The United States received a very small taste of its own medicine as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily forced their way into the nation’s Capitol building, and now the whole country is freaking out. I am being generous when I say that America was given a very small taste of its …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: The unspoken premise of modern capitalism is that the world will be saved by greedy tech oligarchs
“2020 was the year socialism went mainstream,” Haley tweeted today. “The dangerous ideology, which has failed everywhere it has been tried and ruined countless lives, is on its way to becoming the default economic policy of the Democratic Party. This terrifying trend threatens the future of every American.” Ah yes, America. The country …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: EVERYONE was wrong about Trump
After weeks of speculation and desperate hopes that Donald Trump might be preparing to pardon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and/or WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before leaving office on January 20th, what the latest round of presidential pardons has delivered is about as far from that as you can conceivably imagine. “In an audacious pre-Christmas …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Secret, invisible evidence of Russian hacking is not actually evidence
The Communist Party of China has been covertly sending arms to extremist Antifa militants in the United States in preparation for the civil war which is expected to take place after Joe Biden declares himself President for Life and institutes a Marxist dictatorship. The weapons shipments include rocket launchers, directed …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden’s prospective new defense secretary is another professional war profiteer
The mass media are reporting that the Biden camp has selected former general Lloyd J. Austin III to be the next secretary of defense, assuaging fears among antiwar activists that the position would go to bloodthirsty psychopath Michele Flournoy as commonly predicted. As has become the standard ritual for Biden’s cabinet picks, the mass media are holding …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Right calls Biden a puppet of Xi as he packs his cabinet with China hawks
Prior to the US election I wrote a couple of articles saying that, if Biden wins, he will be attacked by the right as a Xi Jinping puppet even as he escalates dangerous cold war aggressions with China, in exactly the same way Trump was attacked by Democrats as a …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: New York Times job listing shows how Western propaganda operates
That they sit around scheming up ways to deceive their audiences into supporting war, oligarchy and oppression for the benefit of their plutocratic masters. Once you’ve learned a bit more you realize it’s not quite happening that way. Most mainstream news reporters are not really witting propagandists – those are …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Biden will likely be worse than Obama. The left must lead the backlash, or the right will
The problem with this, apart from the obvious fact that it was an embarrassingly close victory only made possible by the Covid outbreak, is that returning to the pre-Trump “normal” is returning to the exact positions which created Trump. It’s like using a time machine to prevent a train wreck, but only going …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: America has no allies, only hostages
The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation’s relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran. This reverses the policies of the US-backed coup regime which immediately began closing embassies, kicking out doctors and severing relations with those nations after illegally seizing power last year. Arce …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: ‘Successful’ people are misery superspreaders in a world that values conquest and power over growth and healing
The term “super-spreader” has been popping up a lot in mainstream news media and Democrat-aligned partisan rhetoric in reference to President Trump and his habit of hosting of events without social distancing precautions which led to a spike in positive Covid-19 tests throughout the White House. It’s an interesting phrase, …
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