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JOHNSTONEIsrael And Its Apologists Weaponize Sympathy In Order To Facilitate GenocideActivist and author Yves Engler has been jailed by Montreal police for criticizing media figure Dahlia Kurtz and her support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza, after Kurtz said Engler’s comments made her feel “afraid for my safety”.
After Engler wrote about the charges against him, he reported that he was subsequently charged for “harassing the police” by drawing public attention to his case.
It’s fascinating how everyone who supports Israel always collapses into playing the victim at the earliest opportunity—even western police forces tasked with persecuting Israel’s critics. Israel models this victim-LARPing behavior, and its entire goon squad follo...2025-02-2309 min
JOHNSTONEIsrael Pushes New Atrocity Narrative Just As Ceasefire Deadline ApproachesA new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near.
The IDF is now claiming that the Israeli children Kfir and Ariel Bibas “were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza, no later than November 2023.”
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-2206 min
JOHNSTONELiberals Hate Socialists Because Socialists Are The Real ThingMost liberals secretly hate socialists more than they hate rightists, because while rightists attack their political agendas, socialists attack their egos.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-2109 min
JOHNSTONEYou Don't Actually Need To Pick A TeamThere’s this weird assumption that Americans are under some kind of moral obligation to take a side side either with Trump or with his pretend opposition in the Democratic Party, and it’s just silly nonsense. You don’t have to, and you should not.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-2105 min
JOHNSTONEAnyone Who Wants The Ukraine War To Continue Is A MonsterIf you want Ukrainians to keep dying in this war against the will of the Ukrainians themselves while you sit safe at home eating snacks and posting on the internet, you're a monster.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-2003 min
JOHNSTONEMeditations On The Notion That Obama "Never Had Any Scandals"Obama committed all kinds of atrocities while president that would be considered scandalous if we lived in a world that is even remotely sane.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-2004 min
JOHNSTONEI Write About Israel All The Time Because I Have To, Not Because I Want ToSomeone accused me of being "obsessed with Israel" yesterday and it just blew my mind. Civil rights are being destroyed throughout the west to defend a state that's committing genocide and ethnic cleansing with western backing, and we're not meant to talk about that state and the things it's doing?
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-1706 min
JOHNSTONEThe IDF Didn't Just Target Hospitals, They Destroyed Individual Medical MachinesDoctors Without Borders emergency coordinator Caroline Seguin reports that lifesaving medical equipment inside the hospitals in northern Gaza has been methodically destroyed, “smashed to pieces, one by one, to make sure no medical care could be provided anymore.”
“You have to ask: What is the motivation of such action? These machines are made to save people’s lives, mothers, fathers, children,” Seguin writes.
But we all know the motivation. The motivation is to make the Gaza Strip unlivable for Palestinians.
I mean, what excuses could the Israel apologists possibly produce for this one? Were Hamas hiding in the ventilators? Were the MRI ma...2025-02-1409 min
JOHNSTONEWashington Drops Ukraine, Israel Backs Down On Hamas DemandsThe two big stories in the news today are the Trump administration saying Ukraine is going to have to give up territory and NATO ambitions in order to secure a peace deal, while Israel appears to retreat from its ceasefire standoff with Hamas.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-1306 min
JOHNSTONEIsrael Admits It Violated The Ceasefire And Hamas Did NotIt's been established beyond a doubt that Israel is to blame for the precarious state of the ceasefire today. That's not coming from me, it's coming from inside the Israeli government and military.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-1203 min
JOHNSTONEThe Gaza Ceasefire Is Being Sabotaged By Israel, By Trump, And By The MediaThe Gaza ceasefire (if you can even call it that) is already in grave peril.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-1104 min
JOHNSTONEIt's Gross And Cringey To Love A State Like Israel Or The USAWhen your umbilical cord is cut you're meant to begin growing into a sovereign being with a sovereign mind, and instead these empire simps are plugging the end of their umbilical cord into the Pentagon. It's pathetic.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-1103 min
JOHNSTONEThe Plan To Ethnically Cleanse Gaza Didn't Start With TrumpThis notion that removing all Palestinians from Gaza is a fresh new idea that was conceived of by Trump is one of the most ridiculous narratives we're seeing pushed by the mainstream political/media class today.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-1005 min
JOHNSTONECivil Rights Are Being Destroyed Throughout The West In Service Of IsraelBritish journalist Richard Medhurst is once again being persecuted by federal law enforcement in yet another western nation for his reporting on the abuses of Israel and its western backers, this time in Austria.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-0806 min
