Caitlin Johnstone

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— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) September 5, 2025

He hung up a sign that said Secretary of War,
snapped a picture for the socials,
shut the door,
took a swig of Jameson straight from the bottle,
then sat down and fondled the revolver in his desk drawer
like a little boy playing with his penis.

Visions of cruise missiles danced through his head,
aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines
and tiny middle eastern bodies blown to bits by glorious inventory.
Mushroom clouds flashed in his eyes
as he caressed the trigger with an index finger.

“They call me the Secretary of War,” he said.
“They call me the Secretary of War.”

He did not feel the robins in his chest
or hear the red-winged blackbirds trilling in his hair.
The electricity of the flesh was a stranger to him.
Exuberance was a deadbeat dad who never called.

Outside the Pentagon walls a cicada roared unnoticed
and the grass sang ancient hymns to the sun god.
People bustled in and bustled out,
their minds buzzing with Palantir porn,
their lips casting spells of Raytheon and ruin.

Under the rubble of a far away building
a child reached out a hand in the darkness.
Her cries were silenced by gulps of whiskey
in the office of the Secretary of War.

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Opposing an ongoing genocide requires no explanation or justification.

You don’t have to justify why you care about stopping an ongoing genocide.

You don’t have to reassure anyone that your opposition to the ongoing genocide isn’t driven by hatred of Jews.

You don’t have to defend your prioritizing stopping an active genocide above all other issues.

You don’t have to explain why you’re paying more attention to this genocide than the other bad things that are happening in the world.

You don’t have to explain why a group of people shouldn’t be genocided just because some of them did a violent thing.

You don’t have to address all the arguments about why this time genocide is fine that are being made by the people who are committing the genocide.

You don’t have to take seriously those who deny the conclusions of all major human rights institutions and the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars who say that this is a genocide.

This isn’t something you ever need to be in a defensive posture about. This is the easiest, most straightforward moral issue of the 21st century. If you oppose this genocide, you are right, and anyone who disagrees with you is wrong. It really is that simple.

If someone tries to put you on the back foot about your passion regarding the Gaza holocaust, it is entirely legitimate to say “Opposing an active genocide requires no justification,” or “I refuse to defend my opposition to an ongoing live-streamed holocaust that’s backed by my own government.”

They’re the ones who are wrong. Make THEM defend their position. Put THEM on the back foot. Interrogate THEIR agendas. Cast suspicion on THEIR motives. Call THEM crazy and evil. Accuse THEM of racism and religious bigotry. Shout THEM down. Shut THEM up. They’re the ones doing something freakish and nefarious, not you.

The only reason anyone is expected to defend their opposition to the Gaza holocaust is because our own western governments support said holocaust. If this was being perpetrated by a government like Russia, China or Iran, the default expectation would be that we would oppose it, and anyone supporting it would be aggressively interrogated. It’s only because of blind, bootlicking subservience to our ruling power structure that our compatriots look at us askance when we say Israel is committing genocide with the support of its western allies.

Make no mistake about where the moral authority stands here. This isn’t something we need to be on the defense about. It’s something we need to be on the attack about.

They’re the ones who have no moral, factual or logical standing. They’re the ones who have to lie all the time to justify their position. Put them against the ropes and keep them there.

Take not one step backward.

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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

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You always see Israel apologists saying “If Hamas lays down its arms there’ll be no more war, if Israel lays down its arms there’ll be no more Israel.” 

But really the exact opposite is true. If the Israelis lay down their arms, a genocide ends. If Hamas lays down their arms, Israel’s planned ethnic cleansing of Gaza happens quickly and without resistance.

Israel has been very clear and explicit about the fact that its onslaught in Gaza will not end until Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip is completed. Hamas could surrender and release all the hostages today and this ethnic cleansing agenda would still move forward as planned, according to Israel’s top officials. They’ve been completely unambiguous about this.

Anyone who says this nightmare would end if Hamas surrenders is lying. All that would happen if Hamas surrenders is Palestinians being purged from a Palestinian territory forever.

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Israeli politicians and official government social media accounts have begun pushing the narrative that Muslim immigrants are a threat to Europe, the implication being that Europeans should support Israel because Israel is helping to kill the Muslims.

