by CAITLIN JOHNSTONE Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is already here and has been in place for many years, you just haven’t…
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By CAITLIN JOHNSTONE The frogs are dropping dead in Australia, and no one knows why. They get sick from some strange new frog pandemic and change colors and…
By CAITLIN JOHNSTONE The mass media are churning out articles and news segments commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, many of them featuring adoring retrospectives of…
By Caitlin Johnstone A new BBC report shows eyewitnesses at the scene of the deadly Kabul airport explosion on Thursday saying that a significant number…
AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE A new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced as a result…
AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE Consumerism is unsustainable. Competition is unsustainable. Imperialism is unsustainable. Our species is standing on the brink of an extinction-level event due to…
AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE The only interesting thing about either of the conventions held by America’s two mainstream political parties this month was not anything…
AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE In what it calls an effort to make itself “a more reliable source for election-related news and information,” YouTube has announced that it will…
AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE Do you want to win this thing? Actually win it? By that I mean, do you actually want to create a…
AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE Do not let the news man train you how to see. Do not let the pundit train you how to feel. Do…
I wouldn’t invest any emotional energy in the hope that things will eventually return to normal. They won’t. The good news is that what we…
It’s very bizarre and dissonant how there are currently two separate and non-overlapping lines of criticism going on against the campaign of establishment-anointed Democratic presidential candidate Joe…
There’s a scene from John Steinbeck’s The Pearl that’s been coming back to me over and over again ever since I started writing about US politics. I…