JOHNSTONEAs The Gaza Agenda Moves Forward, The Imperial Narrative Shifts With ItIt's been truly remarkable watching the official imperial narrative pivot from (A) claiming it's outrageous to suggest Israel was waging a genocidal campaign of annihilation on Gaza, to (B) saying obviously everyone in Gaza needs to leave because the entire place has been annihilated and how dare you suggest otherwise.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-0704 min
JOHNSTONEThe Nonstop Military Operation Known As IsraelIsrael is demolishing residential buildings in the West Bank, burning homes in Lebanon and constructing military facilities in Syria, all while continuing to kill civilians in Gaza.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-0607 min
JOHNSTONEOnly 3% Of Jewish Israelis Think Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Plan For Gaza Is ImmoralThree percent. If that isn’t a sign of a morally diseased society, I don’t know what would be.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-0604 min
JOHNSTONETrump Goes All-In On Stealing Gaza For His Zionist Owners"And it should here be mentioned that Donald Trump has publicly admitted to being bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs. The president openly acknowledged on the campaign trail that the first time he was president, megadonors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson were at the White House “probably almost more than anybody” demanding favors for Israel like moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and acknowledging Israel’s illegitimate claim to the Golan Heights, which he eagerly granted. Miriam Adelson, who is Israeli-American, gave the Trump campaign $100 million last year."
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-0504 min
JOHNSTONEHow To Be Both Happy And Well-InformedIt is very possible to live a truth-driven life which does not shy away from the harsh realities of the world without being consumed by the darkness. All you have to do is make sure you’re expanding your knowledge in both directions, not just your knowledge of the outer world.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-0306 min
JOHNSTONETom Cotton Admits The US Doesn't Actually Care About Spreading DemocracyIt's not very often you hear a US empire manager come right out and admit they only care about planetary hegemony and that their whole schtick about spreading freedom and democracy is a sham. They'll pick a US crony dictator over a sovereign democratically elected leader ten times out of ten.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-02-0205 min
JOHNSTONEThe Tiger ShowIt doesn’t have to be this way.
Nowhere is it inscribed upon the fabric of reality that control of the world must be ceded to the dumbest, crudest and cruelest among us.
Nowhere is it written in adamantine that our happiness and the fate of our biosphere must depend on what the market will bear.
It’s one of those things that gets sillier and sillier the more you think about it, like making your bed or the Avatar sequel.
We are giants who have been tricked into thinking we are insects.
We are a dragon wearing a name tag...2025-02-0102 min
JOHNSTONEThey Don't Just Tell Us What To Think, They Train Us HOW To ThinkAnd this, ultimately, is why the world looks the way it looks: because powerful people have been so successful at manipulating the way the public thinks about things.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-3105 min
JOHNSTONEThey're Still Slaughtering Civilians In GazaDrop Site News reports that more than 80 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF in Gaza since what we’re calling a “ceasefire” went into effect on the 19th of January. The majority have been in Rafah, a now completely destroyed city which the Biden administration had previously said was off limits for a major Israeli offensive.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-3104 min
JOHNSTONEFathomsAnd the liberals shriek about Donald Trump while the sky rains blackened skeletons
And the capitalists surf on collapse like raptors on an updraft
And we scurry back and forth between toil and distraction with pythons around our stomachs and mollusks in our mouths
And we search achingly for our pilfered hearts inside bottles of pills and TED Talks
And the amputated limbs of Ukrainian men and Palestinian children are draped about the fast food restaurants like Christmas tinsel
And the billionaires turn the oceans into plastic so they can pay strangers to pretend to love them
And men with...2025-01-3002 min
JOHNSTONEOnly Pathetic Bootlickers Spend Their Energy Criticizing ChinaThe buzz around Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek has had an unusually high volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we're also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say "Well actually China is actually quite bad actually" in response.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-2903 min
JOHNSTONEJordan And Egypt Snub Trump's Ethnic Cleansing PlanBoth Jordan and Egypt have put out statements rejecting President Trump's proposal to "clean out" Gaza and move its population to those nations.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-2807 min
JOHNSTONEOne More Dead Palestinian KidThey killed a two year-old girl in the West Bank on Saturday.
