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Caitlin Johnstone is a brave journalist, political junkie, relentless feminist, champion of the 99 percent. And a powerful counter-propaganda tactician. Rogue journalist, poet, illustrator, utopia prepper, and proudly 100 percent reader-funded throughPatreon and Paypal . Published in Zero Hedge, 21st Century Wire, New York Observer, Real News, Mint Press News, Global Research, and as seen on The Humanist Report and The Jimmy Dore Show.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, September 16, 2019 Biden's Brain Is Swiss Cheese And It's Creepy That We're Not Talking About It
Most of you have probably heard about Biden's infamous "record player" comment by now, but for those of you who missed it, Biden was asked by debate moderator Linsey Davis to defend some comments he made about America's problems with racism in the 1970s, and he responded by essentially saying that Black people don't know how to raise their kids so they need to be taught how by social workers.
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 8, 2019 Universal Basic Income + Automation + Plutocracy = Dystopia
Imagine what will happen in a society where people are no longer necessary and have nothing the powerful need. Imagine what will happen when people become dependent on a subsistence UBI set up by the already plutocrat-controlled government to sustain them when plutocrat-owned technologies render their labor completely moot.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 8, 2019 Epstein madness
There are a lot of weird things about the Epstein case, but the absolute weirdest is how we learned that western intelligence agencies are using children as sex slaves to manipulate world affairs and, even after two years of #MeToo, we're just kind of pretending it didn't happen.
(11 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 5, 2019 The Word "Philanthropist" Is Poisonous
Well hot damn, we've lost a Koch brother! Do your happy dance, call out the munchkins and let your voice shake the heavens with a rousing rendition of "Ding-dong the oligarch is dead!"
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 31, 2019 How To Make Sense Of Foreign Protests, Conflicts And Uprisings
In 2017 a memo was leaked to Politico in which the sniveling John Bolton lackey Brian Hook explained to DC neophyte Rex Tillerson how to perform his job as Secretary of State with regard to human rights violations.
SHARE Saturday, August 17, 2019 Mass Media's Phony Freakout Over Bernie's WaPo Criticism Is Backfiring
The ability of the ruling class to manipulate the way people think, act and vote is the only thing stopping the public from using the power of their numbers to force real changes and create a new system that is not built upon endless war, ecocide and exploitation. The mass media propaganda engine is now at its weakest and most vulnerable point ever.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 15, 2019 MSM Smears Sanders For Saying MSM Smears Sanders
To suggest that the man signing everyone's paychecks from the very highest level has no way of exerting any influence at all upon the publication's overall output is just silly. Again, the man bought The Washington Post for a reason, and it wasn't to sell newspapers. The public should be far more skeptical of the mass media, not less. Ignore their shrill, baseless objections and continue exposing them for what they are.
(35 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 10, 2019 Jeffrey Epstein Dies Of "Suicide"
Some reports claim that Epstein has been on suicide watch due to a prior alleged suicide attempt three weeks ago when he was found unconscious with bruising on his neck, others deny it. If he wasn't, it's weird because he obviously should have been, and if he was it's weird because it failed.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 9, 2019 The Persistent Myth That Trump Opposes War
The notion that Donald Trump is some kind of peace president, or even the notion that he puts any more inertia on the US war machine than his predecessor did, is contradicted by all facts and evidence we have available to us. Trump has not ended a single one of the wars his predecessors started, and has added dangerous escalations against Venezuela, Iran, and nuclear-armed Russia.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, August 2, 2019 WaPo Publishes Lies about Gabbard
The Washington Post, which is wholly owned by a CIA contractor who is reportedly working to control the underlying infrastructure of the global economy, has published a shockingly deceitful smear piece about Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard in the wake of her criticisms of her opponent Kamala Harris' prosecutorial record during the last Democratic debate.
(19 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 1, 2019 Propagandists Are Freaking Out Over Gabbard's Destruction Of Harris
The shrill, hysterical push-back that Gabbard received last night was very encouraging, because it means she's forcing them to fight back. In a media environment where the war propaganda machine normally coasts along almost entirely unhindered in mainstream attention, the fact that someone has positioned themselves to move the needle like this says good things for our future.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 31, 2019 How The Question 'Who benefits from this?' can change your life
"Who benefits from my believing this?" about the various reasons they hold for espousing their respective political positions the answer would come back clear as day that of course the ones who benefit are the plutocratic class which owns both mainstream political parties and the opaque government agencies with which that class is aligned.
(16 comments) SHARE Monday, July 29, 2019 What Progressives Hopefully Learned From Russiagate
If there's any strength left in what remains of America's progressive movement to effect real change, that change will come solely from grassroots populism, and it will be met with extremely forceful opposition from the Democratic establishment. If what you're doing isn't giving Nancy Pelosi literal night terrors, it's worthless.
(13 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 23, 2019 The Just-World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange and Defend Power
The fact that people think of themselves as rational creatures, but in reality have many large cognitive vulnerabilities that can and will be exploited to cause them to interpret data in an irrational way, is not some amusing-yet-inconsequential bit of trivia. It's an absolutely crucial piece of the puzzle in understanding why the world is as messed up as it is, and in figuring out how to fix it.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 16, 2019 New CNN Assange Smear Piece Is Amazingly Dishonest, Even For CNN
CNN has authored an unbelievably brazen and dishonest smear piece on Julian Assange, easily the most egregious article of its kind since the notoriously bogus Assange-Manafort report by The Guardian last year. It contains none of the "exclusive" documents which it claims substantiate its smears, relying solely on vague unsubstantiated assertions and easily debunked lies to paint the WikiLeaks founder in a negative light.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, July 12, 2019 Top Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter
One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely removed from the site. The operators of the account report that they have been given no reason for its removal by Twitter staff, and have received no response to their appeals.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Britain bans RT from a Conference on Free Press
The British Foreign Office has banned Russian outlets RT and Sputnik from attending the upcoming Global Conference on Media Freedom in London, citing their predilection for "disinformation".
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 7, 2019 US Foreign Policy Is A War On Disobedience
Does it really make sense for any nation to be able to take over the world and then look up with Bambi-eyed innocence saying "I was attacked! Completely out of the blue!" All nations are meant to submit to America's use of military and economic force upon them, and if they don't, that's "aggression."
(14 comments) SHARE Friday, July 5, 2019 Jerusalem Post says US Attack on Iran is Imminent
According to a new article from English-language Israeli publication The Jerusalem Post, the Hebrew-language Israeli publication Maariv has reported that diplomatic sources in the UN are assessing a US plan to conduct a "massive" airstrike on "an Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program" in response to alleged attacks on two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman.