Caitlin Johnstone
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This is nuts, Trump really did do exactly what Ryan Grim suggested he do hours earlier: pretend Iran's ten-point plan is a new proposal, counting on the fact that the media hasn't been reporting on Iran's demands to make it look like a new offer Tehran put forward in desperation.
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Not Even Israelis Are Willing To Die For Israel Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said during a conference on Tuesday that Israel “has no interest” in participating in the ongoing military exchanges between the US and Iran, asserting that “the current situation is the best one for us.” While Smotrich is certainly correct that it is to Israel’s benefit to stand aside and let the Americans do all the fighting and dying in this conflict, this is a noteworthy admission about a war that the US State Department says the White House ordered “at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally.” There are three groups of people who consistently say “I’m not fucking dying for Israel”: 1. US soldiers, 2. Americans at risk of being drafted into a large-scale war, and 3. Israelis. You see this all the time. Back in March when the US was contemplating a ground invasion of Iran, the Israeli press were churning out reports assuring their audiences that government officials said the IDF would not be participating in any such operations. Israelis are happy for Americans to die for Israel, but they are unwilling to put their own lives on the line for the Zionist project. You know who would lay down their lives for their homeland? The Palestinians. The Palestinians have made it clear that they are willing to die for Palestine, while the Israelis have made it clear that they are unwilling to die for Israel. For the Israelis, Israel is merely a nice-to-have which they would happily give up if it became too dangerous. For the Palestinians, that land is home. ❖ The New Yorker has an article out titled “How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza — and Iran,” with the subtitle “Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.” It quotes Jake Sullivan saying “I will say straightforwardly — we should have put more pressure on Israel to take a different approach” on Gaza. And to that I can only say, fuck you. Seriously, FUCK you. You don’t get to do this now. You don’t get to turn around and go “Oopsie poopsie, we made a mistake!” This was YOUR genocide, motherfuckers. YOURS. You chose it. You own it. Forever. The stench of the rotting corpses in Gaza will sully your names for all time. They always planned to do this. They backed a genocide knowing they could always try to spin it as a regrettable error in hindsight, and let their sad feelings of contrition wash their hands of their sins. Fuck that bullshit. That’s not happening. We’ll never let them forget what they did and what they are. ❖ That same New Yorker article says Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Biden administration to keep secret any small concessions he made in allowing aid into Gaza, saying the Israeli prime minister “feared a domestic backlash for not starving Gaza’s women, children, and other civilians.” Think about how fucked up a society has to be for its politicians to fear domestic backlash for not starving civilians. ❖ The other day Fox News host Jesse Watters joked and laughed about how the US military’s new testosterone testing policy is going to lead to soldiers with overloaded testosterone levels sexually assaulting women. “Yeah, I want these guys on it, but you know what’s gonna happen? The guys that don’t need it are gonna take it, to triple boost,” Watters said Thursday, chuckling. “And then they’re gonna get out there, and women on base, you guys better be careful. Port calls, women in Asia, you better be careful, because these guys are gonna be wild animals and you better watch out.” Ho ho, ha ha, watch out ladies you’re gonna get raped by US soldiers just like untold millions of other women around the world throughout history, ha ha, wocka wocka, comedy laugh laugh. The Murdoch press is cancer. ❖ I saw a tweet from Zionist pundit Joe Walsh saying “If you hate the state of Israel, you hate Jews. If you are pledged to the destruction of the state of Israel, you hate Jews. If you do not believe the state of Israel has a right to exist, you hate Jews.” If you keep feeding the public the lie that they need to choose between supporting genocide and hating Jews, people are going pick hate Jews, because they don’t want to support genocide. When that happens, the blame will rest on all these pricks who circulated this lie. ❖ You don’t get to just pretend all this fretting about “antisemitism” is happening separately from the agenda to stomp out all criticism of Israel and its abuses. You don’t get to demand that I treat them as separate things. They’re inseparable agendas. I wish