Laila al-Khatib was shot in the head by Israeli forces in Jenin, because I guess they needed one more dead Palestinian kid.
One more dead Palestinian kid to add to the mountain.
One more small Palestinian face raining down upon us in our nightmares like meteors on the dinosaurs in the prequel to this apocalypse.
One more screaming, blood-spattered mother.
One more grandfather with boulders for feet carrying the tiny shrouded form of someone who should have buried him.
It’s one more dead Palestinian kid.
One more sn...2025-01-2702 min
JOHNSTONETrump Reveals Plan For The Ethnic Cleansing Of GazaWell that didn't take long. President Trump has said he wants to "clean out" Gaza and relocate its population to US client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-2705 min
JOHNSTONEAnother Journalist Arrested In Another Western Nation For Wrongthink About IsraelThey've arrested another pro-Palestinian journalist, this time in Switzerland.
The Electronic Intifada's executive director Ali Abunimah has reportedly been detained by Swiss police in Zurich, after having been interrogated for an hour and released the previous day when entering the country. Abunimah, who is Palestinian-American, has played a leading role in exposing and critiquing the apartheid abuses of Israel for many years.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-2605 min
JOHNSTONEIn The Thick Of ItHere in the thick of it,
our eyes full of pixels and our veins full of microplastics,
out here with the child amputees in Gaza
and the frightened street schizophrenics in Los Angeles
and the pigs living their whole lives in metal crates the size of their bodies,
our lives ruled by algorithms and wealthy world eaters
as we pray for a miracle on knees made of miracles
with clasped hands made of miracles in a world made of miracles,
craning our necks to see past the giant flashing signs saying
"YOU ARE LOVED, YOU ARE LOVE"
in order to...2025-01-2602 min
JOHNSTONEThe Worst Thing About The Gaza Holocaust Is Knowing It Will Happen AgainEven if this ceasefire somehow manages to hold, some other nightmare will be unleashed by the US-centralized empire somewhere else in the world in the coming years.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-2504 min
JOHNSTONEBat Shit Crazy Religious Fanaticism Is A Requirement For US Empire ManagersThe world is ruled by religious fanatics with nukes. If a normal person says they're the second coming of Jesus Christ they get medicated and institutionalized. If you make equally insane religious claims on the Senate floor, they let you run an empire.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-2207 min
JOHNSTONEDonald Trump Is The Empire UnmaskedDuring his inaugural address, the new president of the United States was refreshingly open about the fact that Washington is the hub of a continuously expanding empire which is ruled by billionaire plutocrats.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-2106 min
JOHNSTONEIt's Not That Trump Is Good, It's That Biden Was Just That BadTikTok is back in the US after a brief shutdown, reportedly because Trump pledged to suspend the Biden administration's ban. A Gaza ceasefire has also finally emerged due to pressure from Trump after Biden stalled for 15 months, and NBC News is reporting that the Trump administration plans on pressuring the Israeli government throughout negotiations to establish a permanent peace beyond the 42 days scheduled for the first phase of the agreement.
