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Conventional Politicians Are Infinitely Weirder Than Marianne Williamson

July 31, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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Night one of the CNN Democratic debates has come and gone, and if you missed it you didn't miss much. Basically the entire thing can be summed up as Jake Tapper asking the progressives on stage, "So explain why Americans would vote for your policies

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How The Question “Who Benefits From This?” Can Change Your Life

July 30, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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"Cui bono?" is a phrase you'll often see used on conspiracy-minded Youtube videos and discussion forums. It's Latin for "Who benefits?", and it refers to a perspective in legal analysis that the one who stands most to gain from a crime is often the perpetrator.

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What Progressives Hopefully Learned From Russiagate

July 29, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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The Robert Mueller hearing on Tuesday was widely regarded as a humiliating disaster, not just by critics of the establishment Russia narrative, but by mainstream Democratic pundits. We haven't seen a US official look so befuddled and disorganized during a congressional hearing since that time

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What The Hell Is Going On Here, Anyway?

July 28, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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Over the course of my young career here I've amassed a very eclectic group of readers from all across the political spectrum, which I quite enjoy. Sometimes I read the comments sections just to watch what happens when you bring people together from wildly different

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The Real Reason The Propagandists Have Been Promoting Russia Hysteria

July 27, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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Former MSNBC host Krystal Ball slammed her ex-employer's relentless promotion of the Russiagate conspiracy theory following the embarrassing spectacle of Robert Mueller's hearing before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on Wednesday."After watching seven hours of a spectacle that felt much more cruel than enlightening, I

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How To Inoculate Yourself From Establishment Bullshit

July 25, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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In a recent interview with CBS This Morning host Gayle King, former First Lady Michelle Obama contrasted her husband's presidency with that of his successor by claiming that unlike Trump, the Obama family had had "no scandal"."I had to sit in [Trump’s inauguration] audience, one

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Eight Thoughts On Marianne Williamson

July 24, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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The other day the reliably disgusting Samantha Bee tweeted an invitation to Democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson to come "drop out" of the race on her show, which Williamson playfully declined from the green room of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Establishment narrative managers like Bee

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The Just World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange And Defend Power

July 23, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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I write a lot about how important it is for political dissidents to research and understand cognitive biases, the large number of well-documented logical glitches in the way human brains process information. I do this because the science of modern propaganda has been in research

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Poetry

Peekaboo!

July 22, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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People gather together at the zoo to pretend they aren't wild animals.People gather together in churches to pretend they aren't God.People gather together at the feet of the guru to pretend he has something they don't have.People gather together in movie theaters to pretend the real hero exists outside

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Rugged Individualism Cannot Save Us. Only Enlightened Collectivism Can.

July 21, 2019
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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Individualism cannot save humanity from the crises it faces. It's not the right tool.There is a widespread belief that if we just eliminated all collectivist impulses within our society, we could eliminate all our problems. That the government which causes so much bloodshed and oppression

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