Most mainstream western reporting on Chinese military activity essentially amounts to "OMG you guys China isn't just passively sitting there while we militarily encircle it and prepare to attack it!"

Reading by Tim Foley.

Evil, Scary China Refuses To Passively Let Us Encircle It

The US government is far more abusive, destructive and tyrannical than the Chinese government and Americans are far more indoctrinated by propaganda than Chinese people. Americans don't even know they're continually ingesting US empire propaganda to inform their worldview, and they live under the most abusive regime on earth.

There's this weird propaganda two-step being performed where westerners are being told over and over and over again that Chinese people live in a freakish backwards mind-controlled dystopia, but somehow we westerners do not.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Americans Are More Propagandized Than Chinese People

One of the most brilliant propaganda maneuvers the managers of the US empire have pulled off lately is splitting the debate over US military policy along partisan lines, with one side supporting aggressions against Russia and the other preferring to focus aggressions on China. In this way they've ensured that mainstream discourse remains an argument over how US warmongering should occur, rather than if it should.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Dupe People Into Debating War With Russia Vs War With China, Instead Of War Itself

A lot of empire sycophancy hides behind the fact that it's always permissible to retrospectively oppose US wars that already happened, but not the current one. It's permitted now to say the destruction of Vietnam and Iraq and Libya were mistakes, for example, but if you said it at the time people would treat you like a monster and call you all kinds of names.

And it's important to understand that this is still happening today. One day it will be permissible to say in mainstream circles that it was wrong for the US empire to deliberately provoke the war in Ukraine and keep it going as long as possible to bleed Russia, but it's taboo to say that now, because the empire hasn't yet accomplished all its goals in Ukraine.

They always act like the most recent interventionist disaster was the final one. They always act like the hawks may have been wrong all those other times but they're not wrong now. And then when they've killed everyone they wanted to kill and grabbed everything they wanted to grab and there's no possibility of losing anything they gained, it will suddenly become permissible to make the present disaster the final one while they assure us the next one is completely righteous.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Always Opposing Past Wars But Never The Present One

Mitch McConnell just froze up in public again, the second such incident in the last few weeks.

He just stood there silently -  a gentle, childlike smile flickering across his face, probably for the first time since the Truman administration.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Mitch McConnell's Brief Flash Of Humanity

In trying to get people to care about warmongering and imperialism what we're really trying to do is get people to widen their circle of compassion to the furthest extent possible. To extend their care for the people around them to include caring about violence and abuse against people even on the other side of the world.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing The Empire Means Widening Our Circles Of Compassion

I'm seeing Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy building up a lot of credibility in some antiwar circles, which is ridiculous because he's clearly just another disgusting warmonger. He is not meaningfully different from all the other warmongers in the DC swamp.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Just Another Disgusting Warmonger

The British billionaire-owned newspaper The Telegraph has an appalling new article out which reads like a paid advertisement for a missile manufactured by Lockheed Martin. The title even sounds like it was written by a marketing team: "A war-winning swarm missile will knock China out of Taiwan - fast", subtitled "Rapid Dragon is a military gamechanger that provides the US Air Force with a crucial edge in the Pacific".

Reading by Tim Foley.

Think Tanks Are Information Laundering Ops For War Profiteers

In March of 2016 the renowned Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger published an article titled "A world war has begun. Break the silence." which urgently warned of the US empire's aggressive escalations against Russia and China. Re-reading parts of it in 2023 is like watching someone placing flags next to recently planted seeds that would eventually grow into the towering problems our world now faces.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Revisiting John Pilger's 2016 Warnings About US Warmongering Against Russia And China

Part of growing up is learning that laws do not exist to prevent wrongdoing, they exist to keep society moving in an orderly way for the benefit of the world's worst perpetrators of wrongdoing. None of the world's worst people are in prison. Most of them are quite wealthy and respected, because they benefit from the abusive status quo that laws are set up to protect.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Laws Don't Exist To Prevent Wrongdoing

The Wall Street Journal put an article out a few days back titled "In Defense of the Defense Industry" and subtitled "Populists of the right and left attack U.S. companies that make weapons. Who do they think protects us?" And it's exactly what it sounds like: the author defending war profiteers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin from critics of the military industrial complex.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Most Wall Street Journal Op-Ed In The History Of Wall Street Journal Op-Eds

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

Mitch McConnell's Brief Flash Of Humanity

Caitlin Johnstone

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