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What is your opinion on The Grayzone? (lemmygrad.ml)

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For your information, it was founded in 2015 and is edited by Max Blumenthal, and a notable former editor and reporter is Ben Norton (he left The Grayzone in 2022 to form Geopolitical Economy Report). And on Wikipedia, I saw they list The Grayzone is pro-China, Pro-Russia and pro-Ba'athist Syria (and far-left fringe site too). So, what is your thought on The Grayzone?

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[–] acabjones@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 4 days ago

Grayzone does actual investigative reporting from an anti imperialist position and as such I'm very glad they exist. I think we should read them with a critical eye, as we should when reading anything, taking what is of value and leaving weaker/incorrect bits. Grayzone and Max B sometimes give me libertarian vibes, but I feel like with the orientation of their work being mostly war/conflict reporting, any weird economic takes can be discarded. In that sense it's actually very good Ben Norton and Max B went separate ways bc Ben's work is much more focused on economics, so the outlets have different focuses.

Sidebar: I remember watching Aaron Mate and Ben Norton reporting together like 10 years ago on The Real News. Cool to see they both are still doing important work.