Excerpt from the article:
"With the help of my generous patrons, my wonderful husband, and copious amounts of caffeine, in between political essays I have managed to write and illustrate a book. It’s called Woke — A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers, and I’m very proud of how it turned out.
Part graphic novel, part poetry, this book is my way of pointing to the course our species must travel more directly than I can in article format. We are at evolve or die time, we must wake ...up very soon, and this is my very best crack at pointing our deep inner workings onto the path of transformation which leads away from our extinction and towards our utopia.
Here are the reviews that have come in as of this writing from the soft launch, and some photos from the book:"
#book #GraphicNovel #poetry #UtopiaPreppers
https://medium.com/@caityjohnst…/i-wrote-a-book-170c7499f357
Excerpt from the article:
Political commentary throughout 2016 was filled with scary sound bytes by partisan opponents of the Republican party warning how dangerous and horrifying it would be if Donald Trump ever gained access to the nuclear codes. Here's a March 2016 column from USA Today titled "Trump's nuclear views are terrifying". Here's another March 2016 article from CNN titled "President Trump: A 6-year-old with nuclear weapons?" Here's an August 2016 article from the... Chicago Tribune titled "The terrifying prospect of Donald Trump with nuclear weapons". Here's an October 2016 article from Business Insider about how former nuclear launch officers had said Trump can't be trusted with the launch codes. Here's a November 2016 Bloomberg article titled "Two Words to End All Consideration of Voting for Trump: Nuclear Holocaust".
I could go on and on, but you get the picture. Over and over and over again I encountered Democrats on social media in 2016 telling me I needed to support Hillary Clinton because Trump was going to get everyone nuked in a fit of stupid impulsiveness if elected, their fears stoked by partisan media reporting like the above day after day. Everyone lost their minds over Joe Scarborough's claim on MSNBC that he knew someone who'd heard candidate Trump asking a foreign policy expert why nuclear weapons can't be used, a claim Scarborough never substantiated. Trump's political opponents made very, very sure that the American people were afraid that they and their loved ones would die in a nuclear holocaust if he was elected.
Isn't it surprising, then, that these people are all completely ignoring this administration's insane, world-threatening nuclear escalations against Russia?
Of course it fucking isn't.
https://steemit.com/…/dems-ignore-trump-s-nuclear-recklessn…
Excerpt from the article:
"Give yourself permission to take your best guess at what’s going on in the world without the permission of either the establishment propaganda machine or its rank-and-file groupthink minions. Give yourself permission to try your most sincerely to figure out what’s happening with compassion for yourself and the rest of the population that is being psychologically brutalized by mass media psyops on a daily basis, and if you find out something you beli...eved is wrong, course correct and keep doing your best.
Until we live in a healthy world where mass media psyops are illegal, where it would be unthinkable for a major media outlet to exploit a small child for the purpose of deceiving its audience into supporting military violence, this is going to have to be how we operate. Nobody is ever in any position to bully you into silence for doubting the official narratives about what is happening in a world ruled by a power establishment with a known history of using lies, false flags and propaganda to manipulate the public into supporting its agendas.
Think free and be unapologetic about it. That is your sovereign right, and anyone who tries to stop you from exercising it is your enemy. Never abdicate your authority over your own understanding of the world to anyone. It is yours. Own it."
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/…/it-is-always-always-always-…/
Going Rogue, episode 39:
By constantly lying and manipulating, the #MSM has created an environment where people necessarily question how reality differs from what they're being told. Yet this same MSM has the gall to bitch at people for doing just that.
#propaganda #FalseFlag #conspiracy...
https://soundcloud.com/…/ep-39-it-is-always-always-always-o…
Excerpt from the article:
"But it is always okay to ask questions. Always. It is always okay to express skepticism of mainstream narratives. Always. It is always okay to share information on social media as we try to figure out what’s happening in the absence of trustworthy news media. Always.
Your own educated best guess is always superior to placing blind faith in a mass media machine which you know for a fact will lie to you whenever it is in the interests of its plutocrat...ic owners. Trying to find your own way is better than asking directions from a malicious compulsive liar.
And yeah, your best guess will be wrong sometimes. In an environment that is saturated in propaganda designed to manipulate the way you think and vote, it can be hard to know which way is up all the time, let alone bat a perfect thousand. But what choice have these pricks left us? We can’t trust them, so we’ve got to use alternative media, communication with trusted peers, education and critical thinking to supplement the information they refuse to give us, and we can only do our honest best."
