Max Blumenthal

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...

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...

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...

Piers Morgan invited Max Blumenthal on to discuss his Iran reporting and the illegal seizure of his devices by the US govt, but spent much of his time questioning Blumenthal's "impartiality.""I'm absolutely not impartial," Blumenthal explained. "I am not objective, and the concept of objectivity, as we understand it, is set out by the corporate media according to the parameters devised for them...

You'll have had your constitutional rights! Arriving back in the US from the funeral in Tehran of Ayatollah Khamenei, the Grayzone's Max Blumenthal tells George Galloway what it was like having his phones unlawfully seized, and what he’s doing to fight back. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...

In Tehran, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal meets the director of Explosive Media, the elite team of animators, researchers and filmmakers who decisively won the propaganda war over the US and Israel with a series of viral Lego videos mocking Trump and his henchmen, while stirring sympathy for the civilian victims of the US-Israeli assault on their country. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal visits a neighborhood in Eastern Tehran, Iran bombarded with 8 missiles launched by the US-Israeli coalition on March 9, 2026. There, he met local residents who witnessed what they described as a major atrocity in which dozens of civilians were killed, and many wounded, while scores of families were left homeless. Above the door of an apartment building which was...

Former US Rep. Dennis Kucinich joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss Section 219, a measure insidiously inserted into the NDAA bill which will effectively merge the US and Israeli militaries across areas including AI, cyberwarfare, biotech, missile defense, and defense industrial production.Kucinch explains why the bill will shatter what's left of American sovereignty and congressional...

The US-Israeli coalition bombed Iran's Azadi Stadium on March 5, destroying the indoor volleyball and wrestling complex which hosts international competitions.Max Blumenthal visits the ruined arena and places its destruction in the wider context of US-Israeli attacks on the country's knowledge base and the rigging of FIFA's World Cup against Iran's national team. This is a public episode. If...

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal meets top Iranian analyst and journalist Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm in Tehran on July 9, moments after the US resumed airstrikes on Iran, and as the funeral procession for the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proceeded through Iraq. Blumenthal asks Khoshcheshm what the red flags of revenge seen throughout the funeral procession signify, and whether the many public...