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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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Reminder: The Media Once Bashed Trump For Transgressing The One-China Policy The US Now Spits On
Saturday, 29 April 2023, 6:57 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Reminder: The Media Once Bashed Trump For Transgressing The One-China Policy The US Now Spits On The US has been increasingly treating Taiwan like a sovereign nation with whom diplomatic relationships and alliances can be formed, in violation of its ... More >>
New Defence Review Further Enslaves Australia To US War Agendas
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 4:23 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The Australian government has released the declassified version of its highly anticipated 2023 Defence Strategic Review (DSR), and the war propagandists are delighted. Sydney Morning Herald’s Matthew Knott, most well-known for being told by former prime ... More >>
Assange Is The Greatest Journalist Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Thursday, 6 April 2023, 5:58 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Assange Is The Greatest Journalist Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix It’s funny how former Israeli PM Ehud Barak just deleted a tweet admitting that Israel has nuclear weapons at the same time The Washington Post reports ... More >>
AUKUS Exists To Manage The Risks Created By Its Existence
Tuesday, 4 April 2023, 5:00 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
"NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence,” Professor Richard Sakwa once wrote in an attempt to articulate the absurdity of the military alliance's provocative nature on the world stage. At some point Australians must wake up to ... More >>
On War With China, Australia Is Caught Between A Rock And A Pentagon
Wednesday, 15 March 2023, 8:32 am | Caitlin Johnstone
As part of Australian media’s relentless onslaught of war – with – China propaganda, the government-run Australian Broadcasting Corporation just aired a radio segment on RN Breakfast about the newly revealed details on the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine ... More >>
The Drums Of War With China Are Beating Much Louder Now
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 10:49 am | Caitlin Johnstone
Comments from both Washington and Beijing have suddenly become much more pointed and aggressive in recent days, with talk about hot war now being discussed as not just a real possibility but in many cases as a probability . Let’s have a look ... More >>
Imperial Narrative Managers Always Try To Make Peace Seem Unnatural
Monday, 13 March 2023, 9:22 am | Caitlin Johnstone
I’ve been ranting all week about the shocking war-with-China propaganda escalation in Australian mainstream media, and I feel like I could easily scream about it for another month without running out of vitriol for the disgusting freaks who are pushing ... More >>
Cool 'Afghanistan Withdrawal', Bro
Sunday, 24 October 2021, 5:11 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The US government is reportedly close to securing a deal with Pakistan that will ensure its ability to continue military and intelligence operations in Afghanistan, the nation where the Biden administration proudly "ended" a decades-long ... More >>
The Drivers Of Empire Want To Rule As Greek Gods
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 1:38 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Power is the ability to control what happens. The more control you have, the more powerful you are. That's why power is like crack for the ego. Egos are all about control; obtaining safety and security so as to ensure the survival and success of ... More >>
It Takes A Lot Of Education To Keep Us This Stupid
Saturday, 16 October 2021, 5:50 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The oligarchic empire is working harder and harder to bolt down our minds in service of its agendas. Silicon Valley is working more and more openly in conjunction with the US government, and its algorithms elevate empire-authorized narratives while ... More >>
Real Cancel Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Sunday, 10 October 2021, 5:49 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
"To protect Taiwan we must be prepared to go to war with China." ~ Imperialists who just lost a war to the Taliban I'm genuinely disturbed at how many people would be willing to fight a world war over Taiwan's governmental preferences. The power ... More >>
Anyone Who’d Support Going To War Over Taiwan Is A Crazy Idiot
Saturday, 9 October 2021, 5:42 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Taiwan has been in the news a lot lately, and it's really bringing out the crazy in people. The mass media have been falsely reporting that China has been encroaching on Taiwan's "air defense zone", which gets stretched into the even more ... More >>
How Is The CIA Still A Thing?
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 10:46 am | Caitlin Johnstone
Citing "conversations with more than 30 former U.S. officials," a new report by Yahoo News has confirmed earlier allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency not only spied on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his associates, but ... More >>
We Won’t Be Free Until Our Minds Are Free
Wednesday, 22 September 2021, 2:11 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
There's a quote from an ancient Buddhist text called the Dhammapada that's often translated as, “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” In other words our mental habits shape our ... More >>
Where Was All The Investigative Journalism On US Airstrikes The Last 20 Years?
Saturday, 18 September 2021, 4:12 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The Pentagon has finally admitted to the long-obvious fact that it killed ten Afghan civilians, including seven children, in an airstrike in Kabul last month. In an article with the obscenely propagandistic title "Pentagon acknowledges Aug. 29 drone ... More >>
Australia Continues Its Plunge Into Authoritarianism And Military Brinkmanship
Thursday, 16 September 2021, 1:48 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Australia has joined the US and UK in an "enhanced trilateral security partnership" called AUKUS with the unspoken-yet-obvious goal of coordinating escalations against China. Antiwar reports : President Biden and the leaders of Australia and the UK ... More >>
9/11 Was Bad, But It Wasn’t QAnoners Wandering Around The Capitol For A Few Hours Bad
Sunday, 12 September 2021, 4:35 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Okay, okay, let's all cool our jets here for a minute. I know we're all worked up about the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and that's all well and good. But let's not let our emotions cloud our vision and let today's commemorations cause ... More >>
Twenty Years Of Phony Tears About 9/11
Saturday, 11 September 2021, 4:29 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The mass media are churning out articles and news segments commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, many of them featuring adoring retrospectives of their celebrity president's actions as a US senator that day. Biden's ceremonial ... More >>
Warmongers Keep Raging About The Phrase ‘Ending The Forever Wars’ And We Should Laugh At Them
Monday, 30 August 2021, 10:07 am | Caitlin Johnstone
In the wake of the Afghanistan withdrawal influential promoters of western militarism have been absolutely fuming about the popular idea of ending the forever wars, and their tantrums are not even trying to disguise it as something else. They're literally ... More >>
Questions After New Reports That US Forces Gunned Down Civilians After Kabul Blast
Sunday, 29 August 2021, 4:27 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
A new BBC report shows eyewitnesses at the scene of the deadly Kabul airport explosion on Thursday saying that a significant number of the 170 Afghans killed in the attack actually died from gunfire by the US-led alliance in the chaos following the blast. ... More >>
