Category: Caitlin Johnstone

The December issue of my print-friendly zine is out now! This one’s got paintings, an easier-to-read format, and a clean, new look.In this month’s Treazine “The Disappearing Of Julian Assange”, sedition 5 features:US Officials Concern Troll About World Press Freedoms While Assaulting ThemThe Guardian Could Help Assange

Listen to a reading of this article:❖I don’t desire a future for humanity like the ones imagined by our culturally designated future-imaginers. I don’t want humans living in Elon Musk Mars colonies or Jeff Bezos space cylinders. I don’t want us to fly out into the stars, to disappear into

Listen to a reading of this article:❖Michael Parenti has said that “Poor countries are not ‘under-developed’, they are over-exploited.” The west tends to look down on the rest of the world for reasons that either directly or indirectly relate to the poverty in those nations, which is silly because that

I’ve been doing a lot of oil painting lately. Here are some of the ones I like:❖Julian Assange.❖Terence McKenna.❖Assange again. I enjoy painting eyes.❖My husband Tim.❖Lightbulbs.❖The grandfather from the documentary About Love.❖__________________________New book! Lao Sue And Other Poems, available in paperback or PDF/ebook.My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece please consider

Listen to a reading of this article:❖One of the most under-discussed topics in the world right now is how governments have been incrementally pacing the public toward accepting the use of police robots that kill people.The city of San Francisco has voted to legalize the use of killbots in specific

Listen to a reading of this article:❖Every year around my birthday I’ve been tapping out an explanation of where I stand and what I’m trying to accomplish in this humble little slice of the digital universe here. As a crowdfunded writer it seems important to be fully transparent about what

Listen to a reading of this article:❖NATO has doubled down on its determination to eventually add Ukraine to its membership, renewing its 2008 commitment to that goal in a meeting between the foreign ministers of the alliance in Bucharest, Romania this past Tuesday.Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp writes:The Romanian city was where NATO

Listen to a reading of this article:❖The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago in the publication of the Chelsea Manning leaks to call for the Biden administration to

Listen to a reading of this article:❖Facts:There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government.The US empire’s propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas.Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in these protests the longer they go on.❖It still amazes me how

I have a new book out called Lao Sue And Other Poems, available in paperback or on PDF/ebook.❖❖❖❖CrazyThey’ll make you poor,then shame you for being poor,then push you into a job that keeps you poorat a billionaire megacorporation.They’ll make you crazy,then shame you for being crazy,then sell you the cure

Listen to a reading of this article:❖I will never get used to living in a world where our rulers will openly imprison a journalist for telling the truth and then self-righteously pontificate about the need to stop authoritarian regimes from persecuting journalists.Just today US State Department spokesman and CIA veteran

Listen to a reading of this article:❖The Associated Press journalist who reported a US intelligence official’s false claim that Russia had launched missiles at Poland last week has been fired.As we discussed previously, AP’s anonymously sourced report which said “A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member