Caitlin Johnstone

Listen to a reading by Tim Foley: This obvious genocide is not what it looks like, smirks the man behind the podium. Don’t trust your lying eyes, or your lying ears, or your lying mind, or your lying heart. Silence that part of you which sees. Which feels. Which knows. Which cares.

Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): I truly could not care less who wins the US election; in my mind Dementia Meat Puppet and…

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It’s very revealing how everybody’s focusing on what Biden’s dementia-addled debate performance says about his ability to win re-election instead of on the fact that the current, sitting president of the United States has dementia.

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt until it happened. If you’ve been following this case for a while, you know what I’m talking about. This was the moment you’d dream of in your quiet, private moments, but could never fully allow yourself to believe would actually

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Julian Assange is free. As of this writing he is en route to the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote US territory in the western Pacific, to finalize a plea deal with the US government which will see him sentenced to time served in Belmarsh Prison. Barring any

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): One of the most important things to understand about the US-backed atrocities in Gaza is that the US-centralized empire isn’t normally this obvious about its criminality. The relatively undisguised nature of the sadism and savagery in this particular case has been a gift to opponents of the US war machine, because the empire has made it much easier for us to open people’s eyes to its depravity.

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): It’s probably worth noting that the empire doesn’t actually lose anything from our society’s increasing mental health problems, and in fact actually benefits from them. Which is probably why everything in this dystopia is pointed at making everyone crazier and crazier.