Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the liberal meltdown over the latest round of Trump picks, and what they mean for his second term agenda, particularly on the world stage. They will also cover the latest from Gaza, Lebanon, and highly revealing comments by Tony Blinken on Ukraine.

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil and Wyatt Reed assess Trump's initial round of Israel First foreign policy picks, and how top donors like Miriam Adelson dictated the selections through his transition team.

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed discuss the shocking psy-op that ensued in Amsterdam, where Israeli football hooligans instigated violence, then played victims of a pogrom, then Anya Parampil joins to discuss Trump's re-election and the sordid history of his top foreign policy picks.

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

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She shut down anti-genocide protesters with her focus group tested line but she’s not speaking now

[Video: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1821352438856556544/vid/avc1/1280x720/7ytOz_3ukeYo1_cP.mp4]

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1854048133904298262

Join The Grayzone's special election night stream, as Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, and some possible surprise guests vote like their lives depend on it.

Image: The Handmaid's Tale insurrection, January 6, 2025

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

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1. 11:14.000 - 44:34.500 Briahna Joy Gray Joins
2. 44:50.000 - 1:31:43.000 Michael Tracey Joins
3. 1:32:22.000 - 2:16:56.000 Ali Abunimah Joins, Founder of The Electronic Intifada
4. 2:22:14.000 - 3:08:11.000 Jimmy Dore Joins

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Our documentary shredding Israel's genocidal post-Oct 7 lies, Atrocity Inc., is now live

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Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells The Destruction Of Gaza

Watch @MaxBlumenthal's new documentary takedown of the media deceptions and hoaxes Israel pushed to manufacture consent for its genocidal assault on Gaza

In collaboration w/ @propandco & @sutjhally

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Atrocity Inc.

A documentary by Max Blumenthal that takes us through the events of October 7th and the meticulously manufactured lies that came out of Israeli media. Atrocity Inc. takes a deep look at the mechanisms behind the propaganda created to serve Israeli goals.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1843320308654387634

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal on the dangerously arrogant and clueless thinking paving the path to regional war.

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

At Rage Against The War Machine in Washington DC on September 28, 2024, Max Blumenthal slammed Joe Biden's endorsement of the Israeli attack that killed hundreds in order to assassinate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and outlined how Greater Israel has grown to encompass the heart of the US political establishment.

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil discuss an upcoming CNN special attacking anti-imperialist influencer and self-described "MAGA communist" Jackson Hinkle, and what it says about the relationship between the US security state and a failing corporate media.

#News, #Democrat Politics, #Jackson Hinkle, #cnn, #lawfare, #pressfare, #russiagate, #putin

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While sucking up to Genocide Joe’s press secretary & propagandist Jen Psaki, Mehdi did not dare ask if she considered her boss a war criminal. Careerists like him are more comfortable slapping that label on the targets of Washington, and leveraging it to bully antiwar activists.

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@mehdirhasan

Me: "Vladimir Putin is a war criminal in your view? And Assad is a war criminal?"

Jill Stein: "Uh, yes. In so many words."

Me: "What does that mean, 'in so many words'?"

My exchange with the Green Party candidate on war crimes.

Full interview: https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-mehdi-interviews-jill-stein

[Video, https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1835747356777594881/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/rQKi7Jat8DlAiz5D.mp4]

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1836229790921101355

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*Linsey Davis co-hosted the debate, not Kristin Welker. I watch political coverage on ABC maybe once every 4 years, so forgive the mistake.

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Trump supporters are deluding themselves if they think he won the debate. Trump fell for the bait Kamala's handlers set for him at every possible point, spent much of the debate on the defense, stammered, spewed references that only extremely online members of his base would recognize, and got clobbered on abortion. When Kamala taunted Trump about the size of his rallies, he stumbled cluelessly into her trap.

