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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.
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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.

  • Oopsie-Poopsie Medical Massacre Mistake

    Israel’s innocent oopsie-poopsie medical massacre mistake

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

    Sure, who among us has not accidentally massacred 15 medical workers and buried them and their vehicles in a shallow grave from time to time? We’re only human, mistakes happen.

  • Trump’s State Department

    Trump’s State Department would support literally any Israeli atrocity

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

    Netanyahu could live stream himself kicking a baby Palestinian off a cliff and telling the camera he did it because he wants to commit genocide, and the next day Tammy Bruce would respond to all questions about the incident by yelling the word “Hamas!” with her fingers in her ears.

  • chat

    Thoughts on the Trump team’s Signal chat about bombing Yemen

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

    The real currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even war machinery. The real currency of our world is narrative and the ability to control it.

  • Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

    This is Trump’s genocide now

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

    Trump signed off on the reignition of the Gaza holocaust. He spent weeks sabotaging the ceasefire and then gave the thumbs up to the resumption of the genocide.

  • Pentagon

    We are duped into blaming our problems on everyone except our rulers

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

    What poses a threat to you is the political status quo which robs your country of riches and resources to inflict military violence on innocent people overseas while strangling your civil rights and poisoning your planet.

  • Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr

    If you want to fight the machine, don’t move to the right

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

    People in politics and media who oppose the status quo often drift rightward, especially in the U.S. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr are some clear recent examples, but you see it happen all the time.

  • IDF

    Israel pushes new atrocity narrative just as ceasefire deadline approaches

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

    A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near.

  • Peter Thiel

    Peter Thiel reveals how scared Oligarchs are of the people

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on December 16, 2025 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Billionaire Peter Thiel had a fascinating televised moment the other day when asked by Piers Morgan what he thought about the public making a hero of the man suspected of murdering health insurance CEO Brian Thompson.

  • China

    Only pathetic bootlickers spend their energy criticizing China

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

    The buzz around Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek has had an unusually high volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we’re also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say “Well actually China is actually quite bad actually” in response.

  • Elise Stefanik

    Bat shit insane religious fanaticism is a requirement for U.S. empire managers

    Originally published: Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog on January 22, 2025 (more by Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog)  |

    The world is ruled by religious fanatics with nukes.

  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump is the empire unmasked

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

    The hood stays popped open the entire time, showing the whole world how the imperial sausage gets made.

  • Where Does The Aggression Really Begin? – Caitlin Johnstone

    Where does the aggression really begin?

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on December 19, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The empire’s favorite trick is to begin the historical record at the moment its enemies retaliate against its abuses.

  • Pixabay Donald Trump Lying - Free image on Pixabay

    The incoming Trump Administration is already filling up with war sluts

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 12, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    This should dash the hopes of Trump supporters everywhere that this time their guy really will end the wars and drain the swamp.

  • International Community

    The mainstream western worldview pretends the Global South does not exist

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 3, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Mainstream western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist.

  • Israeli Snipers Routinely, Deliberately Shoot Palestinian Kids In The Head

    Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian kids in the head

    Originally published: Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog on October 10, 2024 (more by Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog)  |

    The evidence is undeniable, and the sourcing is as solid as it gets. There are mountains upon mountains of rock solid proof that Israeli forces routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian children in the head in Gaza.

  • CNN

    The Western media helped create these horrors in the Middle East

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 4, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    All the mass media personnel who’ve been lying and manipulating for Israel helped pave the way to this.

  • antisemitism

    As Israel gets more murderous, we’ll be hearing even more about “Antisemitism”

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 26, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The very first time you get accused of hating Jews for voicing legitimate criticisms of Israel’s actions, you immediately understand that the whole narrative about an epidemic of “antisemitism” in our society is a complete lie.

  • Palestinians

    The West truly doesn’t see Palestinians as human

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 2, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    You never see the dehumanization of Palestinians in western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza.

  • U.S./Israel

    Washington’s Israel policy is just feigning ignorance of Israeli depravity

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on August 29, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    It’s so unfair how Israel’s neighbors keep attacking it completely unprovoked while Israel is just innocently minding its own business trying to commit a little genocide in peace.

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