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" "Give "pro-peace" activists a microphone for long enough, and their pro-Russia slant comes out. It's not a coincidence that Max Blumenthal, a co-founder of Grayzone, a blog that follows the dictum that the United States is bad and anti-U.S. dictators are good, didn't heckle any Russian officials in Washington on the day Zelensky arrived, demanding that they do what they could to stop the war. Instead, Blumenthal and his comrades focus their efforts on denigrating Zelensky personally, while either denying or downplaying Russian atrocities.
Max Blumenthal (born December 18, 1977) is an American journalist, author and blogger who is the editor of The Grayzone website. He is a contributor to Russian, Chinese and Iranian state-owned media. Earlier in his career he wrote for AlterNet, The Daily Beast, Al Akhbar, and Media Matters for America.
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