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About Caitlin A. Johnstone

Caitlin A. Johnstone is a rogue journalist; bogan socialist; anarcho-psychonaut; guerilla poet; utopia prepper. You can read Caitlin’s articles on Medium, Steemit and at her website. Caitlin is proudly 100 percent reader-funded through Patreon and Paypal. Follow her on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to her mailing list.
  • Capitalism - via Adobe Stock

    Capitalism is the best it’s ever been!

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 20, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    It’s perfectly normal for people to have 80 hour work weeks while billionaires transform into trillionaires and tech plutocrats feed all our drinking water to AI servers as the planet dies. This is the only system that could possibly work.

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    Zionists are freaking out about losing control of the narrative

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 19, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    More and more often we’re seeing them say the quiet parts out loud as they frantically scramble to manage perceptions and manipulate minds around the world.

  • Chatbots

    AI Companies are encouraging users to believe Chatbots are people, and it’s insanely creepy

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 14, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Our rulers want us dumb, distracted, vapid and dissociated. And they definitely don’t want us feeling the horror, grief and rage we should all be experiencing in response to this nightmare of a civilization they have designed for us.

  • AI

    This is all our rulers are offering us

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 10, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    That’s right, kids: work your fingers to the bone, catch a few lucky breaks, pour all your blood, sweat, tears and time into winning the capitalism game, and you too could one day be as miserable and alienated as Elon Reeve Musk.

  • Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats

    Capitalism is shoving AI down our throats because it can’t give us what we actually want

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 26, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.

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    Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 15, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Israel is so evil it’s actually hard to wrap your mind around it.

  • Before AND After October 7

    Everything Before AND After October 7 Explains Why October 7 Happened

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 7, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Everything before October 7 explains why October 7 happened, and so does everything that’s happened since.

  • Freaks Who Run The US Empire

    The real violent extremists are the freaks who run the U.S. empire

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 26, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The genocidal, ecocidal, omnicidal nightmare we see before us in our world today is what it looks like when the violent extremists are in charge.

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    Imagine there was a violent cult committing atrocities with impunity

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 21, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    If someone made a movie about such a thing I’d stop watching halfway through, because I would find it too unbelievable.

  • Trump promotes a “Charlie Kirk Act” to establish a Ministry Of Truth

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 14, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    I’ve said it many times before and I’ll surely say it many times again: when everyone’s emotions are running hot, that’s when it’s most important to be intensely skeptical of everything your government does.

  • T / N

    Israelis understand that Trump can end the nightmare in Gaza. Americans should know this too.

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on August 18, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Six former Israeli hostages and the widow of a slain hostage have released a video pleading with President Trump in English to support a comprehensive deal to make peace in Gaza so that the remaining hostages can be freed.

  • Feature image by Jaber Jehad Badwan via Wikimedia Commons.

    Gaza doesn’t need our tears, it needs our anger

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on August 15, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    This isn’t sad, it’s enraging. And it deserves a response of unmitigated forceful aggression.

  • Ariana Grande

    It shouldn’t have taken this much for mainstream voices to start speaking up about Gaza

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on July 29, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    As western pundits, politicians and celebrities suddenly pivot to denouncing Israel’s genocidal atrocities after two years of silence, it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were being told that saying “death to the IDF” is a hate crime.

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    The Empire is a nonstop insult to our intelligence

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on July 9, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The western empire is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. The peace advocates are terrorists, the genocide architects deserve peace prizes, the journalists are dangerous, and Epstein was just a wealthy socialite who made a few mistakes.

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    The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on July 4, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    A real, politically meaningful counterculture has been born in the western world, and our rulers are already showing us that they’re afraid of it.

  • Senior Israeli official talks with Israel’s Channel 12 News

    Sky News smears Greta Thunberg as a Nazi to justify IDF attack

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 8, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    IDF troops have raided the Madleen, a sailboat that was carrying aid intended to break the Israeli siege on Gaza.

  • Israel

    After denying massacring civilians seeking aid, Israel routinely massacres civilians seeking aid

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 11, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Israel’s own actions since June 1 have proved that Israeli forces do indeed deliberately fire upon starving civilians seeking humanitarian aid. Israel lied. Again.

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    Gaza’s hospitals ARE the target

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 30, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    We’ve seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals they’ve attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one.

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    Israeli officials explain balancing act between overt genocide and maintaining western support

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 20, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    They have opted for their slow-motion strangulation approach because that’s what’s necessary to maintain essential western support and avoid war crimes tribunals.

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    Israel’s backers keep whining that they’re losing control of the narrative

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 1, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.

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