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About Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions. Follow him on Twitter at @MaxBlumenthal.
  • Iranian diplomats

    Iranian diplomats suspect Trump using talks as instrument of sabotage

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 21, 2025 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    In Tehran, bewildered diplomats told me they suspect the Trump administration is exploiting nuclear negotiations as a instrument for generating instability to weaken Iran’s economy and foment social strife.

  • Yosi

    Atrocity Inc: How Israel sells its destruction of Gaza

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 7, 2024 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    In an exclusive new documentary, Max Blumenthal rips the cover off the media deceptions and atrocity hoaxes Israel pushed after October 7 to create political space for its gruesome assault on the Gaza Strip.

  • Ryan Routh

    Alleged would-be Trump assassin recruited for Ukraine’s International Legion

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 15, 2024 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Before he was caught with an AK-47 on a golf course near Trump, Ryan Routh went to Kiev to fight for Ukraine’s military and recruit for its International Legion. Routh told U.S. media he “had partners meeting with [Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense] every week.”

  • Roger Waters / BMG / ADL

    ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past

    Originally published: The Grayzone on February 19, 2024 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    When the Berlin-based BMG music company terminated its business relationship with Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd co-founder claimed the decision was spurred by a concerted Israel lobby-directed campaign to financially retaliate against his outspoken support for Palestine. The Grayzone has obtained a threatening private letter sent by Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to BMG executives which confirms the musician’s accusation.

  • Israeli army gassed my son ‘like Auschwitz,’ mother of slain Israeli soldier says

    Israeli army gassed my son ‘like Auschwitz,’ mother of slain Israeli soldier says

    Originally published: The Grayzone on January 18, 2024 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The mother of a now-dead Israeli soldier captured by Hamas militants on October 7 says it was the Israeli military, not Palestinian resistance fighters, who killed her son.

  • David Ben Zion

    Source of dubious ‘beheaded babies’ claim is Israeli settler leader who incited riots to ‘wipe out’ Palestinian village

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 11, 2023 by Alexander Rubinstein (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be “wiped out.”

  • Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser ‘due to some external concerns’

    Gofundme freezes Grayzone fundraiser ‘due to some external concerns’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on August 28, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Gofundme has indefinitely frozen donations to The Grayzone “due to some external concerns.” The company’s actions follow a campaign of repression against our personnel by the British and Ukrainian governments.

  • President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama with Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon in the Blue Room during a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit dinner at the White House, Aug. 5, 2014.

    ‘Obama’s man in Africa’ under house arrest as popular coup rocks Gabon

    Originally published: The Grayzone on August 31, 2023 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Before his removal in a military coup, Gabon’s hopelessly corrupt President Ali Bongo was courted by Obama and feted from Washington to Davos. The U.S. war on Libya which destabilized the region may not have succeeded without him.

  • New evidence from Nord Stream underwater expedition refutes official claims

    New evidence from Nord Stream underwater expedition refutes official claims

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 27, 2023 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Observers have drawn a number of conclusions based on a recent series of visits to the site of the Nord Stream pipeline rupture via drone.

  • Anne Applebaum

    The real casualties of Russia’s ‘civil war’: the Beltway expert class

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 26, 2023 by Wyatt Reed (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Numerous serious casualties were incurred during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s supposed “coup.” The Grayzone offers an in-depth look at the massacre carried out by some of America’s top Russia experts against their own credibility.

  • ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself

    ICC’s Putin arrest warrant based on State Dept-funded report that debunked itself

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 31, 2023 by Jeremy Loffredo (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children to a network of camps inside Russia. The warrant was based on a report by the Yale HRL center, which is funded by the U.S. State Department.

  • Faina Savenkova

    13-year-old on Ukrainian gov’t kill list speaks out: Video

    Originally published: The Grayzone on September 13, 2022 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal speaks to Faina Savenkova, a 13-year-old resident of the Lugansk Republic who was placed on the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) “kill list” of the Ukrainian government after she issued a call to the United Nations for an end to the war she has lived through since 2014.

  • Paul Mason

    Paul Mason’s covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 7, 2022 by Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.

  • Above: The torture of left-wing activist Alexander Matjuschenko on March 3 in Dnipro, recorded by Azov members. Below: President Volodymyr Zelensky poses during a media engagement.

    “One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 17, 2022 by Esha Krishnaswamy (more by The Grayzone)  |

    While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.

  • BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine war coverage is PR operative involved in “war-messaging tool”

    BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine war coverage is PR operative involved in “war-messaging tool”

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 25, 2022 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    BBC reports on the suspicious destruction of a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol were co-authored by a Ukrainian PR agent tied to a firm at the forefront of her country’s information warfare efforts.

  • Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?

    Was bombing of Mariupol theater staged by Ukrainian Azov extremists to trigger NATO intervention?

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 18, 2022 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Testimony by evacuated Mariupol residents and warnings of a false flag attack undermine the Ukrainian government’s claims about a Russian bombing of a local theater sheltering civilians.

  • Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire

    Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire with economist Michael Hudson

    Originally published: The Grayzone on October 19, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire and the financial motivations behind the U.S. new cold war on China and Russia.

  • Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: US gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’

    Cuba’s cultural counter-revolution: U.S. gov’t-backed rappers, artists gain fame as ‘catalyst for current unrest’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on July 25, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Painting itself as a grassroots collective of artists fighting for freedom of expression, the San Isidro Movement has become a key weapon in the U.S. government’s assault on the Cuban revolution.

  • Jabhat al-Nusra founder Mohammad al-Jolani before and after his image makeover

    How Washington is positioning Syrian Al-Qaeda’s founder as its ‘asset’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 9, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A PBS Frontline special is the latest vehicle in a PR campaign to legitimize rebranded Syrian al-Qaeda, HTS, and market its leader Mohammad Jolani as a competent American “asset.”

  • Economics of the new cold war and US ‘super imperialism’ with economist Michael Hudson

    Economics of the new cold war and U.S. ‘super imperialism’ with economist Michael Hudson

    Originally published: The Grayzone on May 12, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton interview world-renowned economist Michael Hudson on his concept of American “super imperialism” and the economics of the new cold war on China and Russia.

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