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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.
  • 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.

  • Pentagon

    Abnormalize the empire

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

    The primary job of both Hollywood and the mainstream western press is to is to put a friendly, normal-looking face on a globe-spanning empire which dominates the world using nonstop violence and coercion. Their job is to continually normalize freakish tyranny.

  • De-Gamify The Earth

    De-gamify the Earth

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

    Basically the problem is that our whole planet has been gamified. All the Earth’s life, resources and geography have been folded into this sick game where people commodify them into points called money, for no other reason than to score as many points as possible.

  • Senator Marco Rubio (Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0))

    New York Times helps Marco Rubio push persecution of antiwar leftists

    Originally published: Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog on August 13, 2023 (more by Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog)  |

    Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio published a letter on Wednesday that he’d sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups, claiming they are “tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with impunity in the United States.”

  • Alien

    Funny how the UFO narrative coincides with the race to weaponize space

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on July 28, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    If Wednesday’s House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UFOs had happened ten years ago instead of today, it would have shaken the world.

  • Our Ongoing March Into Dystopia And Oblivion

    Our ongoing march into dystopia and oblivion

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 15, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute is now floating the idea of giving nukes to Ukraine, which is about as evil and demented a foreign policy position as anyone could possibly come up with.

  • Most Propaganda Looks Nothing Like This

    Most propaganda looks nothing like this

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 28, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The most common articles of propaganda–and by far the most consequential—are not the glaring, memorable instances that live in infamy among the critically minded.

  • Colby’s scalpel-like geopolitical analysis

    Understanding the highly complex world of Western China analysis

    Originally published: Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog on May 15, 2023 (more by Caitlin A. Johnstone Blog)  |

    Former Pentagon official Elbridge Colby was interviewed on The National Review’s Charles CW Cooke Podcast, where he provided some very high-level analysis on the tensions around China, Taiwan, and the United States.

  • Multiple US Officials Confronted About US Assange Hypocrisy On World Press Freedom Day

    Multiple U.S. officials confronted about U.S. Assange hypocrisy on World Press Freedom Day

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on May 4, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Assange exposed many things about our rulers during his work with WikiLeaks, but none of those revelations have been as significant as what he’s forced them to reveal about themselves in the lengths that they will go to to silence a journalist who tells inconvenient truths.

  • You’re Not Deficient, You’re Just Ruled By Assholes

    You’re not deficient, you’re just ruled by assholes

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 30, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Times are hard, and they’re getting harder, but we can turn this thing around. Please be kind with yourself in the meantime.

  • The US Could Use Some Separation Of Media And State

    The U.S. could use some separation of media and State

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 14, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The U.S. State Department’s spokesperson Ned Price is being replaced by a man named Matthew Miller.

  • Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For “Weaponized” Free Speech

    Biden DOJ indicts four Americans for “weaponized” free speech

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 19, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The Biden administration’s Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says “weaponized” the First Amendment rights of Americans.

  • Washington Says “Journalism Is Not A Crime” While Working To Criminalize Journalism

    Washington says “journalism is not a crime” while working to criminalize journalism

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 8, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    After a certain point criticizing the hypocrisy and contradictions of the U.S.-centralized empire starts to feel too easy, like shooting fish in a barrel. But hell let’s do it anyway; the barrel’s right here, and I really hate these particular fish.

  • John Kirby (Left) Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin (Right)

    U.S. officials really, REALLY want you to know the U.S. is the world’s “leader”

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 23, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    In response to questions he received during a press conference on Monday about Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin cementing a “new era” in strategic partnership between China and Russia, the White House National Security Council’s John Kirby made no fewer than seven assertions that the U.S. is the “leader” of the world.

  • John Bolton’s Prominence In The Media Proves Our Entire Society Is Diseased

    John Bolton’s prominence in the media proves our entire society is diseased

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

    In order to narrative-manage the public conversation about the Iraq War on the 20th anniversary of the invasion, those who helped unleash that horror upon our world have briefly paused their relentless torrent of “Ukraine proves the hawks were always right” takes to churn out a deluge of “Actually the Iraq War wasn’t based on lies and turned out pretty great after all” takes.

  • Bush-Era Neocons Should Shut The Fuck Up About Iraq (And Everything Else)

    Bush-era neocons should shut the fuck up about Iraq (and everything else)

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 15, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts they’d like to share with us as we approach the 20th anniversary of that horrific and unforgivable war.

  • Nine Entertainment’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

    Australian Media are outright telling us they are feeding us war propaganda about China

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 8, 2023 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The mass media in Australia have been churning out brazen propaganda pieces to manufacture consent for war with China, and what’s interesting is that they’re basically admitting to doing this deliberately.

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