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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.
  • Twins. Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl.

    He had two babies

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on August 14, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    There’s a video of him screaming, screaming the way any of us would scream. The screams of a man who suddenly lost everything a man could possibly lose. Screaming Gaza’s screams.

  • Washington Further Escalates Its War On Dissent

    Washington further escalates its war on dissent

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

    The last few days have seen the U.S. ramping up its war on domestic political dissent in multiple ways, with U.S. lawmakers petitioning the Biden administration to crack down on anti-genocide protesters it suspects of foreign influence, and a journalist critical of U.S. foreign policy coming under the crosshairs of Washington’s increasingly weaponized Foreign Agents…

  • Netanyahu

    Netanyahu’s speech was as American as it gets

    Originally published: Caitlin A. Johnstone (Blog) on July 25, 2024 (more by Caitlin A. Johnstone (Blog))  |

    Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress was everything you’d expect: packed full of lies and propaganda spin, but simultaneously very illuminating and revealing.

  • Julian Assange

    Hell, maybe ANYTHING is possible

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 24, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt until it happened.

  • Corbyn

    We’ve seen this “antisemitism crisis on the Left” script before

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 16, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    It sure is a crazy coincidence how western politicians and media always start urgently telling us about an invisible epidemic of left wing antisemitism every time western military ties to Israel are subjected to widespread public scrutiny.

  • U.S. Flag / Pentagon

    The U.S. empire isn’t a government that runs nonstop wars, it’s a nonstop war that runs a government

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 1, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the U.S. empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government.

  • Election

    If you can’t even elect a candidate who’ll end a genocide, how real is your “democracy”?

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 23, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they never get a vote.

  • Macklemore

    Opposing the war machine is cool again, and the Empire’s getting nervous

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 8, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    American rapper Macklemore has released a single titled “Hind’s Hall”, the name given to Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall by anti-genocide protesters in honor of the six year-old Hind Rajab who was murdered in Gaza by Israeli forces.

  • Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On ‘Antisemitism’

    Israel is turning hospitals into mass graves while the West fixates on ‘antisemitism’

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 23, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we’re seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • Wikimedia Commons/Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (CC BY 4.0 DEED)

    Imagine if Russia or China did the things Israel is doing in Gaza

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 28, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    It’s almost cliché at this point to say “imagine if Russia or China did this”, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now.

  • Biden

    Pretending the U.S. can’t just drive aid into Gaza

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 8, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Have they considered digging a giant tunnel to get aid into Gaza as well? Or launching aid into Gaza by building a giant slingshot? Or perhaps they could invent some type of portal gun à la Rick and Morty?

  • Principal Deputy State Department Spokesperson Vedant Patel

    The Biden administration’s absurd justification for its Yemen war

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on January 22, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Shipping blockade which the de facto authorities in Yemen have implemented to pressure Israel and its allies into ceasing the genocidal onslaught in Gaza.

  • White House Washington

    The “rules-based international order”

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on January 16, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    If this is what the “rules-based international order” looks like, would we not, perhaps, be better off without it?

  • Child-Killing Murder Robot

    Anne and Joe argue about the child-killing murder robot

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on December 21, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    “The Child-Killing Murder Robot has a right to defend itself!”

  • White House Washington

    U.S. says it’s powerless to stop the genocide that it is directly funding and supplying

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 6, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    In summary, this Washington Post article is telling us that Biden is powerless to stop the genocidal massacre in Gaza because he really likes the people doing the genocide and doesn’t want to stop them from doing it.

  • https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-cut-off-gazas-communications

    Israel cut off Gaza’s communications because murderers don’t like witnesses

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 27, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Israeli ground forces have ramped up activities in Gaza in what anonymous U.S. officials are reportedly telling the press is a “rolling start” to the long-anticipated ground invasion.

  • Raf Sanchez

    Mass media reporters aren’t buying Israel’s hospital bombing story

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 18, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    “But what I’d like to quickly document as things unfold is the highly unusual number of mass media reporters I’ve been seeing who haven’t hesitated to point to Israel as the probable culprit.”

  • US intelligence cartel

    This war wasn’t just provoked — it was provoked deliberately

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 24, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    So while we members of the public were blindly speculating about whether or not Russia would attack Ukraine, the U.S. intelligence cartel was fully aware that the U.S. was taking actions ensuring that that would happen.

  • Capitalism Is A Giant Scam

    Capitalism is a giant scam

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on July 17, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Caitlin Johnstone): One of the most formative moments of my life was when I was running a small eco blog called Earth Mums in the mid-00s which focused on consumer solutions to the problem of environmental destruction. Back then I still believed that while capitalism was…

  • US Officials Keep Boasting About How Much The Ukraine War Serves US Interests

    U.S. officials keep boasting about how much the Ukraine war serves U.S. interests

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 3, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the U.S. is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve U.S. interests tremendously.

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