Guantánamo Naval Base Also Used for Migrant Detentions in 2025 On January 11, 2026, thousands of citizens of many countries held vigils for the 15 men still in the U.S. military prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo, Cuba. As these citizens have been doing for more than two decades,...

Shadow operators at the front lines of America’s forever wars come back as damaged goods and often parlay the skills they learned overseas into criminal acts at home In his 2014 retirement speech, Admiral William McRaven, the former commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), called the era of...

Nicaragua remains in the crosshairs of U.S. regime-change efforts, along with Cuba and Venezuela, as President Donald Trump boasts of his administration’s goal to remove “Marxists” from Latin America.  This inflammatory rhetoric is repeated endlessly despite the fact that Nicaragua actually has a mixed-economy that recognizes, and even encourages, through...

On two visits, this author witnessed North Korea’s economic boom first-hand I visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or People’s Korea in April 2024 and then 18 months later in October 2025 after being invited by the Korean Association of Social Scientists (KASS). The trips were organized by the British...

Kyrylo Budanov Has Ties to Far-Right Pro-Banderite Groups From the Phoenix Program to Operation Condor and the Contra War to Operation Timber Sycamore and the Global War on Terror, the CIA has a long history of training fascist death-squad operatives, torturers and assassins. The historical...

Mass protests have taken place across the country after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis, executing her in her car as she tried to drive away...

Shortly before the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied a motion by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to dismiss the long-running lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims against the monarchy. Originally filed back in 2003,...

Following the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed an indictment alleging that Maduro “moved loads of cocaine under the protection of Venezuelan law enforcement” and that profits from the illegal activity “flowed” to...

Seven years ago, then U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard wrote on Twitter: "The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.  We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders—so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” Now, as Director of National Intelligence in...

On December 28th, The Grayzone exposed how the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA) concocted a malign scheme to blackmail and intimidate the EU’s European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the European Commission. Established in close coordination with CIA and MI6 officials to prosecute Syrian officials for alleged war crimes,...