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Tech elites invest in doomsday bunkers and remote islands as anti-AI anger grows

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:05:15 GMT

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to calm the public after someone tried to firebomb his house.

Yet he and other tech CEOs are secretly preparing for a scenario where AI collapses society.

The Grayzone's Kei Pritsker explains why so many tech elites are investing massive sums in bunkers and remote islands.

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Apple’s Israel Connection Is Deeper Than You Realize

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:23:36 GMT

Apple’s connections to Israel are way deeper than you think.

The company was accused of deleted Lebanese towns off Apple Maps but that’s just the surface.

Kei Pritsker explains why Apple’s most popular products wouldn’t exist without the Israeli tech sector

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UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:15:02 GMT

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: https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/12/uk-jail-palestine-action-terrorism-uk/

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Israeli Foreign Agents take over Trump podcast world

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:41:26 GMT

The Trump family has taken a 30 percent stake in Salem Media.

Salem Media is named in FARA documents as a partner to Clock Tower Strategies, a registered Israeli agent.

Max Blumenthal explains how Israel has effectively taken over the MAGA podcast world and uses it to spread pro-war propaganda in the US.

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Crossing Iran by train during war

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:03:35 GMT

Independent journalist Ahmad Saadaldin of Propandco tells The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal about his 18 hour train ride across Iran, and what he learned about the country as it faced a war imposed on it by the US and Israel.

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Israeli media holds countdown clock for destroying Iran

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:00:18 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the Israeli role in pushing Trump into war on Iran, and Israel's excitement about his pledge to destroy Iran's "entire civilization."

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Iranians defend historic bridges against US-Israel bombings

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:57:00 GMT

Independent journalist Ahmad Saadaldin of PropandCo joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss his reporting from Iran, and the people's defense of historic sites threatened by US President Donald Trump, who vowed to destroy the "entire civilization" of Iran.

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BBC reporter manufactures consent for nuking Iran

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:35:10 GMT

The Grayzone's Wyatt Reed joins Max Blumenthal to discuss the scandalous reporting of the BBC's Goncheh Habibiazad, a correspondent who quoted an anonymous Iranian insisting they wanted Israel and the US to nuke their country – then quietly softened the quote.

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Christian Right apostates pray for war on Iran

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:33:09 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on Franklin Graham's prayer for war on Iran in the White House, beside figures who previously compared Trump to Jesus Christ.

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Trump threatens Iran beside the Easter bunny

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:30:16 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the bad trip that materialized when Trump fulminated against Iran during his White House Easter party.

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Ecuadorian fishermen testify to surviving US drone strikes

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:06:42 GMT

Donald Trump’s so-called war on drugs strikes again—targeting civilians, treating suspicion as guilt, and producing false positives to inflate results in a war that benefits those at the top.

New testimonies that have been ignored in US media reveal that on March 17, US and Salvadoran military forces attacked an Ecuadorian fishing vessel on the false grounds that it was a narco trafficking boat.

Days later, another Ecuadorian vessel—the Don Maca—was also targeted by US drones.

As their boat burned, the fishermen tried to survive—only to be detained.
They were handcuffed, hooded, and taken aboard a foreign military vessel… while their own ship was destroyed.

For five days, the crew of the Don Maca was declared disappeared — held incommunicado in custody in El Salvador.

These were not the only cases, as we will see in this report.

In the name of the so-called war on drugs, the line between combatant and civilian is no longer blurred — it’s disappearing.

By Oscar Leon

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Visiting Minab, site of the worst recent US war crime

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:04:48 GMT

Independent American journalist Ahmad Saadaldin of Prop&Co and Canada's Dimitri Lascaris of Reason2Resist join The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to detail their reporting from the ground in Iran.

In this discussion, Ahmad and Dimitri recount their visit to Minab, the town where the US military bombed a girl's school and killed 170 civilians in one of the worst American war crimes in recent history. Through their investigation of the site, they learned that there were no military targets in the area, shattering US propaganda.

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Independent journos on life inside Iran under US-Israeli bombs

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:02:09 GMT

Independent American journalist Ahmad Saadaldin of Prop&Co and Canada's Dimitri Lascaris of Reason2Resist join The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss their reporting from the ground in Iran.

In this segment, Ahmad and Dimitri give their impressions of life inside Iran during the war, and describe the resilience and stoicism they witnessed in cities like Isfahan as bombs fell nearby.

