Antiwar reports: “President Biden and the leaders of Australia and the UK announced a new military agreement on Wednesday aimed at countering China. The pact, known as AUKUS, will focus on the sharing of sensitive military technologies, and the first initiative will focus on getting Australia nuclear-powered submarines.” US officials speaking to CNN described the effort …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Australia’s not a free country. State surveillance and autocracy are rife because we have no bill of rights
There’s a lot to criticize, from soldiers patrolling state borders and policing the streets of Sydney, to people being arrested for merely posting about lockdown protests on social media, to police accessing QR-tracing information and firing projectile weapons at lockdown protesters, to news broadcasters naming and shaming Covid patients who violate isolation orders, to the frequently ineffective hotel quarantine system …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: How long before we humans are being policed by robots?
Hawaii police are defending their use of pandemic relief funds for a robotic “police dog” made by Boston Dynamics which scans homeless people’s eyes to see if they have a fever. “If you’re homeless and looking for temporary shelter in Hawaii’s capital, expect a visit from a robotic police dog …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: For every whistleblower they make an example of, they prevent a thousand more
The sentence was much harsher than Hale’s defense requested but not nearly as harsh as US prosecutors pushed for, arguing that longer prison sentences are necessary for deterring whistleblowing in the US intelligence cartel. The Dissenter’s Kevin Gosztola reports: “Despite the fact that Hale pled guilty on March 31 to one of …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The empire depends on psychological compartmentalization
This means that the acclaimed journalist will continue to languish in prison for exposing US war crimes while the appeals process plays out. If the western media were what it purports to be, every member of the public will be acutely aware of the fact that a journalist is being imprisoned by …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The US again bombs nations on the other side of the world in the name of ‘self-defense’
“At President Biden’s direction, US military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region,” reads a statement by Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby. “The targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that are engaged in unmanned aerial …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: So much of what the CIA used to do covertly it now does overtly
In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he’d start overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He flat-out told me he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The lie that a kinder, gentler US Empire is possible
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has once again been the center of an artificial controversy launched in bad faith, this time over a tweet where she mentioned the United States and Israel in the same breath as Hamas and the Taliban as perpetrators of “unthinkable atrocities”. “We must have the same level of accountability …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: US corporate media wastes no time using UFO report to promote arms race
The New York Times has published an article on the contents of the hotly anticipated US government report on UFOs, as per usual based on statements of anonymous officials, and as per usual promoting narratives that are convenient for imperialists and war profiteers. Together with one voice, the anonymous US officials and the …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: US troops die for world domination, not freedom
Apparently the likely future president tweeted “Enjoy the long weekend,” a reference to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, instead of gushing about fallen troops and sacrifice. That’s it, that’s the whole entire story. That silly, irrelevant offense by one of the sleaziest people in the single most corrupt and murderous government on earth is the …
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