Max Blumenthal

He starts by fallaciously comparing the false propaganda spread in the Iraq War and in Libya to what is going on in occupied East Turkestan. He then spends most of the video rambling about Adrian Zenz and attempting to discredit him to the point where he no longer engages with the actual evidence at hand which is independent of Zenz or any single reporter for that matter. There is no commentary on the fact that the police force in the area has increased exponentially since 2015, no mention of the ten-household joint program which makes Han Chinese citizens in the region spy on their Uyghur neighbors, and no mention of the use of blacklisted surveillance technology that is used to flag Uyghurs and jail them. He does mention the China Cables but states that this alone does not substantiate any sort of cultural oppression or genocide even though the China Cables included information about arbitrary, religion-based criteria that police in occupied East Turkestan can use to arrest Uyghurs.

Max Blumenthal is fundamentally an anti-American, anti-imperialist journalist. While there are many legitimate criticisms of the West and of American foreign policy, this in it of itself is not a worldview and those that come from this persuasion often lack nuance and balance, and their extreme disdain for American oppression comes at the expense of justifying non-Western oppression by authoritarian leaders.