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US independent journo reports from the Strait of Hormuz

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:58:59 GMT

Independent American journalist Ahmad Saadaldin of Prop&Co and Canada's Dimitri Lascaris of Reason2Resist join The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss their reporting from the ground in Iran.

In this segment, Ahmad and Dimitri recall what they witnessed in the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint of the global economy, and explain how Iran is controlling access and gathering political power thanks to the war imposed on it by the US and Israel.

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Independent journos expose shocking US war crime in Iran

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:56:17 GMT

Independent American journalist Ahmad Saadaldin of Prop&Co and Canada's Dimitri Lascaris of Reason2Resist join The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss their reporting from the ground in Iran.

In this segment, they explain how they documented the deployment by US aircraft of tiny mines which looked like small tins of food in a town outside Shiraz, and the damage they did to the local civilian population.

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War crimes day - The Grayzone live

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:05:11 GMT

Independent journalists Ahmad Saadaldin and Dimitri Lascaris join The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to report back from their trip to Iran, where they covered the war from the ground while most Western outlets remained outside the country.

Then, Aaron Mate joins to discuss Donald Trump's vow to carry out unprecedented war crimes alongside Israel against Iran's infrastructure, and how the escalation will deepen the damage Trump's war has already inflicted on the global economy, and himself.
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'It is truly terrifying': farmer bombed by US-Ecuador armies exposes false positive attack

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:04:23 GMT

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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Who's really behind 'Iran-backed' cell attacking Europe?

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:06:48 GMT

The Grayzone's Wyatt Reed says major questions remain about “Ashab Al-Yamin," a previously unknown group which is now blamed for a series of supposedly antisemitic attacks across Europe.

Why aren’t they targeting countries most involved in the Iran war?

Why are suspects being released on bail?

And why do they seem to communicate like Israelis?

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Tulsi chooses loyalty over principle

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:40:46 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's moral quandary following the resignation of her deputy, Joe Kent, in protest of the war on Iran.

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Netanyahu flashes kill list to US ambassador

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:39:27 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the disturbing video showing Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu joking with US Ambassador Mike Huckabee about his list of assassination targets.

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Israel targets journalist Steve Sweeney

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:37:57 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on shocking footage showing veteran war correspondent surviving an apparently targeted Israeli missile strike in South Lebanon.

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Joe Kent resigns, denounces Israel for wars of aggression

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:36:54 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the dramatic resignation of former US Director of Counter-Terrorism Joe Kent, the highest level US official to resign over a war since the Vietnam era.

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Israel tortured 2 year old child, Gaza doctor testifies

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:35:17 GMT

27 year old doctor Bisan Ahmed works at the surgery center of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, which was severely damaged in a series of Israeli raids and bombings throughout the past two years

After surviving the genocidal assault on Gaza, Bisan has borne witness to an Israeli that is so shocking it’s almost impossible to describe.

She tells The Grayzone about the abuse by Israeli soldiers of an 18 year old child, Jawad Abu Nassar, who was allegedly tortured to force his father into a confession after both were abducted in the Maghazi refugee camp.

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The US bombed a farm and lied -Ecuadorian community leader

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:31:35 GMT

The Grayzone's Oscar Leon interviews the community leader who exposed the lie behind an Ecuadorian military assault which the US Department of War claimed had targeted a drug trafficking "terrorist" training camp.

Don Vicente was threatened with brutal retaliation for his testimony that the military had attacked a dairy farm and viciously abused local farmers. The incident exposes how the phony "War on Drugs" of the Trump administration has transformed into a war on poor people.

Meanwhile, the real culprits enjoy wealth and protection in government offices, banks, and luxury residential developments.

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The harder right over the easier wrong - The Grayzone live

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:41:56 GMT

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the dramatic resignation of Joe Kent from the Trump administration over the disastrous course of the US-Israeli war on Iran, and discuss the escalation of the war as it engulfs the region - and Trump's presidency.
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Los Shuar de Ecuador resisten la extinción ante creciente presión por minerales.

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:53:51 GMT

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Oscar Leon, de *The Grayzone*, entrevista a Tsunki Chup y a Angel Antip, expresidente de la Federación Shuar, —representantes anti mineros del pueblo shuar de Ecuador, que actualmente se ve abocado a la extinción forzada—

Desde hace años, los shuar luchan contra su desalojo de una de las últimas zonas endémicas y biodiversas del planeta.