#MSM #conspiracy #FalseFlag #skepticism
https://medium.com/…/it-is-always-always-always-okay-to-que…
Excerpt from the article:
"Google the words 'shooting conspiracy' and you'll come up with a deluge of articles from mainstream outlets who helped sell the "weapons of mass destruction" lie to the world, including CNN. Do a Twitter search for the same words and you'll find employees of mass media outlets doing the same thing; the same mass media outlets which blacked out Bernie Sanders during the presidential primary, which bolster the illusion of freedom and democracy and leg...itimize the two-headed one-party system day after day, which back every single military action of the US government without exception, which go full attack dog on third parties and government transparency advocates, which helped the US power establishment lie about Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, and Syria in order to manufacture support for interventionism in those countries.
The mass media created conspiracy theories. By lying to the public day after day after day in the most grotesque and brazen ways imaginable, they created an environment where people will necessarily question the ways in which reality differs from what they've been told. How could they not? And yet these depraved manipulators still dedicate massive amounts of resources toward putting immense public pressure on anyone who still has unanswered questions, because Seth Rich's family wants you to shut up and some guy shot a hole in a pizza shop floor.
And it works. I've seen people being attacked in the most vicious and disgusting ways on social media for publicly asking questions about the Florida shooting, in ways that cannot possibly be psychologically comfortable. Twitter cliques organize around tearing down individuals who have made tweets expressing skepticism about the authorized shooting narrative, tagging high-follower accounts to come in and help beat up the latest person who isn't confident that all the facts add up in this particular case. It's an environment which most certainly facilitates fear of speaking and self-censorship."
#ConspiracyTheory #propaganda #FloridaShooting
https://steemit.com/…/it-is-always-always-always-okay-to-qu…
Excerpt from the article:
BREAKING: Psychiatrists around the world are baffled by an emerging mental disorder which only seems to afflict the leaders of governments that refuse to capitulate to US interests, sources in the American Psychiatric Organization (APO) reported Saturday.
Early reports indicate that this strange new disorder, as yet unlisted in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), exclusively impacts world leaders who refuse to help the US... and its growing body of client states advance American economic and geopolitical influence with their nations’ land, resources and people. Leaders who once exhibited behavior that is unremarkable for their regional, cultural and political environment suddenly transform into bloodthirsty tyrants who receive sexual gratification from the gratuitous murder of civilians as soon as their wish to retain national sovereignty becomes evident.
“It’s the darndest thing,” APO President Dr. Lewis Rafferty told NNC earlier today. “The disorder can carry a minor genetic component, as in the case of North Korea’s leadership whose entire lineage has been afflicted with an unprecedented condition which makes them likely to nuke Hawaii without provocation at any second unless aggressively sanctioned and surrounded with a vast military arsenal. But the fundamental antecedent of the illness always appears to be a general unwillingness to give the US war machine and its allied oligarchs exactly what they want at any given moment.”
#Syria #Iraq #NorthKorea #Libya #satire
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/…/psychiatrists-baffled-by-me…/
Going Rogue, episode 38:
A catch-up episode where we talk about the latest in the Medium censorship debacle, Caitlin’s twitter rant on anti-Semitism, cheerlead Ben Swann and the mysterious mental illness that only seems to afflict the heads of nations that refuse to capitulate to the US empire.
https://soundcloud.com/…/ep-38-ben-swann-returns-and-mental…
Excerpt from the article:
Assad’s condition has been growing steadily worse as Russian assistance has thwarted previous humanitarian regime change efforts by the US and its allies, now dropping an assortment of chemical weapons, barrel bombs and napalm upon civilians for no discernible reason despite having every strategic incentive to avoid doing so.
“Bashar al-Assad is a very bad man, and President Trump must throw him into jail for what he has done to the children of Syria...,” reports senior NNC war correspondent Bana Alabed. “Together, we can help them. Together, we can save them. Together, we can help the US prevent the Russian Federation from securing key oil and gas resources in a key strategic location, thus disrupting the rise of a potential rival superpower in the Russia-China tandem as per the goals outlined by the Project for the New American Century. Googoo gaga, I am a little girl.”
