Max Blumenthal: Venezuela - Deal-Making, Plunder & the Rule of Law
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Anya Parampil on the US financial sabotage of Venezuela

On the Radio War Nerd podcast hosted by Mark Ames and John Dolan, The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil discusses her 2023 book, “Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire,” outlining the sophisticated campaign of financial and political warfare Washington has waged on Venezuela since its Chavista government came to power.

Parampil details the plot to steal Venezuela’s most valuable foreign asset, Citgo, setting the stage for the recent US military assault on Caracas. She describes her on-the-ground reporting from Venezuela and her interactions with the country’s leaders, from Nicolas Maduro to Delcy Rodriguez, as well as top opposition figures.

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New Mossad recruitment ads exploit Iran’s unrest with help from US comedian

Mossad is taking advantage of deadly riots that rocked Iran this month to solicit spies through a series of social media ads. In one of history’s strangest collaborations, the Israeli intel agency has purchased the ads through an LLC owned by Atlanta-based standup comic Desi Banks. Continue reading...

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Max Blumenthal: Trump's Financial Terrorism Against Iran

Max Blumenthal joins Judge Napolitano to dissect Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Davos brag that Trump ordered OFAC to collapse Iran’s currency, block imports, and deliberately drive people into the streets. He frames this as open admission of “financial terrorism”: a 14‑year sanctions war weaponizing inflation, medicine shortages, app bans, and bank lockouts to manufacture unrest and justify a coming U.S.–Israeli strike. Blumenthal tracks how MI6, Mossad, and CIA then piggybacked on currency protests with hybrid war tactics—armed rioters, burned mosques, fake death tolls—while carrier groups, THAAD batteries, and Gulf assets line up for possible decapitation strikes on Iran’s leadership.
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Confronting hybrid warfare inside Iran: a voice on the ground

Nahid Poureisa, a Tehran-based analyst of West Asian and Chinese affairs, joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the coordinated rioting and violence that shook her country for two days this January and left thousands dead.

Poureisa describes bearing witness to the devastating aftermath of the mayhem, visiting some of the many mosques that were torched by rioters, speaking to family members of the dead, living through the internet blackout, and attending a massive pro-government rally which brought together over a million Iranians from diverse social sectors.

As US military forces gather in the region for a possible assault on Iran, Poureisa details her country’s preparations and assesses how it might respond.
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🔴 Board of piece - The Grayzone live

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss Trump’s new pay-for-play board of peace and what it means for Gaza, as well has his clash with European leaders at Davos. They also cover the aftermath of regime change riots in Iran, Max’s investigation into an Atlanta-based comedian whose company was used to recruit Iranians for Mossad, and the shocking rampage by the US-allied government in Syria.
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Max Blumenthal: Trump’s Mental Unraveling and the Road to Iran

Max Blumenthal joins Matt Gaetz to chart how Trump’s obvious cognitive decline intersects with a foreign-policy apparatus marching toward a disastrous war on Iran. He dissects Treasury-engineered currency collapse and IMF-style “reform” as weapons against Iran’s middle class, links sanctions to orchestrated street violence and Mossad/MI6 hybrid war tactics, and shows how neocon officials openly fantasize about decapitation strikes and regime change that even they admit bombing can’t deliver. Along the way, Max skewers Trump’s Davos performance, NATO’s hypocrisy, and a U.S. political class using economic siege, proxy terror and carrier groups to do what Congress and the public would never openly authorize.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent boasted that US sanctions triggered rioting inside Iran which left thousands dead

Now Trump is planning a naval blockade

@jedaaal explains how 15 years of American financial terrorism have wreaked havoc on Iranian society

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Who's behind the clearly manmade wildfires plaguing Argentina's Patagonia?

A governor who recently visited Israel is blaming the Mapuche, but Israeli tourists keep getting caught violating local fire codes

Journalist Sebastian Salgado details how the Zionist movement has long considered Patagonia as a Plan B

Today, Argentina's fanatically pro-Israel President Javier Milei is holding a literal fire sale of burned land to foreigners

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Paul Mason plotted to sue The Grayzone over factual reporting, new leaks show - By Kit Klarenberg

Newly-leaked emails show ex-leftist journalist-turned-snitch Paul Mason attempted a legal crusade to silence his critics and censor The Grayzone’s reporting. Continue reading...

