They lied about mass rapes so that they could systemically rape. They lied about beheaded babies so that they could kill babies. They lied about "human shields" to shield themselves while killing civilians. They lied about being victims so that they could victimize others.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Saying a US politician is "bad on foreign policy but good on domestic policy" is like saying "Sure my husband spends his weekends murdering hitchhikers, but he's a good provider and he knows how to fix a flat tire."Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

One of the dumbest things about US politics today is the way both parties constantly attack each other for holding foreign policy positions they don't actually hold in order to create the illusion that they have meaningful disagreements on foreign policy.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

The thing I hate about western electoral politics in general and US presidential races in particular is that they take the focus off the depravity of the US-centralized empire itself, and run cover for its criminality.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

"You couldn’t ask for a better example of everything Washington stands for than this. Both houses of Congress rising to feverishly applaud one of history’s worst genocidal monsters dozens of times as he lies over and over again is a much better representation of what the US government is about than anything you’ll see during the presidential race f…

"I'm not a big fan of that presidential candidate's pro-genocide policies, but I like her positions on women's reproductive healthcare" is not the sort of thing that would be said in a sane and normal country.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

"Look, I’m not saying Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is perfect, but come on! He’s obviously WAY better than Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler! Sometimes you just have to vote for the lesser evil."Reading by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Just as we all have a responsibility to help create a healthy and truth-based world, we also all have a responsibility to develop healthy and truth-based minds.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

The UN court ruling that Israel is an illegal occupying force will be used to argue that the whole entire world is against Jews and used to justify more abuses and atrocities. That's the beauty of the "criticism of Israel is antisemitism" narrative: it reinforces itself. The more abusive and murderous Israel is the more criticism it gets, and that …

He called the dog "habibi" - my darling - as it mauled him to deathwhile his family listened nearby.They had never heard him speak before.He had the mind of an infant."Enough, my darling," Muhammed said to the dog,because it was killing him,and because he was in pain,and because his family had spoken to him so lovingly all his life.Those were the w…

"Man that assassination thing with Trump was so freaky," said Carl while stepping over a woman in a hijab clutching a dead child to her chest.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

All the high-profile Democrats who've been wishing Trump a speedy recovery from his assassination attempt after years of calling him an existential threat are the same people who now treat George W Bush like a cuddly wuddly snugglepoo after years of calling him an evil dictator. The enmity between these factions is a performance, like cage fighters…

The western political-media class hasn't been this sympathetic and supportive toward Trump since he bombed Damascus.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

This is who Joe Biden is. This is who western liberals are. They are the carnage, starvation and disease in Gaza. They are the biosphere strangling to death under the boot of ecocidal capitalism. They are the nuclear missiles being rolled into position around the world. They are a dying brain and a dying heart on a dying world of their own making.R…

People who still believe that the news media tell them the truth and that their nation and their world work pretty much the way they were taught in school are just as brainwashed and deluded as any QAnon cultist. The only difference is that their delusions are much more widely shared, and that the mechanisms used to brainwash them are much more hig…

May I see the truth, especially the truth I don't want to see.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Haaretz has a new report out showing that the IDF has seized more than a quarter of Gaza's territory, and is supporting moves by Israeli settlers to build on the areas that have been carved off from the Palestinian enclave. These areas are not just controlled by Israeli forces but have been completely demolished, with IDF military encampments const…

"The most worthwhile spiritual teachings don't actually teach you any new knowledge. Rather, they direct your attention to aspects of your own experience that you'd previously overlooked or hadn't paid much attention to. They get you questioning your unquestioned assumptions about very fundamental components of your experience like your sense of se…

Western empire managers do not actually believe that there is anything "abhorrent" or "horrific" about attacking a hospital - at least not one which provides services to Palestinians or other populations who are not favored by the western empire.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

I want a free Palestine and a free mind, a free heart and a free world.I want the oceans teeming with life and the air full of plant sex and dragonflies.I want a society where nobody needs to work but most people want to, except for the occasional eccentric dude (and there will always be the occasional eccentric dude), but he will have a flute and …

A new report from the Israeli outlet Haaretz titled "IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive" confirms what independent outlets like The Grayzone and Electronic Intifada have been getting smeared as antisemitic conspiracy theorists for saying this entire time: that many of the Israeli deaths on October 7…

Saying democracy is in jeopardy in America is like saying beach front properties are in jeopardy in Wyoming. Your country is run by a few billionaires and government agencies. You don't get a real vote, and even if you did you're all propagandized anyway. It's not a real thing.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Let's allow the cruelty of the world to break our hearts, kind friend.Let's weep together at the shredded and emaciated bodies in Gaza, and at their mocking, cackling tormenters.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

There is nothing natural about this. The way things are. The way we are living. If this was the natural and healthy way for human society to exist, it wouldn't require mountains of propaganda spin to keep it going.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

