JOHNSTONE
1,116 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 24 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsReadings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.
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This Genocide Is Being Live-Streamed. We Can't Say We Didn't Know.
January 10, 2024 02:22 - 7 minutes - 6.49 MBThis genocide is being live-streamed. We can't say we didn't know. For as long as we live we'll never be able to say we didn't know. Reading by Tim Foley.
Westerners Have An Absolutely Psychotic View Of Airstrikes
January 09, 2024 02:47 - 6 minutes - 5.86 MBCanadian online outlet The Breach has published a letter by CBC's senior manager of journalistic standards Nancy Waugh which highlights perfectly the bizarre psychological relationship that westerners have with bombs and airstrikes in foreign countries. Reading by Tim Foley.
Tony Blinken Is A Cold-Blooded Sociopath
January 08, 2024 02:51 - 5 minutes - 4.62 MBNothing epitomizes the depraved manipulations of the US empire better than Antony Blinken. There is no better representation of that empire than Tony standing there on his mountain of corpses, covered in blood, telling you how sorry he is to learn of the unfortunate accidental deaths of the people he just murdered, staring at you with his cold dead eyes, playing remarkably soulless blues guitar under the light of a bright red moon. Reading by Tim Foley.
I Want For You What You Want For The Palestinians
January 07, 2024 02:14 - 3 minutes - 3.37 MBI want for you whatever you want for the Palestinians. When I say I want for you what you want for the Palestinians, I mean what it is that you really, truly want for them. Not what you pretend to want for the Palestinians. Not what you say you want for the Palestinians when you're in polite company, or when the cameras are on you, or when you're posting online under your real name, or when you're speaking publicly in a language other than Hebrew. I mean I want for you what you actually, tr...
CNN And Washington Post Busted For Pro-Israel Propaganda Shenanigans
January 06, 2024 12:48 - 5 minutes - 5.4 MBBoth CNN and The Washington Post have been caught engaging in some pretty shady journalistic malpractice with their Israel reporting in recent days. Reading by Tim Foley.
It's Insane That Anyone Is Still Supporting Israel
January 05, 2024 12:05 - 4 minutes - 4.34 MBIf you're still supporting Israel at this point, you're just telling everyone you don't care about truth or morality. You're announcing to the world that you care only about your weird ideological agendas and geopolitical control. You are publicly proclaiming that you are a dogshit human being. That you have lived on this earth all these years without arriving at any level of emotional or psychological maturity. That you have wasted your life on this planet. Reading by Tim Foley.
We Are Entirely Too Close To Another Major War In The Middle East
January 04, 2024 13:07 - 3 minutes - 3.43 MB"That risk exists on four fronts: Between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah, in Syria and Iraq due to attacks on US troops by militias aligned with Iran, the Red Sea between the Houthis and the US Navy, and between Israel and Iran following both the assassination of an Iranian general in Syria and the explosion in Kerman today at the commemoration of the death of General Qassem Soleimani that has killed more than 100," Parsi writes. Reading by Tim Foley.
US Admonishes Israeli Officials For Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud About Ethnic Cleansing
January 03, 2024 13:30 - 5 minutes - 5.47 MBThe US State Department has issued a statement indignantly finger-wagging at two Israeli officials who recently drew headlines for openly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Reading by Tim Foley.
I Don't Care What Religion The Genocidal Child Murderers Are
January 02, 2024 13:20 - 6 minutes - 5.5 MBI don't give a fuck if you're Jewish. I don't care what religion you are. If you're murdering thousands of children, the very least significant thing about that situation is what religion you happen to be. I think the overwhelming majority of people on my side see it this way. Reading by Tim Foley.
They're Calling Ethnic Cleansing "Voluntary Migration" Now
January 02, 2024 03:02 - 7 minutes - 7.05 MBIsraeli officials are now openly admitting that they're working on "encouraging" the migration of Palestinians from Gaza, ridiculously claiming that this migration would be "voluntary" despite their having deliberately made the enclave uninhabitable over the last three months. Reading by Tim Foley.
Israel Says It's Anti-Semitic To Invoke The Genocide Convention Against It
December 29, 2023 23:38 - 4 minutes - 3.94 MBSouth Africa has invoked the Genocide Convention, formally launching a case at the UN's international court of justice accusing Israel of genocide for its mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip. Israel immediately responded by (deep sigh) accusing South Africa of "blood libel". Reading by Tim Foley.
How The Hell Did We Get Here?
December 27, 2023 23:41 - 4 minutes - 3.83 MBWe could have been so much more. We have the ability to create a healthy and harmonious world and collaborate to give everyone on earth everything they need, and instead we're killing the biosphere while arguing about whether or not it's anti-semitic to oppose an active genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.
This Can't Be Another Instance Of Genocide : Israel Believes It's Right!
