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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.
  • AI - FATAL

    The real danger of AI is that it is run by evil warmongers

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 22, 2026 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The most obvious and imminent threat right now is not that artificial intelligence will outsmart us and escape our control, it’s that it is being fully controlled by humans who are stupid and evil.

  • Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo: Valeriano Di Domenico / WEF)

    Three major revelations about the Gaza holocaust in the Israeli Press

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 10, 2026 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The world was lied to about the Gaza holocaust, just like it was lied to about every other act of mass military slaughter that the U.S. involves itself in.

  • Systemic Abuses

    Capitalism trains us to blame each other for systemic abuses

    Originally published: Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog on August 26, 2026 (more by Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog)  |

    Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual.

  • The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza

    They’re still pushing the ethnic cleansing of Gaza

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 29, 2026 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    They keep trying different angles and rebranding it under different names, but the end goal has remained the same since October 2023: the removal of all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

  • the “Dreams of Violets” trailer (Fair Use).

    Warmongers keep generating AI atrocity propaganda about Iran

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 29, 2026 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    It is unsurprising that generative AI is being used to churn out atrocity propaganda to manufacture consent for imperial war projects, because these new technologies lend themselves perfectly to the task of creating realistic-looking video footage of events which never transpired.

  • armageddon

    The U.S. war machine is run by deranged Armageddon cultists

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 6, 2026 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave one of his signature “I don’t have a small penis” tirades at the Pentagon on Wednesday, ranting and raving about the big, powerful, masculine war machinery that’s currently raining death and destruction upon the people of Iran.

  • We Deserve Better War Propaganda

    We deserve better war propaganda

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on February 24, 2026 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    In a post-Iraq invasion world, these sorts of reports deserve nothing but a scoff and a dismissal.

  • Jaber Jehad Badwan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

    If you think our rulers do bad things in secret, wait til you see what they do out in the open

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on February 8, 2026 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Pay attention to what little we can learn about how these freaks conduct themselves behind closed doors. By all means, pay close attention to these things.

  • Political Maturity

    Political maturity is realizing the commies were correct

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on February 4, 2026 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Political maturity is finally admitting to yourself that the angriest, most disconcerting communist you’ve ever met was pretty much right about everything.

  • If You're Not Free To Oppose A Genocide, Your Society Is Not Free

    If you’re not free to oppose a genocide, your society is not free

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

    You don’t measure a society’s freedom by how much its citizenry are allowed to agree with their government, you measure it by how much they’re allowed to disagree.

  • 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.

  • Screen grab from Jewish Federations of North America (Fair Use).

    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.

  • GT

    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.

  • Adobestock / CaitlinJohnstoneBlog

    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.

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    We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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