https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/cheney-should-have-died-alone-in

>> I don’t find comfort in the idea that Cheney is burning in hell now, because I do not believe in hell. I don’t find comfort in the idea that the empire will become less murderous and abusive in Cheney’s absence, because it won’t.

>> I find comfort in the fact that, after all these years, I am finally walking around on a planet that I do not have to share with Dick Cheney.

>> It’s a nice experience. Give it a try. Take a few steps and notice how you are at long last walking around on an earth that doesn’t have Dick Cheney on it. Look up at the sky and reflect on the fact that you and Dick Cheney are not living underneath that sky together anymore. Breathe deeply and think, “Today is the first day of life without Dick Cheney.”

>> It’s pretty sweet. I find that something in me relaxes a bit. Something subtle in my animal body is very relieved that he is gone now.

>> That’s good enough for me. I’ll take it.

They Really Think They'll Be Able To Propagandize The World Into Liking Israel Again (Caitlin's Newsletter, 2025-10-06)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-really-think-theyll-be-able
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>> Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.

>> Now that everyone’s aware that Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post to churn out propaganda on its behalf, whenever you see a video online of some young social media-savvy personality promoting pro-Israel narratives you see their replies flooded with memes and jokes about their $7k jackpot...

>> ... The world’s eyes are open to what Israel is, and they are never going to close again. You can’t take off the Mickey Mouse mask, show the kids the snarling Freddy Krueger face underneath it, and then put the mask on and hope they start calling you Mickey again. Nobody’s going to forget what you showed them.

#CaitlinJohnstone #palestine
@palestine

#GretaThunberg is being singled out for #abuse by #Israel after being kidnapped with the rest of the #SumudFlotilla crew. According to #CaitlinJohnstone, she was forced to kiss an Israeli flag and is being held in a cell with bedbugs and not enough food.

Some #GoodNews, however, while Israel was intercepting the flotilla, their #ships were away from #Gaza and unable to enforce the #fishing ban. According to Mahfuz Talukder, #Palestinians in Gaza were able to catch and distribute #fish.

Debating Israel Supporters Is Pointless, Because They Don't Care About Facts Or Morality (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-08-10)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/debating-israel-supporters-is-pointless
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>> … [Israel supporter‘s] goal is never to communicate or to have a conversation, it’s to advance the information interests of a genocidal apartheid state... You’re dumping your mental and emotional energy into a black hole, and they are happy to have you waste your energy in that way.

>> … if you come up with something interesting to say to someone who’s defending Israel’s atrocities, just turn it into real content for people who are being real. Make a tweet, a blog post, a video, a zine, an email to your local member — something you can aim in a useful direction rather than a completely useless one.

#CaitlinJohnstone #Hasbara
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

Some clarity, once again, from #caitlinjohnstone #extremism #empire #colonialism

JOHNSTONE: The Real Violent Extremists Are The Freaks Who Run The US Empire

Episode webpage: https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-real-violent-extremists

Media file: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2177072064-going_rogue-the-real-violent-extremists.mp3

Israel Is Committing Genocide. This Is A Fact, Not An Opinion. (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-09-17)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-committing-genocide-this
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>> … As the old adage goes, if one side says it’s raining and the other says it isn’t, your job isn’t to quote both sides, your job is to look out the window.

>> The window’s right there, western media. And it’s pouring genocide.

#StopGenocide #CaitlinJohnstone
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

This article contains disturbing images of children starving in Gaza.
Required viewing for all supporters of the US/Israel expansion project in the Middle East.

https://substack.com/redirect/ce7fb202-5a48-49cf-b27b-b3df518d062d

"Why Doesn't Hamas Release The Hostages?", And Other Reader Questions (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-08-22)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/why-doesnt-hamas-release-the-hostages
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>> … Netanyahu has explicitly said that Israel’s attack will not end until Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan to permanently remove all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip has been accomplished. This is not about freeing hostages, this is about a land grab that Israel has been pursuing for generations.

>> It is of course true that the Israeli government doesn’t care about the hostages, but it’s not accurate to say the hostages aren’t a bargaining chip. Some 2.5 million Israelis are estimated to have filled the streets this past Sunday demanding that their government secure a deal to release the hostages — that’s a quarter of the nation’s population. Numbers like that amount to political pressure, even if the Netanyahu regime itself only cares about the land grab…

#CaitlinJohnstone #RedHerring
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Stop Giving Israeli Officials A Media Platform To Spout Lies (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-08-16)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-giving-israeli-officials-a-media
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>> Who cares if a murderer dislikes being called a murderer while in the middle of an act of murder?

