Caitlin Johnstone
Recent articles by Caitlin Johnstone
21 February 2024
Julian Assange and the ugly reality of war crimes
Free Palestine. Free Assange. Free the world.
16 February 2024
The perfect recipe for a real antisemitism crisis
If I wanted to increase antisemitism, I imagine Id do a lot of really evil stuff under a Star of David flag while adamantly insisting that my actions are inseparable from the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Id kill children by the thousands and commit genocidal atrocities.
9 February 2024
The US keeps bombing people while saying it doesn't want to fight
One of the weirdest things happening in the world today is the way US officials keep insisting that they are not at war with the groups theyre dropping bombs on in the middle east, and that they do not seek conflict with the people they are attacking.
7 February 2024
The Western press are just printing straight up Nazi propaganda about Middle Easterners now
Mass media outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have been allowing the publication of some amazingly racist pieces these last few days. All are directed at middle easterners and those of middle eastern descent, just as the western empire drops more and more bombs on more and more countries in the middle east.
2 February 2024
Democrats are demented genocidal war sluts
President Biden is reportedly preparing to begin a new weeks-long bombing campaign in the middle east in retaliation for a drone attack which killed three US troops this past weekend. These strikes are expected to include Iranian targets, tempting the nightmare scenario of a full-blown war with Iran, despite the public acknowledgement that theres no evidence Iran was behind the drone strike.
27 January 2024
Israel accuses the ICJ of (you guessed it) antisemitism
The International Court of Justicerejected Israels requestto dismiss the genocide case brought against it by South Africa on Friday,rulingby amassive majoritythat the case shall proceed and instructing Israel to refrain from killing and harming Palestinians in the interim.
25 January 2024
Gaza is exposing Western Liberals for the frauds they are
The entire western liberal worldview is currently balanced on the ability to psychologically compartmentalise away from the mass atrocities in Gaza and what western governments are doing to perpetuate them.
23 January 2024
The Biden administration's absurd justification for its Yemen war
On Monday the US launched its eighth wave of airstrikes in its new war against Yemeni forces, which it has now formally titled Operation Poseidon Archer. The strikes are aimed at breaking a Red Sea shipping blockade which the de facto authorities in Yemen have implemented to pressure Israel and its allies into ceasing the genocidal onslaught in Gaza.
18 January 2024
When Yemen does it it's terrorism, when the US does it it's "The Rules-Based Order"
The Biden administration hasofficially re-designatedAnsarallahthe dominant force in Yemen also known as the Houthisas a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity.
12 January 2024
Western Empire bombs Yemen to protect Israel's genocide operations In Gaza
The US and UK have reportedly struck over a dozen sites in Yemen using Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, backed by logistical support from Australia, Canada, Bahrain and the Netherlands. A statement from President Biden asserts that the strikes against targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels are a direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea.
8 January 2024
Tony Blinken is a cold-blooded sociopath
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken just referred to the US-sponsored assassination of yet another journalist in Gaza as a terrible tragedy, as though the reporter was struck by lightning or died in a car crash or something.
31 December 2023
The Israel supporter and the sandwich
An Israel supporter walks up to a guy at a restaurant, grabs his sandwich, starts eating it.
20 December 2023
The atrocities in Gaza are the perfect embodiment of 'Western Values'
When Israeli president Isaac Herzogdescribedthe assault on Gaza as a war to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization, he wasnt really lying. He was telling the truthjust maybe not quite in the way that he meant it.
15 December 2023
CNN goes to Gaza
CNNs Clarissa Ward and her crew became the firstwestern journalists to enter Gaza independent from Israeli forces since October 7, briefly visiting a 150-bed hospital that was recently constructed in a soccer stadium by the United Arab Emirates in the southern part of the enclave before leaving to report on the footage from Abu Dhabi.
14 December 2023
Gaza is deliberately being made uninhabitable
Infectious diseases are tearing through Gaza, whose healthcare system has been rendered almost nonexistent, and people are beginning to starve in massive numbers. All of this is due to concrete policy decisions made by Israel in its horrific assault on the Gaza Strip.
7 December 2023
The official story of October seventh
The official story is that on October 7, 2023, thousands of evil Hamas terrorists broke out of their walled-in enclave and killed approximately 1,200 Israelis for no reason other than because they were evil and wanted to kill Jews. Nothing was done by the Israeli government to provoke this attack, and nothing of any relevance happened prior to this date.
