Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone

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The political podcast for clear-eyed rebels and utopia preppers. ---Subscribe on Stitcher(http://bit.ly/2HgCPvw) or subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes (https://apple.co/2oWPa0c).-- Intro theme by Captain Pablo -- Outro theme by Carol Vasquez (bit.ly/2oUFNyX)This podcast is sponsored by Caitlin's patrons. You can support Cait by becoming a patron here -- www.patreon.com/caitlinjohnstone -- or throw a couple of coppers into her hat on PayPal -- www.paypal.me/CaitlinJohnstone or follow Caitlin on Twitter @caitoz -- twitter.com/caitoz

Episodes

  • The Mass Media Used To Publish Perspectives On Ukraine They Would Never Publish Today

    27/01/2023 Duration: 09min

    The other day I stumbled across a 2014 opinion piece in The Guardian titled "It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war" by Seumas Milne, who the following year would go on to become the Labour Party's Executive Director of Strategy and Communications under Jeremy Corbyn. I bring this up because the perspectives you'll find in that article are jarring in how severely they deviate from anything you'll see published in the mainstream press about Ukraine in 2023. It places the brunt of the blame for the violence and tensions in that nation at that time squarely at Washington's feet, opening with a warning that the "threat of war in Ukraine is growing" and saying there's an "unelected government in Kiev," and it only gets naughtier from there. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • The West Is Incentivizing Russia To Hit Back

    26/01/2023 Duration: 08min

    The western alliance has established a policy of continually escalating every time Russia doesn't react forcefully to a previous western escalation, which necessarily means Russia is being actively incentivized to react forcefully to those escalations. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • Hardly Anyone Is Thinking Logically About The Risk Of Nuclear War

    25/01/2023 Duration: 09min

    The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been set since its founding after the second world war. Chief among their reasons for doing so is the increasingly dangerous war in Ukraine. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • "Chinese Aggression" Sure Looks An Awful Lot Like US Aggression

    24/01/2023 Duration: 08min

    US-led provocations and escalations against China are becoming a regular occurrence, both from the US itself and from its imperial assets like Australia and Taiwan. Yet according to the western political/media class, the urgent threat of our day is "Chinese aggression". Reading by Tim Foley.

  • There Is Always Hope, And There Is Always Wonder

    23/01/2023 Duration: 06min

    I often hear talk of how depressing it is to learn the truth about what's really going on in our society and in our world, including in the comments sections of the places my own writings appear. I'm always being asked for advice on how to keep going on when everything seems so dismal. This blog has largely functioned as a space where I document the ongoing expansion of my own awareness and understanding of the world and all its ills, an education which I suspect will continue for as long as I have a functioning brain. But to be honest in the six plus years I've been working at this project I've never once experienced a moment of the despair and depression I hear people talking about, and it's never once occurred to me to give up or stop fighting. Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

  • Let's Nuke The World Over Who Governs Crimea

    22/01/2023 Duration: 07min

    The US empire is telling Moscow "I'm the craziest motherfucker around, I'll keep ramping up the brinkmanship looking you right in the eye and daring you to use nukes," while telling the rest of the world "I am the voice of sanity that you should all look to for leadership." One of the empire's faces is the virtuous upholder of freedom and democracy, while the other face puts on an intimidating show of viciousness like a prisoner biting off someone's cheek in the prison yard. At least one of those faces is necessarily lying. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • In Times Like These

    20/01/2023 Duration: 05min

    In times like these when nuclear warheads are being moved into position, when weapons manufacturers can't keep up with the demand, when the pundits are making everyone stupid and crazy, when it's hard to remember Assange's face but you can't turn on a screen without seeing Zelensky, when our culture is manufactured on conveyor belts in New York, Hollywood, Arlington and Langley, when everything's fake but the bombs and blockades, when it feels like we're rocketing toward armageddon next to Jeff Bezos in a space suit, when it feels like the angels have become smack addicts but have to settle for shitty Fentanyl fixes, when it feels like God got kicked out of the group home and has to sell his plasma and sperm for cash, when it feels like Heaven must be powered by smoggy nineteenth century London coal, when it feels like the angel and the demon on humanity's shoulders are double fucking our ear canals, when the bastards have sleeves full of bottomless aces while we're still trying to learn the rules, when annih

