Caitlin Johnstone

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Threads Of Establishment Russia Narrative Trace Back To Neocon Think Tanks

Neocons are shaping the way Americans think and vote, and they all have the same goal: securing the global dominance of the US power establishment at all costs.

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By Caitlin Johnstone

Do you want to know the secret for 100 percent guaranteeing that you will always be on the right side of history for every single foreign policy debate? It takes three very simple steps: Step One: Pick any disputed issue of foreign policy. Step Two: Find out what the dominant neoconservative think tanks are saying about it. Step Three: Advocate

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When Alternative Media Sells Out

The world does not need another MSNBC. The world needs big, powerful voices screaming at the establishment which is inflicting unforgivable evils upon our species, voices which carry, voices with reach, voices which can actually make a difference.

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By Caitlin Johnstone
Cenk Uygur, left, Ana Kasparian, and Steve Oh pose with the 2016 Vision award for "The Young Turks" at the 31st Annual Imagen Awards ceremony, Sept. 9, 2016, in Beverly Hills, CA. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Last August I made a note of the fact that The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur had retweeted a fan who said that he gets his news from Uygur and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, because “they report the REAL NEWS.” I said at the time that this was Cenk’s way of officially formalizing TYT’s position as MSNBC’s ugly little sister. Once a relatively reliable outlet

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Fox News Pundits Who Cheered On Iraq War Suggest Arming Iranian Protesters

These insatiable neocons are talking about this with the same salivating exuberance with which they spoke of arming “moderate rebels” in Libya and Syria.

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By Caitlin Johnstone

Sharing the world with neocons is like living with an Alzheimer’s patient. “I want to go home!” “You are home, Mum. Remember? You live here now with me and Dave? And your grandkids? You’ve been living here for two years. This is your home.” “Oh, okay.” [Two minutes pass.] “I want to go home!” Image via Mint Press News Except they’re not

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US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria

We’ve seen it over and over again. In Libya, western interventionism was justified under the pretense of defending human rights when the goal was actually regime change. In Ukraine, empire loyalists played cheerleader for the protests in Kiev when the goal was actually regime change. And who could ever forget the poor oppressed people of Iraq who will surely greet the invaders as liberators?

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By Caitlin Johnstone

Two weeks ago a memo was leaked from inside the Trump administration showing how Secretary of State and DC neophyte Rex Tillerson was coached on how the US empire uses human rights as a pretense on which to attack and undermine noncompliant governments. Politico reports: The May 17 memo reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat,

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I’ve Been Banned From Facebook for Sharing an Article About False Flags

In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. When there’s no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesn’t make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions.

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Poland | Facebook | Protest

Opinion -- My personal Facebook account, which has the maximum 5,000 friends and an additional 5,000+ followers, has been blocked from posting for three days. My page hasn’t been blocked yet, but we’ll see; I shared the article there, too. The reason given for this ban by the little pop-up boxes when I logged on just now was that a couple months

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NPR Attempts To Undermine WikiLeaks’ Credibility With Deliberate, Brazen Lie

This establishment media tactic of deliberately conflating WikiLeaks’ Twitter account with the actual organization in order to smear its reputation is not a new tactic.

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National Public Radio

As if we needed another reason to want the legacy media to die screaming all alone in an ill-reputed nursing home, National Public Radio has just added one more to the planet-sized pile. NPR, which just Wednesday released an anti-WikiLeaks attack editorial disguised as a movie review, has made a deliberate attempt to tarnish WikiLeaks’ 100%

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