Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal is a journalist whose work is published in the New York Times, the Daily Beast, the Nation, the Huffington Post, Salon, and other publicatio

A nation against Islam: America's new crusade

An accumulating network of ignorance and prejudice is being mobilised in the United States against hyperbolised versions of the religion of Islam and its adherents. What are the core elements and ideological underpinnings of this powerful campaign? In a forensic essay first published in TomDispatc

By Max Blumenthal

/ 13 Jan 2011

Days of rage: the Tea Party & America's right

The rise of the Tea Party movement in the United States in the first twenty months of Barack Obama’s presidency is shaking the political establishment, an effect reinforced by the victories of its candidates in Republican Party primaries. But where has the movement come from, and what is its inner

By Max Blumenthal

/ 17 Sep 2010

Barack Obama, the fallen messiah

The “salvation narrative” projected onto Barack Obama created false expectations on the left and invited his demonisation by the right

By Max Blumenthal

/ 23 Dec 2009