{"title":"Max Blumenthal","description":"Max Blumenthal is the author of Republican Gomorrah, a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller, and Goliath, winner of the Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award. His writing and video documentaries have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Beast, the Nation, the Guardian, the Independent Film Channel, the Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English, and many other publications. He blogs at maxblumenthal.com.","products":[{"product_id":"goliath-life-and-loathing-in-greater-israel-paperback","title":"Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eGoliath\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Blumenthal reveals, Israel has become a country where right-wing leaders like Avigdor Lieberman and Bibi Netanyahu are sacrificing democracy on the altar of their power politics; where the loyal opposition largely and passively stands aside and watches the organized assault on civil liberties; where state-funded Orthodox rabbis publish books that provide instructions on how and when to kill Gentiles; where half of Jewish youth declare their refusal to sit in a classroom with an Arab; and where mob violence targets Palestinians and African asylum seekers scapegoated by leading government officials as \"demographic threats.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Immersing himself like few other journalists inside the world of hardline political leaders and movements, Blumenthal interviews the demagogues and divas in their homes, in the Knesset, and in the watering holes where their young acolytes hang out, and speaks with those political leaders behind the organized assault on civil liberties. As his journey deepens, he painstakingly reports on the occupied Palestinians challenging schemes of demographic separation through unarmed protest. He talks at length to the leaders and youth of Palestinian society inside Israel now targeted by security service dragnets and legislation suppressing their speech, and provides in-depth reporting on the small band of Jewish Israeli dissidents who have shaken off a conformist mindset that permeates the media, schools, and the military. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through his far-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the past -- the histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages now gone and forgotten; how that history has set the stage for the current crisis of Israeli society; and how the Holocaust has been turned into justification for occupation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A brave and unflinching account of the real facts on the ground, \u003ci\u003eGoliath\u003c\/i\u003e is an unprecedented and compelling work of journalism.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367381434591,"sku":"9781568589510","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cD5PiHDjWX9781568589510.webp?v=1789106168"},{"product_id":"the-management-of-savagery-how-americas-national-security-state-fueled-the-rise-of-al-qaeda-isis-and-donald-trump-paperback","title":"The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis exposé of US foreign policy explores US involvement in the Middle East from Reagan to Trump--and how the failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria have increased threats to national security.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the \u003ci\u003eManagement of Savagery\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWashington's secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies. The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya; it has launched military interventions to change regimes in the Middle East. In doing so, it created fertile ground for the Islamic State and brought foreign conflicts home to American soil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese failed wars abroad have made the United States more vulnerable to both terrorism as well as native ultra-nationalism. The Trump presidency is the inevitable consequence of neoconservative imperialism in the post-Cold War age. Trump's dealings in the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378730991839,"sku":"9781788732307","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7SVlMYHmio9781788732307.webp?v=1789261604"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/max-blumenthal.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}