Best Jacques Baud Podcasts (2026)

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EU sanctions Swiss analyst Jacques Baud for Ukraine 'conspiracy theories' 17:57

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the farcical claims by EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen to uphold freedom of speech as she sanctions former Swiss intelligence officer and analyst Jacques Baud for challenging official Western narratives of the Ukraine proxy war. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://the…

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Colonel Jacques Baud & Nathalie Yamb Sanctioned: EU Goes Soviet | Glenn Diesen 50:09

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Originally published on Dec 16, 2025. How did we reach a point where quoting Western sources gets you branded a foreign propagandist? Is the EU's executive branch now completely out of its mind, punishing dissenters without trial under the guise of fighting "propaganda"?To discuss this Orwellian turn, I sat down with my friend and colleague Glenn D…

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USA Starts War With Venezuela. Bombing Campaign. Maduro Reportedly Captured. 22:03

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Originally published on Jan 3, 2026. The USA just committed another sneak attack against another nation. This time, Venezuela. On the 5th anniversary of the killing of Qasem Soleimani, Iran's top general at the time, the USA is starting another illegal war, this time with a South American Nation. Links: Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://w…

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Government by gangsterism - The Grayzone live 1:53:36

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Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil discuss the US regime change war on Venezuela, the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro, and Trump's claim to have taken over the country. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTgkGSeJfhgBy The Grayzone

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EU Makes Punishment without Trial LEGAL | Dr. Alexandra Hofer 56:46

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Originally published on Jan 1, 2026. In its quest to defeat Russia, the EU has started sanctioning its own citizens, and those of third states like my country men, Nathalie Yamb and Jacques Baud. But what are these sanctions actually in the international legal system? Here to help with this question is Dr. Alexandra Hofer, an Assistant Professor Pu…

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The Psychological Roots of Political Failure | Dr. Bernhard Hommel 54:40

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Originally published on Dec 31, 2025. Why do our political debates inevitably hit dead ends? Why do we dismiss opposing views as madness? I suspect the issue isn't just about facts, but about the subconscious blueprints we hold of human nature itself.To help me decode these hidden psychological frameworks, I’m joined by Dr. Bernhard Hommel, a full …

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EU Totalitarianism: Sanctions Are Only The Beginning | Prof. David N. Gibbs 1:06:39

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Originally published on Dec 30, 2025. In 2014 and 2022, the EU initiated sanctions regimes against Russia. The lists of entities and individuals were originally supposed to target Russia’s econmic and political elites only. But since 2024, the list has been expanded to include “disinformation” and is being used to target journalists and academics e…

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Dark Alliance: Top US ally Noboa linked to S. American drug trade 26:26

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The Grayzone's Oscar Leon interviews Augustin Durán, an Ecuadoran investigative journalist who has had to flee his country due to his allegations that billionaire, US-allied President Daniel Noboa, the Noboa family and their inner circle are intimately involved in the international drug trade. In this explosive documentary, Leon and Durán reveal th…

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Bari Weiss Israelifies CBS on behalf of billionaire masters 14:17

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the essential utility of CBS editor in chief Bari Weiss to the billionaire Ellison family which recently bought CBS. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone T…

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Why did Bari Weiss censor 60 Minutes CECOT segment? 7:11

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal reveals a deeper layer of the scandal over the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to the notorious Salvadoran CECOT prison, explaining the role of Secretary of State Marco Rubio in orchestrating the deal in order to shatter negotiations with Caracas. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com S…

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Whistleblower EXPOSES Shocking University Research | Dylan Cawthorne 45:06

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Originally published on Dec 29, 2025. Europe is gearing up for war. The militarization drive is undeniable and has by now also reached the universities. But, not everybody is ok with that. My guest today, in fact, quite his job as an Associate Professor at the University of Souther Denmark to protest the militarization of research projects. Dr. Dyl…

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German Guilt for 27 Million Soviet Deaths Drives EU To Next War | Ulrich Heyden 48:31

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Originally published on Dec 28, 2025. It is a trauma—a trauma that must remain repressed. While Willy Brandt’s kneeling in Warsaw has been etched into German collective memory, and remembrance of the six million victims of the Holocaust forms the core of Germany’s “culture of remembrance,” the country's guilt toward the 27 million citizens of the S…