they weren’t, but they are. If you come up to me babbling about how Jews are afraid and mistreated, then I’m going to automatically treat this as apologia for a genocidal apartheid state, because that’s the primary agenda that this rhetoric is being used to promote today. It’s not my fault that this is how I respond to allegations of antisemitism. It’s the fault of the people who have weaponized such allegations to promote genocide, apartheid, war, and tyranny. If you want me to take allegations of “antisemitism” seriously, then you must first bring to an end the campaign to use that term as a cudgel to shut down pro-Palestine protests and silence Israel’s critics. That is what you’ll need to do before I will give you the benefit of the doubt and listen to you like you’re a good-faith actor. The information ecosystem is currently far too full of genocidal Zionists lying about their experiences, their feelings, their intentions, and what has happened to them for me to listen credulously to stories about discrimination against Jews in the year 2026. It’s so surreal how we are still expected in mainstream western society to listen to concern trolling about “antisemitism” without immediately thinking about things like Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, war, and genocide. We’re expected to listen patiently to stories about how western Jews feel unsafe without ever looking at all those elephants in the room. It’s insulting. It’s degrading. If the main reason antisemitism gets mentioned these days is because of opposition to Israel’s mass atrocities, then obviously I’m going to assume that’s the driving motivator behind your words when you mention it. Of course that’s going to be my default assumption. Obviously. Duh. ❖ Reading by Tim Foley:
Caitlin Johnstone35,668 Aufrufe • vor 2 Tagen
The first fully AI-generated movie to be accepted by a major film festival, Dreams of Violets, is atrocity propaganda for war with Iran. The trailer features characters gazing joyfully up at US/Israeli fighter jets arriving to bomb their country while a narrator talks of freedom:
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It's Been Ten Years. It's Time To Admit Bernie Sanders Was Wrong. The experiment has been run, and the results are in. You can’t conduct a socialist revolution using a party whose primary function is to suppress socialist revolution. This has been conclusively established. Reading by Tim Foley.
Caitlin Johnstone61,674 Aufrufe • vor 14 Tagen
![Crenshaw: [Chinese citizens] must cooperate with Chinese intelligence whenever they are called upon, and if they are called upon they're bound to secrecy. That would include you. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: I'm Singaporean.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1639087482380910594/ext_tw_video_thumb/1639086137246642182/pu/img/t_vMNMeP8rZizmFu.jpg)
The actual, official 2024 Democratic Party platform accused Trump of "fecklessness and weakness" for failing to go to war with Iran during his first term. Kamala Harris labeled Iran the #1 enemy of the United States. In their 2024 debate, Harris repeatedly slammed Trump for being too soft on America's enemies and announced that she "will always give Israel the ability to defend itself, in particular as it relates to Iran and any threat that Iran and its proxies pose to Israel." There was no "plan" for avoiding this. Your people wanted this war as much as Trump and his handlers did. That's why they're doing nothing right now.
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Well, At Least Lindsey Graham Is Dead In the months leading up to his death Graham had advocated for US military interventions in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Yemen, Nigeria, Lebanon, and Palestine, and had just returned from a trip to Kyiv promoting the US proxy war against Russia. Reading by Tim Foley.
Caitlin Johnstone39,377 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen
Revolutionary Optimism Takes Practice They want us to believe resistance is futile. They want us to believe that change is impossible, that the fight is unwinnable, that the machine is unbeatable, that the AI surveillance data centers are inevitable, that the wars and genocides will continue no matter what we do. Reading by Tim Foley.
Caitlin Johnstone12,006 Aufrufe • vor 4 Tagen
Long as we're still picking on Sarah Hurwitz, I haven't seen anyone flagging how she said western Jews should have more loyalty to Israel than their own countries because Israeli Jews are their "siblings". Under the IHRA definition of antisemitism it's banned to say Jews do this.
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Zionists Push Islamophobia Because It's Easier Than Getting People To Like Israel "Israel makes everything gross. It makes the world more violent, more sociopathic, and more hateful. The entire state is sustained by nonstop violence and hatred." Reading by Tim Foley.