#CaitlinJohnstone #StopGenocide
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

Debating Israel Supporters Is Pointless, Because They Don't Care About Facts Or Morality (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-08-10)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/debating-israel-supporters-is-pointless
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>> Israel supporters are never, ever engaging in good faith — at least not the ones you’re likely to encounter in online spaces. Their goal is never to communicate or to have a conversation, it’s to advance the information interests of a genocidal apartheid state. ... If you engage them … you’re having a conversation with a psychological operation aimed at manipulating public perception. You’re dumping your mental and emotional energy into a black hole …

>> … don’t waste your time and energy engaging Zionists. They don’t care if anything they’re saying is based on truth and morality, ... Block them and use your energy on normal people who actually care about telling the truth and doing the right thing, so we can actually bring a stop to this nightmare.

#CaitlinJohnstone #Hasbara
@palestine

Caitlin Johnstone with an excoriation of the execrable Brianna Wu:

If I had just realized I had helped butcher people by the tens of thousands, I personally do not think I could go on living. Like, I actually don’t think my organs would keep functioning. I can’t even imagine that I’d want them to.

Brianna, do you know what you have done? Have you fully taken account of your part in the horrific pain and unfathomable suffering that you have facilitated over the past 22 months?

Because you are not just some rando on the internet who didn’t do her due diligence. Your words ran cover for a genocide. You are as guilty as Goebbels.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/those-who-were-wrong-about-gaza-should

GetUp! - Australia can no longer look away

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/palestine/australia-can-no-longer-look-away/australia-can-no-longer-look-away
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via Caitlin’s Newsletter https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/my-letter-to-australian-mp-mark-dreyfus
“Australians can use this form from GetUp to urge their local MPs to take action on Gaza.”

>> Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admitted that Israel's actions are "indefensible" and in breach of international law.5

>> He's right — but words aren't enough. It's time for Australia to take real action …

#Australia #StopGenocide #CaitlinJohnstone
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

They're Starving Civilians To Steal A Palestinian Territory, And They're Lying About It (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-07-26)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-starving-civilians-to-steal
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>> That’s what this is all about. That’s all this has ever been about. It’s not about hostages. It’s not about Hamas. It’s not about Israel defending itself. It’s about stealing a Palestinian territory, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

>> And the lies have been erupting like a geyser in recent days. Israel and its apologists have been frantically pushing the narrative that Gaza is starving because the UN isn’t allowing aid in (swiftly refuted by Drop Site News), … because Hamas is stealing the aid (swiftly refuted by Reuters), and … because Hamas attacks people who try to go to aid sites (already refuted by Israeli soldiers telling the Israeli press that they’re the ones shooting the aid seekers)…

#CaitlinJohnstone #StopIsrael #StopGenocide
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

Gaza Isn't Starving, It Is Being Starved (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-07-21)

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/gaza-isnt-starving-it-is-being-starved
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>> The organizations, funding and delivery systems to feed Gaza are all 100 percent fully available (at no cost to Israel, by the way). They’re just not being allowed to provide aid because the goal is to remove all Palestinians from Gaza via death or displacement. The people of Gaza are starving because the west is helping Israel starve Gaza. It really is that simple.

>> This isn’t some kind of unfortunate famine caused by a drought or natural disaster. It is a deliberately manufactured starvation campaign, implemented with genocidal intent.

#CaitlinJohnstone #StopIsrael
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

If You're Still Supporting Israel In 2025, There's Something Wrong With You As A Person

by #CaitlinJohnstone
Jul 18, 2025

It’s 2025. #Israeli soldiers are telling the Israeli press that they’re being ordered to massacre starving civilians trying to obtain food from aid centers. Countless doctors have been telling the world that Israeli snipers are routinely, deliberately shooting children in the head and chest throughout the Gaza Strip. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and all the leading genocide experts and human rights authorities are saying that a genocide is being perpetrated in #Gaza. The New York fucking Times just published an op-ed by a #Zionist genocide scholar who’s finally admitting that it’s a genocide.

There’s no way to deny what this is anymore. If you still support #Israel in the year 2025, it’s not because you don’t believe Israel is committing horrific atrocities.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-still-supporting-israel?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#politics #Palestine @palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia

From #caitlinjohnstone :

“There’s no way to deny what this is anymore. If you still support Israel in the year 2025, it’s not because you don’t believe Israel is committing horrific atrocities. It’s because you believe those horrific atrocities are good, and you want to see more of them.”

Truer words have not been spoken. Every single person arguing the case for the Zionist entity is unfit to be a member of the human race. Get fucked.

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/if-youre-still-supporting-israel

Caitlin Johnstone: NYT Stops Avoiding The G-Word
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/16/caitlin-johnstone-nyt-stops-avoiding-the-g-word/
An op-ed writer is seeing the proof now and has stopped resisting what’s been clear from the very beginning. And it would seem the editors of the Gray Lady have ceased resisting as well. Listen to Tim Foley reading this…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Legal #Media #Palestine #WarCrimes #CaitlinJohnstone #GenocideConvention #OmerBartov #TheNewYorkTimes