The empire depends on ignorance, says Caitlin Johnstone. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out.
Iran explicitly warned it would attack the U.S. military if the U.S. military did the thing it just did. If these retaliatory strikes come, the warmongers will try to play the victim. But they chose to make this happen.
If any anti-Zionist with a public profile said Jews control Silicon Valley and use it to influence public opinion to benefit Israel, they’d be denounced by the entire western political-media class as a rabid antisemite. But a Jewish politician saying…
The mass-scale psychological manipulation is so pervasive that only a small minority are reacting to history’s first live-streamed genocide with an appropriate level of horror.
Make no mistake: this is the advancement of an agenda to end the existence of the Palestinian people in their historic homeland, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
The U.S. empire has been doing everything it can to restrict the flow of inconvenient information as public opposition to its criminality swells at home and abroad.
On the fantasy worlds of Democrats trying to free Palestine from the river to the sea and Republicans trying to turn the White House into a puppet regime of Moscow, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Ever the victim of unprovoked attacks from the people it has been strangling. Ever the shining city on a hill of human corpses. Ever the defender of the poor, helpless plutocrats of Wall Street.