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Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone

Pearls and Irritations

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Lying western press scramble to frame Israel’s attack on Iran as self-defence

Israel has launched a round of airstrikes on Iran which the western news media are falling all over themselves to falsely frame as “retaliatory”...

28.10.2024 10

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When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing Anti-Semitism and wearing a star of David

When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing anti-semitism and wearing a Star of David. It was never going to look how we were expecting. It...

25.10.2024 7

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More authoritarian Western crackdowns on speech critical of Israel

British “counterterrorism” police raided the home of Electronic Intifada editor Asa Winstanley on Thursday morning, seizing multiple electronic...

19.10.2024 6

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We must purge genocide from the marrow of our bones

The Israeli outlet Haaretz has a new article out titled “Israeli Defence Officials: Gov’t Pushing Aside Hostage Deal, Eyeing Gaza Annexation,”...

15.10.2024 8

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Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian kids in the head

There’s yet another doctor testimonial about Israeli forces constantly shooting Palestinian children in the head, this one published in The New...

11.10.2024 40

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Meta is aggressively censoring criticism of US-Israeli warmongering

I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed...

08.10.2024 10

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Israel hates truth

Israel has continued its war on journalism with another attack on Al Jazeera, this time with a raid on the outlet’s office in the West Bank and an...

23.09.2024 10

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On war crimes and Western hypocrisy

The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in thousands of pagers....

23.09.2024 30

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Rainbow flag genocide vs MAGA hat genocide

Kamala Harris has enthusiastically accepted the endorsement of Dick Cheney. The degree of comfort US liberals have with men like Cheney is more...

11.09.2024 10

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The West truly doesn’t see Palestinians as human

You never see the dehumanisation of Palestinians in Western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the...

04.09.2024 7

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Democrats release insanely hawkish Middle East policy platform

“When you’re siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you’re as insanely hawkish as it gets.” Celebrity progressive Alexandria...

22.08.2024 8

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Peace is not on the ballot in November

I keep seeing liberal commentators like George Takei trying to frame Kamala Harris as the best candidate to bring peace to the middle east, despite...

17.08.2024 9

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“Another Massacre”

They bombed the Tabeen school in Gaza City with so much explosive force that not a single full body was recovered. It was just pieces of people...

13.08.2024 8

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“Well What SHOULD Israel Have Done After October 7?”

People often object to criticisms of Israel’s ongoing mass atrocity in Gaza by saying, “Well what SHOULD Israel have done in response to October 7...

06.08.2024 6

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US presidential races hide the criminality of the US empire

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...

31.07.2024 10

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Nonstop news stories proving Palestine supporters right about everything

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...

13.07.2024 8

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After the inhuman destruction of Gaza’s health system, looks like bombing hospitals is bad again

A missile struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv on Monday during the heaviest Russian bombardment on Ukraine in months, which stretched across five...

10.07.2024 10

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The US is preparing for WWIII while expanding draft registration

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...

19.06.2024 10

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Behold the world gently

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...

17.06.2024 10

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When the powerful control public opinion

“Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio,...

15.06.2024 10

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The reckless brinkmanship with Russia just keeps on escalating

It’s damn near impossible to keep up with all the warmongering of the western empire these days. In response to the frightening steps that NATO...

08.06.2024 6

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The US Empire isn’t a government that runs non stop wars, it’s a non stop war that runs a government

The US as a country is just a source of funding, personnel, resources and diplomatic cover for a nonstop campaign to dominate the planet with mass...

05.06.2024 6

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Biden lets Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons while Ukraine attacks Russian nuclear defences

Well it finally happened: Biden is now letting Ukraine strike Russian territory with US-supplied weapons. Escalations in nuclear brinkmanship which...

02.06.2024 10

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Israel massacres children, which the Western Press says is fine

Israel has not only completely disregarded the orders of the International Court of Justice to cease its assault on Rafah as we expected it to do, but...

27.05.2024 10

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Under the cloak of genocide, nuclear brinkmanship escalates in Ukraine

While the antiwar zeitgeist has been quite understandably focused on the genocide in Gaza, over the past few weeks we’ve been seeing some very...

24.05.2024 30

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If you can’t even elect a candidate who’ll end a genocide, how real is your “Democracy”?

The Biden administration has reportedly approved of an Israeli assault on Rafah, the last slightly safe city in the Gaza Strip, and is openly...

23.05.2024 50

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The US empire deliberately stokes hatred and violence in the Middle East

16.05.2024 10

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Protest and dissent can absolutely push the empire to retreat on Gaza

12.05.2024 20

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Israel is turning hospitals into mass graves while the West fixates on ‘Antisemitism’

A mass grave created by the IDF has been uncovered at a Gaza hospital, where Palestinian civilians appear to have been the victims of a gruesome...

23.04.2024 9

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If the mainstream worldview was accurate, Gaza wouldn’t be burning

The destruction of Gaza proves the entire mainstream western worldview is bullshit, because if the mainstream western worldview was accurate, the...

21.04.2024 10

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US declines Israel’s invitation to start WW3 (for now)

Iran has carried out its long-promised retaliation for Israel’s attack on its consulate building in Damascus, launching a massive barrage of drones...

15.04.2024 8

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Gaza asks us a question about what kind of future we want to have

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...

10.04.2024 8

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Australian military refuses to disclose arms deal with Israel to protect its ‘reputation’

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...

09.04.2024 9

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The ‘human shields’ lie has been conclusively, irrefutably debunked

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...

05.04.2024 10

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The empire slowly suffocates Assange like it slowly suffocates all its enemies

The British High Court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may potentially get a final appeal against extradition to the United States,...

27.03.2024 9

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Immolation: Aaron Bushnell burned himself alive to make you turn your eyes to Gaza

I watched the uncensored video of US airman Aaron Bushnell self-immolating in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington while screaming “Free...

27.02.2024 4

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Julian Assange and the ugly reality of war crimes

Free Palestine. Free Assange. Free the world. Here is a Mixed media piece I did while nervously awaiting the resolution of the latest Assange...

21.02.2024 20

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The perfect recipe for a real antisemitism crisis

If I wanted to increase antisemitism, I imagine I’d do a lot of really evil stuff under a Star of David flag while adamantly insisting that my...

16.02.2024 8

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The US keeps bombing people while saying it doesn’t want to fight

One of the weirdest things happening in the world today is the way US officials keep insisting that they are not at war with the groups they’re...

09.02.2024 7

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The Western press are just printing straight up Nazi propaganda about Middle Easterners now

Mass media outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have been allowing the publication of some amazingly racist...

07.02.2024 6

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Democrats are demented genocidal war sluts

President Biden is reportedly preparing to begin a new weeks-long bombing campaign in the middle east in retaliation for a drone attack which killed...

02.02.2024 10

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Israel accuses the ICJ of (you guessed it) antisemitism

The International Court of Justice rejected Israel’s request to dismiss the genocide case brought against it by South Africa on...

27.01.2024 20

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Gaza is exposing Western Liberals for the frauds they are

The entire western liberal worldview is currently balanced on the ability to psychologically compartmentalise away from the mass atrocities in Gaza...

25.01.2024 10

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The Biden administration’s absurd justification for its Yemen war

On Monday the US launched its eighth wave of airstrikes in its new war against Yemeni forces, which it has now formally titled “Operation Poseidon...

23.01.2024 10

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When Yemen does it it’s terrorism, when the US does it it’s “The Rules-Based Order”

The Biden administration has officially re-designated Ansarallah — the dominant force in Yemen also known as the Houthis — as a...

18.01.2024 5

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Western Empire bombs Yemen to protect Israel’s genocide operations In Gaza

The US and UK have reportedly struck over a dozen sites in Yemen using Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, backed by logistical support from...

12.01.2024 4

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Tony Blinken is a cold-blooded sociopath

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken just referred to the US-sponsored assassination of yet another journalist in Gaza as a “terrible tragedy”, as...

08.01.2024 7

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The Israel supporter and the sandwich

An Israel supporter walks up to a guy at a restaurant, grabs his sandwich, starts eating it. Israel supporter: [Walks up to a guy at a...

31.12.2023 10

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The atrocities in Gaza are the perfect embodiment of ‘Western Values’

When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western...

20.12.2023 10

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CNN goes to Gaza

CNN’s Clarissa Ward and her crew became the first western journalists to enter Gaza independent from Israeli forces since October 7, briefly...

15.12.2023 10

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