Newly-leaked emails show ex-leftist journalist-turned-snitch Paul Mason attempted a legal crusade to silence his critics and censor The Grayzone’s reporting.While Mason blames “Russian intelligence” for a blacklist he created, he privately admitted to creating what he called “the network graphic” in talks with the elite legal team he enlisted to target this outlet.

Once a well-known British broadcast pundit and columnist who fashioned himself as a voice of the movement behind former Leader leader Jeremy Corbyn, Paul Mason is now the butt of a seemingly endless stream of jokes from his former peers among the left. Their mockery focuses on revelations which first appeared in a 2022 Grayzone investigation exposing Mason as a snitch who attempted to supply dirt on leftists to secret British government contacts. Among the most significant documents disclosed in our report was a bizarre chart Mason created to illustrate his view of Chinese and Russian control over Corbyn and the entire UK antiwar movement. 

This January, everyone from lefty commentator Owen Jones to UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski taunted Mason for his secret enemies list. In response, Mason has staged a public meltdown, accusing his critics of amplifying Russian propaganda, and implying that the documents we revealed were somehow fabricated. “Outright Putinists are now joining the Greens thanks to Zack’s conversion to the Grayzone agenda,” he tweeted on January 23 in response to mockery from the Green Party’s Polanski.

Now, the Grayzone has learned that in the weeks after the publication of our first article exposing his snitching to government officials, Mason secretly attempted a campaign of legal retaliation against this outlet, and demanded criminal penalties for public figures who shared our reporting.

Previously unseen leaked email exchanges show Mason enlisted an elite law firm called Blackstone Chambers to initiate a legal assault against The Grayzone and others which covered the disclosures, including Britain’s left-wing Novara Media. The files show Mason sought to pressure YouTube into censoring The Grayzone’s discussions about his activities, and even proposed lawsuits against Twitter/X users who mocked his schemes. 

In the emails, Mason admits to creating the now-infamous graphic portraying anti-war activists and academics in the UK as tools of Russian and Chinese influence operations. For the past three years, Mason has lashed out at anyone who claimed he was responsible for the image, accusing his critics of spreading Russian disinformation, and even threatening them with ten years in prison.

Mason insisted to his lawyers that he was on a selfless mission to expose how “useful idiots” in Britain who oppose war and NATO expansion were being actively exploited by Beijing and Moscow. However, in the leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone, his lawyers repeatedly advised him that this outlet’s reporting appeared to serve the public interest. What’s more, they explicitly warned him against suing his critics, noting that “the most likely outcome” of his proposed legal harassment campaign was “the Streisand effect – amplifying it further and prolonging the issue.”

Determined to wash his reputation and crush his enemies, which apparently constituted the entire British antiwar left, Mason pressed ahead with his revenge plot until he had no options left. Though his legal crusade ended in dismal failure, he still capitalized on an atmosphere of escalating political repression to place numerous unwitting journalists and activists in the crosshairs of Anglo-American police forces and spying agencies.

 

From revolutionary Trotskyist to NATO-sponsored think tanker

For years, Mason was a fixture on televisions across Britain, appearing regularly on BBC and Channel 4 for much of the early 2000s. As an avowed Trotskyist, Mason postured as a dissident, mingling with members of the Occupy movement and Arab Spring, while still finding time to publish a novel, “Rare Earth,” which depicted the protagonist, a maverick journalist like himself, helping his female Chinese lover have sex with a stuffed horse. While touting himself as a diehard supporter of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party, Mason simultaneously embedded himself with Greece’s anti-establishment Syriza party. From the Greek capital, amid the ferment of anti-austerity protests, Mason tweeted at the boutique leftist porn actress Stoya, “come to Athens – the revolution is happening.”

In 2017, while positioning himself as a media gatekeeper to Corbyn and the movement behind him, Mason was secretly taped in a London restaurant disclosing plans to topple the Labour leader. After the recording appeared in the UK tabloid, The Sun, Mason filed a formal complaint with the press regulator IPSO, demanding punishment for those who embarrassed him. The complaint ultimately failed.

Following the collapse of the Corbyn campaign for Prime Minister in 2020, Mason quickly sought to trade in his leftist credentials for mainstream credibility, at one point publicly insisting that those who “don’t think [Keir Starmer] will advance the class struggle” were likely “not understanding social democracy correctly from a Marxist viewpoint.”

Two years later, The Grayzone exposed Mason’s collaboration with British intelligence assets to undermine the British antiwar left, and generate state-sponsored propaganda amping up conflict with Russia. The faded journalist remains dogged by allegations that he was himself a British intelligence asset all along, with even prominent mainstream reporters posing the question to Mason in social media exchanges. 

Mason has only deepened suspicions about his motivations by taking a job as an “adjunct fellow” at the Council On Geostrategy, a pro-NATO think tank funded byLockheed Martin and other arms makers, as well as Palantir and the British Ministry of Defence.

While happily raking in cash from the military industrial complex, Mason now seeks to pose as a victim of state-sanctioned efforts to intimidate him into silence, claiming without evidence that his correspondence was compromised by Russia, and repeatedly threatening his critics with legal retaliation.

Paul Mason to lawyers: “I certainly want to deplatform/demonetise” The Grayzone

On June 7, 2022, The Grayzone published an exposé showing Mason plotting with an intelligence contractor to destroy this outlet through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. Emails we obtained revealed that Mason explored a strategy of “relentless deplatforming” of The Grayzone and the creation of “a kind of permanent rebuttal operation” against it. 

Two days after The Grayzone exposed Mason’s leaked emails, he contacted Blackstone Chambers, declaring, “I certainly want to deplatform/demonetise” The Grayzone. 

Though largely declining to address the contents of the article, Mason remained fixated on refuting one aspect of the story: his creation of a bizarre black-and-white social connection chart which strongly implied that some of Britain’s most prominent antiwar activists were influencing demographics ranging from the “Young Networked Left” to the “Black Community” at the behest of Russia and China.

Mason admits creating ‘network graphic’ 

In emails to lawyers, Mason pointedly denied suggestions he was targeting political activists for “blacklisting or deplatforming.” Instead, he insisted, the graphic he created was merely “an attempt to show how people who are clear and overt promoters of Chinese propaganda, and veterans in the pro-Putin hard Stalinist left… are influencing the ‘useful idiots’.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/01/27/paul-mason-plotted-grayzone-lawsuit/

 

 

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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is very close to reaching all "core objectives" it set under Operation Epic Fury, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed on Wednesday.

"Our military efforts grow more successful with each passing day, steadily degrading Iran's ability to terrorize merchant ships. For all of these reasons, we are very close to meeting the core objectives of Operation Epic Fury and this military mission continues unabated," Leavitt told reporters during a press briefing.

"I don't have a specific timeline for you today, but it's obviously something the administration is working towards as quickly as we can," Leavitt said when asked about a time frame for oil tankers to start "freely" navigating the Strait.

Claiming that talks are ongoing and have been "productive," and that Trump's "preference is always peace," Leavitt warned that "if Iran fails to accept the reality of the current moment, if they fail to understand that they have been defeated militarily...President Trump will ensure they are hit harder than they have ever been hit before."

Leavitt said media reports on a 15-point plan aimed at resolving the conflict contains "a lot of misinformation," and emphasized that Vice President JD Vance "has been by the president's side every step of the way," on Iran. "Any reporting otherwise is just completely false, she said.

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