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“CHINA BAD”, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
CAitlin Johnstone: The planet is ruled by a tyrannical oligarchy which uses governments as weapons to destroy disobedient nations while churning out news stories about how those nations needed to be destroyed because they were tyrannical and undemocratic. ... The west has been propagandized about China for a long, long time. The propaganda initiatives being launched right now are so successful because they’ve got many decades of earlier propaganda acting as a primer ... It’s so pervasive you don’t even know it’s been there all along....
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Apr 12, 2021, 4:13pm
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Freedom Rider: The U.S. Can’t Control the World
Margaret Kimberley: The imperatives of the United States hegemon require treating the rest of the world as either willing vassals or as sworn enemies. Any nation that threatens economic supremacy or the ability to thwart foreign policy directives is labeled an adversary and faces an onslaught of governmental and corporate media attacks. ... Biden is dealing with the results of decades of the United States behaving as if its brief unipolar moment would last forever. ... The United States believes its own hype...
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Apr 8, 2021, 4:06pm
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Excerpt From My New Book, Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone: The real underlying currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even military might. The real underlying currency of our world is narrative, and the ability to control it. ... If you look at what all these think tanks, NGOs, media outlets and grant making networks that billionaires pour their money into actually do, it ultimately boils down to controlling the dominant stories that people tell about what’s going on in their world. ... Most of the things which consume your attention are pure narrative constructs: religion, philosophy, culture, politics, the economy, even what you take to be your very self...
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Apr 8, 2021, 12:02pm
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Opposing US Imperialism Shouldn’t Depend On Ideology: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone: A government that is currently bombing other countries is worse than a government that isn’t. ... So much propaganda has gone into manipulating westerners into believing that dropping explosives on human beings is fine and normal. People fail to recognize the horror solely because they’ve been propagandized ... In liberal free democracies you’re allowed to think, speak and vote however you want, but they train you how to think, speak and vote from birth, and they keep on training you until the day you die. ... Condemning anti-Asian hate without condemning anti-China imperialist propaganda is supporting anti-Asian hate...
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Apr 5, 2021, 3:22pm
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Freedom Rider: Andrew Cuomo and the Black Political Class
Margaret Kimberley: Black politicians shamelessly rallied to Cuomo, ridiculously comparing him to Emmett Till and the Central Park Five, in hopes that he will dispense patronage their way if he remains in office. ... Far from being the hero of New York’s COVID-19 crisis in 2020 he actually contributed to the deaths of thousands of people. ... Cuomo allowed COVID-19 infected patients to be sent to nursing homes, where they infected other patients and staff. ... also worked with the nursing home lobby to absolve them of legal liability. ... he still has goodies to distribute and perhaps two more budget cycles to dispense patronage. The misleaders know a sugar daddy when they see one...
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Mar 31, 2021, 3:24pm
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The Problem Isn’t Human Nature, The Problem Is A Few Manipulative Sociopaths
Caitlin Johnstone: If we don’t like how things are, we should knock it off. Stop waging wars. Stop exploiting and impoverishing each other. Stop killing the ecosystem. Don’t do those nutty things. ... The self-destructive behavioral patterns we’re seeing play out in our species are not the result of some unalterable feature inherent in our nature. This is evidenced by the existence of many human beings whose behavior is kind, gentle, generous, and collaborative. ... The problem is that we’re swimming in lies that we’ve been indoctrinated into by liars who benefit from our remaining deceived...
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Mar 30, 2021, 3:13pm
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False Spirituality Is The Friend Of Corrupt Power. True Spirituality Is Its Enemy.
Caitlin Johnstone: False spirituality serves corrupt power. ... True spirituality means expanding consciousness of what’s true and real, both within and without. ... Only by shining the light of truth inwardly and bringing our endarkened aspects into consciousness can we extend our roots downward in the way our spirit craves. ... We survive by purging ourselves of inner falseness and outer falseness, thereby reaching the level of maturity needed to shift to a collaboration-based planetary civilization where we work in harmony with each other and with our ecosystem for the common good...
