Nuclear weapons and doomsday cultism are poor bedfellows.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Mike Huckabee Is A Deranged Armageddon Cultist

Tulsi Gabbard Is A Warmongering Asshole

Do Israel's supporters know it's over for them? Like, they know they're going to be despised for the rest of their lives, right? That they will never, ever live down the fact that they supported a live-streamed genocide? And that it will only get worse for them as history clarifies things?

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Supporters Will Be Despised For The Rest of Their Lives

I am really not looking forward to all the melodramatic victim-LARPing if and when Iran kills US military personnel stationed in west Asia. The US is the only nation on earth that can rival Israel in its ability to play the victim when the ball they’ve thrown at the wall bounces back.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Trump Has Bombed Iran. What Happens Next Is His Fault

He's rolling out the George W Bush playbook for regime change war and playing it note for note, while still trying to ride the support he garnered with his populist messaging about draining the swamp and ending the wars.

Reading by Tim Foley.

George Dubya Trump Seeks Regime Change In Iran

It's like this administration is doing everything it can to vindicate those who accuse it of being Israel First instead of America First.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US State Department Spokeswoman Says Israel Is Greater Than America

The US empire and Israel both exist in a perpetual state of war and attack other countries constantly; Iran never invades other countries and avoids war like Melania Trump avoids missionary position. But we're meant to accept that it's fine for the US and Israel to have nukes and do anything necessary to prevent Iran from getting any?

Reading by Tim Foley.

Iran Shows Us Why The US And Israel Should Not Be Allowed To Have Nukes

There is nothing you can say to me that will make me stop opposing Israel's western-backed atrocities.
Call me an antisemite or a Nazi or any name you want. The name-calling stopped having any effect a long time ago.
Babble about October 7 and Hamas and hostages all you wish. I've stopped listening to you.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Dear Israel Apologist

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its crazy lunatic government will flip out and nuke us all.

Watch out for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, those guys are a bunch of maniacal antisemites who want to attack Israelis just because they’re Jewish.

Oh no, Putin is invading Ukraine completely unprovoked because he’s a madman who hates freedom and won’t stop until he’s conquered all of Europe.

China is building up its military because the megalomaniacal Xi Jinping wants to take over the world; all those US military bases surrounding China are just a defensive measure to contain Beijing’s insanity.

Assad just went nuts one day and started slaughtering his own people out of nowhere.

Gaddafi is a sexual sadist who’s giving Viagra to his troops to help them commit mass rapes in Libya.

Saddam Hussein is so crazy and evil he’s trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction to give Americans another 9/11.

The North Koreans used to be far too insane to be allowed to have nuclear weapons because they’d nuke San Francisco immediately, but after they obtained nuclear weapons they were miraculously cured of this rare psychological disorder.

The stories of the western empire ask us to believe that everyone who finds themselves in the imperial crosshairs is an irrational actor whose loony behavior can only be attributed to some uncontrollable defect within their own minds, or who will soon snap and do something nutty if they are not contained by force.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Fictional Mental Illness That Only Affects Enemies Of The Western Empire

The more exposed Israel's criminality becomes, the more absurd the arguments made in its defense are getting.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Netanyahu Says It's Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities

Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Party primary in the New York City mayoral race after a frenetic smear campaign to portray him as an antisemite for his pro-Palestinian views, and now all the world's worst people are freaking out about it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Uh-Oh! Political Antisemitism Smears Have Stopped Working!

Do something every day to help undermine public perception of the empire.

Draw attention to its abuses in places like Gaza.

Get people laughing at its absurdities and hypocrisies.

Spread distrust in the imperial propaganda services known as the western press by spotlighting their deceptions and manipulations.

Help people to recognize all the ways their government is screwing them over for the benefit of the rich and powerful.

Facilitate the collective dawning of the realization that everything westerners have been taught about their society and their world is a lie.

Help people to understand that it really, truly does not need to be this way.

Use every means at your disposal to help open up the next pair of eyelids to the ugly reality of the empire.

Cultivate a habit of daily acts of sabotage against the imperial machine. There is always something you can do.

You cannot defeat the machine by yourself, but you can do something every day to help tilt our society’s collective consciousness toward tearing it down together.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Practice Small, Daily Acts Of Sabotage Against The Imperial Machine

Anyone who has had the misfortune of knowing a manipulative narcissist has seen all these patterns before. The self-centeredness. The hypocrisy. The horrific abuse, followed by collapsing into blubbering victimhood the second the abuse is called out. The aggressive efforts to control the narrative and frame all critics and rivals as evil monsters. It's a very familiar playbook.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Supporters Are Exhausting, Insufferable Narcissists

Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival was a historical landmark moment for the 21st century, and the group’s persecution at the hands of western governments is once again highlighting the way our society’s purported values of free thought and free expression go right out the window wherever Israel is concerned.

