Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights. The Israeli organizations join Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human...

by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights. The Israeli organizations join Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival was a historical landmark moment for the 21st century, and the group’s...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
Within the storytelling of western politics and punditry there exists a fictional type of mental illness which only affects people the US empire doesn’t like. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its crazy lunatic government will flip out and nuke us all. Watch out for...
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating Hamas should take precedence over a hostage deal. “We have many objectives, many goals in this war,” Netanyahu said. “We...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 6, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump has posted a video on social media showing a US airstrike in Yemen killing dozens of people who he claims are “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.” Trump also bizarrely suggested that Ansar Allah has been sinking US ships in its...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
Celebrity progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris “is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza” at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. There is literally no evidentiary basis anywhere for...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
I keep seeing liberal commentators like George Takei trying to frame Kamala Harris as the best candidate to bring peace to the middle east, despite her coming directly out of the administration which has been lighting the region on fire with its insane...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
In an article titled “U.S. Warns Iran of ‘Serious Risk’ if It Conducts Major Attack on Israel,” The Wall Street Journal reports that officials within the Biden administration have been warning Iran not to “escalate” against Israel in its planned retaliatory strikes...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Israel has been on another assassination spree, killing Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh on Wednesday with an airstrike while he was in Tehran for the swearing in of the new Iranian president. Israel also claims to have killed Hezbollah...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has been launching a forceful attack on Benjamin Netanyahu in both US and Israeli media for sabotaging peace in Gaza and pushing Israel to the brink with Hezbollah in Lebanon, during which he inadvertently...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
So I guess we should probably talk about the way NATO powers are rapidly escalating toward hot war with Russia at the same time the US is expanding its draft policies to make it easier to force more Americans go and fight in a giant war. In an article titled “NATO:...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
It’s damn near impossible to keep up with all the warmongering of the western empire these days. In response to the frightening steps that NATO has been taking to allow western-supplied weapons to be used by Ukraine to strike Russian...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government. The wars are not designed to serve the...
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to cease its assault on Rafah, an order which will certainly be disregarded by Israel with the full support of Washington. This comes days after the International Criminal Court announced its...
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The U.S. secretary of state and a Bilderberg surveillance tech oligarch have both made some very interesting admissions about the burgeoning protest movement against the U.S.-backed slaughter in Gaza and the problems it poses for the empire they help run....
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration has begun its latest bombing campaign in the middle east, reportedly dropping over 125 munitions on more than 85 Iranian and Shia militia targets in Iraq and Syria on Friday. The mainstream press have been falling all over...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured Articles
The US State Department has issued a statement indignantly finger-wagging at two Israeli officials who recently drew headlines for openly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. The statement reads as follows: “The United States...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Articles
A huge blast in Gaza has destroyed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, killing hundreds of people. The exact death toll is still unknown. Details of who is responsible for the explosion are being hotly debated by all parties, and this is still a developing story with a lot of...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured Articles
I had to take a short break from reading about what’s happening in Gaza. I saw one too many images of dead kids on Twitter and just had to lie down for a while. It was like running out of health in a video game. I was still trucking along, and then I saw this one...
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
Some days the Caitlin Johnstone articles just write themselves. During her self-titled annual awards ceremony at Georgetown University on Thursday, Hillary Clinton said that the biggest obstacle to peace and security around the world is “men starting wars.” During the...
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