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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.
  • 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.

  • US State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue

    U.S. State Department accusation of China ‘genocide’ relied on data abuse and baseless claims by far-right ideologue

    Originally published: The Grayzone on February 18, 2021 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Trump and Biden administrations have relied on the work of a right-wing religious extremist, Adrian Zenz, for their “genocide” accusation against China. A close review of Zenz’s research reveals flagrant data abuse and outright falsehoods.

  • Max Blumenthal: Breach of Capitol Security Was Like a Military Operation

    Max Blumenthal: Breach of Capitol security was like a military operation

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 13, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Grayzone founder notes that “such a disproportionate percentage” of the Capitol building attackers were former military, former law enforcement, or current law enforcement that began rappelling up the sides of the Capitol with ropes.”

  • Max Blumenthal interviews former Ecuador President Rafael Correa

    Rafael Correa on Venezuela, Assange, and ‘preventing the total destruction of our homeland’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on December 13, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Max Blumenthal interviews former Ecuador President Rafael Correa, who was in Venezuela to observe its legislative elections and show support to a government under sustained economic and political attack by the U.S.

  • Kong Tsung-gan

    Western media’s favorite Hong Kong ‘freedom struggle writer’ is American ex-Amnesty staffer in yellowface

    Originally published: The Grayzone on August 8, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    A prominent Hong Kong pundit and anti-China activist named Kong Tsung-gan has become a go-to source for Western media. An investigation by The Grayzone confirms Kong as a fake identity employed by an American teacher who’s a ubiquitous figure at local protests.

  • Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

    Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 11, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Wikipedia has become a bulletin board for corporate and imperial interests under the watch of its Randian founder, Jimmy Wales, and the veteran U.S. regime-change operative who heads the Wikimedia Foundation, Katherine Maher.

  • Acronym group that sabotaged Iowa caucus birthed by billionaire who funded Alabama disinformation campaign

    Acronym group that sabotaged Iowa caucus birthed by billionaire who funded Alabama disinformation campaign

    Originally published: The Grayzone on February 6, 2020 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Silicon Valley billionaire Reid Hoffman funded the creation of ACRONYM, the group that sabotaged the Iowa caucus results, after bankrolling voter manipulation campaigns including the notorious online “false flag operation” in Alabama’s 2017 senate race.

  • President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks on the death of Soleimani at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, January 3, 2010, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

    Iraqi PM reveals Soleimani was on peace mission when assassinated, exploding Trump’s lie of ‘imminent attacks’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on January 6, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Trump administration claimed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was planning “imminent attacks” on U.S. interests when it assassinated him. That lie was just destroyed, but not before countless corporate media outlets transmitted it to the public.

  • Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and millionaire – with foreign support

    Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and millionaire–with foreign support

    Originally published: The Grayzone on November 11, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition.

  • SNHR regime change

    Behind the Syrian network for human rights: how an opposition front group became Western media’s go-to monitor

    Originally published: The Grayzone on June 14, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions, never noting the group’s seamless connection to Syria’s opposition, the support it receives from states that waged war on the country, or its open lobbying for US military intervention.

  • VIDEO- How the Pentagon and CIA Push Venezuela Regime-Change Propaganda in Video Games

    How the Pentagon and CIA push Venezuela regime-change propaganda in video games

    Originally published: The Grayzone on April 15, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The US military and CIA launder coup propaganda through popular first-person shooter video games like Call of Duty, simulating assassinations of Venezeula’s socialist leader and sabotage of its electrical infrastructure.

  • Demonstrators set a truck on fire in Caracas, Venezuela (February 18, 2018)

    The Grayzone testifies at the UN: ‘Humanitarian crisis in Venezuela: propaganda vs. reality’

    Originally published: The Grayzone on March 19, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil spoke about Venezuela at a side event at a United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva on March 19. They joined former special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas on a panel titled “Humanitarian crisis in Venezuela: Propaganda vs. reality.”

  • The making of Juan Guaido

    Originally published: The Grayzone on January 28, 2019 (more by The Grayzone)  |

    Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization.

  • 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.

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