Max Blumenthal

By Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal gained entrance to a gathering of evangelical Christian Trump supporters called America Reads The Bible. Hosted at hosted at Washington DC's Museum of Bible, the week-long Bible-reading marathon featured members of Congress, cabinet secretaries and pastors reciting carefully curated sections of scripture before what's left of the MAGA faithful. Despite not identifying as a Christian and his notorious past and present as a sinner, Trump was the star of the show, reading from Chronicles 7:11.Blumenthal asked participants about the significance of Trump's reading, and whether they believed he was a divine instrument. He also probed their views about everything from the Iran war to Israel's destruction of Christian communities in southern Lebanon.

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On Judging Freedom, Max says Israel, evangelical Zionists, and Trump’s inner circle are driving the Iran war, while the Vatican and MAGA revolt expose the whole thing as a civilizational assault dressed up as “negotiation.” And while Trump’s base revolts, Max reveals that Trump will appear that day at a Bible-reading marathon before his most loyal followers.

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By Kei Pritsker

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to calm the public after someone tried to firebomb his house.But in secret he and other tech CEOs are preparing for a scenario where AI collapses society.The Grayzone's Kei Pritzker explains why so many tech elites are investing massive sums in hidden bunkers.

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By Kei Pritsker

Apple’s ties to Israel are way deeper than you think. Apple made headlines last week when it basically erased Southern Lebanon from Apple Maps. If you go to Lebanon on Apple Maps, you’ll see that the names of all of the villages in the South are gone. And this is obviously the region of Lebanon that Israel is currently invading and trying to annex.

A lot of people have pointed out that Apple has donated money to Zionist groups, that it fired workers for supporting Palestine, but Apple’s relationship isn’t some amorphous ideological one. Apple quite literally wouldn’t exist without the Israeli tech sector.

For starters, Apple’s second largest research and development facility in the world, second only to their headquarters in Cupertino, California, is in Israel. It’s a massive campus in Tel Aviv that employs 2,500 people. The engineers there have helped develop the Macbook, Apple Watches and played a crucial role in developing the recent Apple Vision Pro, their VR headset, which features extremely precise eye-tracking, retina scanning cameras that were largely developed by Apple Israel. Apple plans to move to a new building in Israel, so they’re only planning on doubling down on their presence there.

Apple also buys Israeli technology outright and some of the most critical components in the most popular Apple products come from Israeli firms. Apple acquired a critical component for the iPhone’s flash memory drive by buying an Israeli company called Anobit. It’s believed that Apple’s FaceID technology came from its acquisition of Israeli motion-tracking company, PrimeSense. They also bought an Israeli company that made facial recognition software called Realface. Apple upgraded the iPhone’s camera by buying an Israeli camera company called LinX. They also secretly purchased another Israeli camera company called Camerai and moved their workers to the Apple Israel campus where it’s believed they helped develop Apple’s augmented reality features and the Apple Vision Pro headset.

Apple’s most recent acquisition in Israel is its second largest buyout of all-time, second only to its acquisition of Beats headphones. The company is called Q.AI and it claims to have a technology that reads subtle facial expressions. While they’re being really secretive about what they’re going to be used for, Q.AI recently filed a patent for headphones and glasses that use “facial skin micro movements” for non verbal communication. Apple is trying to increase its market share of wearable devices and people think that Q.AI is going to help them develop devices that you can command without having to say anything. But the obvious implication is that these devices are going to be constantly monitoring your face and undoubtedly training some AI algorithm to know exactly what you’re thinking based on small movements of your lips, or your eyebrows that you might not even realize you’re making.

Many Israeli tech companies are founded by Israelis who come out of elite military units, and since we subsidize the Israeli military, it’s really not a stretch to say that we’re the ones funding Israel’s tech sector and our own surveillance for that matter. The United States is the world’s largest consumer of Apple products and whatever facial recognition or AI technology they end up developing this time is going to be tested on us.

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Today, UK MP Zarah Sultana invoked parliamentary privilege to reveal information which the British public was officially forbidden from knowing about the trial of six Palestine Action activists.

Sultana’s source for her dramatic intervention was an April 12 article by The Grayzone which broke the blackout imposed on British media by the UK security state, informing the public about the planned stitch-up of Palestine Action on bogus “terrorism” charges.

Reading at times from The Grayzone’s report, Sultana stated the following:

* “Six Palestine action activists face retrial after being acquitted in February following a year in prison. If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that.”

* “They could convict them on criminal damage charges with no idea that terrorism sentences will follow. Not a single terrorism charge has been brought forward. The proscription has been ruled unlawful and the defendants themselves have been banned from telling the jury that they acted to stop genocide under threat of contempt charges.”

* “This is what a stitch-up looks like and it's part of the same pattern. A Labour government that will do whatever it takes to silence dissent, protect Israeli death factories and escape accountability.”

The Grayzone had a responsibility to reveal these shocking facts because the British media could not.

Thanks to our readers and supporters – and to the rare courage of public servants like Sultana – we are able to fulfill our simple mission to tell you what they don’t want you to know.

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A shockingly corrupted trial that exposes the British state’s weaponization of censorship and secrecy laws has just begun.The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal details how six activists from the direct action protest group Palestine Action face terrorism charges and the possibility of long prison terms – but the jury in the case is forbidden from knowing this.The UK media is similarly banned from reporting on these facts, while the defendants in the case are blocked by court order from explaining their motives for damaging and occupying Israeli weapons factories on British soil.Blumenthal explains why Palestine Action is being targeted with such a draconian prosecution: because they are effective. Having caused the closure of Israeli factories, they have provided activists around the world with a workable model for raising the cost of occupation and genocide.Now, he argues, the British state is so determined to prevent their acquittal before a potentially sympathetic jury that it rigging the trial and perverting whatever’s left of democracy, all to preserve its special relationship with Israel.Read The Grayzone’s exclusive report on the corrupted trial of Palestine Action’s Filton 6 here:

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Trump’s war on Iran, Max says, was engineered by Israel-linked power brokers, not “America First” logic. The ceasefire was sabotaged in Lebanon, the MAGA coalition is cracking, and the entire Trump orbit looks captured by a foreign policy racketeering operation.

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Max Blumenthal argues the U.S.-Iran “ceasefire” was a sham, greenlighted by the Trump administration while Israel sabotaged it by massacring civilians in Lebanon and dragging Washington deeper into war. He says Trump is being played by Netanyahu, the White House is lying about Lebanon, and Iran has actually emerged stronger through Hormuz leverage, diplomatic openings, and strategic endurance. The punchline: Washington looks weak, Israel calls the shots, and the empire keeps exposing itself.

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Editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal, breaks down how Israel captured the Trump administration, why the US is now stuck in a war with Iran, and what it will take for Trump to finally pull back.

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Vicente Garrido, Vice President of San Martin on Ecuador’s border with Colombia, speaks to The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon about the bombings of his community’s dairy farm by the Ecuadorian military.After US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed credit for destroying a “narco-terror” training camp, local Ecuadorian media exposed the truth: Ecuadorian soldiers had bombed a farm, then abducted and tortured locals to cover up the attack.The Grayzone places this incident in the context of a pattern of crimes throughout the US “war on drugs” in the region, starting with the False Positives Scandal in Colombia during the 1990’s, when US-trained Colombian soldiers massacred hundreds of leftist opponents and community leaders, then branded them as narco traffickers. Under President Daniel Noboa, a close US ally demonstrably implicated in the international narcotics trade, Ecuador is using the drug war as cover for the consolidation of a hyper-militarized state which brutalizes social movements and left-wing opposition parties while doing nothing of substance to stop the flow of drugs to the north.

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