections in a landslide, getting more votes in 20 of 23 states and the capital Caracas. So the US government responded by trying to discredit the vote.
Venezuelan journalist Diego Sequera speaks about the elections, the historic victory of the ruling party of President Nicolás Maduro, and Washington's attempt to delegitimize the process.
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss a historically awful column by New York Times neoliberal pundit Thomas Friedman, and what it says about the elite pundit and political class driving America's wars abroad.
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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover pediatrician Peter Hotez's refusal to debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr and what it says about the expert class that provides political cover to official imperatives from jab mandates to regime change wars.
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With exclusive footage from inside the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, Al-Shifa, The Grayzone examines the Israeli military's policy of attacking and eliminating medicare care centers across the northern part of the besieged Palestinian territory as it seeks to expel its residents.
By Max Blumenthal, Mohamed El-Saife and Anya Parampil
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Speaking to the United Nations Security Council, Aaron Maté of The Grayzone takes apart the OPCW's excuses for refusing to address the organization's Syria cover-up scandal.
OPCW inspectors found no evidence to support allegations of a Syrian government chemical weapons attack in the city of Douma in April 2018. But their findings were suppressed, and the team was sidelined.
The OPCW leadership now claims that "most of the analytical work took place" in the "last six months" of the Douma investigation, when the original team was out of the picture. Comparing the OPCW's own published reports, Maté shows why that is demonstrably false.
The bulk of the work was in fact carried out by the original team in the first weeks of the probe, and the “analytical work” conducted after their censorship is minor in scale and riddled with deceptions and unsupported conclusions.
Maté also addresses a new claim by OPCW Director General Fernando Arias that "I don't know why" the OPCW's final Douma report "was contested." This is another demonstrably false claim, as Arias' own prior statements show.
Maté also asks the US and UK ambassadors if they will support a new proposal from distinguished signatories -- including five former OPCW officials — to let the OPCW's own Scientific Advisory Board assess the claims of the dissenting inspectors. The US and UK Ambassadors left the meeting -- it is unclear when -- and so did not respond.
Video: Aaron Maté's presentation to an Arria-Formula Meeting of the United Nations Security Council, April 16 2021.
Link: Berlin Group21 proposal to OPCW:
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The Grayzone's coverage of the OPCW's Syria cover-up scandal:
https://thegrayzone.com/category/opcw-douma/
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In Managua, Ben Norton interviews Nicaragua's representative to the UN's International Court of Justice, Carlos Argüello Gómez, who speaks about his country's case against the US over its terrorist Contra war, the 2018 coup attempt, and why Washington's unilateral sanctions are an illegal form of warfare on civilians.
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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover Secretary of State Tony Blinken's hand-wringing over mass civilian deaths in Gaza during his appearance at Davos.
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Rania Khalek and Anya Parampil discuss the attempted mercenary invasion of Venezuela, conspiracies about China and Covid-19, and the aftermath of the US-backed military coup against Bolivia's democratically elected government, with journalist Wyatt Reed, who was on the ground in Bolivia reporting on the violent repression.
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Members of the Bronx Antiwar Coalition respond to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's smears. After hosting a job fair which featured military recruiters, AOC falsely attacked protesters – including local Bronx school teachers and workers – as outside agitators who put her life in danger.
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Russia's FSB intelligence agency has been accused of poisoning opposition activist Alexei Navalny. While the allegation may prove to be true, Western media coverage has overlooked the key role of the CIA, MI6, and the state-funded outlet Bellingcat in generating it.
Western media outlets have failed to disclose that Bellingcat is funded by NATO member states, including the US via the National Endowment for Democracy, and that Bellingcat has a dubious record. In a leaked assessment, the UK government's Integrity Initiative wrote: “Bellingcat was somewhat discredited, both by spreading disinformation itself, and by being willing to produce reports for anyone willing to pay."
And few have paid attention to reporting by the New York Times that shortly after Navalny was flown to Germany for treatment, "representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service provided members of the German government with details about the poisoning, including the identities of the Federal Security Service officers involved, that directly implicated the Russian government."
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