When you get a chance, what is the media saying about Marianne Williamson?   oh that's right nothing!!

wait Caitlin...wasn't having western government backed state media labeled as such a objectively good thing? it helped pierce the veil of a belief in independent journalism at legacy media sources.

doesn't Elon removing the label signal that they were actually dangerous for western state media and his acquiescence?

Too much interesting stuff happening in the life of the empire to cover in just one article today, so we're doing a three-in-one wrap-up.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Copbots, MSM Compliance, And McCaul's Embarrassing Taiwan Admission

The US State Department's spokesperson Ned Price is being replaced by a man named Matthew Miller. Like Price, Miller has had extensive prior involvement in both the US government and the mass media; Price is a former CIA officer and Obama administration National Security Council staffer who for years worked as an NBC News analyst, while Miller has previously had roles in both the Obama and Biden administrations and spent years as an analyst for MSNBC.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Needs Separation Of Media And State

So when people try to frame Assange's persecution as a matter of public perception and fighting foreign narratives about the US, they are incorrect. The issue is not that Assange's persecution makes the US look bad, the issue is that it proves the US is bad.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US Moral Authority Is Dead And Buried

You couldn't design a more effective totalitarian dystopia than the one we're in right now. One where everyone's brainwashed by propaganda without even knowing it, where everyone thinks, acts, votes and shops exactly as their rulers want them to, all while thinking they are free.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Totalitarian Dystopia Is Already Here

People shouldn't be punished for revealing the secrets of the government, governments should be punished for keeping secrets from the people.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Free Those Who Expose Government Misdeeds, Jail Those Who Try To Conceal Them

The Biden administration's Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action in ways the DOJ says "weaponized" the First Amendment rights of Americans.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden DOJ Indicts Four Americans For "Weaponized" Free Speech

So many emerging technologies would be cause for celebration if our rulers weren't so damn evil and our systems weren't so damn oppressive. In a healthy society we'd be celebrating automation and AI giving us more and more abundance and free time; instead we're terrified of police robots and technocratic dystopia.

The knitting of neurology and technology would have incredible implications if we didn't know sociopathic intelligence agencies would immediately insert themselves into the use of those technologies. Virtual reality would be awesome if it wasn't going to be used to create fake worlds for people to purchase fake goods in so that capitalism can continue expanding while we destroy the real world.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Tech Would Be Fine If We Weren't Ruled By Monsters

There's a lot happening in the life of the empire, so we're doing another multi-story article to wrap it all up. Today we're discussing four stories:

1. Facebook is censoring multiple articles by Seymour Hersh.
2. Weapons industry-funded think tank helps Congress discover that Taiwan needs way more weapons.
3. The New York Times really, really doesn't like RFK Jr.
4. Twitter drops its "state-affiliated media" and "government-funded media" labels.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Today In Empire: War Machine-Funded War Games, Facebook Censors Hersh, And More

So to recap, Australia's foreign policy is being shaped "for decades to come" by an "independent" strategic review that (A) was authored by someone who is compromised by US funding, (B) is being implemented in part by an American former military official, (C) calls for greater and greater cooperation with the United States across the board, and (D) focuses primarily on targeting a nation that just so happens to be the number one geopolitical rival of the United States.

Reading by Tim Foley.

New Defence Review Further Enslaves Australia To US War Agendas

Australia has been paying insiders of the US war machine for consultation on how to run the nation's military, a massive conflict of interest given that Washington has been grooming Australia for a role in its war agendas against China.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Australia Pays Washington Swamp Monsters For War Advice

The US has been increasingly treating Taiwan like a sovereign nation with whom diplomatic relationships and alliances can be formed, in violation of its longstanding One-China policy that has kept the peace for decades. And I just think it's worth noting that the western media who've lately been condoning these moves became outraged at Donald Trump just a few years ago for doing the same thing to a far lesser degree.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Reminder: The Media Once Bashed Trump For Transgressing The One-China Policy The US Now Spits On

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

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