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...
Caitlin Johnstone
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...
The Horrifying Rise Of Total Mass Media Blackouts On Inconvenient News Stories
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jul 5, 2021 | Featured Articles
Two different media watchdog outlets, Media Lens and Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), have published articles on the complete blackout in mainstream news institutions on the revelation by Icelandic newspaper Stundin that a US superseding indictment in the...
So Much Of What The CIA Used To Do Covertly It Now Does Overtly
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he’d start overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He flat-out told me he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting that I was...
America’s Soup-Brained President Says The US Never Interferes In Other Countries’ Elections
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jun 17, 2021 | Featured Articles
During an astonishingly sycophantic press conference after the Geneva summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden posited an entirely hypothetical scenario about what the world would think of the United States if it were interfering in foreign elections and everybody...
US Bombs Syria and Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
On orders of President Biden, the United States has launched an airstrike on a facility in Syria. As of this writing the exact number of killed and injured is unknown, with early reports claiming “a handful” of people were killed. Rather than doing anything remotely...
Conspiracy Theories are Caused by Government Secrecy
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
With anyone sharing "conspiracy theories" facing ever-harsher penalties online, we are ignoring their cause: governments so intent on keeping their secrets, not to protect their people, but to protect themselves. The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no...
Viral #TrumpsNewArmy Video Is Liberals At Their Craziest And Scariest
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 20, 2021 | Featured Articles
A new viral video calling on liberals to form “an army of citizen detectives” to gather information on Trump supporters and report their activities to the authorities has racked up thousands of shares and millions of views in just a few hours. The hashtag...
MSM Already Using Capitol Hill Riot To Call For More Internet Censorship
by Caitlin Johnstone | Jan 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
The United States received a very small taste of its own medicine today as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily forced their way into the nation’s Capitol building, and now the whole nation is freaking out. I am being generous when I say that America was given a very...
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