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  • | 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.

  • | PentagonFunded 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.

  • | PayPal | MR Online

    PayPal blocks multiple alternative media figures critical of U.S. empire narratives

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

    In what appears to be yet another escalation in Silicon Valley’s redoubled efforts to quash dissident voices since the beginning of the Ukraine war, PayPal has just blocked the accounts of multiple alternative media voices who’ve been speaking critically against official U.S. empire narratives.

  • | Ukraine Flag | MR Online

    Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 27, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  | (Posted May 02, 2022)

    Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they’re spouting the slogans they’ve been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they’ve been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.

  • | If It Feels Like Youre Being Manipulated Its Because You Are | MR Online

    If it feels like you’re being manipulated, it’s because you are

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on April 11, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    If you’ve got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling.

  • | John Spencer | MR Online

    Pundits who advocate hot war with Russia are enemies of humanity

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

    In an appearance on the MSNBC show Velshi, The Modern War Institute’s John Spencer explicitly advocated direct U.S. military conflict with Russia due to allegations of war crimes in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.

  • | ReVisiting Russiagate In Light Of The Ukraine War | MR Online

    Re-visiting Russiagate in light of the Ukraine war

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 28, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2022)

    A lot of anti-empire commentary is rightly going into criticizing how the Obama administration paved the way to this conflict in Ukraine with its role in the 2014 coup and support for Kyiv’s war against Donbass separatists.

  • | Nuclear war | MR Online

    The huge gap between how serious nuclear war is and how seriously it’s being taken

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on March 16, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Sometimes I’m not sure what presents a greater threat to humanity, nuclear war or the colossal stupidity that has made it possible.

  • | Putin | MR Online

    Every U.S. enemy Is Hitler: Notes from the Edge of The Narrative Matrix

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

    It’s just incredible how even after all this time, after all those wars, after all those lies, it’s not even occurring to most mainstream westerners to investigate whether the U.S. could possibly have had anything to do with starting the war in Ukraine.

  • | Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship Google Caitlin Johnstone | MR Online

    Censorship by algorithm does far more damage than conventional censorship

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

    Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who’ve been sufficiently critical of official western narratives over the last few years.

  • | Joe Rogan | MR Online

    Don’t underestimate how badly the powerful need control of online speech

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on January 15, 2022 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they’re running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else.

  • | Super Serious News Reporting Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix | MR Online

    Super serious news reporting: notes from the Edge of The Narrative Matrix

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 5, 2021 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    Hi I’m a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars defend freedom and democracy. The government never lies. Here’s Bob with the weather.

  • | President Biden | MR Online

    U.S. again bombs Nations on other side of the World in “self-defense”

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on June 28, 2021 by Caitlin A. Johnstone (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  | (Posted Jul 01, 2021)

    The U.S. is again illegally bombing nations on the other side of the planet which it has invaded and occupied and branded this murderous aggression as “defensive”.

  • | Biden | MR Online

    Biden will likely be worse than Obama. The left must lead the backlash, or the right will

    Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog on November 17, 2020 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |

    It looks like a safe bet that Joe Biden will be sworn in on January 20th after successfully campaigning on returning the murderous and oppressive Orwellian US empire back to its pre-Trump “normal”.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Mapping U.S. Imperialism
    The Mapping Project | US military bases around the world Photo Al Jazeera | MR Online

    This article deals with U.S. imperialism since World War 2. It is critical to acknowledge that U.S. imperialism emanates both ideologically and materially from the crime of colonialism on this continent which has killed over 100 million indigenous people and approximately 150 million African people over the past 500 years.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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