Author: Caitlin Johnstone
The CIA is rebranding itself as the agency of intersectional torturers. Social media was ablaze yesterday over a CIA recruiting video which you should definitely watch if you haven’t seen it already, because it has ...
Algorithm Manipulation is how Big Tech operates. The emergence of the internet was met with hope and enthusiasm by people who understood that the plutocrat-controlled mainstream media were manipulating public opinion to manufacture consent for ...
Electoral Politics is a Grand Containment Strategy. In a high-quality dementia care facility, confused residents who are at risk of unsafe wandering are skillfully redirected away from exit doors by staff members who are trained ...
Biden’s Iran policy is no different to Trump’s Iran policy. In a new interview with CBS Evening News, US President Biden confirmed that his administration will not be lifting sanctions imposed upon Iran in order ...
The Assange Extradition hearing has come to a close, for now. British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have. Baraitser’s frightening ...
[This is a May 2019 article from Caitlin, still very relevant today – Ed.] President Trump has yet again advanced an evil longstanding agenda of America’s depraved intelligence and defense agencies, so as usual the ...
The architecture of oppression is here. “As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world,” ...
Judge Anthony Trenga Releases Manning after her suicide attempt. A federal judge has released whistleblower Chelsea Manning from jail following a suicide attempt and a year behind bars, while ordering her to pay more than a ...
The Biden dementia issue needs to be called out – loudly and immediately. It’s very bizarre and dissonant how there are currently two separate and non-overlapping lines of criticism going on against the campaign of ...
Now as Tulsi Gabbard qualifies for the upcoming DNC (Democratic National Committee) debates, since she earned 1 delegate, the DNC is scrambling to change the rules to stop her from being on the stage. On ...
The Assange trial has paused for now. The first week of the Julian Assange extradition trial has concluded, to be resumed on May 18th. If you haven’t been following the proceedings closely, let me sum ...
Exposing War Crimes: Fair Journalism or Illegal Offence? Tomorrow in the UK a judge will start the process of answering a very important question. It’s a question that many of us knew was the heart ...
The power of billionaire narrative control has been on full display recently. Back in November Mike Bloomberg was polling at four percent nationally and had the highest disapproval rating of any potential Democratic presidential candidate, ...
Democrats – do the sensible thing and nominate a rapacious moderate psychopath. After Bernie Sanders failed to impress in his underwhelming consecutive victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s time for his far-far-left extremist base ...
The Trump administration has released its official statement to Congress justifying its drone assassination of Iran’s top military official Qassem Soleimani last month. Surprising exactly zero people, the formal notification makes no mention whatsoever of ...
Puppet Pete is the world’s first laboratory-grown presidential candidate. Pete Buttigieg met with boos and chants of “Wall Street Pete” at a recent Democratic Party event in New Hampshire for taking a dig at the ...
The DNC loses trust again. Right from the start in the 2020 US presidential elections. After a 2016 presidential primary race riddled with scandals, all of which worked against Bernie Sanders to the advantage of ...
The primary mechanism of oppression is out in the open. I write a lot about government secrecy and the importance of whistleblowers, leakers and leak publishers, and for good reason: governments which can hide their ...
Iraq-raping neocon and PNAC member Max Boot wants to just admit he wrong was advocating a war that killed 1,000,000 people – and be done with it. There’s so much going on in US politics ...
The Establishment fears you. During the George W Bush administration it was popular in conspiracy circles to speculate that events might be orchestrated which would allow the Bush family to complete a coup against the ...
What kind of world do we inhabit when Belmarsh Prison Inmates prove more ethical than the entire Western Empire? In some refreshingly good news about Julian Assange, WikiLeaks is reporting that its founder has finally ...
The USG (US Government) is trying to redefine and reinterpret the reach of the First Amendment in its case against Assange. Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson gave a brief statement to the press after the latest ...
The Empire’s war on oppositional journalism continues. It seemingly can’t tolerate diverse opinion and the dissidents who think, speak and write them. The predictable result is ever more censorship. Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged ...
We all showed up naked, slimy and clueless in a world of inexplicable sensory input we couldn’t make head or tail out of. We were then taught what’s what by people who showed up under ...
The government which runs a globe-spanning empire led by a reality TV host keeps talking about the lack of normality in the nation of Iran. “What we want all countries to join in,” said State ...
So the US has decided to become an invading, occupying force in Iraq again. It won’t be as exciting as last time. There will be no “shock and awe” invasion tactics this time. The invaders ...
Full-scale war has been avoided – for now – but Trump warmongering continues. The United States and Iran entered into a direct military exchange for the first time ever with the drone assassination of General ...