Categorie: Caitlin Johnstone

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ Anyone who wants the US and its allies to attack Iran is a psychopath. People who want to unleash a war of that scale upon our species should be rejected from our society as aggressively as child molesters and Nazis. ❖ A new CNN report says multiple Biden administration officials “saw Iran’s attacks on

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Iran appears to be poised to launch an attack on Israel in retaliation for the Israeli strike on an Iranian consulate building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, which killed 16 people including multiple Iranian military officers. Iranian forces have already seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, and Tehran continues to vow that it will soon retaliate for

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Gaza is simpler than Iraq. Iraq was simpler than Yemen. Yemen was simpler than Libya. Libya was simpler than Ukraine. Ukraine is simpler than Syria. Gaza is the simplest and most straightforward of all the evil interventions of the US murder machine in recent memory — which is why I’ve got no patience for anyone who gets it wrong. I’m a lot more forgiving of

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ The mass media are once again pushing the narrative that Israel is “scaling back” its operations in Gaza, which as journalist Sana Saeed noted on Twitter is a claim they’ve been falsely making for months. To promote such stories even as Israel publicly declares that it’s preparing for an invasion of Rafah is absurd

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Dopey Republican pundits and politicians have begun claiming that Joe Biden has “abandoned Israel” and has fallen under the control of Hamas, because this is a presidential election year and everything needs to be ten times dumber than usual. Donald Trump said on the campaign trail on Wednesday that “Any Jewish person that votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : CNN has a new report out showing that (surprise!) Israel lied about the Flour Massacre in which IDF troops fired machine guns into a crowd of starving Gazans waiting for food this past February, killing over a hundred people. CNN found that Israel’s timeline and version of events doesn’t line up with video footage, witness testimony, and forensic evidence. Which of course was

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : The main reason I’ve focused so hard on Gaza these last six months isn’t so much because of how evil and horrific Israel’s mass atrocity is in and of itself, but because it’s so intimately intertwined with all our world’s other problems, and with the future of the human species. In a very real way, the destruction of Gaza appears to be a

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Australia’s Defence Department has refused a Freedom of Information request about the details of an arms deal with Israel on the grounds that such information “could harm Australia’s international standing and reputation,” which suggests the details must be pretty damning. Equally as scandalous, this refusal was reportedly made in consultation with the Israeli government. In an article titled “Details of defence deal with

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : One aspect of the recent revelations about the IDF’s Lavender AI system that’s not getting enough consideration is the fact that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians in Gaza because Hamas uses “human shields”. If you missed this story, a major report from +972 revealed that Israel has been using an AI system called

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley ): The imperial media cannot stop babbling about how angry President Biden’s feelings are feeling toward Israel like it’s some kind of actual news story, even as this administration cheerfully pours mountains of weaponry into backing Israel’s genocidal atrocities in Gaza.  If you haven’t been following the mass media’s coverage of Biden and Gaza for the last six months, the entire thing can be

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Six months of this now. Half a year. Half a year of genocide apologia. Half a year of the most outrageous lies you can possibly imagine. Half a year of seeing children’s bodies ripped to pieces and starved to skeletons on our social media feeds. Half a year of atrocities justified by something that happened way back in October, and didn’t even happen

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ In the span of just a few hours we learned that Israel committed a horrific massacre at al-Shifa hospital, struck an Iranian consulate in Syria killing multiple Iranian military officers, and killed a vehicle full of international aid workers in an airstrike. This murderous regime is out of control. ❖ Israel is so dedicated

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ The Washington Post reports that in recent days the Biden administration has quietly signed off on sending Israel billions of dollars worth of fighter jets and the 2,000-pound bombs that have been causing so much death and destruction in Gaza, even as Israel prepares to launch a bloody assault on the strip’s densely-populated southernmost

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : The imperial press have revealingly been using the words “moderate” and “centrist” to eulogize the warmongering former US senator Joe Lieberman, who passed away on Wednesday. “Centrist former Sen. Joseph Lieberman has died at 82,” reads a headline by NPR.  “As a moderate Democrat, Mr Lieberman developed a reputation in Washington for crossing party lines — as well as simply crossing members of his own

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Imagine how the western political-media class would be acting if Russia or China was bombing and starving a walled-in population of two million, half of them children. Seriously, imagine it. Imagine the rage and vitriol. Imagine the nonstop media coverage. When Russia invaded Ukraine, US media coverage of that war exceeded the media coverage of all US wars in the previous three decades.

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : The British High Court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may potentially get a final appeal against extradition to the United States, but only within a very limited scope and only if specific conditions are met. The court ruled that Assange may appeal only on the grounds that his freedom of speech might be restricted in the US, and that there is

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ List of things that have been discredited during the destruction of Gaza: • Israel • the “rules-based international order” • liberals • the label “antisemitism” • the mainstream media • Joe Biden • the “two-state solution” myth • Bernie Sanders • Robert F Kennedy Jr • the label “terrorist” • the “human shields” lie

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : ❖ I just read a New York Times piece about the bodies that are trapped beneath the rubble in Gaza which said the Gaza Health Ministry estimates that there are 7,000 people listed as missing, but adds that that figure “has not been updated since November.”  November. There is no chance that any of the

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : Humanity doesn’t just need to escape from the mental prison of imperial indoctrination. It needs to escape from the heart prison as well. I’m always talking here about the need to fight empire propaganda to help the public awaken to the fact that everything we’ve been trained to believe about the world is a lie, because that insight taking root in sufficient numbers

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : A new poll by the Pew Research Center has found that half of Americans have no idea whether more Israelis or Palestinians have died in the so-called “Israel-Hamas war”.  “Most Americans report having strong emotional reactions to the Israel-Hamas war,” the Pew Research Center writes. “Yet, for the most part, Americans are not paying very close attention to news about the conflict. One

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley) : The World Health Organization has issued a statement saying that it has recorded 410 Israeli attacks on Gazan healthcare services since October 7, resulting in 685 fatalities, 902 injuries, and damage to 99 healthcare facilities. As of this writing there is a still-ongoing IDF assault on Al-Shifa Hospital, which according to Israel has resulted in scores of Palestinian deaths and the capture of