JOHNSTONE

Feb 02 2025 500 ep. 5 mins 1.5k
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Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

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How To Be Both Happy And Well-Informed

Feb 02 2025 6 mins  
It is very possible to live a truth-driven life which does not shy away from the harsh realities of the world without being consumed by the darkness. All you have to do is make sure you’re expanding your knowledge in both directions, not just your knowledge of the outer world. Reading by Tim Foley.

Tom Cotton Admits The US Doesn't Actually Care About Spreading Democracy

Feb 01 2025 5 mins  
It's not very often you hear a US empire manager come right out and admit they only care about planetary hegemony and that their whole schtick about spreading freedom and democracy is a sham. They'll pick a US crony dictator over a sovereign democratically elected leader ten times out of ten. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Tiger Show

Jan 31 2025 2 mins  
It doesn’t have to be this way. Nowhere is it inscribed upon the fabric of reality that control of the world must be ceded to the dumbest, crudest and cruelest among us. Nowhere is it written in adamantine that our happiness and the fate of our biosphere must depend on what the market will bear. It’s one of those things that gets sillier and sillier the more you think about

They Don't Just Tell Us What To Think, They Train Us HOW To Think

Jan 30 2025 5 mins  
And this, ultimately, is why the world looks the way it looks: because powerful people have been so successful at manipulating the way the public thinks about things. Reading by Tim Foley.

They're Still Slaughtering Civilians In Gaza

Jan 30 2025 4 mins  
Drop Site News reports that more than 80 Palestinians have been killed by the IDF in Gaza since what we’re calling a “ceasefire” went into effect on the 19th of January. The majority have been in Rafah, a now completely destroyed city which the Biden administration had previously said was off limits for a major Israeli offensive. Reading by Tim Foley.

Fathoms

Jan 29 2025 2 mins  
And the liberals shriek about Donald Trump while the sky rains blackened skeletons And the capitalists surf on collapse like raptors on an updraft And we scurry back and forth between toil and distraction with pythons around our stomachs and mollusks in our mouths And we search achingly for our pilfered hearts inside bottles of pills and TED Talks And the amputated limbs of Ukr

Only Pathetic Bootlickers Spend Their Energy Criticizing China

Jan 28 2025 3 mins  
The buzz around Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek has had an unusually high volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we're also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say "Well actually China is actually quite bad actually" in response. Reading by Tim Foley.

Jordan And Egypt Snub Trump's Ethnic Cleansing Plan

Jan 27 2025 7 mins  
Both Jordan and Egypt have put out statements rejecting President Trump's proposal to "clean out" Gaza and move its population to those nations. Reading by Tim Foley.

One More Dead Palestinian Kid

Jan 26 2025 2 mins  
They killed a two year-old girl in the West Bank on Saturday. Laila al-Khatib was shot in the head by Israeli forces in Jenin, because I guess they needed one more dead Palestinian kid. One more dead Palestinian kid to add to the mountain. One more small Palestinian face raining down upon us in our nightmares like meteors on the dinosaurs in the prequel to this apocalypse. One

Trump Reveals Plan For The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza

Jan 26 2025 5 mins  
Well that didn't take long. President Trump has said he wants to "clean out" Gaza and relocate its population to US client states Egypt and Jordan, which would of course be a textbook case of ethnic cleansing. Reading by Tim Foley.