Max Blumenthal
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
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