Beginning July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes and a ground invasion of Gaza that lasted fifty-one days, leaving over 2, 000 people dead, the vast majority of whom were civilians. During the assault, at least 10, 000 homes were destroyed and, according to the United Nations, nearly 300, 000 Palestinians were displaced. Max Blumenthal was on the ground during what he argues was an entirely avoidable catastrophe. In this explosive work of r...
The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism In the Management of Savagery, Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America's dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America's imperial designs. Washington's secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States...
Republican Gomorrah is a bestiary of dysfunction, scandal, and sordidness from the dark heart of the theocratic forces that now have a leash on the party. It shows how those forces are the ones that establishment Republicans, like John McCain, have to bow to if they have any hope of running for president. More that just an expose, Republican Gomorrah shows that many of the movement's leading figures are stained by crisis and scandal: depressio...
The journalist and bestselling author reports on Israel's 2014 Operation Protective Edge, that razed Gaza. He was on the ground during the notorious attack, and reports on the harrowing conditions in an explosive work of reportage.
Goliath is a particular kind of expose-minded, documentary-broadside journalism whose place we generally recognize and respect... Blumenthal has made a sobering prima facie case that there are extreme forces [within Israel's current political-social dynamics] to be aware of, and reckoned with more fully that American discourse usually does." James Fallows, The Atlantic
On July 8, 2014, Israel launched air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, followed by a ground invasion. The ensuing fifty-one days of war left more than 2, 200 people dead. Max Blumenthal was in Gaza and throughout Israel-Palestine during what he argues was an entirely avoidable catastrophe. Blumenthal radically shifts the discussion around a number of highly contentious issues-- the use of civilians as human shields by Israeli forces, the arbit...
A crackling, investigative expos of the new generation of conservative leaders who will call the shots in the post-Bush GOP, "Republican Gomorrah" reveals how the politics of personal crisis and redemption unites them.
An explosive expose into the radical right-wing state of Israeli politics from one of our most controversial investigative reporters and the bestselling author of Republican Gomorrah.
This compelling narrative shows that many of the movement's leading figures are stained by crisis and scandal, including serial domestic abuse, pornography addiction, and mental illness, setting the stage for our political future.
This is the crackling, spicy, and investigative portrait of the freaky and theocratic fringe elements within the conservative movement who are now calling the shots in the post-Bush GOPand a roadmap to understanding the politics of personal crisis and redemption that unites them.
This compelling narrative shows that many of the movement's leading figures are stained by crisis and scandal, including serial domestic abuse, pornography addiction, and mental illness, setting the stage for our political future.