Israel’s Arabic language Twitter account recently posted a graph showing the number of Mosques across Europe accompanied by right wing “great replacement”-style talking points, saying that “This is the true face of colonization. And this is what is happening while Europe is oblivious and does not care about the danger.”

Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett tweeted last month that “Europe is becoming Islamized,” fearmongering about the number of Muslim immigrants throughout Europe.

Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted on Wednesday that “Belgian Prime Minister de Wever is a weak leader who seeks to appease Islamic terrorism by sacrificing Israel. He wants to feed the terrorist crocodile before it devours Belgium.”

They don’t want Muslims to live in Palestine. They don’t want Muslims to live in Europe. Kinda seems like they just don’t want Muslims to live.

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TikTok user: What happened with the USS Liberty?

TikTok: Whoa! Hey! The Jews have been picked on enough, buddy! https://t.co/PkCicOO588

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) September 3, 2025

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Haaretz reports that an IDF commander named Haim Cohen received intelligence warnings immediately prior to the Hamas attack on the Nova music festival on October 7 but took no preemptive action, and that “Cohen was also the officer who initially approved the festival on Tuesday of that week.”

This is just the latest addition to a large body of evidence that Israel appears to have intentionally allowed the October 7 attack to happen after deliberately provoking it in order to advance a preexisting agenda to steal more Palestinian territory.

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President Trump is reportedly preparing to change the name of the Department of Defense back to the Department of War, which was what the US military department was called until shortly after WWII.

I’m seeing some criticism of this move, but personally I think it’s fine. When was the last time the US used its military for defensive purposes? Calling it the War Department is just calling it what it is. Might as well be honest about it.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (soon to be Secretary of War, I guess) announced that we can expect to see more strikes on Venezuelan ships after a deadly US attack on a boat which the Trump administration claims was trafficking drugs.

“We have assets in the air, assets in the water, assets on ships because this is a deadly serious mission for us, and it won’t stop … with just this strike,” Hegseth told the press on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “I don’t care what the UN says” when challenged by the press about his assertions regarding Venezuela’s responsibility for America’s drug problems, claiming that “Maduro is an indicted drug trafficker in the United States and he’s a fugitive of American justice.”

You really couldn’t get a more honest representation of US foreign policy than the top American diplomat saying “I don’t care what the UN says” and then claiming that the leaders of sovereign nations are subject to “American justice”. These freaks really do believe this entire planet is their property.

As we discussed previously, this is just cover for a longstanding regime change agenda against an oil-rich socialist government that Washington has sought to depose for many years. Venezuela’s role in the drug trade is severely overstated and its role in the Fentanyl epidemic is nonexistent. This is about oil, capitalism, and geostrategic control.

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Fame is so weird in our society. People spend all this effort becoming great at something, they get a bunch of fans, then they get thrown into this strange, cloistered universe of immense wealth and social circles full of psychopaths and parasitic middle men and highly neurotic individuals, and they go nuts and lose what it is that their fans fell in love with in the first place. Happens over and over again. 

Under capitalism success as an artist means losing your art.

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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

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The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has determined that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This is the world’s largest association of genocide scholars, with around 500 experts on the subject including many Holocaust scholars. The consensus was reached by an overwhelming supermajority of the experts — 86 percent, to be exact.

Everyone needs to understand that “there is no genocide in Gaza” is not a claim that can be taken seriously in the year 2025. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, Israeli human rights groups like B’Tselem, and the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars all agree it’s a genocide. The debate is over. The hasbarists lost.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry is of course claiming that the IAGS assessment is “entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies.” That’s right folks, the genocide scholars are Hamas.

They’re just so unbelievably evil. Nobody who’s not a cartoon or CGI supervillain has any business being this evil. If you’re going to be this insanely evil you should be animated and cackling while twisting your curly mustache all the time.

Possibly the single dumbest thing we are asked to believe about Palestine is that every major human rights institution on earth is part of a secret antisemitic blood libel conspiracy. This genocide is one nonstop insult to our intelligence.

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Israel is reportedly planning to cut off the small amount of aid it has been allowing in to northern Gaza. This comes after both UN-backed and US-funded hunger monitor groups determined that Israel is causing a famine in Gaza, which was preceded by weeks of Israel furiously denying that it was starving Gaza, which was preceded by Israeli officials openly announcing that they intended to starve Gaza.