Ahora, se enfrentan a una presión sin precedentes bajo el gobierno del presidente Daniel Noboa —un títere de Estados Unidos—, quien ha abierto las tierras de su país para satisfacer el insaciable afán estadounidense por el cobre y los minerales de tierras raras.

Este es el más reciente de una serie de reportajes —que se extiende ya por varios años— realizados por Leon sobre la lucha de los shuar por la supervivencia frente a la sobreexplotación y la corrupción política, frente a la presión de la "maquina" industrial y del mercado.

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Deprivation and depopulation: inside Cuba under US siege

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:11 GMT

Danny Shaw, a scholar of Latin American and Caribbean studies and longtime supporter of the Cuban revolution, documents harrowing conditions across Cuba following the Trump administration's imposition of a blockade on fuel to the island. A humanitarian crisis has been manufactured by Washington to unravel the last vestiges of Cuba's revolutionary structure.

Traveling from Holguin to Banes to Santiago this February, Shaw finds a population increasingly deprived of nutrition, with dwindling transportation options as gas runs low, schools are shuttered, and surging inflation makes life unaffordable. The US embargo has hollowed out once-thriving areas, pushing young people to migrate.

Shaw explains how concessions imposed on the Cuban government have created a new class of crypto-capitalists which forms an economic bridge to Miami, and a base for Trump's promised "takeover" of the country.

Having lived among average Cuban people throughout the latest crisis, Shaw delivers an unflinching chronicle of their painful experience under siege.

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Israel: 'the tail that wags the dog'

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:28:02 GMT

Does Israel control America’s Middle East policy, or is it just a permanent aircraft carrier for the US?

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal asks John Mearsheimer to address the question, and explain how the dynamic between the countries has shifted in recent years.

Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel.

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Trump's war in Iran crushes US working class, enriches cronies

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:27:33 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss how Trump's cronies are exploiting the Strait of Hormuz crisis he instigated to manipulate markets while US consumers feel the pain.

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US CENTCOM chief 'has to do Israel's bidding' -John Mearsheimer

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:24:00 GMT

International relations scholar and "The Israel Lobby" author John Mearsheimer explains how Israel steers NATO and the US military to enact its agenda, even when its interests are divergent.

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'The greatest threat to free speech today is the Israel lobby' -John Mearsheimer

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:15:57 GMT

International relations scholar and "Israel Lobby" author John Mearsheimer explains to The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate why he believes the Israel Lobby threatens the very fabric of liberal democracy with its ruthless drive for control.

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'Israel is an albatross around our neck' -John Mearsheimer

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:11:36 GMT

International relations scholar and "The Israel Lobby" author John Mearsheimer explains to The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate how the Israel lobby's vast power enables it to undercut US imperial interests from within, even hobbling its ability to compete with China.

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The US and Israel: who controls whom?

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:06:08 GMT

International relations scholar and "The Israel Lobby" author joins Max Blumenthal to address the longstanding debate about whether Israel functions as a reliable proxy of US empire, or Israel's vast lobby influences the US government to adopt policies that undermine its interests.

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Ecuador's President Noboa accused of murder

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:43:44 GMT

On February 25, the leader of an Ecuadorian criminal organization made an explosive statement under oath in a Spanish court:

According to his testimony, Ecuador’s current president, Daniel Noboa, ordered the assassination of former presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, claiming that this information came from an insider within Noboa’s inner circle, who warned him that the billionaire US-backed candidate feared losing the election.

The Grayzone's Oscar Leon unpacks the stunning accusation.

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Hidden cost of Iran war - Max Blumenthal on the Judge

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:05:41 GMT

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The Israel Lobby: 20 years later w/ John Mearsheimer - The Grayzone live

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:54:21 GMT

International relations scholar John Mearsheimer joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking book with Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy." The discussion takes place against the backdrop of a US war on Iran which appears to have vindicated the Israel Lobby's thesis.

Blumenthal will also be joined by Aaron Mate to discuss the US-Israeli war on Iran and it sends the global economy spiraling into disaster and Trump struggles to explain the war's objectives to an increasingly angry American public.
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Ecuador's indigenous Shuar resist extinction as push for minerals grows

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:53:41 GMT

The Grayzone's Oscar Leon interviews Tsunki Chup, a leader of Ecuador's Shuar people, who are currently being forced into extinction, and Angel Antip, former Shuar Federation President.

For years, the Shuar have been fighting their removal from one of the last biodiverse endemic areas on Earth.

