Investigating Venezuela’s ‘Humanitarian Crisis’: Max Blumenthal Tours a Supermarket in Caracas

The corporate media claims Venezuela has no basic food or supplies, so Max Blumenthal investigated — at a giant supermarket in Caracas.

Max Blumenthal
By Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal | Venezuela

 This video was produced as part of a MintPress News and Grayzone collaboration. Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video

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US Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s Genocide in Yemen Spans Obama and Trump

“As a genocide scholar, I believe that under international law, the U.S. shares responsibility with the coalition for genocide in Yemen.”

Jeff Bachman
By Jeff Bachman
Yemen Famine

A Saudi-led coalition of states has been aggressively bombing Yemen and imposing an air and naval blockade of its ports for more than three years, leading U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to describe Yemen as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Guterres put the crisis in stark perspective, emphasizing the near complete lack of

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Journalists Dismiss “Completely Ridiculous” Claims by Mike Pence that Venezuela is funding the Migrant Caravan

On-the-ground journalists have classed the accusations as “completely ridiculous” and a lie, showing that the migrants “don’t have a dollar to even pay for a bottle of water.”

Paul Dobson
By Paul Dobson
Central America Migrant Caravan

Journalists have joined Venezuela officials in ridiculing allegations made on Tuesday by US Vice President Mike Pence that Venezuela is financing the migrant caravan traversing Central America en route to the Mexican-US border. Pence, in an interview with the Washington Post, claimed that US-allied Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez had

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After Peace Talks Fail, Saudi Coalition Reverts to Scorched-Earth Campaign Against Civilians in Yemen

After UN-brokered peace talks between Yemen and the Saudi coalition in Geneva failed last week, the Saudi-led coalition renewed its offensive to capture Yemen’s strategic port of Hodeida, leaving scores of dead civilians in its wake.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Yemen Famine

HODEIDA, YEMEN -- Not long after UN-brokered peace talks between Yemen and the Saudi coalition in Geneva failed last week, the Saudi-led coalition renewed its offensive to capture Yemen’s strategic port of Hodeida. The attacks targeted internally displaced persons, vital facilities and infrastructure-- continuing a scorched earth campaign that has

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Venezuela Fights On!

VA’s Jeanette Charles talks to the International Strategy Center about the recent economic measures in Venezuela, migration, and other matters.

Jeanette Charles
By Jeanette Charles
Venezuela Homeland Card

Jeanette Charles is the international solidarity liaison with Venezuelanalysis. In May 2018, she organized a delegation with Venezuelanalysis and The Intrepid News Fund to observe the presidential elections. During their trip, journalists, activists, lawyers and other participants met with representatives from community-based organizations,

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In Yemen, Selling, Borrowing, Begging To Save Loved-Ones as Cholera Rages

What is taking shape across this Texas-sized nation at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula is an awful, perfect storm, a disastrous collaboration between nature and man that has caused a cataclysm unlike anything the world has ever seen.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
A man is treated for suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Hani Mohammed | AP

SANA’A, YEMEN -- When his wife’s vomiting and diarrhea simply wouldn’t stop, 40-year-old Ali Sherwaid, an English teacher, did a quick accounting in his head, calibrating the catastrophe that had befallen him. With cholera ravaging his wife, 28 years-old and nine-months pregnant with the couple’s first child, Sherwaid needed to get her medical

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