Comment on Cheering Assad: How the US Left Joined the Far Right by When Ideology ligns So Conveniently With Financial Gain, The Line Between Anti-Interventionist Reporting And Opportunistic Grifting Becomes Indistinguishable – It Should Be Said In A Thousand Languages – Zhaleh Sahand

The irony is that Blumenthal used his appearance on Fox to dismiss the credibility of irrefutable Trump-Russia connections on a supposed lack of evidence, whereas in Syria, Blumenthal and his AlterNet Grayzone colleagues have repeatedly ignored evidence in favour of fact-free war crimes denial narratives, even when those narratives contradict each other. Following a UN investigation that found the Assad regime responsible for the war crime, not only did Blumenthal fail to retract the lie, his colleague Rania Khalek rejected the UN investigation and again mouthed the regime line. The U.S.