Max Blumenthal

Kei Pritsker asks if this choice will compromise the mayor-elect’s ability to fulfill his campaign promises

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In this Dialogue Works interview, Max Blumenthal breaks down the escalating infighting within the MAGA right as the party base grows openly critical of Trump-era leadership and pro-Israel orthodoxy. Using the Kash Patel controversy and recent lawsuits as case studies, Blumenthal highlights how grassroots activists and donors are shaping GOP strategy amid mainstream media silence. The conversation covers influential roles of figures like Tucker Carlson and JD Vance, criticisms of U.S. foreign policy from Gaza to Venezuela, and tensions between America First voices and entrenched establishment operatives.

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Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the US elections that brought Zohran Mamdani to power in NYC, and the unhinged reaction to his victory, as well as the civil war erupting inside the US right over Israel. They will also cover Trump's looming Venezuela war plans, an especially revealing Israeli political scandal, and the legacy of Dick Cheney.

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Max Blumenthal breaks down the looming US invasion of Venezuela as a reckless, corporate-backed disaster. Trump’s regime change plan rests on false narco-terror charges against Maduro. The real stakes? Venezuela’s vast oil and lithium resources. The so-called 'Cartel of the Suns' is CIA fabrication. The US aims to repeat colonial-era coups, destabilize the region, trigger mass migration, and enrich Trump’s business cronies. Right-wing exile elites fuel opposition’s military coup fantasies. Colombia’s Petro resists but lacks full military control. The Caribbean is militarized under a revived Monroe Doctrine. China’s regional influence fuels US panic. This invasion will deepen chaos, a humanitarian crisis, and global tensions.

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Behind the fear campaign around an Islamic terror wave inspired by Zohran Mamdani’s election, Jewish extremists openly discuss their own campaign of political violence.

In this clip from our behind the scenes film, leaders of Betar USA, a US branch of the Zionist Kahanist movement, openly celebrate a hypothetical car bombing of Mamdani

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We are proud to present Grayzone subscribers with an early look at our behind-the-scenes portrait of Betar USA, the militant Zionist street group that claims credit for guiding the Trump administration's jailing and attempted deportation of pro-Palestine student activists.

After joining Betar, the producer of this documentary filmed a series of intimate interviews with Ronn Torossian, a famed New York public relations professional who helped establish Betar USA as a vehicle for advancing the ideology of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane in the US.

Presenting Torrossian and his henchmen in their own words, without an editorial filter or narration, this film offers a raw, bracing portrait of the most radical edge of American Zionism.

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The Grayzone's Kei Pritsker explains how Trump turned Tren De Aragua, a previously obscure Venezuelan gang that had already been crushed by Maduro's security forces, into a national boogeyman, then used it to justify his naval siege of Venezuela.

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Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the GOP and pro-Israel meltdown over Zohran Mamdani's seemingly imminent victory in the NYC mayoral election, and cover the looming US military assault on Venezuela, the Trump-Israel "master plan" for Gaza and more.

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Max Blumenthal describes how Washington’s war on Venezuela has hit new lows—decades of failed coups, brutal sanctions, and now narco-terrorism smears to justify Rubio/CIA-backed regime change ops. U.S. covert action risks destabilizing 28 million & sparking a migration tsunami.

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Donald Trump claimed credit for a historic diplomatic achievement when he secured a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas this October 11, but is peace possible with a state that exists in a perpetual state of war?

Just over a week later, on October 19, Israel accused Hamas of flagrantly violating the brand new ceasefire agreement by killing several of its soldiers operating in Rafah. Hamas has stringently denied any responsibility for the attack, which took place in a depopulated, destroyed area fully occupied by Israel, and just a day after the Trump administration weirdly warned that Hamas was planning to break the ceasefire by attacking “Palestinian civilians.”

Israel responded to the supposed violation with a wave of airstrikes that slaughtered scores of civilians in the Gaza Strip, and by refusing to allow aid into the besieged enclave.