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Liberals Have Relaxed About Trump Because They Trust Him To Keep The Wars Going They view him as one of their own now. When he finally dies, he will be lovingly eulogized by all the same liberal institutions which called him a second Hitler during his first term. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Seeing New York Times editors say NATO stands for "North American Treaty Organization" on the same day CNN claims Iranians might help the downed pilot who was trying to bomb them because they're happy he's there really illustrates how fucked western journalism is, doesn't it? I mean, this is some serious baby-brained thinking on display here. That New York Times headline made it through MULTIPLE checkpoints before publication without it ever even occurring to anyone to at least do a quick Google search to find out if the A in NATO really does stand for "American", and, if so, why are there so many European countries in it? That CNN analyst really does have such an infantile, children's cartoon worldview on American wars that she thinks the people being bombed by US fighter jets will want to hug them and kiss them and give them presents when they emergency eject into enemy territory. It's kind of amazing that any of the people involved in either of these incidents are working in news media at all. If you've ever wondered why so many Americans are so ignorant about what's going on in their world, it's because for generations these have been the kinds of people informing them about world events. These are the news outlets who've been responsible for creating an informed populace. And their reporting is shared with the entire western world. I constantly criticize the western press for its role in propagandizing the public to manufacture consent for evil wars and normalize an abusive political status quo. You cannot despise these manipulators enough for their role in the world's dysfunction today. But these two incidents highlight the fact that the people running the western press aren't just evil — they're also really, really stupid.
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Trump Supporters Are Pathetic Cucks, And Other Notes The middle east continues to burn under the administration of the self-proclaimed “President of Peace”. Donald Trump says he’s “reinstating” the US blockade on Iranian ports after reportedly green lighting Saudi Arabia to reignite its war on Yemen. Trump and his handlers built a whole political platform out of “no more endless wars” and then immediately changed the Defense Department to the Department of War and started launching never ending wars. Being a Trump supporter in 2026 is like staying best friends with a man who stole your wife. He’s deceived and betrayed you at every turn and you’re still swinging from his nuts? That’s cucky, humiliating behavior. He promised to end the wars, and instead he started a new war. He promised the Iran war would be over in a few weeks, and months later it shows no sign of stopping. He promised to put America first, and instead he’s putting Israel first. He promised to cut government waste, and he’s pouring unfathomable amounts of treasure into the military-industrial complex. He promised to drain the swamp, and he became the single most corrupt president in US history. He promised to fight the deep state, and went on to promote the longstanding agendas of the most evil people in Washington and Langley which even his terrible predecessors had resisted. These are all objective, indisputable facts. If you disagree with any of them, it’s because you’re performing ridiculous mental contortions to justify your groveling support for a man who has betrayed you. It’s so self-debasing. Get up off the floor, pull your tongue back into your head, and have some fucking dignity. ❖ Congressman Randy Fine has been tweeting about how heartbroken he is to lose Lindsey Graham. It really is amazing how all the absolute worst people on earth are grieving this man. Like literally every single one of them. The list of Graham's mourners is a who's who of genocidal psychopaths. ❖ Everyone currently saying “I disagreed with Lindsey Graham on many things, but” is telling you they didn’t actually disagree with Lindsey Graham all that much. “I disliked his politics, but — “ You liked his politics a lot more than I did, that’s for damn sure. That’s why you are sad that he is dead while I am happy. If you’re in any way sad that a 71 year-old warmongering psychopath died, it’s because you didn’t care about his victims. You didn’t care about the populations he was constantly pushing to incinerate with high-tech war machinery. If you did, you wouldn’t feel inclined to mourn the passing of their abuser. If you’re expressing condolences for Lindsey Graham’s death, you’re saying you care more about looking like a kind and caring person than you care about actually being one. ❖ Whenever I read a new report about Israeli prison abuses, I think about how horrifying it would be to be a Palestinian captured alive by the IDF. You know they’re going to torture you. You know they’re going to rape you. Probably over and over again, for months. If you’re a devout Muslim, killing yourself is off the table. You just have to sit there knowing you’re going to be plunged into hell on earth. ❖ When an apartheid state does evil things I will criticize it. Tell me I’m not allowed to criticize the apartheid state and I’ll criticize it even more. Use government power to stomp out criticism of the apartheid state and I’ll make criticism of the apartheid state my full-time job. ❖ Liberal Zionists tell me, “Most Israelis disapprove of Netanyahu!” I tell them, nobody gives a fuck. No one cares which apartheid political party Israelis prefer. Nobody cares which genocidal political leader they’d rather have as their prime minister. Every Israeli faction is evil and is supported by evil people. ❖ It’s funny how they call it “generative artificial intelligence” when it neither generates anything nor exhibits intelligence. It just copies the stuff humans said and did. It doesn’t come up with its own ideas. It shows no signs of insight, understanding or creativity. They keep needing to feed it human-generated material in order to improve it because it’s incapable of generating its own material. We haven’t created artificial intelligence, we’ve created a toy that regurgitates our own intelligence back at us. ❖ Reading by Tim Foley:
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