Remember this: it's not that Trump is good, it's that Democrats are just that bad. Biden's completely unconditional facilitation of Israeli atrocities has actually been the exception rather than the...2025-01-2005 min
JOHNSTONEYou Are Not Powerless, Because You Don't Stand AloneTogether, a bunch of mostly powerless people can create a very, very powerful force. If a healthy world is to be born, it that is the force by which it will come into being.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1804 min
JOHNSTONENone Of These War Criminals Will Face Justice While The US Empire ExistsTwo journalists were ejected from a State Department press conference on Thursday for asking inconvenient questions about Gaza. One of them, Sam Husseini, was physically carried out by security while demanding to know why Secretary of State Antony Blinken is not in The Hague for his war crimes.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1705 min
JOHNSTONEThoughts On The Ceasefire DealAs usual, Israel appears to be ramping up its aggressions to kill as many people as possible before the fighting comes to an end. These next few days will be an especially terrifying time to be living in Gaza.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1605 min
JOHNSTONEFinally Seeing Movement Toward A Gaza Ceasefire As Biden Moves Out Of The WayEver since the genocide in Gaza began it's been an open question whether the Biden administration's facilitation of the slaughter has just been standard US empire depravity, or an evil that would only have occurred under Biden. The fact that we're now closer to a ceasefire than ever before, reportedly due to pressures exerted by Trump, suggests that the latter could be the case. It suggests that these 15 months of human butchery could only have occurred under a dementia-addled lifelong Zionist surrounded by Zionist puppeteers.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1504 min
JOHNSTONEHow To Be Happy In A Genocidal Dystopia On A Dying WorldWe are living in dystopia, but we don't need to be living in hell.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1406 min
JOHNSTONEAmazon Is Censoring My Most Recent Magazine IssueReading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1405 min
JOHNSTONEIt's Not The Responsibility Of The Global South To Bring Down The Empire. It's OursIt’s not fair for us to shirk off the responsibility of ending the western empire onto foreigners in struggling nations who all have a lot more problems than we do. It is fully within our capability to awaken a revolutionary zeitgeist within our society so that we can use the power of our vast numbers to take down this machine and create a better world.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1205 min
JOHNSTONE31 Surefire Ways To Make Me Lose Interest In Your Thoughts About The World1. Support Trump and the Republicans
2. Support Democrats
3. Ignore Gaza
4. Talk about "antisemitism" like it's a major problem that needs to be urgently prioritized
5. Blame the world's problems on "the Jews"
6. Still buy into the "Hamas uses human shields" narrative in the year 2025
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1203 min
JOHNSTONEIf They Don't Believe They're Enemies, Why Should You?Trump and Obama were seen happily chatting and laughing together at the funeral for Jimmy Carter. If these guys don't buy into the story that they are on opposite sides of a ferocious battle of existential importance between two wildly different ideologies, then why should you?
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-1006 min
JOHNSTONEThe Biden Administration Declares That A Genocide Is Happening… In SudanThe Biden administration, which has been intimately complicit in the genocidal atrocities being perpetrated in Gaza for the last 15 months, has just determined that a genocide is being committed in Sudan.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-0804 min
JOHNSTONEMeditations On Bono Receiving The Presidential Medal Of Freedom From Joe BidenOur society elevates the worst among us. The artists who are willing to sell their souls to the empire. The scientists who are willing to design killing machines for the military or invent some piece of future landfill manufactured by the toil and resources of the global south. The politicians who are willing to subvert the interests of ordinary people to the interests of plutocrats and power structures. The pundits, reporters and filmmakers who are willing to sell propaganda to deceive us into thinking this is all healthy and normal.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-0805 min
JOHNSTONEThere Is No Need To Wait For Revolution Or ParadiseThere is no need to wait for the great revolution to begin fighting against our rulers. There is no need to wait for things to get better to experience this world as paradise. The time for both of these things is now.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-0602 min
JOHNSTONEWe Live In A NightmareAwakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you're frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed. But unlike a conservative, you're disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-0506 min
JOHNSTONE2025 Is Off To A Wild StartThe new year has kicked off with some truly bizarre and highly suspicious major news events. A US military veteran killed 14 people when he drove a pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans early New Year's Day and was then killed in a shootout with police. Hours later, another US military veteran reportedly blew himself up in a Tesla Cybertruck outside of the Trump International Hotel in Nevada.
