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  • | Chinese Aggression Sure Looks An Awful Lot Like US Aggression | MR Online

    “Chinese aggression” sure looks an awful lot like U.S. aggression

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

    Punchbowl News reports that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is planning a trip to Taiwan, which will be yet another incendiary provocation against Beijing if it occurs. The previous House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, sparked a significant escalation in hostilities with her visit last year, the consequences of which are still reverberating today.

  • | BlackRock Logo | MR Online

    BlackRock logo to be added to Ukrainian flag

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

    Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world’s largest investment management firm will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald’s upon the now-omnipresent blue and yellow flag.

  • | Volodymyr Zelensky | MR Online

    The season finale of the hit show ‘Proxy War’

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on December 9, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Promotional materials for the episode hint at a heartwarming season wrap-up that’s sure to make wholesome viewing for the whole family, with series star Volodymyr Zelensky being awarded 2022 Person of the Year by Time Magazine.

  • | The Incremental Normalization Of Police Murderbots Probably Needs More Attention | MR Online

    The incremental normalization of police murderbots probably needs more attention

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on December 3, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The city of San Francisco has voted to legalize the use of killbots in specific emergency situations like active shooters and suicide bombers, with high-ranking officers making the call as to whether their use is warranted.

  • | NATO | MR Online

    NATO exists to solve the problems created by NATO’s existence

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

    NATO has doubled down on its determination to eventually add Ukraine to its membership, renewing its 2008 commitment to that goal in a meeting between the foreign ministers of the alliance in Bucharest, Romania this past Tuesday.

  • | Progressives Retract Mild Peace | MR Online

    Worthless House Progressives retract mild peace advocacy under pressure from warmongers

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 26, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The Congressional Progressive Caucus has retracted an extremely mild, toothless letter its members had written to c politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The retraction followed a deluge of public outrage against their slight deviation from the official imperial narrative.

  • | Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix | MR Online

    We’re being pushed toward nuclear war on a fiction: notes from the Edge of The Narrative Matrix

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 14, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    We’re being driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who’s just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and won’t stop invading and conquering until he’s stopped by force.

  • | Rejection Of Moscows Offer For Peace Talks | MR Online

    U.S. rejection of Moscow’s offer for peace talks is utterly inexcusable

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on October 12, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow was open to talks with the the U.S. or with Turkey on ending the war in Ukraine, claiming that U.S. officials are lying when they say Russia has been refusing peace talks.

  • | 60 Minutes interview | MR Online

    Biden keeps pledging direct U.S. war with China over Taiwan

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on September 19, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The president of the United States has once again committed the US military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan, a commitment that was once again walked back by his White House handlers.

  • | Biden Kissinger Harold Dettenborn CC BY 30 DE | MR Online

    Modern U.S. warmongering is scaring Henry Kissinger

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on August 14, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, immortal Hague fugitive Henry Kissinger says the U.S. is acting in a crazy and irrational way that has brought it to the edge of war with Russia and China.

  • | CBS Wanted To Do Critical Reporting On Ukraines Government But Ukraines Government Said No | MR Online

    CBS wanted to do critical reporting on Ukraine’s government but Ukraine’s government said no

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on August 10, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  | (Posted Aug 13, 2022)

    Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines.

  • | Russian Propaganda Just Means Disobedience | MR Online

    “Russian propaganda” just means disobedience

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on August 6, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized.

  • | China Is Issuing The Same Red Line Warnings About Taiwan That Russia Issued About Ukraine | MR Online

    China is issuing the same “Red Line” warnings about Taiwan that Russia issued about Ukraine

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on July 28, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has continued to pour gasoline on the foreign policy dumpster fire that is her planned visit to Taiwan next month, now reportedly encouraging other members of congress to come along for the ride.

  • | Boris Johnson | MR Online

    UK to swap out top sociopath for a different sociopath: notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on July 7, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won’t be replaced by another depraved sociopath.

  • | Imperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct Elements | MR Online

    Imperial narrative control has five distinct elements

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

    All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating people’s understanding of what’s going on.

  • | Western Officials Admit Ukraine Is Crawling With CIA Personnel | MR Online

    Western officials admit Ukraine is crawling with CIA personnel

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 26, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the U.S. and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the U.S. intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about what’s happening on the ground in Ukraine.

  • | Julian Assange | MR Online

    Assange is doing his most important work yet

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 18, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the U.S. empire.

  • | Western Media Run Blatant Atrocity Propaganda For The Ukrainian Government | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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 | MR Online

    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.

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