Max Blumenthal | |
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| Born | December 18, 1977 (age 46) |
Max Blumenthal is the founder of The Grayzone, a former writer at Alternet, director of Killing Gaza and Atrocity Inc., and author of The Management of Savagery, Goliath, Republican Gomorrah, and The 51 Day War. He is an investigative journalist who has helped expose American imperialism, war crimes, false flags, and groups such as the National Endowment for Democracy, Central Intelligence Agency, Bellingcat, Saudi royalty, White Helmets, Syrian rebels, Israeli intelligence, Ukrainian fascists, Adrian Zenz/China hawks, and more. He has appeared on The Jimmy Dore Show and other independent podcasts, as well as in multiple documentaries, and won awards for most of his work.
Blumenthal's father, Sidney Blumenthal, is a former aide to Bill Clinton, author, and journalist himself who wrote for liberal news outlets such as Salon, Washington Post, and Vanity Fair. His son Max also wrote for more liberal news outlets such as Media Matters for America, Mondoweiss, AlterNet, The Nation, and The Daily Beast. When these outlets began to push propaganda for the US State Department, left and founded his own, The Grayzone. In his own words[1], Max was a progressive during the Bush era who sought to combat neoconservativism from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, via writing at early independent and progressive outlets; however, after Obama's administration began turning the formerly (largely) anti-war/pro-worker Democratic Party into an openly neocon party, Max left these outlets which towed the party line and founded the Grayzone as an independent outlet.
For his personal work as well as the work of The Grayzone, Blumenthal has been called a conspiracy theorist, Russian propagandist, Communist, spreader of mis-, dis-, and mal-information, muckraker, and more.
Ben Norton defrauded Blumenthal's staff at the Grayzone when he quit over personal political disagreements with Blumenthal.