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Venezuela confronts sadistic US economic warfare 13:30

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the latest stage of the US war on Venezuela, as the Trump admin announces a "quarantine" on Venezuelan oil exports. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Tw…

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The demise of Bari Weiss has already begun 9:37

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the swift fall from grace of the newly installed CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Twitter: https://twitter.com/the…

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Mike Pompeo pitches Halliburton for US-run Venezuela 8:41

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's deeply revealing plan for Venezuela after regime change. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Twitter: https://…

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US military nearly downed civilian airliner off Venezuela coast 4:39

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal on the shockingly irresponsible conduct of the US military deployment against Venezuela as its forces jam GPS of civilian airliners and nearly down a Jet Blue flight filled with Americans. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com…

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Maria Corina Machado calls war on Venezuela 'act of love' 10:50

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss war-crazed Nobel Peace Prize winner and Venezuelan opposition leader's latest revealing rant supporting a US invasion her country. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://faceboo…

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Trump Bibi-sits Netanyahu... again 22:38

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the upcoming visit of Benjamin Netanyahu to Trump in Florida and Washington, and what the Israeli Prime Minister wants this time, from Gaza to Iran to the US. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzo…

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Aaron Mate: Sy Hersh did not retract Syria reporting 13:19

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The Grayzone's Aaron Mate harshly critiques a controversial scene in Laura Poitras' new Netflix documentary on the career of legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, "Cover-Up," in which Hersh appears to renounce his own reporting questioning the official story on Syrian chemical attacks. Aaron exposes deceptive editing by Poitras and reveal…

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Rule by Decree of the Eurocrats: Democracy Has Ended. 16:19

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Originally published on Dec 27, 2025. The 59 individuals sanctioned by the EU are just the beginning. The eurocrats are only getting started with their campaign against internal dissent. Their unhinged nature is as much a function of the way they are losing the Ukraine proxy-war as also a direct result of 30 years of End-of-History megalomania in t…

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Europe's HATE For Russia Is Destroying The Continent | Guy Mettan 58:56

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Originally published on Dec 25, 2025. Today I’m joined by Guy Mettan, a Swiss Journalist and Politician who is currently serving as a member of parliament in Geneva, one of Switzerland’s 26 cantons. Monsieur Mettan is also the author of the book Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria, which he published already…

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It's a big club - The Grayzone 3:07:22

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Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the furor over Bari Weiss spiking a 60 Minutes segment that exposed the Salvadoran dungeon that has become a linchpin of the Trump-Rubio deportation policy, and the future of a corporate media stripped of the illusion of impartiality. They will also cover an insider attack on US troops in Syria, the escalation of…

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Death By Sanctions: EU Destroys German Journalist in Germany | Hüseyin Doğru 51:57

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Originally published on Dec 24, 2025. The European Union has started using the Anti-Russia sanctions as a repressive tool to smuther civil society dissent within the West. Last week, Colonel Jacque Baud, a former Swiss army member and NATO advisor was sanctioned, but so were several others before him, including activists and Journalists. One of the…

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Sanctioned by EU. Abandoned by Switzerland | Nathalie Yamb 53:19

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Originally published on Dec 22, 2025. Fifty-nine individuals are by now sanctioned by the European Union in pursuit of punishing Russia for the War in Ukraine. Many of them are Russian citizens but more and more the EU is putting its own citizens and those of third states on this list, for reasons that have often little to do with Russia. One of th…

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Yugoslav Collapse and NATO‘s Precedent for Violent Border Changes | Dr. Sandra Davidović 1:02:22

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Originally published on Dec 21, 2025. NATO and EU „jurists“ are trying to tell us that Kosovo is a case „sui generis“ — aka unlike any case before or after it. Well, how convenient, since it is the first case that NATO used to justify bombing foreign territory (Serbia). Today we are going to put a very close focus on Kosovo, the history of the conf…

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Rule of Law in EU Destroyed, ANYONE Can Be Next | MEP Michael v.d. Schulenburg 42:02

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Originally published on Dec 20, 2025. With its sanctions list, the EU HAS quietly revived medieval "outlawry" in the heart of modern Europe. Why can a secretive administrative body bypass every judicial safeguard to financially erase a citizen? Horrible realities are surfacing within the institutions supposedly built to protect our most fundamental…

