Auteur: Caitlin Johnstone

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ I promise there is nothing you can say to me that will cause me to cease opposing the murder of thousands of children in Gaza. There is no name you can call me, no accusation you can scream at me, no talking point you can regurgitate at me that will ever make me shut

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : I came across an interesting quote made last month by a retired Israeli major general named Yitzhak Brick about the ongoing IDF assault on Gaza. “All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S.,” Brick said. “The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ The funny thing about Henry Kissinger dying at age 100 is that he lived long enough to become one of the least crazy warmongers in the DC swamp — not because he got saner, but because the US empire has gotten so much crazier. Almost everyone running the US government today is a worse warmonger than

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Sometimes Israel’s crimes are so horrific that at first you don’t even understand what you’re looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you’re seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something. It happened to me yesterday when I was watching a Sky News report about a

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Pentagon contractor Elon Musk and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu had a conversation that they broadcast on Twitter during Musk’s apology pilgrimage to Israel in a desperate bid to salvage his public image amid costly accusations of antisemitism. The “conversation” was really more of a monologue, with the Israeli leader droning on in his conspicuously American accent while Musk meekly agreed with him on

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ Israel raging at Hamas for killing Israelis is like a man raging at his shadow for darkening his floor. It’s maddening to see grown adults acting like Hamas are these foreign invaders who attacked Israelis out of the blue because of a hatred for Jewish people, like they’re internet-radicalized neo-Nazis from eastern Europe or

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : It’s probably worth noting at this point in history that the total number of children killed in Gaza has just surpassed the number of children the International Criminal Court indicted Russian president Vladimir Putin for relocating out of a war zone. A recent estimate by Gaza authorities puts the number of Palestinian children killed by Israel’s bombing campaign over the last seven weeks

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : A friend of mine shared my article about how the Biden administration is worried the pause in fighting will allow journalists into Gaza to show Israel’s crimes to the world, saying he knows he shouldn’t be surprised by how evil these freaks are but somehow he still is. I told him I actually consciously cultivate the ability to stay surprised by such things.

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Israel and Hamas have reportedly agreed to a four-day ceasefire which will entail the release of 50 hostages held by Hamas in exchange for 150 hostages held by Israeli forces.  In an article titled “Biden admin officials see proof their strategy is working in hostage deal,” Politico describes the deal as “the administration’s biggest diplomatic victory of the conflict” and reports that White

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Someone uploaded one of those viral “help identify this racist jerk” clips featuring a man accosting a street vendor with awful Islamophobic vitriol, and it turned out he was the former Deputy Director in the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs for the US State Department. It sounds made up, but that’s exactly what just happened; Vice has a whole article out about

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ Elon Musk has announced that common pro-Palestine phrases like “from the river to the sea” and “decolonization” are now banned on Twitter and will result in suspension, falsely claiming that they “necessarily imply genocide”. This move is likely an attempt to appease key advertisers who have been pulling out of the platform in response

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Israel propaganda looks like a music video featuring children singing “we will annihilate everyone” in Gaza. Palestine propaganda looks like an endless stream of raw video footage featuring children whose bodies have been ripped apart by Israeli military explosives. Israel propaganda looks like a music video of Israeli women doing yoga on top of images of the Israeli hostages in Gaza. Palestine propaganda

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Nobody starts out as the sort of person who would support a genocidal bombing campaign that murders children by the thousands. It’s something you come into gradually over the years, one moral compromise at a time. Again and again over the course of their lifetime, a supporter of Israel is given the choice to either kill off a piece of their conscience or

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : The most despicable thing about the way Israel supporters smear Israel’s critics as anti-semites is that they are exploiting a very healthy impulse to advance a profoundly sick impulse. They knowingly exploit the fact that the further to the left someone is on the the political spectrum the more likely they are to (A) support Palestinian rights and (B) be very receptive to

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Americans: healthcare please  US government: Sorry did you say billions of dollars for ethnic cleansing in the middle east?  Americans: no, healthcare  US government: Alright, you drive a hard bargain but here’s billions of dollars for ethnic cleansing in the middle east. ❖ Here’s a tip: the side that keeps having to come up with

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has been repeatedly refusing to tell the press whether he believes Israel has been following the laws of war in Gaza. Here’s a transcript from an exchange with The Hill’s Niall Stanage at a White House press conference on Tuesday: Stanage: You said today, as you’ve said a number of times, about the importance of the laws

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel’s PR interests. We saw this illustrated in a recent New Yorker interview with Daniella Weiss, a leader of the push to build illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Weiss

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : What would it look like if you were standing on the wrong side of history? If there were a mass atrocity taking place presently which history will end up judging harshly in the future, and you were supporting the wrong side of it, what signs might you expect to see that that’s the case? Well, I imagine you’d probably be seeing terrible news

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Top ten most popular arguments used to defend Israel’s actions in Gaza: 1. You hate Jews! 2. You love terrorists! 3. But October 7! 4. Hamas would cut your head off you stupid leftist! 5. It’s kind of good to kill Muslims actually. 6. THEY DECAPITATED BABIES 7. THEY COOKED A BABY 8. Israel is

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : You can’t both-sides everything. You can’t live your life that way. Yes it’s possible to see both sides of every contentious issue. You’re supposed to be able to do that; it’s a sign of intellectual maturity. If you can’t see both sides of an issue your relationship with abstract concepts is too rigid, and you’re probably lacking in empathy. It’s just a basic

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : More than 20 House Democrats joined Republicans in voting to censure Palestinian-American congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Tuesday for her comments supporting Palestinians against Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza. Democrats were happy to have a Palestinian woman in congress until they found out she was the “Palestinians are human beings” kind of Palestinian and not the