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...
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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...
Re-Visiting Russiagate In Light Of The Ukraine War
by Caitlin Johnstone | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
It’s hard to believe that the last president spent his term pouring weapons into Ukraine, shredding treaties with Russia and ramping up cold war escalations against Moscow which helped lead us directly to the extraordinarily dangerous situation we now find ourselves...
The Burden Of Proof Is Always On The Ones Making The Claim (Even If It's About Russia)
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
Well you'll be shocked to learn that, while the Ukraine invasion we've been told for weeks was happening any day now still has not occurred, the US and UK have declared that Russia attacked Ukraine in an invisible and unverifiable way for which the evidence is secret....
Censorship By Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who’ve been sufficiently critical of official western...
Anonymous Officials Claim There's An Evil Russian Plot Again But The Evidence Is Secret Again
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
Major western news publications are running a story about a sinister plot by the Russian government, and—you may want to sit down for this—the sources of the report are anonymous, and the evidence for it is secret. The New York Times reports that according to...
Don’t Underestimate How Badly The Powerful Need Control Of Online Speech
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
Seems like almost every day now the mass media are blaring about the need for speech on the internet to be controlled or restricted in some way. Today they’re running stories about Joe Rogan and Covid misinformation; tomorrow it will be something else. The reasons for...
Those Who Support Internet Censorship Lack Psychological Maturity
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 4, 2022 | Featured Articles
Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for what the platform calls "repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," much to the delight of liberals and pro-censorship leftists everywhere....
When Your Government Ends A War But Increases The Military Budget, You’re Being Scammed
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
The US Senate has passed its National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) military spending bill for the fiscal year of 2022, setting the budget at an astronomical $778 billion by a vote of 89 to 10. The bill has already been passed by the House, now requiring only the...
They’re Killing Him: Assange’s Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Julian Assange suffered a mini-stroke in October during the hearing for the US appeal of a UK court's ruling on his extradition case. "The WikiLeaks publisher, 50, who is being held on remand in the maximum-security jail while fighting extradition to America, was left...
US Hegemony Doesn’t Make The World More Peaceful, It Makes It More Dangerous
by Caitlin Johnstone | Dec 8, 2021 | Featured Articles
A Republican senator who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee stated on a Tuesday Fox News appearance that he strongly supports keeping US military action on the table if Russia invades Ukraine, up to and including a first-use nuclear attack. “I would not rule...
The Assange persecution lays out Western savagery at its most transparent
by Caitlin Johnstone | Oct 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
The first day of the US appeal in the Julian Assange extradition case saw grown adults arguing in court that the US government could guarantee that it wouldn’t treat the WikiLeaks founder as cruelly as it treats other prisoners. I wish I was kidding. In their write-up...
Afghanistan Proves The US Military Needs Its Budget Slashed To Ribbons
by Caitlin Johnstone | Aug 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
US officials are telling the press that Kabul will fall to the Taliban within 90 days and perhaps within the month as US troops withdraw from the war-torn nation. "One official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the issue’s sensitivity, said...
‘We’ve Got To Fight Disinformation,’ Says Empire Made Entirely Of Disinformation
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 20, 2021 | Featured Articles
The weirdest thing about the Biden administration tasking itself with the censorship of "disinformation" on social media is that the United States is the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is built upon a foundation of disinformation, maintained by disinformation,...
Biden Administration Completely Kills The ‘It’s A Private Company So It’s Not Censorship’ Argument
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
In what's surely the biggest "Imagine the outrage if Trump had done that" moment to date, the Biden administration has admitted that it is giving Facebook a list of accounts to censor for spreading "disinformation" about the Covid-19 response. "We've increased...
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