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War Hysteria Is ENDING The EU Project | Ex-Ambassador Georges Martin 1:01:18

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Originally published on Dec 19, 2025. Europe is heading toward total war with Russia, while the responsible elites continue to pour fuel on the fire. What madness has taken hold of the continent’s political leaders, and what is driving European diplomats to finally stop this train rushing toward disaster? To shed light on these questions, I am join…

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EX-Central Banker: Russian Asset Theft Will Destroy EU Markets | Prof. Dejan Šoškić 55:12

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Originally published on Dec 18, 2025. The European Union just decided to permanently freeze 140 Billion Euros or so of Russian State assets and basically expropriate the Russian state. What does mean for Europe as an economy and as a market place? Here to help with this question is Dejan Soskic, a Professor at the University of Belgarde and former …

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US Naval Seizures In The Caribbean Are Only The Beginning | Amb. Chas Freeman 1:01:25

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Originally published on Dec 15, 2025. We are back with Ambassador Chas Freeman, a former US Assistant Secretary of Defense and as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia who will give us an update in his take of what is currently going on in world affairs.Links:Neutrality Studies Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@neutralitystudies Neutrality Studi…

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Ex-Agent REVEALS: CIA Makes Peace Impossible | Larry C. Johnson 56:18

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Originally published on Dec 13, 2025. Mainstream Media keeps feeding us narratives about Russia without ever bothering going there. In contrast, a man who has been listening in on the Russian viewpoint for a long time is Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA analyst and member of group “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity”.Links:Sonar21: https:/…

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US Trying To Fool Europe: New National Security Strategy Changes NOTHING 33:36

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Originally published on Dec 13, 2025. At the end of November this year, the United States published the so-called National Security Strategy. This document here, and when I say the United States, what I mean is actually the White House. I will explain in a moment why that matters. On the one hand, what we've also seen in December is that Representa…

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Hamas negotiator on Israel's ceasefire violations and new barriers to Palestinian freedom 49:14

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As Israel violates the ceasefire with relentless attacks on Gaza, The Grayzone's Aaron Maté sits down with senior Hamas negotiator Basem Naim in Doha, Qatar. Naim survived the Israeli military's attack on a gathering of Hamas officials in September. He discusses the UN-endorsed demand that Hamas disarm without a path to Palestinian self-determinati…

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The West‘s 100-Year War To Destroy Russia | Michael J. Carley 59:51

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Originally published on Dec 12, 2025. A good part of Western media has been telling us for years that Vladimir Putin is trying to re-create the Soviet Union and its militant, expansionist foreign policy. But what exactly was Soviet Foreign Policy about in the first place? Here to help with this historical question is Dr. Michael Jabara Carley, a pr…

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USA In Shock: Russia Just Won BIG In Asia | Dr. Anuradha Chenoy 57:16

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Originally published on Dec 11, 2025. Last week, Vladimir Putin visited India and was received there with the highest honours. What does this tell us about these two countries and the emerging BRICS states? Here to discuss with me is the Indian scholar and Russia expert, Professor Anuradha Chenoy, a former professor and dean at the School of Intern…

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Russia’s Long-Game Strategy | Stas Krapivnik 56:58

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Originally published on Dec 10, 2025. Over the past weeks, something has changed about the war in Ukraine. Although the fighting is still raging, it feels as if we have crossed a tipping point. Zelensky is under fire even in the West for corruption, the American’s once again said they want to end it A.S.A.P. in their new national security strategy,…

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"It's a fraud": Trump and MS-13 helped rig Honduran vote, top official tells The Grayzone 54:03

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Honduran Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Torres Zelaya spoke with The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed to explain what really happened in November’s widely-disputed election. They discuss how the cartel-linked opposition appears to have used their control of the electoral system to rig the vote, the hundreds of death threats reportedly made by MS-13 members s…

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Israel‘s Zionist Self-Destruction | Y. Rabkin, M. Ramos & J. Sachs 1:03:03

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Originally published on Dec 9, 2025. Euro-American Zionism (Jewish and Christian) has killed millions in West Asia, devastated the region, and it is the motor behind the Gaza Genocide. But Israel itself is under threat of falling pray to the deadly logic that birthed the state in the first place.Today we are holding a panel discussion on what makes…

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Max Blumenthal exposes CIA-cartel connections 13:57

