Max Blumenthal discusses the chaos gripping Iran with Ali Alizadeh of Jedaal, uncovering the reality behind Iran’s protests cheered from Western capitals and the US and Israel consider waging another war on Iran.

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Max Blumenthal joins Sabby Sabs to torch the fantasy that Trump’s foreign policy is “America First” rather than donor-driven gangsterism. He walks through the Venezuela raid, TPUSA’s implosion, and the bipartisan drive toward war with Iran, showing how think tank ghouls, Zionist fixers, and GOP operatives script the talking points corporate media obediently regurgitates. As MAGA influencers melt down and young people sour on endless war, Max maps a political class so captured by weapons manufacturers and lobbyists that it can only offer more sanctions, more coups, and more managed chaos.

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On the Radio War Nerd podcast hosted by Mark Ames and John Dolan, The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil discusses her 2023 book, “Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire,” outlining the sophisticated campaign of financial and political warfare Washington has waged on Venezuela since its Chavista government came to power. Parampil details the plot to steal Venezuela’s most valuable foreign asset, Citgo, setting the stage for the recent US military assault on Caracas. She describes her on-the-ground reporting from Venezuela and her interactions with the country’s leaders, from Nicolas Maduro to Delcy Rodriguez, as well as top opposition figures.Get a copy of Corporate Coup here.

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Max Blumenthal joins Glenn Diesen to dissect the January 3rd raid on Caracas—a terrorist assault that killed dozens, kidnapped Maduro, and exposed Trump’s Venezuela endgame as raw plunder, not liberation. With the Chavista state still intact, Delcy Rodríguez in Miraflores, and no regime change achieved, Trump demands backroom deals: Venezuelan oil revenue funneled to offshore CIA slush funds, ties severed with Russia and China, and Caracas reduced to a U.S. gas station. Blumenthal reveals how the “narco-state” myth was CIA-created in the 1980s and how Maduro’s New York trial tests whether international law still exists—or if Washington’s neocons have finally overcome Iraq syndrome by kidnapping heads of state with impunity.

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Max Blumenthal dissects Trump’s surprise abduction of Nicolás Maduro—mirrored to the 1989 Panama invasion—and the theories about military stand-downs that allowed a decapitation raid with minimal Venezuelan resistance. He maps the real endgame: handing Venezuela’s oil, minerals, and lithium to Trump cronies and Elon Musk while keeping the Bolivarian Revolution’s shell intact, installing a pliable Delcy Rodríguez as interim president to “whittle down Chavismo.” Blumenthal exposes how sanctions-induced economic collapse—not incompetence—drove migration, and how Rubio’s viceroy ambitions could still backfire if military hardliners like Diosdado Cabello resist imperial occupation.

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Max Blumenthal joins Judge Napolitano to expose the real agenda behind Trump’s Venezuela blockade: handing $1.7 trillion in oil, minerals, and infrastructure to Miami’s anti-Chávez exiles and their Republican patrons. Marco Rubio, architect of the debacle, has spent decades cultivating regime-change cutouts like María Corina Machado, who’s already drafted a privatization blueprint to auction off Venezuela’s patrimony to Trump-linked oligarchs. While the Pentagon flounders with oil tanker piracy and failed “anti-drug” ops, the endgame is naked imperial plunder dressed up as liberation—with Rubio playing bagman for a new generation of comprador elites.

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Anya Parampil joins Judge Napolitano to dismantle Washington’s “narco-state” fairy tale about Venezuela—a projection that obscures decades of CIA complicity in drug trafficking through the region. While Trump and Rubio brand Maduro a kingpin to justify oil piracy and regime change, the real cartel operates out of Langley, where covert ops and cocaine corridors have been standard policy since the Reagan era. Parampil connects the dots between fabricated pretexts, imperial resource theft, and a bipartisan narco-empire that weaponizes the drug war to strangle any government that won’t play ball.

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On the Dialogue Works podcast, Max Blumenthal discusses how Trump ended 2025 not by “ending wars” but by multiplying them. From Gaza to Venezuela, Somalia to Ukraine, Trump perpetuated war while dangling apocalypse over Iran and Taiwan to please his donors. Mentally enfeebled and owned by Likudnik and Persian Gulf billionaires, he greenlights Netanyahu’s Iran fantasies, fuels sanctions-driven misery in Iran, and turns Venezuela into a testing ground for piracy and naval humiliation. Max dissects a splintering MAGA right, TPUSA’s grifter meltdown, and an Israel desperate to become a mini-empire from Cyprus to Somaliland, even as young conservatives and the wider U.S. public turn against permanent war.

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The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon interviews Andres Durán, an Ecuadoran investigative journalist who has had to flee his country due to his allegations that billionaire, US-allied President Daniel Noboa, the Noboa family and their inner circle are involved in the international drug trade. In this explosive interview, Durán reveals the following:

* Ecuador, not Venezuela, is the primary departure point for cocaine shipments to the US and Europe, with President Daniel Noboa’s family businesses repeatedly linked to drug seizures.

* Multiple cocaine trafficking scandals involve Noboa-owned companies (e.g., Noboa Trading, Blasti S.A., Transmabo) and a family farm (San Luis), including shipments intercepted in Europe and 193 kg seized in 2025.

* Durán accuses Noboa of heading a “criminal economy” enabled by political decisions: defunding port security, deregulating banana exports, lacking financial oversight, and using shell companies for money laundering.

* Investigations are allegedly obstructed without thorough probes, no arrests of high-level figures, while cases are dismissed as “contamination” despite Noboa companies controlling the full supply chain.

* Ecuador’s criminal economy (drugs, illegal mining, trafficking) is estimated at a staggering 18-22% of GDP thanks to weak state oversight, dollarization, and documented ties to the Albanian mafia.

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In this interview, Max Blumenthal dissects how Rubio’s regime-change crusade, oil tanker piracy, and “narco-state” propaganda are driving the U.S. toward a hemispheric disaster—insurgency, mass migration, and economic blowback included. He tracks Trump’s mental unravelling, the Epstein files farce, the implosion of the MAGA media ecosystem, and Netanyahu’s desperate scramble to keep Trump on Israel’s leash while Washington and the U.S. public turn against endless war.

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