Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal joins Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Judging Freedom to explain how congressional Democrats are betraying the voters who gave them a wide mandate to end the Iran war by refusing to commit to cutting off all funding to the war, and failing to oppose the leadership of Israel-aligned Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with ot...

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has been one of the most outspoken defenders of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in Latin America. And he’s just presided over a financial scandal so devastating to the citizens of his country that it might herald the unraveling of the entire hemispheric project of Trump's neocolonial Donroe Doctrine. On November 6, Peña was impeached, arrested and plac...

In a November 2, 2026 address to the Community Church of Boston, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal explains how the failure of the US war on Israel has blown back on Donald Trump and the Republicans, and transformed the US special relationship with Israel from a matter of bipartisan consensus into a polarizing wedge issue with the power to doom well-funded campaigns. Watch the full event with Q&A here...

After the failure of its regime change war on Iran and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Tehran, the Trump administration imposed a naval blockade on Iran known as Operation Economic Outcast. By preventing the export of Iranian oil, the siege has driven up inflation rates while weakening the purchasing power of average Iranian consumers. But the blockade has so far failed to produc...

As Donald Trump revives the Monroe Doctrine and Washington moves to consolidate its power across Latin America, Ecuador's US-born President Daniel Noboa has emerged as a top enforcer of the US hegemonic agenda. Against this backdrop, his government has imprisoned the mayor of Ecuador's second largest city, Guayaquil’s elected mayor, presidential prospect Aquiles Álvarez, in a 4 AM raid on his fami...

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal interviews Mohammad Al-Bukhaiti, a senior member of Ansarulah's political bureau and governor of the Yemeni province of Dhamar, about the Yemeni Armed Forces' war with Saudi Arabia and its successful advances across Yemeni territory previously controlled by its Saudi-backed rivals. Speaking on October 20, 2026, Al-Bukhaiti confirmed that the Ansarulah-aligned Yemeni A...

On Piers Morgan Uncensored, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal confronts British pundit and politician Jacob Rees-Mogg on his warmongering. Watch the full debate here . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegrayzone.substack.com/subscribe

Fernando Cerimedo is known as MAGA’s man in Latin America. As one of the region’s most influential political operatives, he advised right-wing presidential candidates from Argentina to Honduras to Bolivia to Peru. In the last two years, every single one of his clients won their elections. But this August Cerimedo was arrested following allegations he oversaw the attempted murder of his former part...

Despite being one of Donald Trump’s biggest political investments in Latin America, or perhaps because of it, Argentine President Javier Milei is presiding over a deepening recession. His country’s industrial base is crumbling, the middle class is shrinking, and factories keep closing. Yet Milei’s grip on power has only tightened with the help of powerful patrons in Washington and Tel Aviv. Now, a...

The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed sat down with Radwan Mortada, the Lebanese journalist behind The Trap — a new documentary on Israel’s notorious pager attacks that’s become one of Al Jazeera most-watched documentaries in recent history. In this exclusive interview, filmed in Beirut, Mortada took The Grayzone behind the scenes and revealed how he tracked down key players in the attack, why it’s likely man...

Max Blumenthal discusses the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks as a series of Israeli espionage scandals rock the Trump administration and the German government. He also covers the Bolsonaro victory in Brazil. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegrayzone.substack.com/subscribe

Max Blumenthal joined Tucker Carlson to discuss the repression he’s met from the US government for his reporting from Iran, and the Israeli forces behind the campaign to silence him and The Grayzone. Blumenthal explains how Israel and its network of assets inside Trump Inc. manipulated the president into a failed war that has shattered Trump’s legacy and dealt a devastating blow to US empire. He t...

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal addresses the 2026 gathering of the Ron Paul Institute on September 5, detailing how an Israeli influence campaign led the Trump administration to launch a failed war on Iran, triggering disastrous effects for the US economy and global standing. Blumenthal offers observations from his reporting trip to Iran this July, and details the repressive measures he experienced...

Robert Kraft has played a central role in recruiting athletes, entertainers and influencers as assets for IsraelHe’s also a high-level member of the Epstein class implicated in sex crimesThe Grayzone's Max Blumenthal explains how Kraft’s insidious influence goes beyond canceling Macklemore This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episode...

After kidnapping Venezuela's President and First Lady, the Trump administration has struck a historic deal with Venezuela's unelected leadership that effectively grants it control over one fifth of the country's massive oil reserves. Economist Francisco Rodríguez tells The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal why he believes the deal represents "gunpoint diplomacy," with Venezuela's de facto President Delcy...

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate return to discuss Venezuela's oil privatization deal with Francisco Rodriguez, then they will explain what's behind the calls from Israel First members of Congress and Laura Loomer to "investigate" Blumenthal as the US war on Iran, the US economy and Trump's approval ratings continue to flounder. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subsc...

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal breaks down the manufactured controversy around Hasan Piker as a way to make an example of Abdul El-Sayed. Blumenthal argues they don't fear Hasan, they fear a tidal wave of pro-Palestine sentiment from voters in the DNC primary. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegrayzone.substack.c...

The US Treasury is desperately buying its own debt to stop a global bond sell off. If left unchecked, it could catalyze a crisis of confidence in the dollar itself. The Grayzone's Kei Pritsker explains how the Iran War could end the US world reserve currency status This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thegrayzone.subs...

Preston Robert Harp is the brother of 35-year-old Trump aide Natalie Harp, whose near-comical levels of devotion to the president has placed her in the media spotlight. When US media outlets approached Preston Harp for interviews about his sister, they discovered that he was living in Nicaragua, where he worked alongside legendary antiwar activist S. Brian Willson, and was a dedicated supporter of...

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal is joined by American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee President Jenin Younes to discuss one of the most disturbing attempts to abuse the US legal system to criminalize pro-Palestine activism. In a case that Blumenthal describes as one of the most absurd and dangerous cases he's seen, a notorious Zionist agitator, Kammara Sumrall, filed a federal lawsuit against an...

Lurking behind Trump aligned leaders such as Javier Milei, Daniel Noboa, Jair Bolsonaro, and Nayib Bukele are lesser known but highly influential operatives who dictate the course of events in their countries. Perhaps the most consequential of these figures is Fernando Cerimedo, a top advisor to the right-wing Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, who’s known as MAGA’s man in Latin America. On August 18...

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal joins Kei Pritsker to discuss the state coordinated migrant infiltration of Spanish-controlled Ceuta in North Africa, and addresses the debate over Israeli and US responsibility for a clear attempt to destabilize the government of Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez. Blumenthal then discusses Trump's retreat from a threat to unleash the most severe attack on Iran yet, and brings...

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal joins Kei Pritsker to reveal how Israel is activating its proxies inside the Pentagon and the media to keep President Donald Trump invested in a failing war on Iran, where the US is running out of stand-off munitions and interceptor stocks, and explains why Netanyahu has returned to Washington DC for a record eight meeting with Trump. This is a public episode. If you'...

On July 21, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal discussed his reporting from Iran and presented his analysis of the current phase of US war on the country before a packed house at Washington DC's Busboys and Poets. Blumenthal then took questions from the crowd, including many Iranian Americans opposed to the lethal assault on the country of their birth. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...

The U.S. government seizing Max Blumenthal’s devices after his Iran trip is a naked attempt to intimidate journalists and chill dissent. He entered on the same kind of press visa mainstream outlets use, yet CBP singled him out, interrogated him, and took his phones to punish reporting that challenges empire, Israel’s agenda, and the Trump-aligned censorship machine. This is not “security.” It’s vi...