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Max Blumenthal: Iran’s “Holocaust” Numbers and the March to War

On Piers Morgan’s show, Max Blumenthal dismantles the screaming “100,000 dead” headline from Iran’s recent unrest, tracing it back to exile grifters, Mossad‑adjacent outlets, and Western media eager for a new Iraq‑style casus belli. He shows how sanctions, engineered currency collapse, and hybrid warfare manufactured real misery, then got spun into a “genocide” narrative to ram through a U.S.–Israeli strike that neither regional states nor most Americans want. In Blumenthal’s telling, the fake body count isn’t about human rights; it’s about giving Trump’s donors and Israel a pretext for war before the political window slams shut.
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Max Blumenthal describes the reality of Iran amidst the pro-war propaganda deceptions and fabricated death counts promoted by Israeli pundits
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NBA star Stephen Curry’s ties to Israeli intelligence exposed

Less than three years after being named the NBA’s 2023 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion, the league’s all-time three-point leader has begun quietly pouring tens of millions into tech ventures owned and operated by Israeli spies. Continue reading...

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Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op - By Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal

Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised source. But a zealously pro-war Guardian reporter is doing her best to legitimize it. Continue reading...

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Epstein: did all roads lead to Moscow, or Tel Aviv?

Max Blumenthal joins Judge Napolitano on Judging Freedom to expose how Netanyahu’s lifelong obsession with war on Iran—pushed since Iraq, now via Adelson and Epstein ties—has Trump demanding Tehran’s total capitulation in Oman talks. He calls out absurd U.S. terms: dismantle ballistic missiles and nuclear breakout capacity that deterred Israel’s 12-day assault, echoing Gaddafi’s fatal disarmament. Blumenthal ties carrier deployments and regional tension to Israel’s strategy of trapping America in endless Middle East quagmires, while JD Vance parrots neocon lies and British media deflects Epstein’s Israeli fingerprints as “Russian assets.” Watch on Substack

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The life and work of Michael Parenti: a tribute with his son, Christian

Christian Parenti joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss the revolutionary life and legacy of his father, the dissident political scientist Michael Parenti, who died on January 24, 2026 at age 92.

He surveys Michael Parenti’s major works, from “Democracy for the Few” to his groundbreaking study of corporate media, “Inventing Reality,” along with “To Kill A Nation,” which dismantled the Western propaganda deployed to justify NATO’s destruction of Yugoslavia. They also discuss his clash with fellow leftists Noam Chomsky and Alexander Cockburn, who glibly dismissed theories about a US intelligence role in JFK’s assassination.

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Kincora: British intelligence-run sex abuse brothel? - By Kit Klarenberg

Half a century after the public learned that boys at a Belfast group home were sexually assaulted by senior staff, a key question remains unanswered: was British intelligence implicated in the abuse conspiracy, and did Kincora serve as a ‘honeypot’ to entrap and blackmail powerful figures? Continue reading...

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🔴 All roads lead to Tel Aviv;) - The Grayzone live

Max Blumenthal is joined by Kit Klarenberg to break down the massive new Epstein file dump, and to discuss the scandal surrounding UK Labour peer Peter Mandelson which threatens to bring down Keir Starmer’s government. They will also cover US-Iran negotiations, new developments in Venezuela, and more.
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US holds secret indictment of Delcy Rodriguez, top opposition journo claims - By Max Blumenthal

A US-funded opposition journalist revealed the Trump DOJ has crafted a secret indictment of Venezuela’s Acting President to “hold it over her head,” and will execute it if she “derails.” Continue reading...

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Max Blumenthal: 'The Venezuelan government has been kidnapped and is doing everything at the point of a gun. Trump is imposing a Gaza-style siege on Cuba.

What we're witnessing is a mafia in action.'