But one thing that’s not getting enough attention is the fact that many, many other acts also spoke out in support of Palestine at that same festival, and that the crowd was full of attendees waving Palestinian flags. Supporting Palestine and opposing Israel’s genocidal atrocities is just what’s cool now.

This is a massive cultural development, because it means we are seeing the emergence of actual, meaningful rebellion in western counterculture for the first time arguably since the Vietnam War. The artists and their fans aren’t just talking the talk of sticking it to the establishment anymore.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Has Accidentally Caused The Rebirth Of Real Counterculture In The West

Welcome to the empire, where peace activists are called terrorists, where hospitals are called military bases, where facts are called blood libel, where people opposing genocide are called hateful Nazis, where genocidal soldiers are a protected group and chanting for their death is a hate crime.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Anti-Genocide Activism Is Terrorism In The Empire Of Lies

As Australia's dear friend Israel announces its plan to move Gaza's entire population into concentration camps to prepare them for deportation and murder them if they refuse, the Australian government is laser-focused on tackling the problem of  — you guessed it  — antisemitism.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Australia Unveils Plan To Fight "Antisemitism" By Crushing Free Speech

It really is nuts how a young person can fly to Israel and go play genocide games in Gaza for a while and then just fly back to their own country and expect to be treated like a normal member of society like it's some kind of genocide summer camp.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Genocide Summer Camp, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

If you want to really live an awake and inspired life, you've got to blaze your own trail. You've got to unlearn everything you've been told about what a life properly lived would look like, and write your own rules. Because the rules everyone else has been playing by were written by madmen.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Don't Take Instruction On How To Live Your Life From A Stark Raving Mad Society

The Good Guys are building concentration camps in Rafah
and massacring civilians trying to obtain food.

The Good Guys are circling the planet with hundreds of military bases
and telling us we're not allowed to oppose genocide.

Yesterday I saw a little girl playing
and I thought how nice it is that she has all her limbs
and that she is not lying still
covered in gray dust
while her father screams and cries
and calls out to God
while trying to kiss her back to life.

The world is changed now.
The moon is covered with powdered buildings.
The pigeons are weeping 
and the wind sounds like drones.
Sometimes I cough and gray dust comes out.
Sometimes it's a child's shoe.
There's a dead donkey lying in my backyard
that nobody wants to talk about.

The Australians chat about real estate investments
and how you can knock down one house
and replace it with two houses
and then make believe that neither house
smells like corpses.

The news man tells us the corporations
are just dumping the products directly into the Pacific now
while clinging tightly to the edge of the screen
so the black hole doesn't pull him in.

Everything's fine, the news man yells,
and the system is working perfectly.
We are the Good Guys after all.
We are, after all, the Good Guys.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Good Guys

Of course they'd try to silence our speech. Of course they'd try to send our kids off to war with Iran. Of course they'd work to manipulate our government. Of course they'd pollute the information ecosystem with mountains of lies. They support a live-streamed genocide. They're bad people.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If You're Still Supporting Israel In 2025, There's Something Wrong With You As A Person

Saying you support funding Israel's "defensive weapons" while opposing sending it "offensive weapons" is as nonsensical as saying you would never give a mass shooter guns and ammunition, but you would give him body armor to keep him safe from the police. You're helping him commit mass murder just as much as you would be if you gave him guns and ammo. Kings didn't arm their knights with shields and armor so that they could live long and fulfilling lives, they did it so the knights would live long enough to kill the people the kings wanted killed.

Reading by Tim Foley.

AOC Is A Genocidal Con Artist

Gaza isn’t starving, it is being starved. And the people who are starving it have names and addresses.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Gaza Isn't Starving, It Is Being Starved

The mass atrocity in Gaza is a genocide, obviously, and is an undisguised ethnic cleansing operation.

But it's also a lot more than that.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's A Genocide, But It's Also So Much More Than That

Those tiny skeletal bodies you're seeing on your social media feed are the fruits of the empire. The shredded, eviscerated, decapitated children you've been seeing in footage from Gaza since 2023 are the fruits of the empire. This is known now, and it can never be unknown.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Know Them By Their Fruits

I will probably spend the foreseeable future periodically reminding the world that when everyone was angry at Israel for starving children in Gaza, Israel's apologists spent days loudly proclaiming that no, they were actually just starving SICK children.

As their DEFENSE they said this. They actually believed this helped their case.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Apologists Think "No No, We're Starving SICK Kids!" Is A Winning Argument

The IDF is of course claiming that al-Sharif was Hamas, because that's what they always do. They've been murdering a historically unprecedented number of journalists and defending their systematic effort to blind the world to their actions in Gaza by claiming that every journalist they kill is Hamas. The journalists are Hamas, the hospitals are Hamas, the UN is Hamas, the peace activists are Hamas, the demonstrations are Hamas, telling the truth is Hamas, human empathy is Hamas, objective reality is Hamas. It's all Hamas.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Assassinates More Journalists To Hide Its Planned War Crimes

Things are so fucked up that the only way to get wounded Palestinian children in and out of the United States for medical treatment these days would be to disguise them as Israeli pedophiles.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Treats Israeli Pedophiles Nicer Than Wounded Palestinian Kids

They simply look at the actions of October 7 from the prism of their own experience as a comfortable western suburbanite on the other side of the world and think, “I would never conduct such an attack; I am much too virtuous and compassionate.”