  • US May Help Ukraine Launch An Offensive On Crimea

    19/01/2023 Duration: 05min

    Decamp writes that "The lessening concern about Putin resorting to nukes appears to be based only on the fact that he hasn’t used any up to this point." But this is as logical as believing that it is safe and wise to jump even harder on the sleeping bear you've been jumping on just because the bear hasn't woken up yet. The assumption that because a disaster has not happened in the past it will not happen in the future is a type of fallacious reasoning known as normalcy bias. The assumption that because a disaster has not happened in the past it will not happen in the future, even though you keep doing things to make it increasingly likely, is just being a fucking idiot. It's like Wile E Coyote jumping up and down on the land mine until it explodes because it didn't explode when the Roadrunner ran over it. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • There Are No Innocent Americans

    18/01/2023 Duration: 05min

    If the logic that "there are no innocent Russians" because the Russian people have a moral obligation to overthrow their warmongering government were evenly applied, it would also apply to Americans. Even more so, really, since their government is vastly more warlike than Moscow. Per the "there are no innocent Russians" argument, Americans should be banned from participating in international events. Americans should be kicked out of foreign universities. Cinemas should stop playing Hollywood movies. Hemingway should be banned from schools. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • Why I Publish Art And Philosophy In Addition To News Commentary

    18/01/2023 Duration: 05min

    I get funny reactions from people who are new to my work, often because I don't act like the other indie media figures they follow. I'm unrefined and swear a lot. I engage on social media with both followers and critics far more than most do. I talk about elite conspiracies to create a totalitarian dystopia, but I differ from other conspiracy analysts in that I assert that the dystopia is already here and has been for generations. One of the main things that sets me apart from other people whose names I often get mentioned alongside is that I don't just publish anti-establishment commentary on news and politics and polemics against the empire; I publish art, poetry, philosophical musings, and big-picture assessments of what's going on with humanity as a whole. In case anyone's curious, I have a number of reasons for doing this. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • Recalling CNN's Fraudulent "Interview" With A Seven Year-Old Syrian Girl

    16/01/2023 Duration: 07min

    There's a thread going around on Twitter by Columbia University's Sophie Fullerton advancing the claim that I have promoted crazy conspiracy theories about child "crisis actors" in Syrian war atrocities. Fullerton has me blocked on Twitter so I can't respond to her there, but in her thread she brings up one of the most egregious instances I've ever seen of US war propaganda in the mass media, so it's worth taking some time to unpack her claims here as a public service. The "interview": https://youtu.be/R7MRWhZzL5k Reading by Tim Foley.

  • A Prison Where The Prisoners Don't Know They're In Prison

    15/01/2023 Duration: 07min

    One of the main differences between myself and other commentators who talk about an elite conspiracy to implement a totalitarian dystopia is that the others warn that we are being pushed toward this dystopia, while I insist that we're already there and have been for generations. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • Kids These Days

    13/01/2023 Duration: 02min

    Well you know kids these days they're so entitled
. They'll quit a job just because they don't like it
, or because it doesn't pay enough
, or because they're not grateful for the privilege of turning a gear 
for a silver dollar and an attaboy sammy. And you know kids these days they're scary and strange, 
because what are they doing on them smart phones anyhow
? And how do we keep track of what they're getting up to
 when we can't see it through our front windows 
from between the gaps in the blinds?
 And how are we supposed to mind them 
when we don't understand their jokes or their references, 
or why they're being so nice to freaks? How can we teach them to hate their bodies
 when they insist that all bodies are beautiful? And how can we teach them to fight like a man
 or submit like a woman when they insist that they are neither? And how can we teach them what to think about things when they'd rather watch other kids create content than listen to the pundits we put on TV? And how can we teach them

  • You Are Home

    13/01/2023 Duration: 06min

    You are not separate from the universe. How could you be? The whole thing worked together to give rise to you through an unbroken chain of occurrences over billions of years, and the stuff you are made of comes from the same Great Whatever as everything else. Since the dawn of life on this planet organisms have been exchanging water and other elements back and forth through eating, drinking, reproducing and dying, and you are inseparably one with that dance. And your own elements will not die. When your incredible heart stops beating and the stuff your amazing body is made of begins to come apart, your own molecules will simply continue the dance of the elements that has been going on for billions of years. You won't die, you'll just return. Some elements born of stardust arranged themselves on two legs, looked around, experienced countless wonders, laughed, cried, fell in love, learned and unlearned, and then changed form, like a ripple ceasing its movement and becoming indistinguishable from the surroundi

  • Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers

    11/01/2023 Duration: 11min

    The Washington Post has an article out with the brazenly misleading headline "Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters". Anyone who reads the article itself will find its author Tim Starks acknowledges that "Russian accounts had no measurable impact in changing minds or influencing voter behavior," but the insertion of the word "little" means anyone who just reads the headline (the overwhelming majority of people encountering the article) will come away with the impression that Russian trolls still had some influence on 2016 voters. "Little influence" could mean anything shy of tremendous influence. But the study did not find that Russian trolls had "little influence" over the election; it failed to find any measurable influence at all.  Starks does some spin work of his own in a bid to salvage the reputation of the ever-crumbling Russiagate narrative, eagerly pointing out that the report does not explicitly say Russia definitely had zero influence on the election's outcome, that it doe

  • We've Been Dominated By Narrative Control Since The Dawn Of Civilization

    10/01/2023 Duration: 10min

    The science of modern propaganda arguably got its start over a century ago during World War I when a young Edward Bernays was recruited to help sell the conflict to a reluctant American populace, after which he took what he'd learned on that front and folded it into a lifetime of work on the study of mass-scale psychological manipulation. That was when propaganda as we know it today came into being, with the scientific method applied to the task of refining techniques for manipulating large-scale human behavior using modern media distribution. Those methods have been in research and development this entire time, and have advanced at least as much as our other instruments of warfare have advanced since World War I. But that wasn't the beginning of mass-scale psychological manipulation by the powerful. That has been going on since the dawn of civilization. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • Two Parties Of Capitalist Imperialists: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

    10/01/2023 Duration: 06min

    They don't just call Democrats "communists" and "Marxists" in order to attack Democrats, they do it to disappear the entire giant expanse of political spectrum that exists to the left of the capitalist imperialist Democratic Party. They want you to think that's as far left as it gets. Democrats refer to themselves as "the left" for the same reason. Both mainstream factions work to shrink the Overton window into a tug-o-war between Republican capitalist imperialists and Democrat capitalist imperialists. Between two opposing factions of neoliberal neocons. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • Elon Musk's Twitter Is Still US State-Affiliated Media

    07/01/2023 Duration: 05min

    A couple of months into Elon Musk's control of Twitter, it's fair to say that from an anti-censorship, pro-transparency perspective there have been a few positive results of the platform coming under new management. The revelations from the Twitter Files about US government involvement in influencing a massive social media company's policies and actions have been indisputably newsworthy information that's absolutely in the public interest to have, and some anti-establishment voices have been saying their accounts have been noticeably more visible since the changeover. It's also fair to say at this point that Musk has allowed far more negative practices to continue than he has ended. In an excellent new article titled "Under Musk, Twitter Continues to Promote US Propaganda Networks," Fair.org's Bryce Greene breaks down the many different ways that Twitter is still manipulating the information its users see in ways that serve the interests of the US government. Greene contrasts the wildly unbalanced way media

  • Psychological Tyranny Is Still Tyranny

    07/01/2023 Duration: 06min

    Western “liberal democracies” are just totalitarian regimes with more money and better narrative management. The US-centralized empire controls the global south with bombs, bullets and blockades and controls the rest of us with mass-scale psychological manipulation. Sure it's more pleasant to be sitting where we are rather than at the barrel of the gun, but don't confuse pleasantness with freedom. It's nice that here they let you criticize your government and buy whatever you can afford at the store. It would be pleasant to live in a vat with your brain plugged into a virtual world of endless pleasure, too, but it wouldn't be freedom. Psychological tyranny is still tyranny. Reading by Tim Foley.

  • CNN Recruits Washington's Worst Warmonger The Instant He Leaves Congress

    05/01/2023 Duration: 04min

    CNN has shattered the speed of light in its haste to recruit former representative Adam Kinzinger to its punditry lineup the millisecond he left congress.  Reading by Tim Foley.

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