Israel: We're going to starve Gaza.

The west: Israel is starving Gaza!

Israel: It is antisemitic to say we are starving Gaza.

The west: Okay sorry.

Israel: We're going to starve Gaza some more. https://t.co/Hthd2yxa0f

— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) September 1, 2025

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The western press have been dutifully parroting the US and Israeli government line that Trump’s plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza will be “voluntary” in their headlines.

“Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population,” reads a headline from The Washington Post.

“U.S.-run ‘Gaza Riviera’: Post-war redevelopment plan sees ‘voluntary relocation’ of millions,” says CNBC.

“Trump’s Gaza plan involves ‘voluntary’ relocation of Palestinians — and giving them $5,000 each,” says The Independent.

“Gaza post-war plan proposes ‘voluntary’ relocation, ‘tokens’ in exchange for land,” says France 24.

We’re going to be hearing this “voluntary” relocation slogan a lot going forward, and everyone should understand that it’s a lie. There is nothing “voluntary” about leaving an area that is being deliberately made uninhabitable by someone with power over you. It’s exactly the same as forcing people out at gunpoint. 

It is propaganda and journalistic malpractice for the western media to be pushing this slogan.

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I saw a tweet from liberal influencer Steven Bonnell AKA Destiny saying “Palestine is just fashion for leftists.”

Bidenists say this all the time, and it reveals so much about their worldview. They cannot fathom the concept of someone opposing a genocide because genocide is bad; it can only be some kind of trendy fashion statement because it happens to be what’s popular right now.

These are people who are not motivated by morality, facts and logic, but solely by selfish and cynical impulses which they then project onto everyone else. They can’t imagine anyone doing something because it’s the right thing to do, so they have to make up some reason why there must be something in it for them in order for their actions to make sense.

But it is good that even through their own narcissistic, egocentric lens they are beginning to understand that supporting an active genocide has widely become viewed as unacceptable, and that abandoning that insane position is the only way to gain acceptance in mainstream society. Those who can’t be brought into line through appeal to compassion and reason can be brought into line through peer pressure and social stigma.

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When you see the way pro-genocide Jews attack vocally anti-genocide Jews, you understand why there aren’t more vocally anti-genocide Jews. This isn’t to excuse anyone from their moral obligation to oppose an active genocide, only to point out one of the control mechanisms.

I’ve watched Zionists constantly try to convince Israeli American academic Shaiel Ben-Ephraim to start drinking again after he switched from defending the genocide to opposing it (he’s open about being a recovering alcoholic). I catch flak from Israel supporters 24/7, but I’ve never had to deal with that level of vitriolic, high-octane hatred. Non-Jews like myself who oppose the Gaza holocaust just don’t have to deal with that degree of venom. And that’s just what’s visible to me online.

Again, this doesn’t excuse the moral obligation that Jews and non-Jews alike have to oppose Israel’s genocidal atrocities. I’m just pointing out one of the many abusive dynamics used to maintain the status quo.

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Slow Heat asks on Youtube, “Hi Caitlin — question — I have friends, some lifelong, who I don’t associate with anymore because, while maybe not supporting, are at the very least ambivalent towards the genocide. I just can’t be around people who are more concerned with what show or restaurant they’re trying next. Am I the asshole?”

I’ve been lucky enough not to have anyone significant in my life who doesn’t get it, so this isn’t an issue that I personally have had to navigate. But I have seen a lot of people struggle with the question of how their interpersonal relationships should be affected by the position that their friends and loved ones take on Gaza.

From where I’m sitting this doesn’t look like you’re an asshole, it just kind of looks like the natural effects playing out of learning that someone in your life is a shitty person. If you found out that one of your friends likes to torture small animals or drug women and rape them, or that someone in your family watched a child drown in a swimming pool without doing anything, that would naturally change your relationship with them in a permanent way. You would naturally find yourself distancing yourself from them, and things would never be the same. 

This wouldn’t be your fault, and it also wouldn’t be the result of any rule or personal policy that you put in place. People don’t normally make a rule for themselves like “never be friends with someone who adores Adolf Hitler,” they’d just naturally feel themselves pulling away from anyone who does.

