So it turns out the US intelligence cartel has been working intimately with online platforms to regulate the "cognitive infrastructure" of the population. This is according to a new investigative report by The Intercept, based on documents obtained through leaks and...
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The US Government Sees Silicon Valley As Part Of Its Propaganda Machine
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is reportedly considering opening a national security review of Elon Musk's business ventures which could see the plutocrat's purchase of Twitter blocked by the White House, in part because Musk is perceived as having an "increasingly...
They're Recycling The Viagra Rape Atrocity Propaganda They Used On Libya
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
The west is advancing the claim that Putin is distributing Viagra to his soldiers so that they can more effectively rape Ukrainians, which was a ridiculous propaganda narrative the first time the west used it to manufacture consent for regime change in Libya. In a...
How To Defeat Putin
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
I know how to stop Vladimir Putin once and for all. I here offer my strategic wizardry to the western empire free of charge. Before I reveal my unstoppable plan, we must first understand that the Associated Press has just informed us that it is a “baseless conspiracy...
The Trouble With ‘Western Values’ Is That Westerners Don’t Value Them
by Caitlin Johnstone | Sep 16, 2022 | Featured Articles
Have you ever noticed how those who shriek the loudest about tyranny in foreign countries are always the same people calling for the censorship and deplatforming of anyone who criticizes the western empire? It’s a ubiquitous mind virus throughout western society....
'Russian Propaganda' Just Means Disobedience
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized. Empire apologists are raging at Amnesty International for pausing its aggressive facilitation of western imperialism to...
The Phoniest, Most PR-Intensive War Of All Time
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
The president and first lady of Ukraine have posed for a romantic photoshoot with Vogue magazine, wherein President Volodymyr Zelensky waxes poetical about his love for his darling wife.Now, I know what you're thinking: how is Zelensky making time for a Vogue...
The Empire Is Showing More And More Of Its True Face
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Genocide walrus John Bolton outright admitted to planning foreign coups with the US government in conversation with CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday. That's coups, plural. While arguing that the Capitol riot on January 6th of last year was not an attempted coup but...
Mike Pompeo’s Revealing Hudson Institute Speech
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
Former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave a speech at the Hudson Institute last week that’s probably worth taking a look at just because of how much it reveals about the nature of the US empire and the corrupt institutions which influence its...
Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Turkey’s President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara’s objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid. The removal of Erdoğan’s objection...
They Plan On Repeating 'Putin's Price Hike' Until People Believe It
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Biden used the phrase "Putin's price hike" again in a reaction to Friday's Consumer Price Index report revealing continued high inflation, showing once again that the US government believes Americans are idiots. “Make no mistake about it: I understand...
Western Media Run Blatant Atrocity Propaganda For The Ukrainian Government
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Ukrainian government is quickly learning that it can say anything, literally anything at all, about what's happening on the ground there and get it uncritically reported as an actual news story by the mainstream western press.The latest story making the rounds is...
Pentagon-Funded Think Tank Simulates War With China On NBC
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
NBC's Meet the Press just aired an absolutely freakish segment in which the influential narrative management firm Center for a New American Security (CNAS) ran war games simulating a direct US hot war with China. CNAS is funded by the Pentagon and by...
'The Squad' Doesn't Exist Outside Of Social Media
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 13, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US House of Representatives has voted 368-57 to spend $40 billion on a world-threatening proxy war while ordinary Americans struggle to feed themselves and their children. All 57 "no" votes were Republicans. Every member of the small faction of progressive House...
Western Civilization Is Being Organized Around Winning US Infowars
by Caitlin Johnstone | May 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US-centralized empire’s use of propaganda, censorship and Silicon Valley algorithm manipulationis the single most urgent issue of our time, because it’s what prevents attention from being drawn to all other issues. And all signs indicate it’s set to get much, much...
The US Cries About War Crimes While Imprisoning A Journalist For Exposing Its War Crimes
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
In what his lawyers have described as a “brief but significant moment in the case,” a British magistrates' court has signed off on Julian Assange's extradition to the United States, bringing the WikiLeaks founder one step closer to a US trial under the Espionage Act...
US Suddenly Pretends To Care About Rights Abuses In India
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
The United States is suddenly very concerned about human rights violations in India, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken telling the press on Monday that "we are monitoring some recent concerning developments in India including a rise in human rights abuses by some...
If It Feels Like You're Being Manipulated, It's Because You Are
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
If you've got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling. If you feel like there's been a concerted effort from the most powerful government and media institutions in the western world...
US Officials Admit They're Literally Just Lying To The Public About Russia
by Caitlin Johnstone | Apr 8, 2022 | Featured Articles
NBC News has a new report out citing multiple anonymous US officials, humorously titled "In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn't rock solid". The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly...
The US Empire's Ultimate Target Is Not Russia But China
by Caitlin Johnstone | Mar 31, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Pentagon has produced its latest National Defense Strategy (NDS), a report made every four years to provide the public and the government with a broad overview of the US war machine's planning, posturing, developments and areas of focus. You might assume with all...
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