Left-wing journalistic outlet The Grayzone has been targeted by British celebrity journalist Paul Mason, according to a cache of private emails that have recently been leaked. The emails reveal an elaborate plan to deplatform, discredit, lampoon and defund The Grayzone. When questioned, Mason refused to deny the accuracy of the emails, but instead chalked it all up to Russian psyops. Jimmy and his panel consisting of The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the exposure of this not-so-secret plan to take down The Grayzone.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The Grayzone has published leaked email communications between faux-left British commentator and aspiring parliamentarian Paul Mason and a shady intelligence contractor named Amil Khan which plainly shows the two plotting to use state power to subvert anti-imperialist media outlets like Consortium News and Grayzone, as well as “far left rogue academics” and the broader left more generally.
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