So I don’t think this is necessarily something you need to put any amount of thought into, really. This is just what happens when bad people in your life reveal an ugly truth about themselves. If you learn that someone in your life is cool with their government supporting a genocide, you can just sort of let your feelings and natural inclinations lead the way on that. 

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Shiloh on Twitter asks, “Why does no one want to talk about the genocide in Sudan?”

Not that I believe this question is asked in good faith (Shiloh is an Israeli account), but let’s answer it anyway.

My government isn’t trying to make it illegal for me to criticize the RSF. Every major western institution isn’t dedicated to facilitating genocide in Sudan and stomping out all speech which opposes it. My rulers aren’t backing a genocide in Sudan and commanding me to support it. 

I oppose the genocide that I personally am involved in. When my government and its allies are complicit that makes me complicit, unless I hold a strong and visible “No.” Israel apologists try to frame this as somehow freakish and suspicious when it’s obviously the most normal thing in the world.

It’s just one of the many, many bad faith ways in which hasbarists try to spin opposing an active genocide as a bad thing. People who ask “Why don’t you talk about the bad things those Africans and Asians are doing?” are really just saying “Stop criticizing the white people, criticize the brown people instead. Stop criticizing the worst abuses of the power structure you actually live under and focus on other things.”

It’s just manipulative concern trolling and genocide apologia.

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Will on Facebook asks, “Sincerely asking: How do you keep all your posts free? How do you support yourself while keeping your stuff free? I think it’s awesome that you do that! But I’ve found it incredibly difficult to support myself with my writing practice and have been thinking about selling subscriptions so I don’t have to take so much other work to survive.”

I’ve written about my funding plan before, but it’s been years since I’ve talked about it, which is weird because it’s really one of the most interesting things about this project.

Basically what I’ve learned is that people really will just support a writer whose work they value without expecting anything in return. It’s not a way to get rich, but it pays the rent and puts food on the table just fine. 

It’s a pure gift economy system. I don’t demand anything from my readers, and those who support me don’t demand anything of me. I make everything free; I don’t do ads, I don’t paywall anything, I don’t do reward tiers on Patreon, and my free Substack subscription has identical content to the paid one. I just work hard and put everything out there for everyone to read, and invite anyone who feels called to to support what I do. I get to keep working, and they get to know they’re helping me do so. And it turns out that’s enough.

One thing that helps is that all my platforms and articles contain a notice that anyone who wishes to use or republish my work is free to do so in any way they like free of charge. This has helped grow my audience, because there are always platforms and publications looking for good content to publish. As people get added to my audience across various platforms, a few of them will feel called to help financially support what I do.

It’s a model that won’t necessarily work for everyone, but it has worked for me, so that’s all I can speak to with any authority. If you can only make paid subscriptions or advertising or whatever work for you, then there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that either.

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Kelly on Twitter asks, “Do you think unrelentingly and deeply searching for truth, both inward and outward simultaneously, willing to examine the terrifying things you find, can result in ‘enlightenment’ regardless of spiritual path, be it Christian, Tao, Jewish, atheist/academic, etc or whatever?”

This is in regard to a previous Q&A in which I discussed the distinction between spirituality and awakening, and the need to expand our awareness of both our own inner processes which give rise to our own individual suffering and of the abusive power dynamics which create so much suffering for humanity collectively.

I think courageously and deeply searching for truth absolutely can lead to enlightenment, so long as your investigation focuses on the nonconceptual aspects of your experience instead of searching for answers in mental stories. Rigorously peering into the nature of self, thought and perception can lead to a dramatic shift in consciousness after which nothing is ever seen the same way again, but trying to figure out your true nature by forming some kind of mental narrative about it will never work.

Awakening is definitely possible regardless of what your religion or non-religion happens to be when you start out, but no religion will ever take you there. That saying “All paths lead to the top of the mountain” or whatever is just nonsense; most paths lead far away from the mountain, or at best just circle the foothills. Religions have very little to do with enlightenment, even the ones that talk about it a lot like Buddhism and Hinduism. Clarity won’t come until you discard all belief systems and all your assumptions about what’s real and how things work, and start looking at what’s actually going on at the most fundamental levels of your own experience.

