Caitlin Johnstone Quotes

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. The empire is losing control of the narrative.

There is nothing moderate about an ideology of endless mass military slaughter abroad and ever-tightening authoritarianism and economic exploitation at home.

If you’re willing to sacrifice all principles, all sanity and all morality to get rid of Trump, what exactly is the point of getting rid of Trump?

Can’t work toward peace in Ukraine because it will serve Putin. Can’t work toward peace in Yemen because it will serve Iran. Can’t end the occupation of Syria because it will serve Assad. Can’t stop military expansionism because it will serve China.
Maybe they’re just warmongers.

War is the single worst thing in the world. It’s the most insane thing humans do. The most ruinous. The most traumatizing. The least sustainable.

Becoming more conservative as you age isn’t maturity, it’s an admission that your values are based entirely on securing your own net worth.

If you’re not forcefully opposing your government’s warmongering and imperialism, then the rest of your politics are irrelevant, because they are false. A sincerely antiwar right-winger with all the wrong positions on all other issues is still a much better person than you are.

People who condemn Palestinian retaliation against their oppressors have no real answers for what Palestinians should do instead, besides nothing and die.

Western news media is just one big circle jerk of bootlicking assholes seeking validation from other bootlicking assholes.

Ultimately this is just Palestinians doing what they feel they need to do out of total desperation… There are a lot of people I could blame for their being in those circumstances, but the very last on that list would be the victims of the abuse themselves.

Let’s be clear: when journalists use their power and privilege to cover up and divert attention from war crimes, they become war criminals themselves.

Mainstream news does not exist to tell you the truth about the world. The mainstream news exists to advance the interests of its wealthy owners and the status quo upon which they have built their kingdoms.