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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.
  • Western Media Run Blatant Atrocity Propaganda For The Ukrainian Government

    Western media run blatant atrocity propaganda for the Ukrainian government

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 21, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The Ukrainian government is quickly learning that it can say anything, literally anything at all, about what’s happening on the ground there and get it uncritically reported as an actual news story by the mainstream western press.

  • George W. Bush

    On Bush’s Freudian Confession

    Caitlin A. Johnstone

    Oh my God. It happened. I can’t believe it really happened.

  • Pentagon-Funded Think Tank Simulates War With China On NBC

    Pentagon-funded Think Tank simulates war with China on NBC

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 16, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct US hot war with China.

  • PayPal

    PayPal blocks multiple alternative media figures critical of U.S. empire narratives

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 29, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    In what appears to be yet another escalation in Silicon Valley’s redoubled efforts to quash dissident voices since the beginning of the Ukraine war, PayPal has just blocked the accounts of multiple alternative media voices who’ve been speaking critically against official U.S. empire narratives.

  • Ukraine Flag

    Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 27, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  | (Posted May 02, 2022)

    Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they’re spouting the slogans they’ve been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they’ve been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.

  • Secretary of State Antony Blinken

    U.S. suddenly pretends to care about rights abuses in India

    Originally published: CaitlinJohnstone.com on April 12, 2022 (more by CaitlinJohnstone.com)  |

    While it is true that India’s right-wing government is guilty of human rights abuses and has been for years, it is also true that the US State Department does not actually care about human rights abuses.

  • If It Feels Like You’re Being Manipulated, It’s Because You Are

    If it feels like you’re being manipulated, it’s because you are

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 11, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    If you’ve got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling.

  • John Spencer

    Pundits who advocate hot war with Russia are enemies of humanity

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March , 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    In an appearance on the MSNBC show Velshi, The Modern War Institute’s John Spencer explicitly advocated direct U.S. military conflict with Russia due to allegations of war crimes in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.

  • Nuclear war

    The huge gap between how serious nuclear war is and how seriously it’s being taken

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 16, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Sometimes I’m not sure what presents a greater threat to humanity, nuclear war or the colossal stupidity that has made it possible.

  • Putin

    Every U.S. enemy Is Hitler: Notes from the Edge of The Narrative Matrix

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 1, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    It’s just incredible how even after all this time, after all those wars, after all those lies, it’s not even occurring to most mainstream westerners to investigate whether the U.S. could possibly have had anything to do with starting the war in Ukraine.

  • Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship (Google / Caitlin Johnstone)

    Censorship by algorithm does far more damage than conventional censorship

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on January 24, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who’ve been sufficiently critical of official western narratives over the last few years.

  • Joe Rogan

    Don’t underestimate how badly the powerful need control of online speech

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on January 15, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they’re running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else.

  • Absurd Guardian Article Declares China World’s Only Imperialist Power

    Absurd Guardian article declares China world’s only imperialist power

    Originally published: CaitlinJohnstone.com on December 13, 2021 (more by CaitlinJohnstone.com)  |

    Another cartoonishly ridiculous anti-China propaganda piece has been published in the western mass media, this time by The Guardian, which at this point could arguably be labeled the single most destructive promulgator of empire propaganda in the western world.

  • They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw

    They’re killing him: Assange’s stroke reveals the Western version of the Saudi bone saw

    Originally published: CaitlinJohnstone.com on December 12, 2021 (more by CaitlinJohnstone.com)  |

    They are killing Julian Assange. Experts agree that they are killing him. Assange’s stroke is just another item on the mountain of evidence we already had for this.

  • Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

    Super serious news reporting: notes from the Edge of The Narrative Matrix

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 5, 2021 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Hi I’m a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars defend freedom and democracy. The government never lies. Here’s Bob with the weather.

  • Charles Bukowski

    Impending planetary disaster should unite us, yet we remain more divided than ever

    Originally published: CaitlinJohnstone.com on November 25, 2021 (more by CaitlinJohnstone.com)  |

    Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

  • Australian War Propaganda Keeps Getting Crazier

    Australian war propaganda keeps getting crazier

    Originally published: CaitlinJohnstone.com on November 16, 2021 (more by CaitlinJohnstone.com)  |

    60 Minutes Australia has churned out yet another fearmongering war propaganda piece on China, this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up military spending that it goes so far as to run a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian weapons manufacturer disguised as news reporting.

  • President Xi Jinping

    Bloomberg CIA Apologia accidentally vindicates China’s strict domestic policies

    Originally published: CaitlinJohnstone.com on November 11, 2021 (more by CaitlinJohnstone.com)  |

    Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media.

  • No, Joe Biden isn’t going to save us from climate catastrophe

    America’s soup-brained president says the U.S. never interferes in other countries’ elections

    Originally published: CaitlinJohnstone.com (more by CaitlinJohnstone.com)  |

    The U.S. is far and away the single most egregious offender in the world on this front, which is largely why it is perceived around the world as a greater threat to democracy than any other government.

  • The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media.

    The CIA used to infiltrate the media. Now the CIA is the media.

    Originally published: CaitlinAJohnstone on April 16, 2021 (more by CaitlinAJohnstone)  |

    Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world.

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