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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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The Difference Between Totalitarian Regimes And Free Democracies
Monday, 14 June 2021, 4:36 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
In totalitarian regimes they have massacres and wars. In free democracies they have humanitarian interventions. In totalitarian regimes they use torture. In free democracies they use enhanced interrogation techniques. In totalitarian regimes they fund terrorist ... More >>
Poverty Is A Weapon Of The Powerful: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Friday, 11 June 2021, 4:16 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Learn enough about what's happening in the world and you realize that most people in your society have worldviews that are completely and utterly wrong. This can seem bold, perhaps even arrogant, but if most people weren't deluded about the world, ... More >>
Mainstream Politics Offer Pretend Revolutions To A Discontented Public
Tuesday, 8 June 2021, 9:23 am | Caitlin Johnstone
In 2008 the American public was fed up with the disastrous status quo politics of George W Bush, so they came together and elected a progressive candidate who campaigned on hope and change to replace him. But no progress happened; the hope and change ... More >>
Divide And Brainwash: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Sunday, 6 June 2021, 4:45 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
In 2016 the most corrupt and murderous government on earth dealt with public discontent by selling a sociopathic billionaire as the anti-establishment presidential candidate, then in 2020 sold a lifelong empire lackey as the revolutionary people's uprising ... More >>
Drivers Of The New UFO Narrative Keep Absurdly Saying They Could Be Dangerous ETs
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 5:10 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Listen to a reading of this article: I've been learning as much as I can about the new UFO narrative the political/media class have been pushing in conjunction with the US military to prepare for the Senate report that's due to be released this month ... More >>
US Troops Die For World Domination, Not Freedom
Tuesday, 1 June 2021, 3:56 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Vice President Kamala Harris spent the weekend under fire from Republicans, which of course means that Kamala Harris spent the weekend being criticized for the most silly, vapid reason you could possibly criticize Kamala Harris for. Apparently the ... More >>
Australia Is A Giant US Military Base With Kangaroos: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Saturday, 29 May 2021, 4:12 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Everyone around the world should criticize the US empire constantly and without apology. Nobody anywhere ever needs to justify or defend criticizing the most powerful, destructive and influential government on earth. It's always right to criticize America, ... More >>
How To Sabotage The Pro-Palestine Movement
Friday, 28 May 2021, 8:58 am | Caitlin Johnstone
The US-centralized power alliance is losing control of the Palestine narrative as awareness continues to spread of the injustice of Israeli apartheid, and it's one of the most interesting things happening in the narrative matrix today. It's very ... More >>
The US Isn’t An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn’t A US Puppet: It’s One Empire
Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 3:58 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Nearly 200,000 protesters attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are losing control of the Israel ... More >>
US Presidents Are Always Evil Because The US Empire Is Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Saturday, 22 May 2021, 3:51 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Joe Biden is a corrupt, murderous empire lackey. He is also a very normal US president. The same was true of Trump. The same was true of Obama. The same was true of Bush. If you can't see this, it's because propaganda and partisan politics have warped ... More >>
Fifteen Thoughts On Palestine
Friday, 14 May 2021, 7:00 am | Caitlin Johnstone
Listen to this article: 1 You don't get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That's not a thing. The US-centralized power alliance ... More >>
If You Believed Something Else, You Wouldn’t Be Sitting Here: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 10:35 am | Caitlin Johnstone
It sure is interesting how stuff keeps happening that makes free speech on the internet something dangerous which must be curtailed. Covid, the Capitol riot, Russian propaganda, all of which just happen to require tightening restrictions on our single best tool ... More >>
Capitalism Is A Misanthropic, Dystopian Religion
Monday, 10 May 2021, 10:39 am | Caitlin Johnstone
Capitalism is a misanthropic, dystopian religion. By "capitalism" I mean this or any other possible system wherein mass-scale human behavior is driven by the pursuit of capital. By "religion" I mean organized collective faith-based ... More >>
Detente: The Vital Word Missing From Discourse On Russia And China
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 3:35 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
On a recent 60 Minutes interview with Norah O'Donnell which focused on the Biden administration's China policy , US Secretary of State Tony Blinken talked about the United States as a defender of the rules-based international order and the importance ... More >>
Silicon Valley Algorithm Manipulation Is The Only Thing Keeping Mainstream Media Alive
Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 5:02 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Listen to this article: The emergence of the internet was met with hope and enthusiasm by people who understood that the plutocrat-controlled mainstream media were manipulating public opinion to manufacture consent for the status quo. The democratization of ... More >>
Biden Lied About Yemen
Friday, 30 April 2021, 5:02 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The Biden administration has finally admitted that the US is indeed providing offensive material support to Saudi Arabia's genocidal assault on Yemen, directly contradicting Biden's February claim that it would no longer be providing offensive support in ... More >>
Reject Mainstream Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 3:46 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Hey remember when we learned that the CIA unilaterally funds its own clandestine operations via drug trafficking without the permission or oversight of any elected body and then everyone went "meh" and forgot about it? It's strange how ... More >>
The Mass Media Will Never Regain The Public’s Trust
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 4:16 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
This year has marked the first time ever that trust in news media dropped below fifty percent in the United States, continuing a trend of decline that's been ongoing for years. Mass media punditry is divided on where to assign the blame for the plummet ... More >>
The Rising Threat Of Nuclear War Is The Most Urgent Matter In The World
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 4:13 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for America's nuclear arsenal, tweeted the following on Tuesday: "The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading ... More >>
Stop Siding With The Powerful: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Monday, 19 April 2021, 4:15 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The US government's armed goon squad executed a 13 year-old special ed student whose hands were empty and in the air and they're telling Americans to worry about Russia and China. The word fascist gets thrown around a lot, but if admitting you support ... More >>
