• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    It's a mixed bag just like any outlet. They have their own biases, and some of their views are questionable. That said, they often do important investigative reporting and do a good job citing their sources. For example, they're one of the best resources on what an utter nutcase Zenz is

    https://thegrayzone.com/tag/adrian-zenz/

  • supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    I mean one of their journalists just got abducted by the IOF so I am guessing they are alright. I may not agree with all their politics but they do good reporting.

  • Coco 📕@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    Meh, I would watch BT News TeleSUR Mondoweiss or CGTN instead also didn't they have drama with Ben Norton last year? (Also many Right-Deviationists support the GZ since Ben Norton called out MAGA communism)

  • lost_in_time [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    If tankies are pushed to criticise tankies, they'll say "Well I suppose the problem with tankies is an inability to criticise any non-Western country, they think that all things Western and automatically bad and all things non-Western are automatically good".

    That's what the Grayzone is. They try to minimise the badness of Putin and Assad to blame everything on the West. The West is not omnipotent; other countries have their share of the blame.

    Although it's an allegation overused by liberals, propaganda funded by Russian influences are a real thing. And the Grayzone certainly acts like one.

    On the plus side, it's done some important investigative work, like around the alleged Douma chemical attack: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/29/grayzones-aaron-mate-testifies-at-un-on-opcw-syria-cover-up/

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      That’s what the Grayzone is. They try to minimise the badness of Putin and Assad to blame everything on the West. The West is not omnipotent; other countries have their share of the blame.

      I think you would need to give examples to back up and clarify what you're saying. Blame doesn't operate on rules of universal fairness; it operates on who is provably doing what. The western empire may not be omnipotent, but it is the predominant force of military might across the world, which uses that might to undermine, destroy, and control. No one else comes close to the US's hundreds of military bases and its decades of orchestrating coups, which it has far from stopped doing / attempting to do.

      Using phrasing like "share of the blame" sounds off to me. It's not a pie with which you have to recognize how big Putin or Assad's piece is. It's an extremely imbalanced dynamic of power and exploitation and within that dynamic, it's important to recognize where someone like Putin lands in relation to his own people beyond the anti-imperialist struggle, but not to inflate what that means for the rest of the world while the western empire is still a dominant force that would squeeze out any self-determination for Russia and hollow it out for foreign capital if they could.