December 26, 2023 23:45 - 3 minutes - 3.11 MBI hear people calling this a genocide, but that's ridiculous. What's been explained to me is that the assault on Gaza is completely different from all the genocidal massacres you've read about in history, because the Israelis believe what they are doing is right. See, this time the ones who are carrying out the mass-scale extermination programs and ethnic cleansing plans have REASONS for doing so. Reading by Tim Foley.
At This Point We Have To Always Assume Israel Is Lying Until Proven Otherwise
December 22, 2023 13:04 - 5 minutes - 4.86 MBA Washington Post investigative report into Israel's attack on al-Shifa Hospital has found that "the evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center." The Post reports it came to this conclusion after "analysis of open-source visuals, satellite imagery and all of the publicly released IDF materials." At this point the default assumption of any thinking person should be that all claims made by Israel ar...
Anne And Joe Argue About The Child-Killing Murder Robot
December 21, 2023 01:36 - 3 minutes - 3.37 MB"I'm not so sure about the Child-Killing Murder Robot," Joe said after a sip of coffee while reading the morning paper. "What??" his wife Anne exclaimed, visibly shocked. "It's killed thousands of kids in its latest murder rampage," Joe said. "I'm starting to think maybe the Child-Killing Murder Robot isn't such a great thing after all."
The Atrocities In Gaza Are The Perfect Embodiment Of ''Western Values'
December 20, 2023 01:51 - 4 minutes - 4.48 MBWhen Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the attack on Gaza as a war "to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization," he wasn't really lying. He was telling the truth - just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it. Reading by Tim Foley.
Going Mask-Off About The Two-State Solution Lie
December 19, 2023 02:28 - 7 minutes - 6.65 MBThere's been a surprising number of recent Israeli government admissions that not only is a two-state solution not on the table, but that it never was. Reading by Tim Foley.
The IDF Are So Good At Killing Israelis They Should Consider Joining Hamas
December 17, 2023 13:30 - 5 minutes - 4.88 MBFriendly fire during October 7, friendly fire on the battlefield in Gaza, friendly fire executions of Israeli prisoners. The IDF are so good at killing Israelis they should start making GoPro videos with red triangles about it. Reading by Tim Foley.
The Biggest Lie We're Being Told About The Gaza Assault Is That It Is Necessary
December 16, 2023 13:05 - 7 minutes - 7.04 MBThe demolition of Gaza is not necessary because there are real pathways to a true and lasting peace which do not require a single bomb to be dropped, and there are also very easy ways to return to the abusive status quo of October 6 without dropping a single bomb. Reading by Tim Foley.
All The Propaganda Is Splattering Against A Solid Wall Of Reality
December 16, 2023 02:03 - 3 minutes - 3.57 MBWhat we are seeing with Gaza is manufactured narrative splatting against reality over and over again. The western empire churns out propaganda narratives about what Israel is doing, and those narratives are crashing headlong into raw video footage and concrete facts in ways you don't often see. Reading by Tim Foley.
Biden Intends To Keep Participating In The Incineration Of Gaza
December 15, 2023 13:05 - 6 minutes - 5.61 MBBiden administration officials are telling the press that they have no plans to place any conditions on military aid to Israel. Reading by Tim Foley,
CNN Goes To Gaza
December 15, 2023 02:02 - 5 minutes - 5.33 MBCNN's Clarissa Ward and her crew became the first western journalists to enter Gaza independent from Israeli forces since October 7, briefly visiting a 150-bed hospital that was recently constructed in a soccer stadium by the United Arab Emirates in the southern part of the enclave before leaving to report on the footage from Abu Dhabi. Reading by Tim Foley.
Gaza Is Deliberately Being Made Uninhabitable
December 13, 2023 02:44 - 5 minutes - 5.19 MBInfectious diseases are tearing through Gaza, whose healthcare system has been rendered almost nonexistent, and people are beginning to starve in massive numbers. All of this is due to concrete policy decisions made by Israel in its horrific assault on the Gaza Strip. Reading by Tim Foley.
Israel Apologists Are Psychopaths
December 12, 2023 02:56 - 4 minutes - 4.18 MBIn the last few days I've seen two separate articles attacking the idea that there are innocent people in Gaza, one from The Times of Israel titled "Innocents in Gaza? Don't be naive" and another from Town Hall titled "There Are No 'Innocent Palestinians'".
"Stop Murdering Thousands Of Children," Said The Evil Crazy Nazi
December 11, 2023 02:07 - 2 minutes - 2.67 MB"Stop murdering thousands of children," said the evil, crazy Nazi. "It's bad to murder children," the monster added. "Children should not be slaughtered at mass scale with powerful military explosives, they should be allowed to remain alive and happy and healthy." Reading by Tim Foley.