Reading by Tim Foley2025-01-0407 min
JOHNSTONEAwakening From The Empire Propaganda Begins With One Small Act Of HeresyEscaping from the matrix of the mainstream western worldview is like escaping from a cult: it starts with one tiny heresy. One small, secret thought that goes against all your indoctrination.
Reading by Tim Foley.2025-01-0204 min
JOHNSTONEThe Empire Burns The Middle East While US Homelessness SurgesThe US empire is up to its elbows in the middle east working frenetically to manipulate what happens there, while in the United States itself homelessness has taken another record-shattering leap forward.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-3103 min
JOHNSTONEHappy New Year. Our Society Is Every Bit As Diseased As You Suspect It IsWe find ourselves in a mind-controlled dystopia where we think, speak, vote, work, shop, spend and behave in more or less exactly the ways the rich and powerful want us to, all while believing we are free - because the mechanisms of control are hidden from us.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-3104 min
JOHNSTONEAll Of Western Civilization Owns This GenocideIt's wrong to blame this whole thing on Jews because it lets the rest of us off the hook.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-3004 min
JOHNSTONEHumanity Must Awaken From The Dream Of SeparationWe suffer because we erroneously believe we are separate. It’s why humans suffer as individuals, and it’s why humanity creates so much suffering as a collective.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-2804 min
JOHNSTONEIsrael Is Killing Civilians In Gaza On Purpose, And It's Not Even DebatableJust so we're all clear, it is a fully established fact that the IDF is directly, deliberately killing civilians in Gaza. There was a time in the early days of the genocide when this could be disputed, but that is no longer true. The facts are in and the case is closed. It's happening.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-2705 min
JOHNSTONEDronesReading by Tim Foley.2024-12-2702 min
JOHNSTONETrump And Israel Can't Wait To Start Bombing Iran"Both Israel and the incoming Trump administration are reportedly eager to start bombing Iran ASAP now that Assad’s out of the way."
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1805 min
JOHNSTONEPeter Thiel Reveals How Scared Oligarchs Are Of The People"The way he stumbled and stuttered when trying to answer the question gives a lot of insight into how terrified such people are of the public turning against them one day."
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1706 min
JOHNSTONEThat Which Can Be Destroyed By The Truth, Should Be"That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be."
This is a line by fantasy author PC Hodgell, though it's often misattributed to Carl Sagan.
I think about this quote a lot.
I think about it when reflecting on the way Israel is exterminating Palestinian journalists in Gaza while keeping western journalists out of the enclave to prevent the world from learning the truth about what the IDF is doing there.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1605 min
JOHNSTONEMeditations On A Six Year-Old Amputee Crawling Through Gaza With The Help Of A Roller SkateIt’s funny the things that get to you when witnessing the nightmare in Gaza, out of all the horrors you’ll see there from day to day. Today I saw a video of a six year-old Palestinian boy whose legs had been amputated dragging himself through his tent camp with the help of a roller skate worn on one of his hands, and it just about destroyed me.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1505 min
JOHNSTONESome Thoughts On The Mystery DronesFor those who aren’t aware, since mid-November people have been sighting large drones all over the east coast of the United States, and what makes this so interesting is that the US government is claiming they don’t know anything about them. Don’t know who owns them, where they’re taking off from or where they’re landing.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1405 min
JOHNSTONELet Yourself Be Shattered By GazaThese last 14 months have shattered me.
Shattered me beyond the power of recollection.