So much abusive bullshit hides behind the false modesty of "This issue is too complicated for me to understand."Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Everyone's acting shocked and outraged at the Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump and other former presidents are largely immune from criminal prosecution, as though presidents getting prosecuted for their crimes is something that's been happening this entire time.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Ehud Olmert: "The entire Israel Air Force relies completely on American aircraft: fighter planes, transport planes, refueler planes and helicopters. All of Israel's air power is based on the American commitment to defend Israel. We have no other reliable source for essential supplies of equipment, munitions and advanced weapons that Israel cannot m…

This obvious genocide is not what it looks like, smirks the man behind the podium.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

I truly do not see how anyone can still give a fuck about this bullshit. It's so obvious at this point that the US is being run by unelected empire managers who throw up half-dead, half-brained presidential candidates to trick Americans into thinking they live in a democracy. Those empire managers are going to do whatever they want to you regardles…

If people really believed the president runs the country, they'd be freaking out that Biden in his demented haze might order an attack on the Soviet Union or nuke Libya to kill Muammar Gaddafi or something. They're not worried that this will happen because they know their government is actually being run by unelected empire managers from behind the…

If you desire the sovereignty and self-determination of any group of people, your first and foremost task is to seek the dismantling of the US-centralized empire, because that's the power structure that is doing the most around the world to undermine this possibility. As long as a population is in any way intertwined with the agendas of a globe-dom…

The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt until it happened.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Justice would look like Assange being granted a full and unconditional pardon and receiving millions of dollars in compensation from the US government for the torment they put him through by his imprisonment in Belmarsh beginning in 2019, his de facto imprisonment in the Ecuadorian embassy beginning in 2012, and his jailing and house arrest beginni…

Listen deeply to the screaming mothersand the whirring of the drones.Listen deeply to the news man's liesand the crashing of the bulldozers.Listen deeply to the tanks and missilesas they are rolled into position.Listen deeply to the dying fishand the fruit bats dropping out of trees from the heat.Listen deeply to the gasping biosphereand the reverb…

Please please please don't let Gaza be a one-off in terms of your opposition to the imperial machine. Keep your eyes fiercely trained on its actions after this is over, and help bring as much attention to its crimes as possible.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

It's probably worth noting that the empire doesn't actually lose anything from our society's increasing mental health problems, and in fact actually benefits from them. Which is probably why everything in this dystopia is pointed at making everyone crazier and crazier.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Zionism is like the exact opposite of people who identify as "spiritual but not religious"; it's religion stripped bare of all spirituality until it's nothing but a shitty political ideology that's ultimately really about land, western imperialism, and geostrategic control.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

We're in a burning house, and the people inside don't believe it's on fire and think you're a crazy crackpot for saying it is. There are a whole lot of necessary solutions to that problem that are going to have to follow from that point like getting everyone outside, getting the fire extinguished, finding a place to stay, getting the house rebuilt,…

It's not so much that people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are dumb, or because humans are selfish. Primarily, people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are lazy.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

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.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

It sure is a crazy coincidence how western politicians and media always start urgently telling us about an invisible epidemic of left wing antisemitism every time western military ties to Israel are subjected to widespread public scrutiny.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

They keep telling you October 7 happened because Hamas hates Jews because they don't want you asking questions about Israel's actions which provoked the attack.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

The meme enrages Israel supporters because Israel apologia depends on mountains of verbiage to spin obvious atrocities as reasonable and appropriate. At some point the kids noticed this was happening, and started dismissing all the narratives.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

The dead children don't affect me like they used to.The images. The videos. They still disturb and horrify, but not like they did in the beginning. Not anywhere close.And, honestly, I hate it. I hate that that part of me has been stolen.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

If you are helping to validate the completely fictional narrative that there is an epidemic of antisemitism on the political left, you are a facilitator of Israeli atrocities. You are helping the imperial war machine murder children.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

In a capitalist system, those who control the capital control what ideas and information will be ingested by most people. In a democratic system of government - even one with a rock solid voting system and no money allowed in politics - this will always give the wealthy the ability to rig elections by manipulating public opinion using propaganda.Re…

The state of New York should be given to the Mormons, since that's where Joseph Smith founded Mormonism. All other faiths in the new nation that shall be known as Mormonland must either leave or accept the fact that their homes and property will be taken by Mormons, that they will be displaced to undesirable parts of Mormonland, and that they will …

We're seeing new massacres every goddamn fucking day, but western politicians and media can't stop babbling about one single massacre happening hundreds of days ago.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Saving Gaza is about more than saving Gaza. It's also about saving ourselves.Saving ourselves as individuals. Saving ourselves as a society. Saving ourselves as a species.Saving ourselves from what we'll become if we just watch this happening right in front of our eyes without doing everything we can to stop it.Saving ourselves from what the sociop…

Our perception of the world is dominated by the movements of our attention, which means that our perception of the world can be changed by manipulating those movements. Propagandists understand this, so they spend their time doing things like telling us over and over again what a bad bad baddie Vladimir Putin is while just occasionally giving a sin…