Max Blumenthal

On Piers Morgan’s show, Max Blumenthal dismantles the screaming “100,000 dead” headline from Iran’s recent unrest, tracing it back to exile grifters, Mossad‑adjacent outlets, and Western media eager for a new Iraq‑style casus belli. He shows how sanctions, engineered currency collapse, and hybrid warfare manufactured real misery, then got spun into a “genocide” narrative to ram through a U.S.–Israeli strike that neither regional states nor most Americans want. In Blumenthal’s telling, the fake body count isn’t about human rights; it’s about giving Trump’s donors and Israel a pretext for war before the political window slams shut.

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Max Blumenthal joins Matt Gaetz to chart how Trump’s obvious cognitive decline intersects with a foreign-policy apparatus marching toward a disastrous war on Iran. He dissects Treasury-engineered currency collapse and IMF-style “reform” as weapons against Iran’s middle class, links sanctions to orchestrated street violence and Mossad/MI6 hybrid war tactics, and shows how neocon officials openly fantasize about decapitation strikes and regime change that even they admit bombing can’t deliver. Along the way, Max skewers Trump’s Davos performance, NATO’s hypocrisy, and a U.S. political class using economic siege, proxy terror and carrier groups to do what Congress and the public would never openly authorize.

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Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss Trump’s new pay-for-play board of peace and what it means for Gaza, as well has his clash with European leaders at Davos. They also cover the aftermath of regime change riots in Iran, Max’s investigation into an Atlanta-based comedian whose company was used to recruit Iranians for Mossad, and the shocking rampage by the US-allied government in Syria.

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Nahid Poureisa, a Tehran-based analyst of West Asian and Chinese affairs, joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the coordinated rioting and violence that shook her country for two days this January and left thousands dead.Poureisa describes bearing witness to the devastating aftermath of the mayhem, visiting some of the many mosques that were torched by rioters, speaking to family members of the dead, living through the internet blackout, and attending a massive pro-government rally which brought together over a million Iranians from diverse social sectors.As US military forces gather in the region for a possible assault on Iran, Poureisa details her country’s preparations and assesses how it might respond.

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Max Blumenthal joins Judge Napolitano to dissect Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Davos brag that Trump ordered OFAC to collapse Iran’s currency, block imports, and deliberately drive people into the streets. He frames this as open admission of “financial terrorism”: a 14‑year sanctions war weaponizing inflation, medicine shortages, app bans, and bank lockouts to manufacture unrest and justify a coming U.S.–Israeli strike. Blumenthal tracks how MI6, Mossad, and CIA then piggybacked on currency protests with hybrid war tactics—armed rioters, burned mosques, fake death tolls—while carrier groups, THAAD batteries, and Gulf assets line up for possible decapitation strikes on Iran’s leadership.

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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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