Truth. Justice. Freedom. Democracy. We are taught from an early age that these are the sacred values our society upholds with the utmost reverence, and that we are very fortunate to have been born in a part of the world which holds such virtue. You see this haughty self-righteousness pop …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The entire world should be laughing at America for pretending to care about Muslims in China
The current representative of the US empire finally held his first full press conference yesterday, an embarrassing and undignified affair which saw a gaggle of obsequious imperial stenographers gather round to make believe that important policy decisions about the operation of the most powerful government in the world are actually …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: 18 years on, no changes were made to ensure that evils of Iraq invasion won’t repeat
The reason it’s so important to stay enraged about Iraq is because it’s never been addressed or rectified in any real way whatsoever. All the corrupt mechanisms which led to the invasion are still in place and its consequences remain. It isn’t something that happened in the past. The Iraq invasion feels kind of like …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: All the governments we hate interfered in our election, says US intelligence cartel
Ahem. Yeah, so, that’s the news. According to the US intelligence cartel, the nations which sought to interfere in the outcome of the US election include Russia, Iran, China, Lebanese Hizballah, Cuba and Venezuela. Interestingly, exactly zero nations aligned geopolitically with the United States are listed as having interfered in its …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: There’s only one news story, repeating over and over again
Sometimes you see a three-legged pony up there, sometimes a gargoyle, sometimes a laughing baby, but really you’re only ever watching tiny water droplets being moved around by atmospheric winds. They can take on any number of different shapes, but no matter how long you lay there staring up at …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: US bombs Syria and ridiculously claims self defense
Rather than doing anything remotely resembling journalism, the Western mass media have opted instead to uncritically repeat what they’ve been told about the airstrike by US officials, which is the same as just publishing Pentagon press releases. Here’s this from the Washington Post: The Biden administration conducted an airstrike against alleged …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Conspiracy theories are caused by government secrecy
The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no obligation to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests pertaining to its involvement with insurgent militias in Syria, overturning a lower court’s previous ruling in favor of a Buzzfeed News reporter seeking such documents. As Sputnik‘s Morgan Artyukhina clearly outlines, this ruling comes despite the fact …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden continues Trump’s war on the press
Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, Washington has announced its intention to continue those efforts. “Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden continues Trump’s war on the press
Just one day after a coalition of prominent civil rights groups made headlines with a letter urging the Biden administration to drop efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States on espionage charges, Washington has announced its intention to continue those efforts. “Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi on Tuesday said the U.S. government …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden’s Iran policy is just Trump’s Iran policy with a rainbow flag emoji
In a new interview with CBS Evening News, President Biden confirmed that his administration will not be lifting sanctions imposed upon Iran in order to bring Tehran to the negotiating table for the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal. “Will …
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