Meanwhile, an unnamed Pentagon official revealed to media outlets that the Trump administration knew that Hamas had not attacked Israeli soldiers in Rafah, and that they had been killed when their vehicles ran over an old IED.

Today, Netanyahu seems desperate for a pretext to resume the war, and he’s under mounting pressure to do so from the fanatical elements holding together his narrow coalition.

This is a familiar story that is as old as the self-proclaimed Jewish state. Indeed, Israel has violated almost every single ceasefire since 1948, flaunting its contempt for international law and even US diplomacy in order to seize territory and consolidate the ethnosupremacist regime it imposes on it.

In 1955, seven years after the establishment of the state of Israel through a campaign of ethnic cleansing, Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, orchestrated Operation Black Arrow, attacking an Egyptian military barracks inside the Gaza Strip and killing 38 soldiers, shattering the 1949 armistice agreement with Egypt

A year later, Israel violated the armistice again when it invaded Egypt in a failed attempt to provoke the great European powers to restore control over the Suez Canal and topple Egyptian leader Gamel Abdel Nasser. It was only thanks to the efforts of the US President, Dwight Eisenhower, that the naked imperial plot failed.

Israel attacked Egypt again in 1967, destroying the country’s air force in a matter of hours on the bogus grounds that it was pre-empting an imminent Egyptian invasion. But Israel’s leadership knew Nasser had no intention of attacking. As Menachem Begin later admitted, “We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”

During that same period of time, Israel staged an elaborate provocation to justify its assault on Syria and illegal occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights.

As Moshe Dayan, the Defense Minister during the Six Day war, revealed years later:

“We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot.

And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was...The Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us.'"

In 1973, after Israel suffered a bloody nose at the hands of the Egyptian military, it attempted to destroy the post-war armistice by launching a surprise attack which surrounded the Egyptian Third Army. This move placed the US and Soviet Union at nuclear loggerheads, with the Soviets threatening to intervene to defend Egypt and the US issuing a Defcon III alert.

Declassified documents showed that US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had given the Israelis a green light for the attack, telling then-Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, You won't get violent protests from Washington if something happens during the night, while I'm flying.

In 1982, following the Israeli army’s invasion of Lebanon on a phony pretext, Israel violated a US-brokered agreement which saw PLO fighters evacuated under Multinational protection from Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. Then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon exploited the opportunity, dispatching Israel’s Phalangist proxies to invade the Sabra and Shatila camp and carry out the repugnant massacre that left over 3000 dead, mostly of them women and children.

Following the Oslo Agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1996, Israel assassinated a key Hamas figure, Yahya Ayyash by dispatching a local collaborator to hand him a cellphone rigged with explosives. The killing shattered a ceasefire with resistance factions in Gaza, and triggered a wave of retaliatory suicide bombings which helped secure the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister months later.

Next, in 2002, just as a ceasefire was about to go into effect, and months after the Arab League accepted a peace initiative with Israel, the Israeli military bombed a multi-family apartment bloc in Gaza City to assassinate Saleh Shehadeh, leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas. The killing was so brazen, leaving over 15 dead including 8 children, that President George W. Bush was left “furious,” and his administration joined the UK, France and the UN in forcefully condemning it. As usual, Israel’s actions escalated the violence and fueled the Second Intifada.

In 2008, three years after Israel placed the Gaza Strip under siege, it shattered another ceasefire with the elected government of Hamas, and set the stage for a series of wars that led to the current, ongoing genocide.

I’d probably need several hours and several intravenous infusions of caffeine to recapitulate the full list of Israeli ceasefire violations and diplomatic treachery leading up to the present crisis, but I think you get the point. This is not a normal country capable of acting within the bounds of treaties or international law. It is a psychotic political formation with a nuclear armed military that only understands force.

And in Washington, there’s no will to challenge it. Which means Donald Trump’s signature peace initiative could be the next casualty of Israeli aggression.

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