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Caitlin Johnstone
Rogue journalist
Caitlin Johnstone is a 100 percent crowdfunded rogue journalist, bogan socialist, anarcho-psychonaut, guerilla poet and utopia prepper living in Australia with her American husband and two kids. She writes about politics, economics, media, feminism and the nature of consciousness. She is the author of the illustrated poetry book "Woke: A Field Guide For Utopia Preppers."
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Propaganda Is The Source Of All Our Problems: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Saturday, 28 August 2021, 4:13 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
We don't talk nearly enough about the fact that wealthy and powerful people are constantly pouring vast fortunes into manipulating the way we perceive our world and that this is the ultimate source of all our major problems. Democracy is a meaningless ... More >>
The End Of Illusions
Sunday, 22 August 2021, 4:08 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
It happened suddenly and unexpectedly, as drastic changes often do. You awoke in the morning from an unusual sleep, and something about your waking experience was very different. You couldn't say what exactly, but there was a deep relaxation. A ... More >>
Serious News For Serious People: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Thursday, 19 August 2021, 4:47 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
BREAKING: Experts are worried the Afghanistan withdrawal may lead to the spread of global terrorism now that the terrorists are no longer tied up with the task of occupying Afghanistan. Welcome back to Serious News Network. For years experts have ... More >>
Afghanistan Shenanigans
Monday, 16 August 2021, 3:31 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Things have been moving very rapidly as Taliban forces immediately closed in on Kabul after the end of the occupation. The US is frantically evacuating people, former Afghan officials are fleeing the country , and a transition to Taliban control is ... More >>
Stop Believing US Military Invasions Have Noble Intentions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Sunday, 15 August 2021, 4:28 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
I love how everyone's just pretending the Afghanistan Papers never happened and the Taliban takeover is some kind of shocking tragedy instead of the thing everyone knew would happen because they've been knowingly lying about working to create a ... More >>
Basing News Stories On Corrupt Think Tanks Is Blatant Propaganda
Friday, 13 August 2021, 3:20 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
One of the weirdest things about the mass media propaganda which manipulates the way people think, act and vote to maintain the status quo is the fact that mainstream news outlets routinely cite the employees of think tanks that are sponsored by war ... More >>
Afghanistan Proves The US Military Needs Its Budget Slashed To Ribbons
Thursday, 12 August 2021, 11:32 am | Caitlin Johnstone
Originally published at https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/08/11/afghanistan-proves-the-us-military-needs-its-budget-slashed-to-ribbons/ US officials are telling the press that Kabul will fall to the Taliban within 90 days and perhaps within the month as US troops withdraw from the war-torn nation. ... More >>
For Every Whistleblower They Make An Example Of, They Prevent A Thousand More
Wednesday, 28 July 2021, 4:05 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking secret government information about America's psychopathic civilian-slaughtering drone assassination program . The sentence was much harsher ... More >>
The Assange Case Isn’t About National Security, It’s About Narrative Control
Friday, 9 July 2021, 9:35 am | Caitlin Johnstone
Julian Assange once said , "The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security." As someone whose life's work before his imprisonment was combing through documents of an often classified ... More >>
The Sociopaths Are Cocksure While Those With Empathy Are Full Of Doubt
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:13 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
In a 1933 essay lamenting the rise of Nazism in Germany, Bertrand Russell wrote : "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Which is of course a dynamic ... More >>
Happy 'Independence' Day: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Monday, 5 July 2021, 4:13 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Today America celebrates its hard-fought victory in its fight to free itself from the rule of British monarchs so it could be ruled by US oligarchs. Hollywood trained us to fear psychopathic killers prowling around in the dark so we won't notice the ... More >>
The Horrifying Rise Of Total Mass Media Blackouts On Inconvenient News Stories
Sunday, 4 July 2021, 5:12 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Two different media watchdog outlets, Media Lens and Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), have published articles on the complete blackout in mainstream news institutions on the revelation by Icelandic newspaper Stundin that a US superseding ... More >>
The System Isn’t There To Protect Us From Criminals, It’s To Protect Criminals From Us
Friday, 2 July 2021, 12:31 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Iraq war architect Donald Rumsfeld has died . Not in a prison cell in The Hague, not murdered by bombs or bullets, but peacefully in his home, surrounded by loved ones, a week and a half shy of his 89th birthday. The imperial media are giving their ... More >>
You Ordered Healthcare, You Got Airstrikes: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Friday, 2 July 2021, 12:11 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Listen to a reading of this article: Americans: healthcare please Biden: Sorry, did you say airstrikes on Iraq and Syria? Americans: no, healthcare Biden: Alright, you drive a hard bargain, but here are your airstrikes on Iraq and Syria. ... More >>
The Weird, Creepy Media Blackout On Recent Assange Revelations
Wednesday, 30 June 2021, 6:54 am | Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article: As of this writing, it has been three days since the Icelandic newspaper Stundin broke the story that a key witness in the US government's case against Julian Assange had fabricated allegations ... More >>
US Again Bombs Nations On Other Side Of The World In 'Self-Defense'
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 3:43 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The US is again illegally bombing nations on the other side of the planet which it has invaded and occupied and branded this murderous aggression as "defensive". "At President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted ... More >>
Assange Prosecution Relied On False Testimony From A Diagnosed Sociopath And Convicted Pedophile
Monday, 28 June 2021, 3:27 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The Icelandic newspaper Stundin reports that a key witness in the US prosecution of Julian Assange has admitted in an interview with the outlet that he fabricated critical accusations in the indictment against the WikiLeaks founder. "A major ... More >>
UFO Report Provides No New Information But Plenty Of Fodder For Cold Warrior Policymakers
Saturday, 26 June 2021, 5:43 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released its hotly anticipated UFO report , which at nine pages in length with no new information is about as spectacular a letdown for UFO enthusiasts as you could possibly get. ... More >>
The Right And Wrong Lessons From Afghanistan: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Friday, 25 June 2021, 3:39 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Your efforts to understand the world will fail unless you account for the fact that (A) echo chamber dynamics have a vastly under-appreciated effect on the way we all take in information, and (B) that rich and powerful people are actively trying to ... More >>
The Left Isn’t Failing, It’s Being Sabotaged: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Monday, 21 June 2021, 4:36 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
In later years we're going to learn about some of the covert operations which US intelligence agencies and their proxies were using to smash the rise of socialism in America today and a lot of people are going to feel silly for all their remarks ... More >>
