Recent comments from a wealthy Australian property developer named Tim Gurner are going viral on social media right now for the unusual frankness with which he discusses the inherent conflicts of interest between the working class and employers, saying workers who've grown lazy and arrogant during Covid need to experience economic pain in the form of unemployment to rein them in and put them in their place.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Wealthy Capitalist Accidentally Makes Great Argument For Revolution

Vladimir Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum on Tuesday that he wouldn't expect any meaningful changes in US policy toward Russia if former president Donald Trump secures re-election next year.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Putin Doesn't Think US Foreign Policy Will Change If Trump Is Re-Elected (And He's Probably Right)

The US Air Force is clearing out jungles in the Pacific and replacing them with airfields for its coming war with China,
because there exist people on this earth who look at a jungle and think, "This should be replaced with an airfield to prepare for a war with China."

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

The US Air Force Is Clearing Out Jungles In The Pacific To Prepare For War With China

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

The Twitter account of America's 44th president just casually shared some links to organizations providing relief to the victims of the terrible flooding in Libya, which as of this writing has already killed thousands of people.

And that would of course be a fine and normal thing for America's 44th president to do - had America's 44th president not personally played a massive role in paving the way to the devastation we're seeing in Libya today.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Barack Obama Belongs In A Fucking Cage

We must never let ourselves become desensitized to this. To any part of this.
We must never cease appreciating the sun on our skin and the wind in our hair, and we must never cease being shocked by the fact that there are people whose entire job is to push for more war.
We must never lose our sense of wonder at the birds in the air, and we must never lose our sense of horror at the fact that there are people who profit from war and militarism and lobby for more of it at every opportunity.

Reading by Tim Foley.

We Must Never Let Ourselves Become Desensitized To This

A very confused and distressed young man wandered into our home on Sunday and began acting erratically. He was clearly suffering from a severe mental illness, probably schizophrenia, and from his nice clothes yet disheveled appearance I'm guessing he had a home somewhere but had been on the street for a few days.

Reading by Tim Foley.

On Escalation, De-Escalation, And "Deterrence"

During a Sunday appearance on Face the Nation to plug his new Zelensky movie, actor Sean Penn decried the "cowardice" of the US government in its caution around provoking a nuclear exchange with its proxy warfare in Ukraine.

Reading by Tim Foley.

On The Idiotic Notion That It's Brave To Support Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine

"War is good for business."

So reads a quote from an arms industry executive in a recent Reuters article titled "At London arms fair, global war fears are good for business" about Europe's biggest arms show, the biennial Defence and Security Equipment International. You will probably be unsurprised to learn that Reuters does not name the war profiteer whose quote inspired their headline.

Reading by Tim Foley.

War Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society

Whenever I talk about the rapidly increasing number of US military bases and operations surrounding China I get empire simps telling me "But the people in those countries WANT us there!" Okinawa shows it's always been a nonconsensual relationship disguised as a consensual one.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Okinawa Disproves The US Narrative About Overseas Bases

So while I am talking about a future civilization that sounds utopian, I am also talking about the only kind of future civilization that can possibly exist. If there are future generations, they will necessarily be living in a society that functions in a completely different way than our current one does.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Unprecedented Times Call For Unprecedented Measures

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

We Must Never Let Ourselves Become Desensitized To This

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