The Grayzone

US independent media outlet much hated by the deep state.

 https://thegrayzone.com/     
Founder: Max Blumenthal

In its own words:
"Investigative journalism on politics and empire"

Main focus: US/Deep state
Members: Matthew Alford,  Brian Berletic,  Dan Cohen,  T. J. Coles,  Jonathan Cook,  Camila Escalante,  Daniel Espinosa,  Ann Garison,  Kevin Gosztola,  Jeremy Loffredo,  Rania Khalek,  Kit Klarenberg,  Jeremy Kuzmarov,  Alan MacLeod,  Aaron Maté,  Nils McCune,  Todd Miller,  Ben Norton,  Matt Orfalea,  Stavroula Pabst,  Anya Parampil,  Zach El Parece,  Marcie Smith Parenti,  Gareth Porter,  Moss Robeson,  Alexander Rubinstein,  David Sheen,  Ajit Singh,  Stansfield Smith,  Simon Tesfamarian

The Grayzone was founded by Max Blumenthal.

Censorship

In 2020 Wikipedia decreed that The Grayzone was an unreliable source after a difference of opinion about Venezuela.

 

Known members

12 of the 30 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Brian Berletic	Researcher, Writer, Commentator, banned from Twitter in 2022.
Dan Cohen	US journalist
Jonathan Cook	UK journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001.
Rania Khalek	Journalist
Kit Klarenberg	UK investigative journalist who publishes at Off Guardian and The Grayzone.
Jeremy Kuzmarov
Jeremy Loffredo	American alternative media journalist
Alan MacLeod	Staff writer at Mintpress, contributed to Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and the Grayzone
Aaron Maté	American journalist.
Ben Norton	American journalist.
Anya Parampil	Investigative journalist at The Grayzone.
Gareth Porter	American investigative journalist, author and policy analyst

 

Documents sourced from The Grayzone

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:British govt funded plan for censorship of factual NATO criticism	Article	NATO "Disinformation" FBI Bellingcat Zinc Network CACI SBU	3 October 2023	Jack Poulson	Leaked documents reveal British intel contractor Zinc Network singled out The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal for online censorship, and seeks to redefine factual criticism of NATO as disinformation
Document:Dissident British ex-diplomat Craig Murray indicted for blog posts in Kafkaesque case	Article	Craig Murray Alex Salmond Mark Hirst Nicola Sturgeon Leeona Dorrian	27 April 2020	Ben Norton	“The state believes it has finally discovered a way to put me in prison without the inconvenient hurdle of a jury of my peers. This really is the epitome of bad law. To use it against freedom of speech is disgusting.”
Document:Five questions for new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about his UK and US national security establishment links	Article	Wikileaks Julian Assange Jonathan Evans John Scarlett Eliza Manningham-Buller Trilateral Commission Eric Holder David Omand Jeremy Corbyn Binyam Mohamed Keir Starmer David Neuberger David Leppard	5 June 2020	Matt Kennard	Keir Starmer did not become leader to help Labour win, but to restore establishment control over the party and vanquish the heretics that dared defy its agenda. For the forces he truly represents, the project has been a smashing success.
Document:Former ambassador and Assange advocate Craig Murray detained under UK terror laws	Article	Craig Murray Julian Assange National Security Act Palestine Solidarity Campaign "Counter-terrorism" Stewart McDonald October 2023 Gaza−Israel conflict	17 October 2023	Kit Klarenberg	When probed by counter-terror cops about the contents of his laptop, Craig Murray says he openly disclosed that the device contained copies of leaked private emails of Stewart McDonald, a hawkish, deep state-connected Scottish National Party MP: “I told the officers I pitied whichever poor bastard has to wade through McDonald’s emails,” he joked.
Document:The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader	Article	Elliott Abrams Venezuela CANVAS National Endowment for Democracy Nicolás Maduro Juan Guaidó Srđa Popović Otpor! Popular Will	29 January 2019	Dan Cohen Max Blumenthal	Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, Guaidó has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilisation in Venezuela
File:Henderson-Testimony-UN.pdf	Transcript	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Douma attack UN/SC	10 February 2020	Ian Henderson (OPCW)	Transcript of the testimony of ex-OPCW inspector Ian Henderson before the UNSC on 20 January 2020 about the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria on 18 April 2018, and the subsequent OPCW report about it.

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