“It actually kind of makes sense,” adds another psychiatrist named Dr. Shmon ShmcCain who phoned in to NNC during the investigation for this report. “Since America is only ever pure good, you could see how those who fall away from its benevolent guidance would quickly turn to pure evil. It is therefore our responsibility to use any means necessary to remove those tyrants from power the second they begin acting in their own national interests, my friends.”
#Syria #NorthKorea #Libya #Iraq #satire
https://medium.com/…/psychiatrists-baffled-by-mental-disord…
Excerpt from the article:
"Editor’s note: In order to avoid online censorship for publishing dissenting narratives, today’s Caitlin Johnstone column has been replaced with a report from the National News Conglomerate, your trusted source for real news and authorized opinions. Obey.
BREAKING: Psychiatrists around the world are baffled by an emerging mental disorder which only seems to afflict the leaders of governments that refuse to capitulate to US interests, sources in the ...American Psychiatric Organization (APO) reported Saturday.
Early reports indicate that this strange new disorder, as yet unlisted in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), exclusively impacts world leaders who refuse to help the US and its growing body of client states advance American economic and geopolitical influence with their nations' land, resources and people. Leaders who once exhibited behavior that is unremarkable for their regional, cultural and political environment suddenly transform into bloodthirsty tyrants who receive sexual gratification from the gratuitous murder of civilians as soon as their wish to retain national sovereignty becomes evident."
#Syria #NorthKorea #Iraq #Libya #war #satire
https://steemit.com/…/psychiatrists-baffled-by-mental-disor…
Excerpt from the article:
In his famous Reality Check segments prior to his disappearance, Swann was one of the largest voices calling attention to the now-uncontroversial fact that the US-backed “freedom fighters” in Syria were actually violent jihadists. He called out the problems with the CIA Russia narrative, he defended Black Lives Matter protesters, WikiLeaks and third parties from establishment smears, and just generally threw a big fat monkey wrench in Big Brother’s p...lans for us at every opportunity using facts and information.
Swann is guided by an unapologetic libertarian ideology which has proved capable of producing some of the most effective weapons against the establishment propaganda machine on the internet. His anti-imperialist, anti-drug war, anti-surveillance, pro-freedom perspective and high professional standards have already given rise to some phenomenal videos about the despicable things the US power establishment did to Haiti, the Orwellian implications of FISA surveillance legislation, and Jeff Sessions’ idiotic marijuana agenda, as well as some quality articles on his site Truth in Media.
His ideology doesn’t exactly match my own (hell, no one’s perfect), but all in all I see Ben Swann’s return as probably the most interesting thing happening on the alternative media scene right now in terms of the damage he can do to the Orwellian death machine. Pay attention to this guy, follow him on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and when you see him sharing something you like, throw it into the gears of the machine by circulating it far and wide. Thank you.
#MediaWar #propaganda #AlternativeMedia
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/…/the-return-of-ben-swann-may…/
Excerpt from the article:
The report continues with information from reputable sources explaining the spurious and politically motivated basis for labeling North Korea as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, shows data documenting how ineffective sanctions actually are in achieving their purported goals, weaving together facts and figures which culminate in the conclusion that “all that those sanctions truly do is bruise and harm the people in that country who have no real control... over whether there is a war or not.”
The presentation is slick and concise enough to be indistinguishable from a professional mainstream media news broadcast, save for an abundance of information which would never be permitted on mainstream media. It’s a phenomenal resource for anti-imperialists like myself to share around when news breaks as it did today that the Trump administration is stacking even more crushing sanctions upon North Korea.
Ben Swann is an award-winning journalist whose willingness to ask questions you aren’t allowed to ask and share information you aren’t supposed to share has made him a hero of alternative media and an enemy of establishment attack dogs everywhere. He famously disappeared about a year ago after doing a surprising Reality Check report about the Pizzagate controversy on a local CBS affiliate, then deleting his entire social media presence and promising to return. Swann’s social media blackout was reportedly a condition of his remaining employed at the station following the nationwide backlash against his report, but he has publicly said he will be filling us all in on exactly what went down in the near future.
#NorthKorea #DPRK #sanctions #AlternativeMedia
https://medium.com/…/the-return-of-ben-swann-may-be-the-mos…
Excerpt from the article:
“The Russian envoy to North Korea warned President Trump not to place any further sanctions against North Korea or Kim Jong-un surrounding ‘supplies of oil’,” says a clean-cut reporter in a polished, professional newscast presentation. “To do so, he says, would be perceived as a declaration of war.”
