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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.
  • Carl David Goette-Luciak poses with an opposition gunman in the city of Masaya, Nicaragua. Photo | Edge of Adventure

    How an American anthropologist tied to U.S. regime-change proxies became the MSM’s man in Nicaragua

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 26, 2018 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It might seem cavalier for an academically credentialed anthropologist to assert political influence on the population he is supposed to be studying; however, Goette-Luciak’s activities fit within a long tradition.

  • Censored Documentary Exposes Israel’s Attack on Black Lives Matter

    Censored documentary exposes Israel’s attack on Black Lives Matter

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 12, 2018 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Israeli operatives and their U.S. lobbyists sprang into action when the Movement for Black Lives came out in support of the boycott Israel movement.

  • How Nicaragua’s ‘Left-Wing’ Opposition MRS Are NGO Opportunists Lobbying the West for Regime Change

    How Nicaragua’s ‘left-wing’ opposition MRS are NGO opportunists lobbying the West for regime change

    Originally published: The Grayzone on August 15, 2018 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Sandinista Renovation Movement (Movimiento Renovador Sandinista – MRS) is the intellectual, left-sounding arm of reactionary politics in Nicaragua. Its popular base is minuscule, but it has been adept at courting Western support.

  • Parubiy Congress

    VIDEO: Congress welcomes an actual fascist as Nazi violence rages in Ukraine

    Originally published: Grey Zone Project on July 4, 2018 (more by Grey Zone Project)  |

    I asked the Washington hosts of Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament and founder of two neo-Nazi parties, why they were legitimizing an open fascist at the heart of the extremism plaguing his country.

  • A publication funded by the U.S. government's National Endowment for Democracy boasts of "laying the groundwork for insurrection." | Photo: Reuters

    U.S. body ‘laid groundwork for insurrection’ in Nicaragua

    Originally published: teleSUR English on June 21, 2018 (more by teleSUR English)  |

    A publication funded by the U.S. government’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy, boasts of spending millions of dollars “laying the groundwork for insurrection.”

  • Roger Waters on stage in Barcelona, April 13, 2018

    Exclusive emails show how the White Helmets tried to recruit Roger Waters with Saudi money

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 19, 2018 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    During a Barcelona concert on April 13, Roger Waters denounced the Syrian White Helmets as “a fake organization that exists only to create propaganda for jihadists and terrorists.”

  • White Helmets workers posing with the bodies of dead Syrian soldiers

    U.S.-funded White Helmets assist in public execution in rebel-held Syria for at least the second time

    Originally published: AlterNet on May 23, 2017 (more by AlterNet)  |

    In a new video Syria Civil Defense members—popularly know as the “White Helmets,” the Nobel Prize-nominated group that has received at least $23 million in funding from USAID (a wing of the State Department)—are shown assisting in a public execution in a rebel-held town in Syria. It is at least the second such execution video featuring members of the Nobel Prize-nominated group, which operates exclusively within the armed Syrian opposition and works closely with al-Qaeda’s local affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, and even ISIS.

  • Feeling the Hate in New York

    Max Blumenthal

    Midtown Manhattan, 25 April 2010 Dov Hikind, NY State Assemblyman (D-Brooklyn): “From day one, this president proved that he was not Barack Obama, but Barack Hussein Obama.” Audience (carrying signs reading “Racism.  Sexism.  Apartheid.  Stop Shariah Islam” among other signs): “Boo!” Demonstrator: “He’s a Nazi!” * * * Demonstrator: “This government is pressuring Israel right […]

  • Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv

    Jesse Rosenfeld and Max Blumenthal

      “What do you have to say to the Iranian people?” “The Iranians are fucking assholes.  I hate them all.  They can go fuck themselves.” “What do you have to say to the Iranian people?” “I hate them.  I don’t like them.” “What do you think about Obama?” “Obama is a cooshi.” “What?” “He’s a […]

  • Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem

    Joseph Dana and Max Blumenthal

      This video was brought online on 4 June 2009, to conincide with Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo on the same day.  According to Max Blumenthal, the video was censored by the Huffington Post: “Censored by the Huffington Post and Imprisoned by the Past: Why I Made ‘Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem’” (Mondoweiss, 6 June […]

  • Bomb a Ghetto, Raise a Cheer

    Max Blumenthal

    Pro-Israel Rally for Attacking Gaza, New York City, 11.01.09 Cf. Max Blumenthal, “Pro-Israel Rally Attended by Big-Time NY Dems Descends into Calls for ‘Wiping Out’ Palestinians,” AlterNet, 13 January 2009. Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and contributor to The Nation, Al Jazeera English, Salon.com, AlterNet, the Huffington Post, and the […]

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