Max Blumenthal

Edited and written by Oscar Leon with Max Blumenthal

Shocking leaks have exposed US meddling in Latin America, primarily through the former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was brazenly pardoned by Donald J. Trump. The leaks help us understand why Trump freed Hernandez, as he was the linchpin for a covert media operation designed to smear left-wing governments in Colombia, Brazil and Mexico. Leaked audio also reveals a central Israeli role in the operation, which authorizes brute repression and elimination of political rivals, along with blind obedience to Trump.

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Max says Trump has weakened the U.S. in Iran, exposed America First as a con, and tied his fate to war profiteers, while both China and Iran are forcing Washington into a humiliating retreat.

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Max says Israel’s prison abuse, the Iran war, and Trump-world profiteering all point to one corrupt system, while Iran, Lebanon, and even veteran imperial planners like Robert Kagan confirm the U.S. is losing control.

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal lays out the losers and winners of the Iran war, explaining how Trump and his corrupt negotiators have shattered the global economy while raking in eye-popping insider trading profits. Their favorite instrument for this scheme: Barak Ravid, an Israeli reporter for the US outlet Axios, who happens to be an IDF intelligence veteran.As Ravid is exposed for publishing planted stories about non-existent peace deals between the US and Iran, his Beltway colleagues vociferously defend him and deny the corruption staring them in the face.

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The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed goes to the scene of the Israeli bombing of one of Iran’s most advanced hospitals, Tehran’s Gandhi Hospital, which was bombed and mostly destroyed on March 1, 2026. Wyatt learns that Israel caused $10 million in damage, destroying 20,000 embryos being stored in the hospital’s IVF clinic, while injuring patients as it simultaneously attacked a civilian TV broadcaster across the street.Support The Grayzone’s reporting here: https://thegrayzone.com/support/Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com

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As Israel continues violating a supposed ceasefire in Lebanon, The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed travelled to the southern city of Saida to document the funeral of a family of nine massacred by yet another Israeli airstrike in the nearby town of Jibchit.Despite knowing they could be killed at any moment, community members insisted they will continue defying Israeli orders to abandon their homeland.

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On CGTN, Max says Trump has boxed himself into a war Israel helped shape, while Iran holds the leverage, U.S. bases are damaged, and administration insiders profit as average Americans pay the cost.

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Max describes how Britain is using the Palestine Action case, a stabbing, and manufactured panic to crush dissent, shield Israel, and strip away basic rights in the name of “security”.

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In an interview with Katie Halper, Max Blumenthal says the UK is using a wave of suspicious attacks and anti-Palestine panic to criminalize dissent, smear Iran, and tighten control as the public turns against the pro-Israel establishment.

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The Grayzone's Wyatt Reed reports from the B1 bridge in Karaj, Iran and surveys the damage following a massive US assault that destroyed one of the country's most significant infrastructure projects as President Donald Trump vowed to bomb it "back to the Stone Age." As the first American journalist to report from the scene of the war crime, Wyatt blows a massive hole in the US justification for the attack, demonstrating the impossibility of the bridge's use for military transportation. He also details the horrifying human toll, as the bombing occurred on Iran's Nature Day, with many families picnicking nearby.

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