Max Blumenthal

The Grayzone takes a look at the forced exodus of refugees from northern Gaza as Israel's military deliberately destroys their homes to force them south in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. We hear from those on the move with all they can carry, fleeing for their lives from the nightly bombardments and shelling.

Credits:

Edited and written by Oscar Leon

Camera by Mohamed Elsaife

Translated by Hekmat Aboukhater

Produced by Max Blumenthal

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Max Blumenthal joins Judge Napolitano to analyze the Trump-Netanyahu Gaza pacification plan as it is announced, explore Iran’s readiness for escalation, and illuminate the political subterfuge shaping US-Israel policy. The conversation critically examines orchestrated media influence, the intra-conservative battle over Israel in which Netanyahu's minions are astroturfing influencers and purchasing entire media conglomerates to stop the PR bleeding.

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Matt Gaetz, former GOP congressman and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk, interviews Max Blumenthal about Kirk’s fallout with pro-Israel bigwigs in the weeks before his killing, and Israel’s malign influence on US politics.

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Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover Max’s recent reports on Charlie Kirk’s falling out with Israel and the backlash from Netanyahu and his US proxies. They also discuss Max’s meeting on the sidelines of the UNGA with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Trump’s latest turnabout on Ukraine, and the hidden history of the US war on Venezuela.

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The new President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, aka Mohammed al-Jolani, is in New York for what is widely being described as the first visit by a sitting Syrian president to the US in nearly six decades.

But even more significant is another fact: it’s also the first state visit to the US by a leading veteran of Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Just last year, al-Sharra/al-Jolani – the founding leader of Al Qaeda in Syria and a former deputy leader of ISIS -- was on the US terrorism list with a $10 million reward for his arrest. But after leading the overthrow of Syrian president Basher al-Assad, the US has removed that designation and welcomed Jolani’s ruling Al Qaeda offshoot government. After all, as Jake Sullivan put it at the outset of the dirty war in early, 2012, “Al Qaeda is on our side in Syria.”

Because the US is on Al Qaeda’s side in Syria, that also means overlooking atrocities under its founding leader’s watch. Since al-Sharaa/al-Jolani took power, government forces have committed sectarian violence against Syria’s minority groups. In March, hundreds – possibly thousands – of Alawite civilians were massacred in Syria’s coastal regions. In July, hundreds more, mostly Druze civilians, were killed in Syria's Suweida region.

The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté speaks to members of two Syrian minority communities about the ongoing sectarian violence at the hands of a ruling Al Qaeda offshoot that the US and allies helped put in power.

Guests:

Dr. Morhaf Ibrahim, head of the Alawite Association of the United States.

Hibbah Jarmakani, a Druze Syrian-American originally from Suweida province in Syria.

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Max Blumenthal on Dave Smith's podcast discussing the problems with the European recognition of a Palestinian state and his investigative work on Netanyahu and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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Max Blumenthal discusses his reporting on the pressure campaign by Netanyahu's forces in the US as Charlie Kirk's views on Israel shifted in his final months, and the fallout from the publication of these details as Zionists mount a frantic full court press to protect Kirk's pro-Israel legacy while seeking to establish a monopoly over US broadcast and social media.

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Blumenthal analyzes the weaponization of Kirk’s murder to stifle dissent and criminalize anti-Israel actions, exposing the pressure exerted by Zionist lobbies and U.S. elites. He highlights the erosion of civil liberties, corporate media capitulation, and a shift toward McCarthy-style repression—all shaped by foundation money and a strategy of tension designed to fracture and surveil American society.

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In the interview on Redacted, Max Blumenthal details how Israeli-linked organizations orchestrate influencer junkets to generate positive coverage, particularly as military actions escalate. He explains how these PR efforts replace organic support with paid advocacy, linking them to broader campaigns of narrative control and suppression of Palestine activism in the U.S.

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With the US military assembling a naval strike force off the coast of Venezuela, and the Trump administration leveling dubious charges of "narco-terror" at Caracus, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal interviews journalist Diego Sequera of Venezuela's Mision Verdad. We also will speak Oscar Leon of The Grayzone about Ecuador, the real base of narco-trafficking in the region, a country ruled by Trump loyalist and Miami-born billionaire Daniel Noboa, whose family stands accused of directing the drug trade under cover its international produce business.

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