Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil reflect on their recent trip to Iran - just weeks before the unprovoked attacks by the US and Israel.

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Max Blumenthal joins the Unfettered Speech podcast to pull back the curtain on the realities of Israeli society and the crisis unfolding in Gaza. Drawing from years of firsthand reporting—most notably in his book "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel"—Blumenthal exposes the entrenched systems of propaganda and power that obscure both Israeli state violence and the manufactured consent for endless conflict.

Blumenthal details how his experiences living in Israel, interacting with dissenters and military officials alike, revealed a society shaped by expansionist ideology and the erasure of Palestinian life. He confronts the enduring silence of both the liberal Zionist establishment and the Arab world, dissecting how propaganda, reputational attacks, and shifting political movements in the United States work to shield Israel from accountability.

In a conversation that asks hard questions about identity, solidarity, and the future of democracy, Blumenthal not only discusses the impossibility of the two-state solution but also examines how the very definition of Jewish statehood is intrinsically tied to dispossession. The episode challenges audiences to reckon with uncomfortable truths and to question the narratives that define mainstream discussion of Israel–Palestine, American foreign policy, and the limits of dissent.

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The Grayzone and friends held a day of discussion about the Ukraine proxy war, Greater Israel and its genocide in Gaza, and US empire in the Trump era at Icarus Fest 2025 in Rutherford, NJ.

Panel 2 (the featured video above) brought together Max Blumenthal, Katie Halper, and Jeremy Loffredo to discuss the disastrous impact of Israel on the region and inside the United States with host Sabby Sabbs. Next, Judge Andrew Napolitano hosted Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Christian Parenti and Anya Parampil for a wide ranging discussion of US empire in the second Trump term, from China to Venezuela, and the future of the antiwar movement in challenging its maximalist agenda.

Earlier in the day in Panel 1 (below), Glenn Diesen, Wyatt Reed and Kit Klarenberg joined host Thaddeus Russell to discuss the Ukraine proxy war, the role of the UK in guiding it, and the historical resonance of the semi-official ideology of Russophobia in the West.

Highlights include:

• Wyatt’s frontline reporting from Donbass revealing strong pro-Russian sentiment and the extensive destruction caused by Western-backed forces, challenging mainstream narratives.

• Panelists’ experiences of harsh repression, including smear campaigns, financial bans, and state harassment aimed at silencing dissent.

• Glenn Diesen’s analysis of enduring Western Russophobia as a strategic elite tool to prevent Eurasian unity and maintain maritime dominance.

• Kit Klarenberg’s account of British state repression targeting journalists and activists, illustrating authoritarian crackdowns on anti-war and pro-Palestine voices.

• Discussion of limited public awareness of imperialist projects, contrasted with emerging grassroots resistance and skepticism in Europe and pockets of the US.

• Audience questions address Nordstream sabotage, shifting Ukraine war dynamics, and prospects for diplomatic change.

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal interviewed Nahid Poureisa about the impact of Iran's 12 day war with Israel and the US on the country's society, and how it strengthened national cohesion in defiance of regime change plans.

Poureisa and Blumenthal also discussed imperial moves on Iran's border with Azerbaijan, the country's relationship with Pakistan, and the future of nuclear negotiations with Washington.

Nahid Poureisa is a Tehran-based academic and analyst of West Asian affairs.

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Max Blumenthal exposes the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—a Trump-linked, Israeli-backed operation weaponizing aid to enforce mass starvation and biometric surveillance in Gaza. Drawing on whistleblower Anthony Aguilar’s frontline testimony of Israeli war crimes, Blumenthal details how aid sites turn into kill zones and the brutal reality of Gaza’s digital prison. He reveals deep Israeli penetration of US law enforcement and the cover-up of major scandals. With Netanyahu doubling down on ethnic cleansing and Gaza’s destruction, and growing resistance inside Israel, this report lays bare the genocidal agenda fueled by unchecked US-Israel power.

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Anthony Aguilar, the US Special Forces vet who blew the whistle on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's criminal operation, tells The Grayzone he was kicked out of the Special Forces Association Parachute Team for criticizing the Israeli military

"I swore an oath the Constitution of the United States of America," Aguilar emphasized, "not to a foreign government or a foreign military.

And if anyone thinks they're going to intimidate me into not telling the truth over being part of a club, get out of here! Because the truth is more important."

From the latest livestream

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According to Aguilar, GHF's Secure Distribution Site #1 will be marketed to the outside world as a "transit village," but will function as a biometric concentration camp for Palestinian war refugees on their way out of Gaza.

"The [GHF] is fully funded to continue to operate at full level until December. What is being built? That 'humanitarian assistance transit village,' if you will.

Where everybody will be moved to the south and live in an area where this humanitarian transit area will service that population. Not to maintain that population – they get moved out of where they live, they spend some time there, and they get processed out of Gaza. Where do they go? I don't know.

But that plan, that's not a blueprint. That is being done. That is happening right now."

From the latest livestream:

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Glenn Diesen joins Max Blumenthal to discuss the historic Putin-Trump summit in Alaska, then we discuss the crimes of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with Anthony Aguilar, the US military veteran who blew the whistle on the blood-stained US-Israeli aid endeavor.

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Benoit Paré is a former French defense ministry analyst who worked as an international monitor in eastern Ukraine from 2015 to 2022.

In his first interview with a US outlet, Paré speaks to The Grayzone's Aaron Maté about the hidden reality of the Ukraine war in the Donbas region, where the US-backed Kyiv government fought Russia-backed rebels following the 2014 Maidan coup. Russia now demands that Ukraine accept its capture of the Donbas as a condition for ending the war.

When it comes to which party is responsible for the failure to implement the Minsk accords, the 2015 peace pact that could have prevented the 2022 Russian invasion, Paré says. "I will very clear. For me the fault lies on Ukraine... by far." Paré also warns that Ukrainian ultra-nationalists, who violently resisted the Minsk accords, remain a major obstacle to peace.

Paré worked as a monitor for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), a predominately European group. He recounts his experience as an OSCE monitor in Ukraine in his new book, "What I saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022, Diary of an International Observer."

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The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil join Judge Napolitano, Jeffrey Sachs and Douglas Macgregor for a first ever live show at the Ron Paul Institute’s Peace and Prosperity conference. There, they run the gamut on US foreign policy depravity, from Iran to Palestine to Venezuela, and assess the historic summit between Trump and Putin in Russia.

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