But sometimes it’s good to be shattered.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1303 min
JOHNSTONENetanyahu Hilariously Claims Israel Doesn't Seek To Intervene In Syria's AffairsOnly Israel could invade and occupy large stretches of a country, bomb it 480 times in 48 hours, destroy 80 percent of its military defenses, and then claim that it has no intention of interfering in that country’s internal affairs.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1204 min
JOHNSTONE"Terrorist Organization" Means Whatever The US Wants It To MeanThe US government is simultaneously (A) justifying Israel’s land grab in Syria by saying the nation has been taken over by terrorists, and (B) talking about removing those same forces from its list of designated terrorist organizations.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1104 min
JOHNSTONETaliban In Afghanistan Bad, Al-Qaeda In Syria GoodIt’s pretty wild how the west went directly from “We need to occupy Afghanistan for two decades to prevent it from being taken over by the Taliban” to “Yay! Syria’s been taken over by al-Qaeda!”
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-1010 min
JOHNSTONEAnother Nation Absorbed Into The Blob Of The EmpireAnd now the imperial blob rolls on to absorb its next target, having grown one Syria-sized increment larger after spending years digesting that nation via proxy warfare, sanctions, relentless bombing campaigns from Israel, and a military occupation designed to steal its food and fuel.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-0906 min
JOHNSTONEAssad Is Out, Woke Al-Qaeda Is InWell it looks like the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is on its way out, likely to be replaced by one or more US puppet regimes depending on whether the nation maintains its current borders or is carved up into separate states. The empire notches another win.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-0804 min
JOHNSTONEI Have Learned A Few ThingsI have learned a few things in my time on this earth. Not many, but a few.
I have learned that western regime change interventionism is reliably disastrous, and that men like John Bolton and Bill Kristol are always on the wrong side of history when it comes to such matters.
I have learned that organizing human civilization around the pursuit of profit has had devastating consequences for our ecosystem, our health, our hearts, and our happiness.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-0703 min
JOHNSTONEThe Real VillainsNone of the world's worst people are in prison. Our society is fed a steady diet of movies and shows depicting heroic protagonists fighting villains who abuse and murder people in illegal ways, when in real life the actual villains of our society murder people in ways that are completely legal. None of their abuses are against the law.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-0606 min
JOHNSTONEBlinken Is Pushing For Ukrainian Teens To Die For US HegemonyYou won't see anyone in Tony Blinken's family headed to the frontlines in Ukraine. These freaks see the population of this planet as nothing more than pawns on their grand chessboard, and they will sacrifice them just as casually.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-0504 min
JOHNSTONEEither Watch The Footage Of Dead Kids In Gaza Or Stop Supporting IsraelIf you have not spent the past 14 months watching all the footage of dead and mutilated children coming out of Gaza, then you have no business trying to defend Israel and its actions. If you are avoiding looking at the facts, then you have no business talking about them.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-0403 min
JOHNSTONEDon't Buy Into Phony Anti-Establishment SchtickOne great challenge of our time is that while it's becoming common knowledge that western media is propaganda and western politics is a corrupt sham, fake solutions to these problems are being marketed to the mainstream by the same powers responsible for them. Donald Trump himself will tell you that the media are lying and the political establishment is run by swamp monsters, and then say that the solution is to support Republicans and trust right wing media. Elon Musk will go on Joe Rogan and say the same thing. In 2028 AOC will probably run for president campaigning on the...2024-12-0405 min
JOHNSTONEThe Kind Of Ceasefire Where One Side Keeps FiringIn less than a week of its supposed "ceasefire" agreement Israel has reportedly attacked targets in Lebanon around a hundred times, leading to a single retaliation from Hezbollah on Monday which resulted in zero casualties. As you might expect, Israel is now playing victim and shrieking bloody murder, vowing a major response against Hezbollah for daring to strike back while Israel violated its ceasefire agreement dozens of times.
Apparently this was the kind of ceasefire where only one side has to actually cease firing. This is such a perfect example of everything Israel is.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-0305 min
JOHNSTONEThey Lied About Gaza, And They're Lying About SyriaSyria is more complicated and harder to understand than Gaza, but if you look into it you'll find mountains of evidence that for many years the US and its allies and partners have been actively fomenting violence, chaos and destruction in that nation to effect regime change.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-12-0106 min
JOHNSTONEThis Dystopia Depends On Hiding Inconvenient TruthsThis is a civilization made of deceitful thoughts, deceitful words, and deceitful deeds. Everything about it is fraudulent.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-2905 min
JOHNSTONEUkrainians And Americans Are Done With This War, But It Keeps Escalating AnywayThe Biden administration is now pushing Ukraine to lower its minimum draft age from 25 to 18 in order to provide more cannon fodder for the war against Russia.