Now, they face unprecedented pressure under the government of US puppet President Daniel Noboa, who has opened up his country's lands to satisfy the relentless US drive for copper and rare earth minerals.

This is the latest in a years-long series of reports by Leon on the Shuar's fight for survival in the face of over-extraction and political corruption.

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'We have only us and our God to rely on' -Dr. Setareh Sadeqi on Iran's fight after Khamenei

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:30:58 GMT

Setareh Sadeqi, assistant professor of World Studies at the University of Tehran, speaks to The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal from Isfahan, Iran as her country defends itself against a vicious combined assault by the US and Israeli militaries.

Sadeghi addresses the teachings and legacies of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and explains how his assassination has galvanized the Shia masses and united Iran in a battle for its national integrity.

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Iranian monarchists say girl's school bombing was 'worth it'

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:18:22 GMT

“It was totally worth it. One hundred percent!”

The Grayzone's Kei Pritsker spoke to Iranian monarchists in Los Angeles on March 8, 2026

The diaspora demonstrators said that bombing of a girls school in Iran was worth it as long as the Iranian government was overthrown, and urged Trump to authorize a ground invasion of Iran.

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We don't know why we're at war with Iran

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:54:08 GMT

After launching a brutal military assault on Iran, the Trump administration attempted to finally explain its rationale to the American people.

But as The Grayzone's Wyatt Reed explains, their case is paper thin.

No wonder it's the most unpopular war at its inception in recent American history.

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Ecuador's President Noboa accused of murder

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:20:18 GMT

Israeli Infiltration Of Trump Admin Explained In Three Minutes

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:39:25 GMT

“Like puppets on a string.”

Marco Rubio exposed what everyone already knew: Trump bombed Iran for Israel.

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal explains the Israeli infiltration of the Trump admin in three minutes.

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Is Israel Taking Over US Media Through 2 Billionaires?

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:45:48 GMT

Is Israel trying to takeover the US media through two Zionist billionaires?

Larry and David Ellison just bought Warner Brothers Discovery giving them control over one of the largest media conglomerates in history.

Kei Pritsker explains how this move could be part of Israel’s "8th Front": a media war on the minds of the American public.

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Then become a martyr - The Grayzone live

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:32:06 GMT

Max Blumenthal is joined by analyst Ali Alizadeh to discuss the US-Israeli war imposed on Iran, the state of Iranian society and politics after the assassination of the country's Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the existential nature of the regional conflict for Iran.
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US govt admits to smuggling Starlink into Iran to fuel riots

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:29:44 GMT

The US government just admitted that they’re sending Starlink systems to help Iranians overthrow their government.

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal discusses the recent National Endowment for Democracy hearing where the Endowment president admitted his group was not only assisting the protesters but also inflating the death toll to accelerate the collapse of the Iranian government

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Tucker did what other journalists would not

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:56:02 GMT

Tucker Carlson may have single handedly changed the course of the US-Israeli war against Iran.

Max Blumenthal joins George Galloway to explain how Tucker did what no major journalist has done: question the core underpinnings of Christian Zionist ideology right to Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s face.

In doing so, he prompted comments by Huckabee which ignited a diplomatic crisis for the US and Israel.

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'An existential war': Prof. Mohammad Marandi on the coming US-Israeli assault on Iran

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:17:36 GMT

Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss the looming US-Israeli regime change war on Iran and how his country will respond, both militarily and politically.

Marandi forecasts economically devastating consequences, with an energy crisis brought on by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the possible collapse of Gulf family monarchies, and a militarily unmanageable environment for the Trump administration.

While Trump reportedly considers a series of "symbolic" strikes to weaken Iran's negotiating hand, Marandi argues that Iran has no choice but to respond with maximum force.

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Trump's Board of Peace sells Gaza to Epstein Class

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:54:36 GMT

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal explains on Judge Andrew Napolitano's Judging Freedom how President Donald Trump's so-called Board of Peace functions as a vehicle for the Epstein Class to financialize Israel's occupation and ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and export the dystopian model to the rest of the world.

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Was Peter Mandelson the most devious Epstein associate?

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:24:43 GMT

The Grayzone's Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal cover the continuing scandal of former UK ambassador the US Lord Peter Mandelson's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, and the many shocking communications the latest email release exposed between the two.

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Revisiting the death of Jeffrey Epstein

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:21:49 GMT

The Grayzone's Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal look back at the supposed suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in his prison cell and why the official story is impossible to believe.

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