JOHNSTONE

By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim FoleyNews

Typical duration
5 min
per episode
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54%
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JOHNSTONE episodes

October 05 Zionism Is OBVIOUSLY A Racist Ideology
On Sunday the UK Greens adopted a motion asserting that Zionism is a form of racism, defining the ideology as "an ethnonationalist political project."
Reading by Tim Foley.
4 min
October 04 Meditations On The Botched Execution Of Christa Pike
Reading by Tim Foley.
4 min
October 04 They're Still Trying To Rehab Biden's Genocidal Image, And Other Notes
"Stop. He’s a genocidal monster. That’s his only legacy. End of story."
Reading by Tim Foley.
10 min
October 03 Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life
Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
4 min
October 03 Meditations On The Botched Execution Of Christa Pike
Pike committed a horrific violent crime as a young woman after a life of nightmarish abuse. She was physically and sexually abused by her mother's live-in boyfriend, was raped by a neighbor when she was eleven, and attempted suicide at the age of twelve.
And now she is on a respirator in a hospital as doctors fight to save her life, presumably so that the state of Tennessee can try to kill her again.
Reading by Tim Foley.
4 min
September 30 Saying You Listen To AI Music Is Like Saying You Have An AI Girlfriend
"When you’re talking about human interaction, which is what art is at its very nature, it absolutely does matter if there’s someone on the other end of it."
Reading by Tim Foley.
6 min
September 29 AI Won't Solve Humanity's Problems Because Our Problems Aren't Caused By Lack Of Intelligence
It’s an absolutely specious claim that artificial superintelligence will benefit everyone. Humanity’s problems are not caused by a lack of intelligence, our problems are caused by greedy plutocrats like Zuckerberg. It’s like a serial killer telling us we can stop serial killing by making serial killers smarter.
Reading by Tim Foley.
5 min
September 28 Empire Psychosis
The bread was designed in a lab to be furiously addictive, and the circuses track your preferences to serve you up all your favorite performances.
Empire psychosis keeps us in a constant state of distraction and escapism, always scrambling to avoid the here and now like we're trying to climb out of our own skins.
Reading by Tim Foley.
4 min
September 25 Tech Plutocrats Cannot Lead Us Into A Healthy Future
Transhumanism. Space colonization. Virtual reality. ASI. Immortality. These are all visions which revolve around escape. Escaping from the human condition. Escaping from our planet. Escaping from reality. Running, running, running away in a mad scramble to get anywhere but here.
Reading by Tim Foley.
4 min
September 24 Under Capitalism It_s Legal For Employers To Steal From Employees
Doordash has reached a historic $131.5 million settlement to repay workers in New York City for wages the food delivery app stole from them over the last four years, which sounds like a big win for the little guy if you don't think about it too hard.
Reading by Tim Foley.
5 min