If Trump had entered the debate with an actual strategy, he would have responded that after Kamala's massive, elaborately staged campaign launch in Oakland in 2020, she failed to win a single delegate, wasted tens of millions of donor money, and was only installed as the Dem nominee by the media and party elites. (That critique only came in latter half of the debate, when it was too late, and most viewers' perceptions had solidified). Similarly, when Kamala cited Goldman Sachs and Wharton to tout her economic credentials, Trump had an easy opportunity to hammer home Goldman's role in the foreclosure crisis that destroyed the lives of millions of hard working Americans. Instead, he grumbled that he graduated from Wharton, before veering off track again. When Kamala predictably raised Trump's call for executing the Central Park 5, he could have reminded voters of how she boasted of jailing massive numbers of Black youth for truancy and marijuana possession. On foreign policy, Trump should have homed in on Dick Cheney's endorsement of Kamala for a redux of his demolition of Jeb Bush in the 2016 primary debates. He had two hours to put forward a critique of a candidate who was not well known to most swing voters, to paint her as a media created phony and reckless warmonger afraid of her own record, and he failed.

Trump supporters are correct that the moderators, David Muir and Kristen Welker, orchestrated the debate in Kamala's favor, never fact checking her and feeding her one alley-oop after another, while relentlessly cornering Trump. Muir and Welker clearly saw the Beltway press corps' disappointment with Dana Bash and Jake Tapper for failing to ruthlessly fact check Trump in the first debate, and seized the chance to burnish their status. In the past, Trump would have recognized the moderators as a second opponent, and blasted the fake news media for its shameless bias. But the Trump of 2016, whose campaign was propelled by a popular sense of anti-establishment betrayal after the Iraq war and financial crash, is a ghost. If he somehow makes it into the Oval Office after this performance, he will be focused on personal survival, with his agenda hijacked and subverted by the forces he once thundered against.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1833909786024521831

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Here’s the clearest indication yet that Kamala Harris is Bought and Bossed by the Israel lobby, and will do nothing different than Genocide Joe

In between tired bromides, Kamala repeats the “Hamas mass rape” hoax that was fed to her by Israel lobbyists

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Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1829373450726650275

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Here’s our mastercut from the DNC

“That’s not what’s up for discussion,” said SNL’s Keenan Thompson when asked about the Biden-Harris policy of sponsoring Israel’s genocide

To be fair, Keenan was the only DNC speaker I questioned who seemed to have a guilty conscience

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WATCH The Grayzone's @MaxBlumenthal & @wyattreed13 challenge Democrat leadership and celebrity performers at #DNC2024 on the Biden-Harris support for Israel's genocide in Gaza

Featuring:

1. Keenan Thompson of SNL
2. Chuck Schumer
3. Rev. Al Sharpton
4. Stevie Wonder
5. Sen. Cory Booker
6. Wolf Blitzer of CNN
7. Kaitlan Collins of CNN
8. Rep. Steny Hoyer
9. Terry McAuliffe

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Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1827387833423654912/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/sEb5-Zha491CE6nT.mp4

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1827402075862409323

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NYU has issued new rules declaring the use of the term Zionist a "code word" which could constitute hate speech

Which means NYU has made a protected group out of the apartheidist billionaires who dominate its administration and the genocidal military that occupies Palestine

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[Headline] NYU issues hate speech guidelines discouraging students from targeting 'Zionists'

[Sub-Headline] Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists claim targeting Zionists isn't antisemitic because not all Jews identify as Zionists; new policy shows school disagrees, given that most Jews do

By ANDREW LAPIN | Today, 5:43 am

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New York Jewish Week via JTA – Students and faculty who discriminate against or harass "Zionists" may be violating New York University's hate speech policies, according to the school's updated guidelines for the fall semester.

In July, Meta banned the use of “Zionist” as a cover for attacks on Jews or Israelis on its platforms. Now, NYU, which like many universities became embroiled in pro-Palestinian unrest during the last school year year, appears to be the first college to take a stance on the term's use.

"Using code words, like ‘Zionist,' does not eliminate the possibility that your speech violates the NDAH [Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment] Policy," read NYU's new student community standards, which it published on Thursday.