6 December 2023
There's nothing you can say to make me accept the murder of thousands of children
I promise there is nothing you can say to me that will cause me to cease opposing the murder of thousands of children in Gaza. There is no name you can call me, no accusation you can scream at me, no talking point you can regurgitate at me that will ever make me shut up and accept this.
5 December 2023
The horrors in Gaza are happening because the US empire wants them to happen
I came across an interesting quote made last month by a retired Israeli major general named Yitzhak Brick about the ongoing IDF assault on Gaza.
30 November 2023
Israel's savagery is so shocking it's sometimes hard to take in
Sometimes Israels crimes are so horrific that at first you dont even understand what youre looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what youre seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something.
29 November 2023
War is not abstracted anymore
Pentagon contractor Elon Musk and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu had a conversation that they broadcast on Twitter during Musks apology pilgrimage to Israel in a desperate bid to salvage his public image amid costly accusations of antisemitism.
23 November 2023
White House fears pause in fighting will let journalists see what's been happening in Gaza
Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a four-day ceasefire which will entail the release of 50 hostages held by Hamas in exchange for 150 hostages held by Israeli forces.
22 November 2023
"From The River To The Sea" Is genocide, But actual genocide is not genocide
Elon Musk has announced that common pro-Palestine phrases like from the river to the sea and decolonisation are now banned on Twitter and will result in suspension, falsely claiming that they necessarily imply genocide. This move is likely an attempt to appease key advertisers who have been pulling out of the platform in response to a tweet Musk himself made about Jewish communities pushing hatred toward white people.
4 November 2023
The moral complexities of bombing a concentration camp full of children
Israel created Hamas - Now THEYRE DROPPING BOMBS ON A CONCENTRATION CAMP FULL OF CHILDREN.
25 October 2023
How much killing is enough killing?
Israel has killed multiple times as many people since October 7 as were killed on October 7, has caused many times more destruction since October 7 than was caused on October 7, and has inflicted many times more pain and suffering since October 7 than was inflicted on October 7. How high does the pile of mutilated and dismembered children need to be before its high enough?
18 October 2023
Mass media reporters aren't buying Israel's hospital bombing story
A huge blast in Gaza has destroyed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, killing hundreds of people. The exact death toll is still unknown.
2 October 2023
In support of the policy of deterrence
Theres been a lot of debate lately over the US strategy of surrounding nations like Russia and China with war machinery in order to deter them from aggressive actions. Some argue that since powerful nations tend to respond aggressively to the amassing of military threats on their borders, this policy actually provokes the very aggressions its proponents claim it prevents.
1 October 2023
The news has nothing to do with newsworthiness
I dont mention it often but I actually have a degree in journalism. I graduated with distinction from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2003, and while it would be another 13 years before Id ever put my degree to any use, the experience played a massive role in forming my opinions about the mainstream press.
30 September 2023
People are dying for inches in Ukraine, the "world's largest arms fair"
Theres a heartbreaking graphic going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time.
24 September 2023
Okinawa disproves the US narrative about overseas bases
Okinawa governor Denny Tamaki has implored the UN for international backing in his opposition to the prefecture being overrun with US military bases.
21 September 2023
War profiteers are a sign of a profoundly sick society
War is good for business. So reads a quote from an arms industry executive in a recent Reuters article titled At London arms fair, global war fears are good for business about Europes biggest arms show, the biennial Defence and Security Equipment International. You will probably be unsurprised to learn that Reuters does not name the war profiteer whose quote inspired their headline.
7 September 2023
John Pilger: "America has hung a noose around the neck of China"
In March of 2016 the renowned Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger published an article titled A world war has begun. Break the silence. which urgently warned of the US empires aggressive escalations against Russia and China. Re-reading parts of it in 2023 is like watching someone placing flags next to recently planted seeds that would eventually grow into the towering problems our world now faces.
6 September 2023
Think Tanks are information laundering ops for war profiteers
The British billionaire-owned newspaper The Telegraph has an appalling new article out which reads like a paid advertisement for a missile manufactured by Lockheed Martin. The title even sounds like it was written by a marketing team: A war-winning swarm missile will knock China out of Taiwanfast, subtitled Rapid Dragon is a military gamechanger that provides the US Air Force with a crucial edge in the Pacific.
3 September 2023
The empire means widening our circles of compassion
In trying to get people to care about warmongering and imperialism what were really trying to do is get people to widen their circle of compassion to the furthest extent possible. To extend their care for the people around them to include caring about violence and abuse against people even on the other side of the world.
