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Max Blumenthal (born December 18, 1977) is an American author and blogger. He was a writer for
The Nation,
AlterNet,
[2] The Daily Beast,
Al Akhbar, and
Media Matters for America,
[3][4] and has contributed to
Al Jazeera English,
The New York Times and the
Los Angeles Times.
[3] He has been a writing fellow of the
Nation Institute.
[5] He is a regular contributor to Russian state-owned
Sputnik and
RT.
[6][7][8]
Blumenthal is the editor of
The Grayzone website, which is known for its apologetic coverage of authoritarian regimes such as the Chinese, Russian, Syrian, and Venezuelan governments, including its
denial of
chemical attacks by the Syrian government and of
human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
[9][10][11][12][13]
Blumenthal has contributed to broadcasts on
RT (formerly known as Russia Today) on many occasions.
[8] In December 2015, during a visit to Moscow presumed by multiple sources to have been paid for by the Kremlin,
[19][22] Blumenthal was a guest at RT's
10 Years On Air anniversary party attended by President
Vladimir Putin, then-Lieutenant General
Michael Flynn of the United States and English politician
Ken Livingstone.
[19][8][23] In an interview with
Tucker Carlson on
Fox News in November 2017, Blumenthal defended RT against "the charge that it’s Kremlin propaganda."
[8][24]
He has contributed on multiple occasions to
Sputnik radio,
[22][25] as well as to Iran's
Press TV[26][27] and China's
CGTN.
[28] Blumenthal founded
The Grayzone website within a month after his visit to Moscow.
[12] In an October 2019 article for
New Politics magazine,
Gilbert Achcar wrote that Blumenthal's
Grayzone, along with the
World Socialist Web Site, has "the habit of demonizing all left-wing critics of Putin and the likes of Assad by describing them as 'agents of imperialism' or some equivalent".
[29]