Polls say that both Ukrainians and Americans want this US proxy war to end, but instead of ending it Washington is pressuring Kyiv to throw teenagers into the threshing machine of an unwinnable conflict.
And we were told this war was all about protecting democracy.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-2805 min
JOHNSTONEIn The Fight Against Tyranny, Don't Let Your Happiness Depend On Big WinsIf you stand for truth, peace and justice in this world then it’s important not to make your happiness dependent on large-scale wins.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-2605 min
JOHNSTONETrump's Cabinet Picks Aren't Looking Good For Peace In UkraineConventional wisdom about the outgoing Biden administration’s reckless escalations in Ukraine these past few days is that things will cool down once Donald Trump takes office, but Trump’s cabinet picks aren’t really selling this idea.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-2504 min
JOHNSTONEOnly A Truth-Based Relationship With Reality Can SatisfyWhat we all want, deep down, is a truth-based relationship with reality. We might not be aware that this is what we are seeking from life, but it is. And everything in our society is stacked against our ever getting it.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-2407 min
JOHNSTONEIf You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The EmpireWe live in a civilization built of lies and abuse, powered by lies and abuse, and defended using lies and abuse. Even the most kindhearted and well-intentioned among us struggle to bring about positive change, because the very fabric of our society is stacked against truth and kindness.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-2304 min
JOHNSTONEToday In Imperial Recklessness And InsanityThe International Criminal Court has formally issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
No such arrest warrants were issued for President Biden or any of the other western officials who’ve been backing Israel’s genocidal atrocities, which is a bit like a judge issuing a warrant for a mass murderer but not for the guy who gave him the gun and stood next to him handing him ammunition and drove the getaway car and lied to the police to cover up the crime.
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JOHNSTONEThe Real IsraelOne of the very few good things coming out of the relentless nightmare happening in Gaza is that at long last the western world is getting a clear look at Israel. The real Israel.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-2104 min
JOHNSTONEWho Is Authorizing Biden's Nuclear Brinkmanship While The President's Brain Is Missing?It’s so fun how the Biden administration is using its lame duck months to skyrocket hostilities between nuclear superpowers and we don’t even know who’s really making these decisions because the president’s brain is cottage cheese.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-2004 min
JOHNSTONEAnother Psychopath For US Secretary Of StateMarco Rubio will be joining a long list of psychopaths as the next US secretary of state. A few of Trump’s cabinet picks might have a hard time getting past the Senate, but not Rubio. He’s the exact type of blood-guzzling swamp leech those creatures on Capitol Hill adore.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1906 min
JOHNSTONEBiden Ramps Up Nuclear Brinkmanship On His Way Out The DoorReading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1903 min
JOHNSTONE"America First" Means Stomping Out Free Speech In The US In Order To Help IsraelReading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1804 min
JOHNSTONEThe Face At The Front Desk Changes, The Corporation Remains The SameObama continued and expanded Bush's most evil policies. Trump continued and expanded Obama's most evil policies. Biden continued and expanded Trump's most evil policies. Now Trump is preparing to keep the streak going. The face at the front desk changes, but the corporation stays the same.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1509 min
JOHNSTONEWhen The Show Is Over, The Actors Hold Hands And Take A BowThey do not hate each other. They do not see one another as an existential threat to the nation. They are not enemies. They’re barely even opponents. When the show is over they hug and kiss like boxers after weeks of phony trash talk made solely to sell pay-per-views.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1404 min
JOHNSTONEThe Incoming Trump Administration Is Already Filling Up With War SlutsReading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1303 min
JOHNSTONETo Be Pro-Israel Is To Be Pro-WarBeing pro-Israel is being pro-war, because the state of Israel cannot exist in its present iteration without nonstop US-backed military violence. Supporting Israel necessarily means supporting endless western military interventionism in the middle east. Trump supporters keep lying to themselves about this.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1307 min
JOHNSTONEBiden's Legacy Is Genocide, War, And Nuclear BrinkmanshipBiden’s legacy is genocide, war, and nuclear brinkmanship. That’s all anyone should talk about when this psychopath finally dies. Anything positive he may have accomplished in his political career is a drop in the ocean compared to the significance of these mass-scale abuses.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1103 min
JOHNSTONEIsrael Keeps Finding New Ways To Play Victim While Committing GenocideIsrael is really struggling with how difficult its present circumstances make playing the victim. It keeps having to invent new abuses to be victimized by like the imaginary Amsterdam “pogrom” and the fake mass rape narrative that surfaced months after October 7, because it can’t sit comfortably in the role of victimizer while on trial for genocide in international courts.