30 August 2023
Only idiots believe the US is protecting Australia from China
The Economist has taken a keen interest in Australia lately, which if you know anything about The Economist is something you never want to see happen to your country. Two articles published in the last few days by the notorious propaganda outlet have celebrated the fact that Australia appears to be the most likely nation to follow the United States into a hot war with China as it enmeshes itself further and further with the US war machine.
25 August 2023
Evil, scary China refuses to passively let us encircle it: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Its not the big, glaring, obvious lies that get you. The New York Times is the worlds most destructive propaganda outlet not because it publishes giant ham-fisted whoppers, but because it appears trustworthy. Its reporting looks authoritative. Children are taught in school that its what credible news media looks like. This lets the well-crafted propaganda slide into peoples minds, undetected and without resistance.
24 August 2023
Big brave Western proxy warriors keep whining that Ukrainian troops are cowards
Amid continuous news that the Ukrainian counteroffensive which began in June is not going as hoped, The New York Times has published an article titled Troop Deaths and Injuries in Ukraine War Near 500,000, U.S. Officials Say.
18 August 2023
US government pressured Pakistan to oust democratically elected Imran Khan
US Secretary of State Tony Blinken tweeted in celebration of Pakistans preparations for free and fair elections on Wednesday, a week after it was revealed that the US pressured Pakistan to oust its popular democratically elected prime minister Imran Khan last year.
10 August 2023
The illusory truth effect and the "unprovoked" invasion Of Ukraine
Arguably the single most egregious display of war propaganda in the 21st century occurred last year, when the entire western political/media class began uniformly bleating the word unprovoked in reference to Russias invasion of Ukraine.
31 July 2023
Australia agrees to build US missiles; US dismisses Australian concerns about Assange
Two different news stories about US-Australian relations have broken at around the same time, and together they sum up the story of US-Australian relations as a whole. In one we learn that Australia has agreed to manufacture missiles for the United States, and in the other we learn that Washington has told Australia to go suck eggs about its concerns regarding the US persecution of Australian journalist Julian Assange.
29 July 2023
The star-spangled kangaroo
A new US warship has been ushered into service in Sydney. The ship is called the USS Canberra to honour the military union of the United States and Australia, and, if thats still too subtle for you, it has a literal star-spangled kangaroo affixed to its side.
25 July 2023
The empire knows it's pouring Ukrainian blood into an unwinnable proxy war
In a new article titled Ukraines Lack of Weaponry and Training Risks Stalemate in Fight With Russia, The Wall Street Journals Daniel Michaels reports that western officials knew Ukrainian forces didnt have the weapons and training necessary to succeed in their highly touted counteroffensive which was launched last month.
14 July 2023
Profit-driven systems are driving us to our doom
I just read a disturbing paragraph in a New Yorker article about the Instant Pot, a popular electronic pressure cooker whose parent company recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy:
29 June 2023
Aging Iraq invaders keep accidentally saying 'Iraq' instead of 'Ukraine'
President Biden accidentally referred to Putins war in Iraq when answering questions from the press, a year after former president George W Bush made the same gaffe. Both men played crucial roles in the push to invade Iraq.
26 June 2023
Australia keeps escalating its censorship and propaganda campaign
Theres a frenzied rush by the Australian political/media class to both propagandise Australians as quickly as possible into supporting preparations for war with China, and to ram through legislation that facilitates the censorship of online speech.
13 June 2023
The mass media used to publish perspectives on Ukraine they would never publish today
The other day I stumbled across a 2014 opinion piece in The Guardian titled It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war by Seumas Milne, who the following year would go on to become the Labour Party's Executive Director of Strategy and Communications under Jeremy Corbyn.
7 June 2023
China places country dangerously close to US warship
The US military has released video footage of a Chinese navy ship cutting across the path of an American Destroyer in the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, reportedly forcing the US vessel to slow down to avoid a collision.
5 June 2023
15 reasons why mass media employees act like propagandists
If you watch western news media with a critical eye you eventually notice how their reporting consistently aligns with the interests of the US-centralised empire, in almost the same way you'd expect them to if they were government-run propaganda outlets.
30 May 2023
Most propaganda looks nothing like this
When most people in the English-speaking world hear the word propaganda, they tend to think of something that's done by foreign nations who have governments that are so totalitarian they won't even let people know what's true or think for themselves.