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JOHNSTONE Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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4.6 • 137 Ratings
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Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.
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Opposing Every War But The Current One, Supporting Civil Rights But Never Right Now
As Democrats get worse and worse the longer Biden's genocide in Gaza continues, I find myself recalling a tweet that went viral back in November by an account with the handle @eyeballslicer, "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now."
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The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier
So let me get this straight. The US wound up building its "floating pier" a few miles off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, but nobody will be able to ship the aid directly to the pier to get it to Gaza. Instead, the aid will be delivered to Cyprus via air or sea, and then from Cyprus the aid will be shipped 200 miles to the pier. From there the pallets of aid will be loaded onto smaller US army boats, which will then carry the aid from the pier to a long causeway on Gaza's actual coast. Those pallets will then be carried from the boats to the shore via the causeway - possibly by British troops or possibly by Israeli troops depending on what source you're reading - and taken into Gaza by IDF troops after careful examination and approval of their contents. All to deliver some 90 to 150 truckloads worth of aid per day, which is far short of the 500 truckloads the UN says Gaza needs.
And this is all being done because Israel isn't simply letting people drive an adequate amount of aid through the custom-built gates directly into Gaza. Since Washington doesn't want to exert any pressure on Israel to allow such a self-evident move, this immensely complicated and expensive dance is being performed to deliver a pathetically inadequate amount of aid instead. Aid that is only necessary because Israel has been destroying Gaza in its genocidal bombing campaign which it has been carrying out with total impunity.
Cool. Very normal and cool.
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The 'Antisemitism' Moral Panic Has Officially Jumped The Shark
So, to be absolutely clear, Israel's top government official has announced that charges against himself and other Israeli leaders for obvious war crimes like intentionally bombing and starving civilians would be both "antisemitic" and a "hate crime".
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CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment
In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN's Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany - doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters.
Reading by Tim Foley. -
Remember, All This Fascism Would Feel Way More Fascismy Under Trump
If Trump was letting these horrible things happen, we'd feel outraged and upset. We might even feel obliged to get up and go protest the things he is doing, which as we all know can often cause us to miss brunch. But because a trusted Democrat is in office, we can just relax and think pleasant thoughts and drink bottles of wine and Nyquil in the bathtub.
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Aviator Sunglasses
Aviator sunglasses hide demented eyes
in a skull full of bank logos and forgotten AIPAC speeches,
boozy nights of rapefinger whisperings and Beltway balrogs,
and fundraising wisecracks with smiles made of Gaddafi's bones,
brain now crowded with paper shredders
and frantic, sweaty interns
staying up all night working
to dispose of the evidence.
Aviator sunglasses with glowing pentagons in them,
with mountains of skulls in them,
with dismembered children in them,
with gutted babies in them,
with screaming mothers in them,
with burning flesh in them,
with flattened neighborhoods in them,
crushed limbs sticking out of rubble in them,
fathers carrying tiny bags of body parts in them,
laughing, mocking, blood-soaked soldiers in them,
bombs and food falling from the sky together in them.
Demented eyes gazing out upon a dying world
through aviator sunglasses full of dead faces,
skin illuminated by a burning sky,
licking an ice cream cone
that is dripping deep red.
Reading by Tim Foley.
Customer Reviews
One of the greatest minds on the planet
Listening to Caitlyn is like taking a handful of the red pill (seeing through the Matrix) every day. She is creative, brilliant, funny, and powerful. It's rare to see a great political mind in an actual artist. Her paintings and poems are great, and her story "Lisa and the Stranger" is the best short story I've ever read (I was a college English teacher for years).
Try to see both sides, maybe.
Domestic hate is wrong, no matter what. Domestic hate is what is happening around us. Israel, though it did a few things wrong is better than people who try to force people out of college campuses because they love themselves for who they are.
What sources are you using? If you use only ones from the left, that is censoring the right. You guys say that you believe in freedom of speech, yet you guys purposely ignore evidence that differs from your argument? That doesn’t seem right.
Oh, and did you know that a majority of the people that were tortured, raped, massacred, and murdered were leftists? They were the ones that hired people from Palestine. They were the hippies of Israel. They supported Palestine. But what did that do to them? It only made them suffer. Hamas doesn’t care about Palestine. All they care is about killing Jews and destroying western society. Oh, they also would love throwing the lgbtqiajsofjskdpancpw+ off a roof.
Also, the Palestinians have proved that they don’t want a two state solution. October 7th was a perfect example of that. Palestinians identify as Israelis. As in a large majority of them. They hate hamas more than they love killing Jews.
And if it was a genocide, then why did only thirty thousand civilians die? Actually, it’s more like 11000, because we can’t trust hamas statistics. A majority of the people that they reported as killed were people who died from natural causes, hamas casualties, and killing from hamas itself.
Does Israel deserve October 7th?
Does Israel deserve making a dedicated government-issued missile warning app?
Does Israel deserve the hate it does now?
The answer is ‘No’ for all of these. Israel is the last haven of true democracy in the Middle East. I thought that you guys loved democracy, yet you say that you hate western civilization. Western civilization is the stronghold of democracy. It’s also the place that gave you the freedom of speech. You have a right to your opinion, no matter how much misinformation is in it.
TikTok is a horrible place. And the government isn’t “banning” it so that it will be less pro-Palestinian. It’s banning it because it is a serious security concern.
And are republicans truly idiots? Well, no they are not. They are just people. Just like the liberals. Israelis are human, yet you make them look like demons.
You make hamas look like a good guy here. They are not. They took money that Israel sent to Gaza and the West Bank and used it on large hotels for the leaders of hamas. They used it on weapons. They also enslaved Palestinian children and used them to make tunnels where hamas can hide. And they are laughing at liberal pro-Palestinian efforts. They don’t want Palestine. They want to make innocents suffer.
Did you know that hamas deliberately killed people from eastern Jerusalem because “they were helping the zionists”? Your video on October 7th said that Israel deserved having its people raped, tortured, kidnapped, and murdered. Israel deserves peace. The Jews deserve peace. If the Palestinians put their guns down, and there will be peace in the Middle East. If Israel puts its guns down, there will be no more Israel. Israel is the nation of the Jews. It was our land. We have suffered from hate for too long. Just stop hating our land. Am Yisrael Chai! The people and soul of Israel live!
It’s Working
Apparently the scripts are written by KGB brainwashed drunken monkeys. Finally a space for people such as myself. Excellent work looking forward to more!