We are once again witnessing history being made, folks. Today, in the Year of our Lord two thousand and twenty-two, we get the great privilege of bearing witness to the single most American thing that has ever happened. The Biden administration has asked top Democrats to decouple the federal government’s Covid relief spending package from […]
Caitlin Johnstone
The US Cries About War Crimes While Imprisoning A Journalist For Exposing Its War Crimes by Caitlin Johnstone
In what his lawyers have described as a “brief but significant moment in the case,” a British magistrates’ court has signed off on Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, bringing the WikiLeaks founder one step closer to a US trial under the Espionage Act which threatens press freedoms worldwide. The extradition case now goes […]
Hard To Swallow Pills by Caitlin Johnstone
You were born in the middle of the most sophisticated and expansive mass-scale perception management operation that has ever taken place. The news media is propaganda and schooling is designed to condition us to accept that propaganda. Public understanding of what a normal moderate position looks like and what a radical extremist position looks like […]
The Assange Case Invalidates US Criticisms Of Russia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone
If you’ve been following the news about Ukraine but still don’t understand that it’s the single most aggressively narrative managed and psyop-intensive war in human history, there is a 100 percent chance you believe false things about what’s happening there. It’s not a question of if the US played a role in Imran Khan’s removal […]
If It Feels Like You’re Being Manipulated, It’s Because You Are by Caitlin Johnstone
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. If you feel like there’s been a concerted effort from the most powerful government and media institutions in the western world to manipulate your understanding of what’s going […]
They’re Enslaving Our Minds And Driving Us Toward Destruction by Caitlin Johnstone
You know you are being aggressively propagandized about Ukraine by the mass media and by Silicon Valley. You can feel it in your guts. Everyone can feel it, on some level. It feels gross. The split on this issue is between those who trust this gut feeling and those who choose to psychologically compartmentalize away […]
People Overestimate The US War Machine And Underestimate The US Propaganda Machine by Caitlin Johnstone
As Pedro Gonzales recently documented in Human Events, The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together a few months ago with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.” The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the US government-funded “NGO” National Endowment for Democracy, which according to […]
Umm… Are We The Baddies? by Caitlin Johnstone
Reuters reports that Facebook and Instagram are now allowing calls for the death of Russians and Russian leaders in exemption from the platforms’ hate speech terms of service due to the war in Ukraine: “Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in […]
Every US Enemy Is Hitler: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone
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 US could possibly have had anything to do with starting the war in Ukraine. There’s one asshole in the room who always starts shit. Any time […]
Perhaps The US Should Shut The Fuck Up About Respecting Other Countries’ Sovereignty by Caitlin Johnstone
There are all kinds of criticisms that one can level against this move by Moscow, if one feels that the entire western political/media class screaming all of these criticisms in unison does not have enough amplification. For myself, I would just like to point out that the US-centralized empire is the very last institution on […]
The US Empire Is Evil And You Should Want It To Fail: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone
To rule the world, make it rely on a single dominant financial system you control so anyone who disobeys you can be cut off from the economy you’ve made them dependent on for survival—whether they’re a nation, a protest movement, or an individual—without having to fire a shot. I don’t “support dictators”, as one will […]