JOHNSTONE

Don't let elitists use the illusion of complexity to cow you out of talking about what's going on in your world. You can see what's going on well enough to begin speaking out, and the more you learn the more detailed the picture will become. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

The fact that the mass media continually seek out expert foreign policy analysis from warmongers who've been consistently wrong about everything for decades is by itself enough reason to fully dismiss them.

Reading by Tim Foley.

George W Bush has issued a statement on the situation in Afghanistan, and there are not enough shoes in the world to adequately respond to it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/now-would-be-a-great-time-for-george

I love how everyone's just pretending the Afghanistan Papers never happened and the Taliban takeover is some kind of shocking tragedy instead of the thing everyone knew would happen because they've been knowingly lying about working to create a stable government this entire time.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The United States is currently circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and waging wars which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century. Its sanctions and blockades are starving people to death en masse every single day. It works to destroy any nation which disobeys its dictates by toppling their governments via CIA coups, proxy armies, partial and full-scale invasions, and the most egregious number of election interferences in the entire world.

There is no other government on earth about which you can say anything like any of these things. No other government on earth is doing anything which rises to this level of evil. Not Iran, not North Korea, not Russia or China or any of the other big scary boogeymen we're told we must be afraid of my the mass media. You can argue that other governments have perpetrated comparable evils in the past, but you cannot argue that any of them are doing so currently. In our present reality as it actually exists, the United States is the worst monster, and it's not even close.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/you-need-to-understand-that-the-us

One of the weirdest things about the mass media propaganda which manipulates the way people think, act and vote to maintain the status quo is the fact that mainstream news outlets routinely cite the employees of think tanks that are sponsored by war profiteers and government powers as expert sources for their reports. And they just get away with it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/basing-news-stories-on-corrupt-think

A military which can afford to spend trillions of dollars on a devastating 20-year war which accomplished literally nothing besides making war profiteers fabulously rich is a military which needs its budget slashed to ribbons. Clearly if Pentagon officials can waste such unfathomably vast fortunes lining the pockets of the military-industrial complex to the benefit of not one single ordinary American, they do not need anything like the obscenely bloated military budget the United States currently has.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/afghanistan-proves-the-us-military

Whenever I talk about the fact that our world is ruled by psychopaths who have our species on a trajectory toward annihilation via climate collapse or nuclear war, I get people asking the very understandable question, "What can we do to stop this?" By which they generally mean something like, how can we collectively free our minds from the propaganda prison of manipulative dominators and use the power of our numbers to create a healthy world?

And the answer to this question is essentially, do what you can, where you can. You're only one person, and the machine is so very powerful and so very deeply dug in, so all you can do is one person's best in each moment. Seize every opportunity you can find to spread awareness and throw sand in the gears of the machine, and rest assured that you've done all you can.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/you-can-never-do-everything-but-you

We are killing each other and our ecosystem over an economy made of debt books and imagination.

Reading by Tim Foley.

People complaining about the US eviction ban are like, "Oh help me, I am a landlord and my investment property isn't yielding free money. I am a lord, I cannot get a job, I cannot work for my hands are like gelatin desserts."

Reading by Tim Foley.