If you have a question or comment you’d like a response to, just write it in the replies section of whatever platform you’re reading this on and I’ll try to get to it.

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As if we didn’t have enough ugliness in the world right now, Trump has deployed warships near Venezuela’s coast, prompting Caracas to ready drone and naval patrols for conflict.

In an article titled “Inside Trump’s gunboat diplomacy with Venezuela,” Axios’ Marc Caputo writes that “The U.S. has never been closer to armed conflict with Venezuela, with a fully loaded U.S. flotilla sitting off its coast and dictator Nicolás Maduro living under a $50 million bounty.”

“President Trump ordered seven warships carrying 4,500 personnel — including three guided-missile destroyers and at least one attack submarine — to the waters off Venezuela,” Caputo writes. “Officially, they’re there to combat drug trafficking. But Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt leaned into the ambiguity of the mission on Thursday, noting that the U.S. considers Maduro the ‘fugitive head of [a] drug cartel’ and not Venezuela’s legitimate president.”

The US personnel reportedly include some 2,200 Marines.

“This could be Noriega part 2,” an unnamed official in the Trump administration told Axios, saying that “Maduro should be shitting bricks.”

The sudden deployment of a US naval attack group toward the coast of Venezuela is raising fears of an expensive new military conflict in Latin America.

The legal cover for the tasking of the seven warships, surveillance aircraft, 2200 Marines and a nuclear attack submarine is… pic.twitter.com/owSw3ECKwg

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 30, 2025

So they’re not even disguising the fact that Trump is at least contemplating some kind of direct military strike on Caracas. Drugs are the official-official reason for the deployment, but the unofficial-official reason that’s being freely leaked to the press is to remove the leader of a sovereign state.

It’s probably worth noting that Trump-aligned pundits like Alex Jones have been busy manufacturing consent for regime change intervention in Venezuela.

“I don’t like any of these wars,” Jones said recently on whatever his show is called now. “But if you look at US doctrine and wars that we fought that were right, it’s in Latin America, this is our sandbox. And Venezuela is a communist dictatorship with the biggest oil reserves per square foot in the world, their people are absolute slaves, and I don’t like regime change, but they’re manipulating our elections, they’re flooding us with Fentanyl, and if there were surgical strikes to take out the communists there would be an uprising and they could have elections, and it would be a good thing.”

Jones could have stopped at “communist” and “oil reserves”. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves of any country on the planet, and is not aligned with the capitalist western empire that is loosely centralized around Washington DC. Any reasons given for US regime change intervention beyond this should be read as excuses.

"I'll Say It— I Am For Removing The Venezuelan Dictatorship!"

Alex Jones Lays Out Why He Supports President Trump's Moves To Take Down Maduro:

"I Don't Like Any Of These Wars, But This Is Our Sandbox… I Don't Like Regime Change, But They Are Manipulating Our Elections &… https://t.co/NgcQvlQ2qb pic.twitter.com/QVTupPnTpI

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 21, 2025

Whenever the US war machine moves its crosshairs to a different target I always get people telling me “No no Caitlin, THIS time the Evil Bad Guy really DOES need to be regime changed! THIS time our government and media are telling us the TRUTH!” 

And it’s always so stupid, because it’s just the same rehashed lies over and over again. The empire takes whatever actions will help it to dominate our planet and its resources to a greater extent than it already does, and then it makes up justifications for those actions. 

They’ll say they’re doing it for humanitarian reasons while ignoring the humanitarian abuses of empire-aligned nations. They’ll say they’re doing it to stop drug abuse while ignoring all the evidence regarding the actual causes of drug abuse, even as Maduro sends 15,000 troops to the Colombian border to help fight drug trafficking. They’ll say they’re doing it to stop interference in US affairs while letting US-aligned nations like Israel interfere in US politics at will.

They’re just lying. The US empire lies about all its acts of war. Trump tried to orchestrate a regime change in Venezuela the last time he was in office, and he’s doing it again for the exact same reasons. It’s an oil-rich nation that refuses to bow to the dictates of Washington, and all the worst warmongers in the imperial swamp are eagerly pushing to absorb it into the folds of the empire. 

That’s all we are looking at here, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.

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