Article: https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyu-issues-hate-speech-guidelines-discouraging-students-from-targeting-zionists/

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Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1827433842480996506

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When you fabricate key parts of your harrowing life story for fame and marry a millionaire investment banker, there’s no limit to what you can become in America

@YeonmiParkNK

I am a survivor of a Socialist system in North Korea, and I am voting for @realDonaldTrump this November 🇺🇸

#MAGA24

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Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1825374222148886718

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Here’s one to grow on

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[Meaning of antisemitism in English]

[Antisemitism]

[noun] [(also anti-Semitism, anti-semitism)]

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[When you say that IDF soldiers are not allowed to gang rape Palestinian detainees]

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1822484298584531195

FYI:

TRT is a Turkish public broadcast service.

US Democratic Representative Cori Bush has lost her Missouri primary to Wesley Bell, a challenger funded by America's most influential pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She's the third Congress member - who's been critical of Israel's war in Gaza - to be unseated by a candidate backed by pro-Israel groups. Max Blumenthal, author and the editor-in-chief of the news website Greyzone, explains how powerful this lobby group is in the US.

#AIPAC #Gaza #Israel

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the latest stage of the Kamala coup, including her brutal hippy punching of anti-genocide protesters, and cover the new wave of pro-rape protests in Israel, as well as the latest from Gaza and the looming retaliation by Iran and Hezbollah.

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Apartheid Israel has spent the past several days bombing schools in Gaza, burning scores of children alive

Now, the US and UK mobilizing their militaries to defend the ethnosupremacist state responsible for the modern Holocaust

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*are mobilizing

[NSFW, unalive kid] Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1820220272147914752/pu/vid/avc1/720x720/8MZlbHktKm-c5Fa4.mp4

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1820236079233896687

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the countdown to another Iranian counterattack following Israel's brazen assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and insurrectionist riots inside Israel. Anya Parampil joins to discuss the latest from Venezuela, where Washington has officially endorsed regime change and accused President Nicolas Maduro of rigging an election.

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Apartheid Israel eliminates another eyewitness to its Gaza Holocaust with full support from the Biden-Harris-Blinken cartel

@moawady

Here is Ismail’s tribute to himself and the dying humanity.

“Let me tell you, my friend, that I no longer know the taste of sleep. The bodies of children and the screams of the injured and their blood-soaked images never leave my sight. The cries of mothers and the wailing of men who are missing their loved ones never fade from my hearing.

I can no longer bear the sound of children’s voices from beneath the rubble, nor can I forget the energy and power that reverberates at every moment, turning into a nightmare. It is no longer easy for me to stand before the rows of coffins, which are locked and extended, or to see the dead people more than the living who are fighting death beneath their homes, not finding a way out to safety and survival.

I am tired, my friend…”

Ismail Al-Ghoul

Al Jazeera Correspondent in Gaza

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[Image of Ismail Al-Ghoul with a blue press vest and helmet, holding an Al Jazeera microphone]

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1818673398618226738

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Only in the Middle East's "only democracy" can a debate take place over whether it is legitimate to "insert a stick in a person's rectum"

@AdameMedia

MK Ahmad Tibi (TA'AL): To insert a stick in a person's rectum, is that legitimate?

MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud): Yes! If he is a Nukhba everything is legitimate to do him!

This is a scum society from top to bottom. Boycott anyone who supports them.

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Direct video link: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1817903029921660928/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/Q_IeXNpc_Cd7EqeR.mp4

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1818159418254430325

The Grayzone’s publication of an embarrassing phone call with a National Endowment for Democracy VP triggered an institution-wide meltdown at the US government’s regime change laboratory. Following the call, the group’s founding president privately admitted the “fiasco” exposed major “problems beneath the polished surface.”

Read a collection of the NED files exclusively obtained by The Grayzone here.

Link: https://thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/NED-Master-Files.pdf