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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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Bullshit Spoken In An Assertive Tone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Sunday, 28 February 2021, 5:02 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Watching the slow, silent realization creep over online Democrats that Biden really isn't going to do anything for them. Americans: $2000 checks please Government: Sorry did you say airstrikes on Syria? Americans: No, $2000 checks Government: Okay, since ... More >>
US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
Friday, 26 February 2021, 4:59 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
On orders of President Biden, the United States has launched an airstrike on a facility in Syria. As of this writing the exact number of killed and injured is unknown, with early reports claiming " a handful " of people were killed. Rather than ... More >>
The US Empire Is An Abusive Narcissist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Sunday, 21 February 2021, 4:23 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Americans: healthcare please Government: Sorry did you say a new military base in northeastern Syria? Americans: no, healthcare Government: Alright you drive a hard bargain but here's a new military base in northeastern Syria . Sorry we're not going ... More >>
It’s Not A Political Problem, It’s A Propaganda Problem: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Thursday, 18 February 2021, 3:52 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
While we all fixate on electoral political solutions, the powerful focus on narrative control, because that's where real power is at. The people who pose an actual threat to the machine are those who disrupt its narratives and narrative control agendas. ... More >>
The Empire Attacks BDS For The Same Reason Nixon Started The Drug War
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 4:49 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Arkansas' anti-BDS law violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution, because it plainly does. " The Arkansas Times has successfully challenged a law that prohibits the state from doing business ... More >>
Conspiracy Theories Are Caused By Government Secrecy
Monday, 15 February 2021, 11:01 am | Caitlin Johnstone
The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no obligation to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests pertaining to its involvement with insurgent militias in Syria, overturning a lower court's previous ruling in favor of a Buzzfeed News ... More >>
The Real World And The Narrative World
Friday, 12 February 2021, 6:10 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
We each inhabit two very different worlds simultaneously: the real world, and the narrative world. The real world is the physical world of matter, of atoms and molecules and stars and planets and animals wandering around trying to bite and copulate with ... More >>
Biden Will Escalate Aggressions Against China While Republicans Call Him A Beijing Puppet
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 5:44 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
"Team Biden is soft on China," Republican Senator Ted Cruz tweeted the other day, echoing a very common accusation that's been leveled against the president from the right with increasing frequency. Cruz, who biologically is mostly wetland ... More >>
YouTube Financially Deplatforms Swath Of Indie Media Accounts
Friday, 5 February 2021, 11:43 am | Caitlin Johnstone
The Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has demonetized numerous independent media accounts, a jarring escalation in the steadily intensifying campaign against alternative news outlets online. Progressive commentators Graham Elwood , The Progressive ... More >>
Everything About The Biden Administration Is Fake
Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 5:52 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
A new exclusive from The Daily Beast titled " White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance " reports that the White House press corps is being pressured to provide briefing questions ahead of time in a way that makes ... More >>
Lessons From Wall Street: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Friday, 29 January 2021, 4:24 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. That's all you're seeing in efforts to manage information via censorship, algorithm changes, "fact" checking, Russian propaganda panic, etc. Humans are story-driven animals, so if you control ... More >>
Biden Takes Two Small Steps Toward Ending Yemen War. Keep Up The Pressure!
Thursday, 28 January 2021, 5:20 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The Biden administration has taken two small steps toward ending the horrific US-backed mass atrocities in Yemen, with temporary holds placed on both a murderous sanctions measure and on arms deals with Saudi Arabia and the UAE pending review. Both items ... More >>
Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets
Wednesday, 27 January 2021, 6:29 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Twitter has announced that it will be employing "a new community-driven approach to help address misleading information" called Birdwatch which news media are comparing to the model of content moderation used by Wikipedia. "Twitter unveiled ... More >>
The Pendulum Of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward, As It Always Will
Monday, 25 January 2021, 6:25 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple Antifa-associated accounts suspended from Twitter. "We have just confirmed that Facebook has disabled the page of the ... More >>
What Biden’s Warmongering Will Actually Look Like
Sunday, 24 January 2021, 5:03 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
There's a news story about a US military convoy entering Syria being shared around social media with captions claiming that President Biden is already "invading" Syria which is getting tons of shares in both right-wing and left anti-imperialist ... More >>
Nationwide Dementiafest: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Saturday, 23 January 2021, 4:40 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Joe Biden. Joe Biden. Joe fucking fucking motherfucking Biden. In a country of 328 million people the guy that gets elevated to the top is literally one of the very worst human beings in the entire population. That's the "democracy" you're ... More >>
You Counter Trumpism By Ending The Conditions Which Created It, Not With Authoritarian Policies
Friday, 22 January 2021, 5:38 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The US political/media class have been pushing hard for more authoritarian policies to stave off the threat of "domestic terrorism" in the wake of the Capitol riot. President Biden, who was already working on rolling out new domestic terror ... More >>
The Next Two Years Will Be The Democratic Party At Its Most Transparent
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 5:54 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Joe Biden is now the president of the United States of America. His day one executive orders should have prioritized ending the single worst crisis in the world in Yemen, a war he campaigned on ending US involvement in, but they did not. Ending US participation ... More >>
Psycho Pompeo Exits With Nary A Scratch Of Media Criticism On Him
Tuesday, 19 January 2021, 5:41 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
My eclectic news feed looks odd as the hours count down to the end of the Trump administration. Westerners are largely celebrating the exit of Donald Trump himself, whereas with those I follow from areas targeted by US imperialism, the man they're ... More >>
What ‘Democracy’ Is Under Attack? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Monday, 18 January 2021, 4:57 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
To stop the exacerbation of Trumpism the talking heads are recommending internet censorship, regulations on media, new domestic terror laws, literally anything they can possibly think of except changing the conditions which gave rise to Trumpism. ... More >>
