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Reducing US Military Spending Always Meets With Resistance; Increasing It Never Does

April 10, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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Last year Senator Bernie Sanders led a public push to reduce the insanely bloated US military budget by a paltry ten percent. His push splatted headfirst against a bipartisan solid steel wall which shut him down definitively.Sanders' bill was killed in the Senate by a

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“Regime” And “CCP”: Propaganda Tools For Dissociating A Targeted Nation From Its Government

April 9, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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Have you ever seen a mainstream news report containing the phrase "the French regime"? How about  "the British regime" or "the Australian regime"?If these phrases look a bit odd, it's because you've never seen them written down before. Ostensibly the word simply means "a form of

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The Empire Has A Dark Vision For Our World: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

April 8, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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The ultimate goal of the US-centralized empire is to have such control over the world's economic and financial systems that conventional warfare becomes obsolete, because they'll be able to fully strangle any population which disobeys its dictates by cutting them off from money.It's a warped

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Article

Excerpt From My New Book, Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

April 7, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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I'm so stoked to get people reading my new book that I'm sharing part of "Chapter Two: Power and Narrative Control" for free. Enjoy!~ CJhttps://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1377978512666198025 • In Tolkien’s Middle Earth, the affairs of men are dominated by a cabal of wizards who understand the esoteric art of

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The Mainstream Worldview Is As Garbage As Mainstream Music And Movies

April 7, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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I hate the mainstream scoff.Do you know the mainstream scoff? It's the scoff people who've been indoctrinated into the mainstream worldview make when you say something which falls outside that worldview. Something like "Nothing of substance has changed since the Trump administration." Or "The west

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Article

Everything The West Claims It Values Is Invalidated By Its Treatment Of Assange

April 6, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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The western world has a very high opinion of itself and its supposed values, and its treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a lie of it all.Truth. Justice. Freedom. Democracy. We are taught from an early age that these are the sacred values our

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Opposing US Imperialism Shouldn’t Depend On Ideology: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

April 5, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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The empire doesn't get enough credit for propagandizing us into arguing with each other about whether our expensive new multifront cold war should prioritize escalations against Russia or China, instead of whether that cold war should occur at all. Truly a masterful manipulation. ❖ Opposing US imperialism

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Tankie, Conspiracy Theorist, And Other Pejorative Tools Of Narrative Control

April 4, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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Bloomberg pundit Noah Smith had a very revealing interaction on Twitter the other day that I've been meaning to write about ever since.It began with Smith sharing a screenshot of an article by journalist Yasha Levine which condemns US imperialist escalations against China and ties

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Article

Ego Is The Cosmic Karen

April 3, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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And then the politician's mask slid off, revealing the snarling monster underneath.And then the snarling monster's mask slid off, revealing the frightened little child underneath.And then the frightened little child's mask slid off, revealing the whole entire universe underneath.And then the universe's mask slid off,

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Announcement

New Book: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

April 2, 2021
author: Caitlin Johnstone
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I've got a new book out, which you can order by clicking here or here, or download a cheap PDF by clicking here.It's called Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix, and like the ongoing series of essays I've been putting out of the same name it's

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