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Mar 25, 2021, 3:58pm
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BREAKING: Anonymous Sources Say US-Targeted Government Did An Invisible Bad Thing
Caitlin Johnstone: “It’s true that the thing which was done was not bad enough to have hurt any American or to have affected the observable universe in any way that Americans can verify by observation, but it was definitely bad enough to justify strengthening our military presence against the bad country,” the official said. ... When another source familiar with the matter was asked if the US government would be providing the public with any evidence that the bad thing had in fact happened ... the source said “Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.”... “Oh wait you’re serious, let me laugh even harder...
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Mar 24, 2021, 11:24am
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Freedom Rider: Establishment Role in Anti-Asian Bigotry
Margaret Kimberley: The media in this country always use non-white people as the focus of suspicion. ... But China looms large as the biggest target of white supremacist bias. Their crime is daring to have successfully remained a socialist state which has survived for more than 70 years and to be on the verge of surpassing the U.S. economically. ... If the State Department and leading newspapers express animosity towards a country and its people, no one should be surprised by assaults and even murder against that group...
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Mar 24, 2021, 11:04am
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Thoughts On The Iraq Invasion
Caitlin Johnstone: It has now been eighteen years since the Iraq invasion, and I’m still not done raging about it. ... All the corrupt mechanisms which led to the invasion are still in place and its consequences remain ... No changes were made after the Iraq invasion to keep the US government from deceiving Americans into war. ... Supporting the Vietnam war was dumb. Supporting the Iraq invasion after being lied to about Vietnam was an order of magnitude dumber. ... Supporting any US war agendas after being lied to about Iraq is an order of magnitude even dumber than that...
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Mar 22, 2021, 3:42pm
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A Nation That’s Always At War Has No Moral Authority: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone: Liberals are much, much more comfortable thinking about the spike in anti-Asian hate crimes as a rise in white supremacism caused by Donald Trump than as the inevitable consequence of an aggressive imperialist propaganda campaign against China. ... Talking about the spike in anti-Asian hate crimes as just the result of white supremacism and not imperialist propaganda against China facilitated by white supremacism is a service to white supremacism ... If humanity miraculously survives the existential hurdles it has placed before itself as a species, future generations will scarce believe we used to actively stockpile armageddon weapons on purpose...
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Mar 18, 2021, 2:31pm
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Freedom Rider: Ending Poverty in the United States
Margaret Kimberley: President Franklin Roosevelt made profound changes in the US political-economic structure, while Joe Biden only does temporary patchwork on the late-stage capitalist carcass. ... No one should be fooled into thinking that the American Rescue Plan is an adequate solution to high rates of poverty. These measures are temporary, lasting for just one year. ... “The biggest problem is the absence of an increased minimum wage.” ... The American Rescue Plan Act is no Social Security Act, which changed the country forever by establishing that the government had a role to play in helping the people...
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Mar 17, 2021, 1:24pm
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Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System
Caitlin Johnstone: How many of people’s mental health diagnoses are really just them struggling to function in a capitalist system that is amoral, destructive, overwhelming, overbearing, unsatisfying, and bereft of meaning? ... How is our psychological health affected by a nonstop barrage of corporate messaging informing us that we are deficient, and that there are things we lack which we must obtain in order to become whole? ... You can have anxiety without being poor, but you can’t be poor without having anxiety...
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Mar 11, 2021, 11:47am
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Freedom Rider: Trump/Biden Foreign Policy
Margaret kimberley: Biden rules like Trump regarding Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Haiti, because the two imperial parties serve the same masters.... No one is allowed to win Democratic or Republican Party nominations without paying fealty to the ruling classes. The oil companies, hedge funds, and military industrial complex corporations all have agendas to fulfill. They want to broaden the range of U.S. influence, extract resources, and make money for themselves. ... They have every expectation that their errand boys and girls in Congress and the White House will act accordingly...
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Mar 10, 2021, 3:14pm
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Fuck All Royals: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone: Take back everything they’ve stolen and give them minimum wage jobs and regard them with nothing but disdain forevermore. ... Royals are just oligarchs who rub your face in it. ... People have this weird prevailing assumption that their ruling institutions which did many evil things in the past just magically stopped being evil at some point, despite their never even declaring any intention to change. The FBI, the CIA, the monarchy, the Vatican...
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Mar 9, 2021, 2:37pm
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