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In a riveting interview with OANN host and former US congressman Matt Gaetz, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal discusses the recent indictment of a former top DEA official and veteran CIA asset in a $12 million scheme to launder money and procure drones for Mexico's Jalisco cartel. Blumenthal uses the scandal as a window into the US government's histor…

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Russophobia Was Always The Goal | Former GDR State Secretary Dr. Petra Erler 47:44

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Originally published on Dec 8, 2025. Being a “Putin-versteher”—a “Putin-understander”—is one of the worst accusations one can make against someone in German-speaking Europe. It usually comes from people who believe they know exactly what Russia really wants. But is the West even capable of understanding what its counterpart is striving for?Today I’…

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Aaron Mate confronts Hillary Clinton 0:19

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The Grayzone's Aaron Mate challenges Hillary Clinton over her condescending comments blaming social media propaganda for the rising opposition of young Americans to Israel's US-backed atrocities. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: htt…

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CIA, DEA officials indicted in cartel money scheme 2:06

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A top ex-DEA official and veteran CIA asset were busted in $12 million scheme to launder cash and procure drones for Mexico’s Jalisco cartel. The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal visits a Northern Virginia home raided by federal agents and wonders who America’s drug warriors are really working for. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegr…

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It Is Worse Than You Think In Germany | Dr. Hans-Georg Moeller 55:22

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Originally published on Dec 7, 2025. In Europe, we once honestly believed that we had learned the lessons of the past. Never again would we support a Genocide. Never again would we support war on this continent. Yet here we are, at the loosing end of a NATO proxy war in the East and a Genocide in Gaza. And so much more.Here to discuss what went wro…

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Trump pardons narco-president to swing Honduras election 24:59

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The Grayzone's Wyatt Reed reveals why the US president pardoned a "narco-dictator" convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the US amid the Rubio-led campaign to bring Honduras back into US orbit. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Faceb…

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UK's war on Palestine activism escalates 7:58

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The Grayzone's Kit Klarenberg explains how the British government is working with the Israeli embassy to tackle the "threat" of Palestinian human rights activists. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://facebook.com/thegrayzone Tw…

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“War crimes”: Judge Napolitano slams Hegseth for killing non-combatants 20:26

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Judge Andrew Napolitano tells The Grayzone why the Trump administration's ongoing military targeting of non-combatants in the Caribbean constitutes war crimes under US and international law. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone Facebook: https://…

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Britain's secret censorship regime exposed by The Grayzone 23:01

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Kit Klarenberg breaks down the shocking files obtained by The Grayzone showing for the first time how Britain's military-led DSMA committee conspires with friendly mainstream reporters — and keeps the rest in line with threats of criminal prosecution — to control the narrative surrounding the UK government's most sensitive issues. ||| The Grayzone …

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German Militarism Is Back | Fabian Scheidler 51:20

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Originally published on 6 Dec 2025. War propaganda in Europe is running at full throttle. Whether in the mainstream or on social media, anyone calling for more war against Russia is being listened to. How can we possibly get out of this?That is the question my guest today is addressing: the German author and playwrite Fabian Scheidler, who recently…

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Europe & NATO at the Edge of Disaster—With Eyes Wide Shut | Dr. Gabriele Krone-Schmalz 49:18

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Originally published on 5 Dec 2025. While the United States and Russia are negotiating peace, Germany and the rest of Europe are yapping for more military force in order to impose their vision of “justice.” Yet Europe has neither the weapons nor the economic strength to achieve anything even remotely like that. What on earth is going on with German…

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Dept of War Crimes - The Grayzone live 1:51:47

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The Grayzone is joined by Wyatt Reed to cover the contested Honduran election, then Kit Klarenberg joins to discuss his blockbuster report on the British DSMA censorship regime, and Judge Andrew Napolitano closes out with his critique of Pete Hegseth's policy of attacking civilians accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean. ... https://www.yout…

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Moscow Meeting Shock: USA Abandons Europe & Ukraine | Ray MacGovern & Larry Johnson 58:04

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Originally published on 4 Dec 2025. The US delegation just met with Vladimir Putin and his staff in Moscow and although there is no peace agreement yet, we seem to be one step closer to some form of “compromise” as the Russian TASS news agency puts it.Here to help explaining the developments are Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson. Links:Ray's website: …