This civilization is not your friend. Hopefully someday we'll live in a civilization whose component parts we can trust, but this civilization is rife with poison for our bodies, our minds, and our hearts. And we need to conduct ourselves in accordance with this reality if we want to be healthy.

Reading by Tim Foley.

You Can't Trust Any Part Of This Dystopia If You Want Health And Sanity

What are they going to do, win the young back by writing another Wall Street Journal think piece? Have Netanyahu rap about how Zionism is rad while Tony Blinken plays guitar? They’ve got nothing.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing The War Machine Is Cool Again, And The Empire's Getting Nervous

Don’t let anyone tell you your protests don’t make a difference or your dissident speech poses no threat to the powerful. If what you’re doing wasn’t working, empire managers wouldn’t be losing their minds right now.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

The imperial murder machine has many strengths, but it also has weaknesses.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Protest And Dissent Can Absolutely Push The Empire To Retreat On Gaza

Israel supporters are such psychopathic war sluts that they're currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won't give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah.

Reading by Tim Foley.

When Opposing Genocide Is Seen As Radical, Radicalism Becomes A Moral Imperative

I don't spend my time attacking the US war machine because I have any special love for Hamas, Iran, Russia, China, or any other power. I do it because the US empire is quantifiably the most destructive and tyrannical force on this planet, by an extremely massive margin.

Reading by Tim Foley.

I Criticize The US Power Alliance Because It's The Most Destructive Force On Earth

It's actually a brilliant self-reinforcing scam. It works like this:

Step 1: Murder people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".

Step 2: This causes people to hate you and your allies and to want to retaliate with violence.

Step 3: Designate these people "terrorists".

Step 4: Send more war machinery to the region to go fight "terrorism".

Step 5: Murder more people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".

Do you see how this cycle would repeat over and over again, leading to more and more US military expansionism in the middle east? That's exactly what we've been seeing, and it's exactly what the US empire wants.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East

While the antiwar zeitgeist has been quite understandably focused on the genocide in Gaza, over the past few weeks we've been seeing some very disturbing reports about empire managers ramping up nuclear brinkmanship escalations in Ukraine that are worth going over.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Meanwhile, We're Still WAY Too Close To Nuclear Armageddon

Anyone who's been following the Gaza genocide on social media today will be seeing this phrase "legally killed child" alongside footage of children ripped apart by Israeli military explosives in a civilian displacement camp.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Massacres Children, Which The Western Press Says Is Fine

Well it finally happened: Biden is now letting Ukraine strike Russian territory with US-supplied weapons. Escalations in nuclear brinkmanship which would have been unthinkable a few short years ago are becoming increasingly common as Ukraine loses more and more territory and runs out of soldiers to fight.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Lets Ukraine Strike Russia With US Weapons While Ukraine Attacks Russian Nuclear Defenses

Cynthia Vigil was never charged with any crime because anyone could see that violent force was an entirely understandable and legitimate response to having been kidnapped and subjected to horrific treatment. It never at any time occurred to anyone to say that she should have acted differently, and it most certainly never occurred to anyone to make her single act of desperate violence the major story instead of the fact that there was a serial killer who'd been abducting women and torturing them in his murder dungeon.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Why I Don't Condemn Hamas For October 7

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

When Opposing Genocide Is Seen As Radical, Radicalism Becomes A Moral Imperative

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