Israel Supporters Would Defend Literally Any Israeli Atrocity
December 10, 2023 12:48 - 5 minutes - 5.31 MBIsrael supporters are like, "No no you don't understand, the side that's killing babies and incinerating families and assassinating journalists and starving civilians and bombing cultural heritage sites and carpet bombing entire neighborhoods and driving an indigenous people off their land are the GOOD guys." Reading by Tim Foley.
Only Truth And Clear Seeing Can Lead Us To Peace And Harmony
December 09, 2023 11:55 - 7 minutes - 7.2 MBBut for all the efforts to spin, justify and distract from the mass atrocity Israel and its allies are perpetrating in Gaza, more and more people are opening their eyes to what's happening, and are ceasing to fall for the propaganda any longer. Reading by Tim Foley.
I Will Not Look Away
December 09, 2023 02:08 - 3 minutes - 3.26 MBNo matter how horrific it gets, I will not look away. No matter how many children I see killed and injured in the most gruesome ways imaginable, I will not look away. No matter how much human suffering I see by keeping my gaze on Gaza, I will not look away. Reading by Tim Foley.
For Refaat Alareer
December 08, 2023 12:55 - 3 minutes - 2.87 MBThey killed a poet in Gaza on Wednesday. Well, as much as you can kill a poet, anyway. Kill a poet and his poems fight on. That poet is still throwing his marker at the bastards. A poet may have hands like velveteen mittens, but he can fight on even if he has no hands at all. A poet may have a home made of zip-ties and tarps, but he can fight on even if he sleeps on rubble. A poet can fight on even if he's got no legs. A poet can fight on even if he's got no arms. A poet can fight on even...
If The Pro-Israel Position Was Based On Truth And Morality, It Wouldn't Depend On Lies And Slander
December 07, 2023 12:45 - 3 minutes - 3.42 MBIf your position is based on truth and morality, you don't need to make up lies to defend it, and you don't need to hurl false accusations at those who disagree with it. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn't need to circulate bogus atrocity propaganda about decapitated babies, babies cooked in ovens, and murdered pregnant women. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn't have to circulate lies claiming actual dead Palestinian babies in Gaza are p...
The Official Story Of October Seventh
December 07, 2023 02:44 - 4 minutes - 3.9 MBThe official story is that on October 7, 2023, thousands of evil Hamas terrorists broke out of their walled-in enclave and killed approximately 1,200 Israelis for no reason other than because they were evil and wanted to kill Jews. Nothing was done by the Israeli government to provoke this attack, and nothing of any relevance happened prior to this date. Reading by Tim Foley.
There's Nothing You Can Say To Make Me Accept The Murder Of Thousands Of Children
December 06, 2023 02:15 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBI promise there is nothing you can say to me that will cause me to cease opposing the murder of thousands of children in Gaza. There is no name you can call me, no accusation you can scream at me, no talking point you can regurgitate at me that will ever make me shut up and accept this. Reading by Tim Foley.
The Horrors In Gaza Are Happening Because The US Empire Wants Them To Happen
December 05, 2023 01:52 - 3 minutes - 3.46 MBI came across an interesting quote made last month by a retired Israeli major general named Yitzhak Brick about the ongoing IDF assault on Gaza. "All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it's all from the U.S.," Brick said. "The minute they turn off the tap, you can't keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can't fight this war without the United States. Period." Reading by Tim Foley.
The Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing, Not Defeating Hamas
December 02, 2023 00:44 - 6 minutes - 5.93 MBIsraeli officials keep openly saying again and again that the plan for Gaza is ethnic cleansing, yet the western political/media class adamantly insists on continuing to frame Israel's actions in Gaza solely as a war against Hamas. Hamas isn't the target, it's the excuse. Reading by Tim Foley.
Israel's Savagery Is So Shocking It's Sometimes Hard To Take In
November 30, 2023 01:00 - 4 minutes - 3.98 MBSometimes Israel's crimes are so horrific that at first you don't even understand what you're looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you're seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something. Reading by Tim Foley.
War Is Not Abstracted Anymore
November 28, 2023 13:45 - 7 minutes - 6.55 MBYou can't have an up close and personal relationship with the reality of bombs and all the things they do to human flesh and then go back to the way you were ever again. Millions of western eyes have been changed forever. Reading by Tim Foley.
Hamas Isn't The Target, They're The Excuse
November 27, 2023 02:04 - 5 minutes - 4.94 MBIf you're just tuning in, Israeli intelligence ignored mountains of information that the October 7 attack was coming and left Israelis completely undefended, then the IDF killed significant numbers of Israelis with indiscriminate fire and pinned the blame for 100% of Israeli deaths on Hamas, and all those deaths are now being used as justification to push Gazans off their land to the south and shoot them if they try to return while Israeli officials keep talking about how great it would be to...
