In this letter, journalist and author Max Blumenthal responds to Gershom Gorenberg’s latest column.
Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal is the senior editor of AlterNet's Grayzone Project, and the author, most recently, of The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza.
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Crouch Time
Throughout his three-decade-long career as founder and president of the world’s largest religious broadcasting company, Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), Paul Crouch has earned a reputation for preaching about the wrath of God, even delivering holy death threats to his critics, as he did in 1991 when he told them, “To hell with you! Get out […]
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White Noise
It’s hard to fathom that a small journal like the OccidentalQuarterly, which publishes articles defending the science of eugenics, claiming that “neoconservatism is indeed a Jewish intellectual and political movement,” contending that Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist pressured into “an unnecessary war,” and saying that the United States made a grave error in declaring […]
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Nader’s Dubious Raiders
After four decades of tireless crusading for consumer’s rights and against corporate influence over government, Ralph Nader has developed an unblemished luster of integrity. However, as Nader forges ahead with his long-shot, independent presidential candidacy in an especially heated election season, he appears to be shedding the conviction that has formed the core of his […]
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Nader’s Dubious Raiders
After four decades of tireless crusading for consumer’s rights and against corporate influence over government, Ralph Nader has developed an unblemished luster of integrity. However, as Nader forges ahead with his long-shot, independent presidential candidacy in an especially heated election season, he appears to be shedding the conviction that has formed the core of his […]
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Immigration Conflagration
People either love Tom Tancredo, the Republican representative from Colorado’s 6th District (home of Columbine High School), or they hate him. But they all agree on one thing: He is a man of character. Indeed, he has defined his political career by his principled stand on immigration. In September 2002, after reading a glowing Denver […]
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Data Debase
Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Minority Reportdepicted a futuristic dystopia in which a “Department of Pre-Crime” jails people for acts they haven’t yet committed. In an apparent case of life imitating art, Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation — a nonprofit the film director established in 1994 to videotape and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors — has handed […]
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California Confidential
“It’s a victory. A total victory!” Howard Kaloogian exclaimed on the right-wing Worldmag.com after hearing that the petition to recall the election of California’s embattled Gov. Gray Davis had gained enough signatures to qualify as a ballot question. Kaloogian, a former Republican California legislator, had plenty of reason to cheer. Because while the media have […]