Max Blumenthal

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Award-winning journalist, author, and founder of The Grayzone, an independent news outlet focused on U.S. foreign policy and Western interventionism. A veteran correspondent who has reported from Palestine, Venezuela, Syria, and Russia, Blumenthal is the author of several books including Goliath, a widely discussed examination of Israeli society and the occupation. Known for challenging U.S. government narratives on regime-change operations, his reporting on Syria, Venezuela, and Ukraine draws on on-the-ground correspondence, documentary evidence, and primary source materials from conflict zones that mainstream Western outlets rarely access.

Known for

Founded The Grayzone in 2015, building it into one of the most widely read independent foreign policy outlets on the internet
Authored 'Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel' (2013), a controversial and widely discussed book on Israeli society and the occupation
Authored 'The Management of Savagery' (2019), documenting how Western powers used armed groups to pursue regime-change objectives in the Middle East
Reported on the ground from Venezuela during the 2019 coup attempt, Syria, and Gaza — providing counter-narratives to mainstream Western coverage