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JOHNSTONE Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.
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The Problem Isn't Civil Disobedience, It's Civil Obedience
Our problem is not that more and more people are opposing Israel's empire-backed atrocities in Gaza with more and more aggression, our problem is that people are not opposing it aggressively enough. Our problem is that too many people still have their minds jacked into the mainstream worldview and ignore the most urgent matter of our time, letting their thoughts be preoccupied with frivolous garbage and trusting that our leaders are doing what's best for us.
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The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East
It's actually a brilliant self-reinforcing scam. It works like this:
Step 1: Murder people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".
Step 2: This causes people to hate you and your allies and to want to retaliate with violence.
Step 3: Designate these people "terrorists".
Step 4: Send more war machinery to the region to go fight "terrorism".
Step 5: Murder more people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".
Do you see how this cycle would repeat over and over again, leading to more and more US military expansionism in the middle east? That's exactly what we've been seeing, and it's exactly what the US empire wants.
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I Criticize The US Power Alliance Because It's The Most Destructive Force On Earth
I don't spend my time attacking the US war machine because I have any special love for Hamas, Iran, Russia, China, or any other power. I do it because the US empire is quantifiably the most destructive and tyrannical force on this planet, by an extremely massive margin.
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When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something
When nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they're falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid of and where you should really be focusing your political energy.
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Using A Fictional Antisemitism Crisis To Support A Real Genocide
"It's like responding to warnings of another holocaust by babbling about Sauron."
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When Opposing Genocide Is Seen As Radical, Radicalism Becomes A Moral Imperative
Israel supporters are such psychopathic war sluts that they're currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won't give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah.
Reading by Tim Foley.