No you’re just too comfortable and coddled, and you’re too much of an emotional infant to consciously put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empathy And Humility

Saying "I support a two-state solution" does not release you from your moral obligation to ferociously oppose a genocide backed by your own government.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Dear Western Liberal,

This is just what happens when bad people in your life reveal an ugly truth about themselves. If you learn that someone in your life is cool with their government supporting a genocide, you can just sort of let your feelings and natural inclinations lead the way on that.

Reading by Tim Foley.

"What About My Friends Who Don't Care About Gaza?", And Other Questions

Make no mistake about where the moral authority stands here. This isn’t something we need to be on the defense about. It’s something we need to be on the attack about.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing An Ongoing Genocide Requires No Justification

He hung up a sign that said Secretary of War,
snapped a picture for the socials,
shut the door,
took a swig of Jameson straight from the bottle,
then sat down and fondled the revolver in his desk drawer
like a little boy playing with his penis.

Visions of cruise missiles danced through his head,
aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines
and tiny middle eastern bodies blown to bits by glorious inventory.
Mushroom clouds flashed in his eyes
as he caressed the trigger with an index finger.

"They call me the Secretary of War," he said.
"They call me the Secretary of War."

He did not feel the robins in his chest
or hear the red-winged blackbirds trilling in his hair.
The electricity of the flesh was a stranger to him.
Exuberance was a deadbeat dad who never called.

Outside the Pentagon walls a cicada roared unnoticed
and the grass sang ancient hymns to the sun god.
People bustled in and bustled out,
their minds buzzing with Palantir porn,
their lips casting spells of Raytheon and ruin.

Under the rubble of a far away building
a child reached out a hand in the darkness.
Her cries were silenced by gulps of whiskey
in the office of the Secretary of War.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Secretary Of War

In the UK a terrorist is someone with a cardboard sign saying "I support Palestine Action".

In the US a terrorist is a Venezuelan suspected of drug trafficking.

In Israel a terrorist is someone resisting occupation.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Word "Terrorist" Becomes More And More Of A Joke By The Day

In a sense all I'm ever really pointing  at here is the importance of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility as westerners for the suffering and destruction inflicted upon the world by the western power structure that we live under.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Westerners Have A Moral Responsibility To Help Curb The Empire's Abuses

A drone appears to have struck a boat from the Global Sumud Flotilla while it was docked at a Tunisian port on its way to bring aid into Gaza, temporarily starting a fire. Nobody on board was harmed. The boat was reportedly crewed by the same activists who had attempted to sail to Gaza on the Madleen this past July, including Greta Thunberg.

And it is here worth noting that Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir recently said that Global Sumud Flotilla activists must be designated as terrorists and treated accordingly, in order to "create a clear deterrent" against foreign parties attempting to bring aid into Gaza by sea.

It is no mystery who the prime suspect is in this attack.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Just Bombed Greta Thunberg's Boat

Recent hours have seen too much Israeli depravity to write about, including an assassination strike in Qatar to sabotage peace talks, a second drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and a Guardian article featuring an IDF sniper who discussed killing civilians like a trophy hunter talking about game animals.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Some Days There's Just Too Much Israeli Psychopathy To Write About

The assassin appears to have been able to successfully escape after the killing, so nothing is known about what their motives were. Rightists are braying for civil war and demanding sweeping new authoritarian measures to crush what passes for the political "left" in the United States these days, based on nothing but vibes and feelings.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Thoughts On The Assassination Of Charlie Kirk

You cannot become a high-level pundit, politician or political operative in either mainstream party without being an evil piece of shit. It's part of the job description, because the job requires you to make excuses for the abuses of a globe-spanning empire which is fueled by human blood.

Reading by Tim Foley.

ALL Mainstream American Political Pundits Are Evil Scumbags

The McDonald's flag at Guantanamo Bay was lowered to half-mast in honor of the GOP swamp creature who was assassinated by a sniper the day before 9/11, which I think we can all agree is the most American thing that has ever happened.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Lowered The McDonald's Flag Half-Mast At Guantanamo

It's probably worth flagging the fact that the president of the United States is promoting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth to restrict information in a suggested law called the "Charlie Kirk Act".

Reading by Tim Foley.

Trump Promotes A "Charlie Kirk Act" To Establish A Ministry Of Truth

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

Caitlin Johnstone

Popular tracks