Israel Has Damaged Israel's Reputation Far Worse Than Its Enemies Ever Have
November 25, 2023 10:52 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBIsrael has done more to damage Israel's image in the last seven weeks than anti-semites did in the last seven decades. Reading by Tim Foley.
Putin Was Declared A War Criminal For *Relocating* The Same Number Of Children Israel Just *Killed*
November 24, 2023 13:37 - 4 minutes - 4.2 MBIt's probably worth noting at this point in history that the total number of children killed in Gaza has just surpassed the number of children the International Criminal Court indicted Russian president Vladimir Putin for relocating out of a war zone. Reading by Tim Foley.
Never Stop Being Shocked By The Depravity Of The Empire
November 23, 2023 02:09 - 3 minutes - 3.51 MBA friend of mine shared my article about how the Biden administration is worried the pause in fighting will allow journalists into Gaza to show Israel's crimes to the world, saying he knows he shouldn't be surprised by how evil these freaks are but somehow he still is. I told him I actually consciously cultivate the ability to stay surprised by such things. If you stop being surprised when you see the world's most powerful people always finding new and innovative ways to make the world a wor...
White House Fears Pause In Fighting Will Let Journalists See What's Been Happening In Gaza
November 22, 2023 13:33 - 3 minutes - 3.56 MBIn other words, the White House is worried that a brief pause in the Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza will allow journalists to report the truth about the Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza, because it will hurt the information interests of the US and Israel. They are worried that the public will become more aware of facts and truth. Reading by Tim Foley.
This Is The Real Face Of The US Empire
November 22, 2023 02:04 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBSomeone uploaded one of those viral "help identify this racist jerk" clips featuring a man accosting a street vendor with awful Islamophobic vitriol, and it turned out he was the former Deputy Director in the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs for the US State Department. Reading by Tim Foley.
"From The River To The Sea" Is Genocide, But Actual Genocide Is Not Genocide
November 21, 2023 13:04 - 7 minutes - 6.44 MBElon Musk has announced that common pro-Palestine phrases like "from the river to the sea" and "decolonization" are now banned on Twitter and will result in suspension, falsely claiming that they "necessarily imply genocide". Reading by Tim Foley.
Israel Propaganda Vs Palestine Propaganda
November 20, 2023 02:22 - 3 minutes - 3.51 MBIsrael propaganda looks like a music video featuring children singing "we will annihilate everyone" in Gaza. Palestine propaganda looks like an endless stream of raw video footage featuring children whose bodies have been ripped apart by Israeli military explosives. Israel propaganda looks like a music video of Israeli women doing yoga on top of images of the Israeli hostages in Gaza. Palestine propaganda looks like satellite images of entire neighborhoods that have been bombed into rubble...
Israel Doesn't Have A Gen-Z Problem, It Has A Morality Problem
November 19, 2023 02:54 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MBNobody starts out as the sort of person who would support a genocidal bombing campaign that murders children by the thousands. It's something you come into gradually over the years, one moral compromise at a time. Reading by Tim Foley.
It's Impossible To Bomb A Population Into Submission And Obedience
November 17, 2023 12:00 - 8 minutes - 7.92 MBOne of the many, many things that sucks about all this is knowing that when there is a violent retaliation for Israel's actions in Gaza which kills Israeli civilians, Israel will look up with Bambi-eyed innocence and say "What did we ever do to them?? We just want to live in peace!" Reading by Tim Foley.
False Accusations Of Anti-Semitism Exploit A Healthy Impulse To Advance A Profoundly Sick One
November 16, 2023 02:31 - 5 minutes - 5.09 MBThe most despicable thing about the way Israel supporters smear all Israel critics as anti-semites is that they are exploiting a very healthy impulse to advance a profoundly sick impulse. They knowingly exploit the fact that the further to the left someone is on the the political spectrum the more likely they are to (A) support Palestinian rights and (B) be very receptive to any suggestion that they might be acting in a racially insensitive way. Reading by Tim Foley.
They're Just Insulting Our Intelligence At This Point
November 15, 2023 12:28 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MBIf Israel's position were based on truth and morality it wouldn't be churning out a nonstop deluge of obvious lies. No one believes anything Israel says anymore. You either know Israel lies constantly or you know it but pretend you don't. Reading by Tim Foley.
The US Has A Standing Policy Of Ignoring The Human Rights Violations Of Its Allies
November 15, 2023 00:46 - 7 minutes - 6.48 MBUS National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has been repeatedly refusing to tell the press whether he believes Israel has been following the laws of war in Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.
Tone Policing Opposition To Genocide
November 14, 2023 02:54 - 7 minutes - 6.87 MBUS senator Chris Coons sat across from journalist Aaron Maté on the train on Monday, which is about the worst place you could possibly choose to sit if you're a powerful official in a government that's in the middle of backing an active genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.