http://maxblumenthal.com Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and blogger whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. His book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party, is in stores now. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 03:33:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_2231" align="alignleft" width="202" caption="Members of Texas-based Klan chapters rally in 1992"][/caption] Texas Governor Rick Perry has opened a new issue to try to lift his floundering campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, insinuating that President Barack Obama just might not be an American citizen. Asked if Obama was born in ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/10/lifting-the-hood-off-rick-perry-was-his-family-in-the-ku-klux-klan/ http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/10/video-rick-perry-religious-ally-predicts-death-camps-second-holocaust-for-jews/ Update #1: Perry repeated his mis-citation of Fehrenbach in the Wall Street Journal today. Update #2: A friend wonders if Doug Feith, who is now advising Perry on foreign policy, was the one who slipped Fehrenbach's quote in. Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate and current Texas Governor Rick Perry attacked President Barack ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/09/rick-perry-distorted-historians-quote-which-compared-inherent-chauvinism-of-texas-and-israel/ Yesterday I reported for the Columbia Journalism Review that New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner is on the speaker's bureau of Lone Star Communications, an Israeli public relations firm that pitches him stories. Bronner has provided extensive coverage to several of the firm's clients, including those involved in ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/09/top-media-ethics-expert-times-ethan-bronner-is-in-very-dicey-ethical-territory/ Bob Turner, the Republican candidate campaigning to replace disgraced Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, picked up a crucial endorsement last week when Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind threw his support to him. Hikind is the former leader of the the Jewish Defense League (JDL), which the FBI lists as a terror organization. He ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/09/meet-the-terror-linked-political-kingmaker-who-anointed-anthony-weiners-likely-successor/ The "Periphery Doctrine" has been a cornerstone of Israel's strategic approach to the Middle East since the state's foundation. Devised by David Ben Gurion and Eliahu Sassoon, an Israeli Middle East expert who became Israel's first diplomatic representative in Turkey, the doctrine was based on maintaining alliances with non-Arab states ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/09/my-latest-in-al-akhbar-english-israeli-politicians-media-and-intelligence-push-for-more-conflict-with-turkey/ The following was originally published in Alternet. The sudden rise of Islamophobia in the United States is alarming while the movement that advances anti-Muslim resentment seems bizarre and filled with eccentric, even dangerous characters. But when viewed in the context of a new, groundbreaking research document by the Center for American ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/09/the-islamophobic-crusades-creeping-attack-on-democracy/ On August 26, Joseph Dana and I published an article, "Israel's Exclusive Revolution," bringing extensive reporting together with an analysis of Israel's separation principle to describe the July 14 protest movement's (J14) cognitive dissonance regarding the occupation. So far, no one -- not one single person I know of -- has ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/09/j14-and-the-calamity-of-hope-a-response-to-critics/ The following piece was co-authored by Joseph Dana. A shorter version recently appeared at Alternet. The men and women who set out to build a Jewish state in historic Palestine made little secret of their settler-colonial designs. Zionism’s intellectual author, Theodor Herzl, described the country he envisioned as “part of a ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/08/the-exclusive-revolution-israeli-social-justice-and-the-separation-principle/ [caption id="attachment_2189" align="alignleft" width="372" caption="The settlers of Ariel demand "social justice" during J14's August 14 protest"][/caption] Many observers of the massive July 14 "social justice revolution" sweeping through Israel have been wondering when the protest movement would deal directly with the occupation of Palestine, or whether it would it all. On ... http://maxblumenthal.com/2011/08/israels-social-justice-revolution-endorses-ariel-mega-settlement-demonstration/