Hmm, interesting. What am I watching? CNN?
...“But if we’re going to be honest,” the reporter continues, “aren’t all sanctions an act of war? And why are we putting sanctions on North Korea in the first place?”
Ohhhhhh.
This ain’t CNN.
Meet Ben Swann.
#NorthKorea #DPRK #sanctions #AlternativeMedia
https://steemit.com/…/the-return-of-ben-swann-may-be-the-mo…
Excerpt from the article:
"See how quickly that happened? Bauer wasn’t the first to call on Medium to silence leftist writers like me for our skepticism of an empire with an extensive history of using lies, false flags and propaganda to manufacture support for regime change interventionism against noncompliant nations, and he will not be the last. They get you okay with silencing offensive right-wing voices (who contrary to Bauer’s claim are in this case not even “alt-right” ...by anyone’s standards, including the Anti-Defamation League), then they target the true left, who present the biggest threat to the US oligarchs.
Empire loyalists like Bauer will continue demanding that Medium delete writers like me who unapologetically promote skepticism of establishment narratives involving longtime imperialist targets like Russia and Syria, and they may well succeed, which will set me back a bit since I’ve spent nearly a year building up an audience there.
But that’s the least of our problems. Support for this broader trend of dissenting leftist voices being aggressively silenced has permitted Google algorithm changes to slash the viewership of leftist outlets like World Socialist Web Site, CounterPunch, and Alternet, as well as essential nonpartisan anti-establishment outlets like WikiLeaks, Consortiumnews, and Truthout. I myself have had my account suspended by Facebook for posting an article about known false flag operations around the world, and by Twitter for attacking the Democratic party and the establishment Russia narrative."
#Syria #HandsoffSyria #InternetCensorship
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/…/mother-jones-senior-reporte…/
Going Rogue, episode 37:
The only people cheering for censorship of conservatives on Medium are lefties who haven’t been paying attention and centrists who have.
#Syria #HandsOffSyria #war #censorship
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Excerpt from the article:
"In a corporatist system of government, where corporate power is not separated in any meaningful way from government power, corporate censorship is government censorship. The new empire doesn’t silence dissent using government censorship, it simply refuses them camera time on the plutocrat-owned corporate media and silences the rest via social media corporations. As recently noted by WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, Medium’s CEO is also the ...co-founder of Twitter.
Medium has been good to me thus far and I have never had any issues with censorship there at all, unless you count a moderator once asking me to please stop cursing at people who accuse me of being a Kremlin agent. That will not stop empire loyalists from loudly demanding my removal, and if it happens you can be certain I’ll use the Streisand effect to draw more attention to my work than ever. As I’ve said, my leftist haters are out of ammo and my centrist and right-wing haters only help me, so the only remaining attacks available are the ones which will uplift me.
This broader trend which we are undeniably seeing is extremely pernicious, however, and it should concern us all. The plutocracy which is driving our species toward extinction is far more afraid of the left than they are of the right, which is why they’ve poured unfathomable amounts of resources into sabotaging leftist and civil rights groups with psyops and infiltrations.
Again: the only people celebrating the censorship of conservatives are leftists who haven’t been paying attention, and centrists like Shane Bauer who have been. Censorship is not our friend, my lefty brothers and sisters. Never has been, never will be."
#Syria #HandsOffSyria #war #censorship
https://medium.com/…/mother-jones-senior-reporter-asks-medi…
Excerpt from the article:
When news first broke that Medium, one of my primary blogging platforms, had closed the accounts of Trump-supporting pundits Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer, I tweeted the following in response:
"The only people cheering for this are leftists who haven't been paying attention and centrists who have. This ongoing trend of marginalizing online dissent is already impacting the far left, and will do so more and more. The #MAGA crowd are th...e canaries in the coal mine, lefties."
Hours later, right on cue, prominent Mother Jones Senior Reporter Shane Bauer was singing the praises of Medium's recent account suspensions, and tagged Medium's Twitter account saying they need to take it further and include left-wing writers like myself due to my repeated criticisms of the pro-regime change Syria narrative.
"This is good," Bauer tweeted, "but If @Medium is serious about cracking down on conspiracy theorists, it needs to go beyond the alt-right and reign in the garbage published on Syria by people like @caitoz."
#censorship #Syria #HandsOffSyria
https://steemit.com/…/mother-jones-senior-reporter-asks-med…
