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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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QAnon Is A Fake, Decoy Imitation Of A Healthy Revolutionary Impulse
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 4:25 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Today the US president moved from tacit endorsement and evading questions on the toxic QAnon psyop to directly endorsing and supporting it, telling reporters "I don't know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, ... More >>
On Bombs And Bombings
Tuesday, 18 August 2020, 3:47 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
For a full week now the Israeli army has been bombing Gaza, a population that is about to run out of fuel for its only power plant due to a years-long Israeli program of deliberate siege warfare . Yesterday the US ordered an airstrike on Syrian forces, ... More >>
How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election
Sunday, 16 August 2020, 3:19 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
In what it calls an effort to make itself "a more reliable source for election-related news and information," YouTube has announced that it will be removing "content that contains hacked information, the disclosure of which may interfere with democratic ... More >>
The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Monday, 10 August 2020, 5:53 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Governments have obscenely well-funded intelligence agencies that are literally dedicated to orchestrating secret conspiracies around the world, but if you say they might be conspiring in some part of the world people call you a mentally ill conspiracy ... More >>
None Of The World’s Worst People Are In Prison: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Saturday, 8 August 2020, 3:46 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Exactly zero of the world's worst people are in prison. ~ The main obstacle to humanity forming a collaborative relationship with each other and our ecosystem isn't because of "human nature", it's because manipulative psychopaths keep working their ... More >>
Meditations On Yemen
Sunday, 2 August 2020, 6:49 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
We don't like to talk about Yemen. We don't like to think about Yemen. Yemen is the elephant in the room. Yemen is the black eye on a child that everyone at church pretends to believe is from falling down the stairs again to avoid an uncomfortable ... More >>
The Real Deep State Power Grab: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Sunday, 2 August 2020, 7:08 am | Caitlin Johnstone
The real deep state power grab underway isn’t about Covid, it’s about the new cold war agendas against China and Russia. All analysts who’ve been staring transfixed by Covid anxiety waiting for Bill Gates to usher in the New World Order have completely ... More >>
Op-Ed: The Exit Of 12,000 US Troops Is The Single Worst Event In German History
Saturday, 1 August 2020, 3:41 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
Today's Caitlin Johnstone essay has been replaced with a National News Conglomerate op-ed by General Hank Hammerfist. NNC: Obey. The Trump administration has begun slashing the US military presence in Germany from an almost satisfactory 36,000 troops to ... More >>
When Corporate Power Is Your Real Government, Corporate Media Is State Media
Saturday, 1 August 2020, 3:34 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The New York Times published an astonishingly horrible article the other day titled "Latin America Is Facing a ‘Decline of Democracy’ Under the Pandemic" accusing governments like Venezuela and Nicaragua of exploiting Covid-19 to quash ... More >>
As US Eviction Crisis Looms, Remember That Poverty Is Weaponized By The Elite
Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 4:46 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
CNBC News reports that Americans are looking at the possibility of up to 40 million evictions in the coming months as unemployment payments expire and a federal moratorium on evictions runs out. “On Friday, the federal moratorium on evictions in properties ... More >>
This UFO Hype Is Probably Just The US Military Lying Again
Saturday, 25 July 2020, 6:48 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
“No Longer in Shadows, Pentagon’s U.F.O. Unit Will Make Some Findings Public” reads a New York Times headline that is understandably attracting a great deal of attention today. True to form, the Times had to hastily issue an embarrassing correction ... More >>
Australia Pours Money Into Insane US War Games Yet Won’t Support Its Own Citizens
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 5:33 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
During a suspended parliament without properly elected supervision, the Australian government is slashing financial protections for its own economically struggling citizens while pouring vast fortunes into supporting dangerous US cold war escalations ... More >>
The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda
Tuesday, 21 July 2020, 1:15 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
If people in power were no longer able to hide secrets and spin lies about what's going on in the world, all of our major problems would come to an end. Because secretive and manipulative power structures are the source of all of our major problems. If ... More >>
Portland, Capitalism, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Monday, 20 July 2020, 11:52 am | Caitlin Johnstone
If you've been shrieking about tyranny over masks and lockdowns but you're fine with masked anonymous feds invading Portland and kidnapping protesters into unmarked vans, you have replaced your brain with a political party. Hi I'm Maga McBootlick. ... More >>
“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet
Friday, 17 July 2020, 2:06 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
OMG you guys Putin hacked our coronavirus vaccine secrets! Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. "Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations ... More >>
2020 Is The Year The Unseen Becomes Seen
Wednesday, 15 July 2020, 11:08 am | Caitlin Johnstone
2020 is the year of Julian Assange's extradition trials, the Kafkaesque proceedings by which the US government is attempting to imprison the WikiLeaks founder for the rest of his life as punishment for exposing US war crimes. Assange stated an innovative ... More >>
Fractal Agent Smiths
Monday, 6 July 2020, 2:05 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
The struggle of humankind is a struggle to become more conscious . This is true whether you're talking about humanity as a species, human society as an individual nation or community, the interpersonal relationships in a specific family or social ... More >>
Why The US Empire Works So Hard To Control The International Narrative About Russia
Wednesday, 1 July 2020, 3:59 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
On a December 2010 episode of Fox News’ Freedom Watch , John Bolton and the show’s host Andrew Napolitano were debating about recent WikiLeaks publications , and naturally the subject of government secrecy came up. “Now I want to make ... More >>
This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile
Monday, 29 June 2020, 2:41 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
All western mass media outlets are now shrieking about the story The New York Times first reported , citing zero evidence and naming zero sources, claiming intelligence says Russia paid out bounties to Taliban-linked fighters in Afghanistan ... More >>
Mentally Replace Everything Before “U.S. Intelligence Says” With “Blah Blah We’re Probably Lying”
Saturday, 27 June 2020, 4:42 pm | Caitlin Johnstone
"Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill Troops, U.S. Intelligence Says", blares the latest viral headline from The New York Times. NYT's unnamed sources allege that the GRU "secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants ... More >>