Reading by Tim Foley.2024-11-1004 min
JOHNSTONEThe Air In Gaza Smells Like CorpsesReading by Tim Foley.2024-11-0901 min
JOHNSTONETrump Puts An Appropriately Ugly Face On A Very Ugly EmpireThe only thing I like about Trump is exactly what so many empire managers hate about him: he gives the game away. He says the quiet parts out loud. He’s the only president who’ll openly boast that US troops are in Syria to keep the oil or lament that they failed to take the oil from Venezuela, or just come right out and tell everyone he’s bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs.
Trump is the opposite of Obama, who was very skillful at putting a pretty face on the evil empire. Trump puts a very ugly face on a v...2024-11-0907 min
JOHNSTONELying Western Press Scramble To Frame Israel's Attack On Iran As Self - DefenseLying Western Press Scramble To Frame Israel's Attack On Iran As Self - Defense by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley2024-10-2704 min
JOHNSTONEThe Only Good Thing About This Nightmare Is It's Exposing The Monsters For Who They AreThe Only Good Thing About This Nightmare Is It's Exposing The Monsters For Who They Are by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley2024-10-2704 min
JOHNSTONEIsrael Continues Its War On JournalismIsrael Continues Its War On Journalism by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley2024-10-2703 min
JOHNSTONEGaza WILL Get Worse Under Trump. It'll Also Get Worse Under HarrisGaza WILL Get Worse Under Trump. It'll Also Get Worse Under Harris by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley2024-10-2707 min
JOHNSTONEWeepWeep, sisters, for the child with the blown-out skull,
for the other child burned alive,
for the limp, lifeless, tiny bodies
and the piles of unrecognizable carnage.
Weep, brothers, for the cackling politicians,
for the apathetic westoids,
for the human drones chanting "We love Joe"
and the DNC attendees covering their ears
to avoid hearing the names of murdered children in Gaza.
Weep for this fraud-faced civilization,
this microplastics civilization,
this OnlyFans civilization,
this Moloch civilization Ginsberg wrote about in Howl,
this civilization with enormous forced grins
over plates full of shredded children
in selfies with AOC and Tim Walz.
W...2024-08-2202 min
JOHNSTONERepublicans Are MoronsOne reason westerners are so clueless about communism is because every four years the most influential western nation launches a massive months-long disinformation campaign about what communism is. People like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Lauren Boebert and Tim Pool have been claiming Kamala Harris is a Marxist for proposing price controls, a measure that was also put forward by noted communist Richard M Nixon.
Republicans are so fucking stupid that every few years they start shrieking that they're under attack from "communism", and by "communism" they mean the opposing US party which supports the exact same capitalist status quo they...2024-08-1806 min
JOHNSTONEVote For Six - Headed Zombie Hitler To Stop Seven - Headed Zombie Hitler"Look, I’m not saying Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is perfect, but come on! He’s obviously WAY better than Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler! Sometimes you just have to vote for the lesser evil."
Reading by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley.2024-07-2303 min