

JOHNSTONE
Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.
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Nov 11, 2024 • 3min
Biden's Legacy Is Genocide, War, And Nuclear Brinkmanship
Biden’s legacy is genocide, war, and nuclear brinkmanship. That’s all anyone should talk about when this psychopath finally dies. Anything positive he may have accomplished in his political career is a drop in the ocean compared to the significance of these mass-scale abuses.
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 10, 2024 • 5min
Israel Keeps Finding New Ways To Play Victim While Committing Genocide
Israel is really struggling with how difficult its present circumstances make playing the victim. It keeps having to invent new abuses to be victimized by like the imaginary Amsterdam “pogrom” and the fake mass rape narrative that surfaced months after October 7, because it can’t sit comfortably in the role of victimizer while on trial for genocide in international courts.
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 9, 2024 • 8min
Trump Puts An Appropriately Ugly Face On A Very Ugly Empire
The only thing I like about Trump is exactly what so many empire managers hate about him: he gives the game away. He says the quiet parts out loud. He’s the only president who’ll openly boast that US troops are in Syria to keep the oil or lament that they failed to take the oil from Venezuela, or just come right out and tell everyone he’s bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs.
Trump is the opposite of Obama, who was very skillful at putting a pretty face on the evil empire. Trump puts a very ugly face on a very ugly thing. He is a much more honest face to have on the empire. A crude, stupid plutocrat who is owned by other plutocrats is the perfect representative of that tyrannical power structure.
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 9, 2024 • 2min
The Air In Gaza Smells Like Corpses
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 8, 2024 • 7min
Donald Trump Is Not Your Friend
Trump supporters are George W Bush supporters LARPing as Ron Paul supporters. They act like they're backing some anti-war figure who's taking a meaningful stand against the machine, when they're really backing a guy who spent four years rolling out longstanding neocon agendas.
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 7, 2024 • 5min
Oh No, Now The US Will Have A President Who Does Bad Things
Democrats are sitting on a mountain of hundreds of thousands of human corpses they helped kill by mass military slaughter in the last four years, weeping and lamenting that now bad things are going to start happening.
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 7, 2024 • 5min
The Evil Warmongering Zionist Won (No Not That One, The Other One)
Turns out campaigning on the promise of continuing a genocide while courting endorsements from war criminals like Dick Cheney is not a great way to get progressives to vote for you.
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 5, 2024 • 5min
Gaza Tells Us Who We Are
Some days it’s hard to say which is more horrific: the Gaza genocide itself, or the moral decay throughout our society which makes it possible.
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 4, 2024 • 5min
The Mainstream Western Worldview Pretends The Global South Does Not Exist
You really see this illustrated in US presidential election season, when debates will feature five or six minutes on “foreign policy” with the remaining two hours dedicated to “domestic policy” and culture war wedge issues despite the the White House’s relationship with foreign countries having orders of magnitude more significant real-world consequences.
Reading by Tim Foley.

Nov 3, 2024 • 5min
How To Go On In A World Full Of Cruelty
It’s not hope that keeps me going, it’s love. Love for this beautiful planet and all the weird little critters scuttling around on it, especially the fingery ape monsters walking about on their hind legs making mouth noises about their mind noises. I love this whole chaotic wondermess so very, very much, and I want it to keep going.
Reading by Tim Foley.