Author: 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.
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Syria

How a US and Qatari regime change deception produced ‘Caesar’ sanctions driving Syria towards famine

Like the mysterious figure it is named for, the Caesar sanctions bill is the product of an elaborate deception by shadowy US- and Gulf-backed operatives. Instead of protecting Syrian civilians, the unilateral measures are driving them towards hunger and death.

By Max Blumenthal

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Español, Israel-Palestine

De ‘Occupy’ a la ocupación: La israelización de la seguridad interior en EEUU

Uno de los primeros estudios exhaustivos sobre el entrenamiento de los funcionarios policiales locales y federales de los Estados Unidos por parte de Israel.

Por Max Blumenthal

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Big Tech, Information Wars, Non-Profit Industrial Complex

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

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

By Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal

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Israel police American training
Israel-Palestine, US Police State

From Occupation to ‘Occupy’: The Israelification of American domestic security

One of the first comprehensive surveys of Israeli training of US local and federal law enforcement officials.

By Max Blumenthal

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Julian Assange

Exclusive images from inside British court expose Assange’s un-democratic treatment, physical deterioration

Photographs surreptitiously taken inside a British courtroom and provided to The Grayzone show a visibly disoriented Julian Assange confined to a glass cage and unable to communicate with his lawyers.

By Max Blumenthal

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CIA, Español, Julian Assange

‘Los amigos americanos’: Nuevos documentos revelan el espionaje de la CIA contra Julian Assange y el papel del financista de Trump

Una investigación exclusiva de The Grayzone revela nuevos detalles sobre el papel crítico que la compañía Las Vegas Sands del multimillonario Sheldon Adelson jugó en una aparente operación de espionaje de la CIA contra Julian Assange, y expone al personal de seguridad de Sands que colaboraron en la coordinación de la campaña maliciosa.

Por Max Blumenthal

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CIA, Français, Julian Assange

‘Les amis américains’ : de nouveaux documents révèlent l’étendue de l’opération d’espionnage sur Julian Assange

Une enquête exclusive de The Grayzone révèle de nouveaux détails sur le rôle clé joué par le milliardaire Sheldon Adelson à Las Vegas dans une opération d’espionnage de la CIA visant Julian Assange.

Par Max Blumenthal

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CIA, Julian Assange

‘The American friends’: New court files expose Sheldon Adelson’s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange

An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious campaign.

By Max Blumenthal

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China, Coronavirus

How a Trump media dump mainstreamed Chinese lab coronavirus conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory about Covid-19 escaping from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology is the Trump administration’s Iraqi WMD. And the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin is playing the role of Judith Miller.

By Max Blumenthal and Ajit Singh

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Coronavirus, Syria

Coronavirus stimulus bill funds State Dept/USAID operations that once helped trigger polio outbreak in Syria

A look at recent USAID schemes from Pakistan to Syria shows US empire can be very hazardous to your health.

By Max Blumenthal

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