Caitlin Johnstone

ONE year of genocide. One year of horrors permanently seared into our collective imagination. One year of the goalpost of normality being moved again and again. One year of the rules of war being eroded to the point where hospitals, journalists, and children are now fair game. A year of carnage, a year of despair - but also a year of clarification as the grisly bloodthirsty fangs of the Western Empire moved into the light for the world to see.

A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions.As November gets closer and the Biden administration gets more murderous and tyrannical by the day, liberal spinmeisters are falling all over themselves to portray the president as some kind of passive witness to the atrocities we're witnessing in Gaza and the authoritarian suppression of dissent we're seeing in the US. No no, he's completely powerless to stop the government that's completely dependent on US military support from conducting a military operation. No no, he's completely powerless to stop the violent police crackdowns he's openly supporting and encouraging on protesters against his genocide.Bullshit. Biden has always been a murderous swamp monster. That's the only reason he got the job. And that's why the cover of today's issue of JOHNSTONE features the US president dining on an ice cream cone of gore.All works are written by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley. The Caitlin Johnstone project is 100 percent reader-funded.Visit caitlinjohnst.one for the original articles and their supporting links.

A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions.ON the 25th of February, 2024, a young Airman recorded himself approaching the Israeli embassy in Washington DC and said these words: "I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."He then set the camera down, walked a small distance and calmly emptied accelerant over his entire body, put on his hat and lit himself on fire, uttering the words "Free Palestine" with increasing urgency as the flames took hold of his body until he physically couldn't make a sound ever again.His name was Aaron Bushnell and this month's edition of JOHNSTONE is dedicated to his memory.All works are written by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley. The Caitlin Johnstone project is 100 percent reader-funded.Visit caitlinjohnst.one for the original articles and their supporting links.

A collection of timely essays, poems, articles and art from the Caitlin Johnstone project including: Australia Agrees To Build US Missiles; US Dismisses Australian Concerns About Assange, Funny How The UFO Narrative Coincides With The Race To Weaponize Space, The Real World And The Narrative World, andFifteen Useful Facts

An illustrated poetical guide to reclaiming the earth from the forces of death and destruction.James Rozoff writes: "This, this is the sort of book which led humanity to create printing presses. This is the kind of work which inspires, which illuminates, which transcends. This goes on the top of your bookshelf, sitting next to the elites which you have spent a lifetime searching out. And if you are fortunate to have spent a lifetime being introduced to the works of the great thinkers, great writers, and great souls, you will gaze at that top shelf and figure out which one will have to be bumped in order to fit Woke on that shelf."

We each inhabit two very different worlds simultaneously: the real world, and the narrative world.The real physical world of matter, of atoms and molecules and stars and planets and animals wandering around trying to bite and copulate with each other often has very little to do with the narrative world, which is made of stories and mental chatter. Powerful people have long understood that if you control the stories people tell about themselves, then you can control their resources and their reality. From priests to politicians, CEOs to the architects of war, all have deeply understood the importance of maintaining control of the narrative. We have reached a crisis point where the disconnect between narrative and reality is threatening all life on earth. The narrative world is getting more and more chimerical while the real world is headed toward disaster due to the military and ecological pressures created by our status quo. There are only a few ways this can possibly break, with the most obvious being mass scale ecological disaster or nuclear war. There is also the possibility that the human species goes the other way and adapts, and wakes up to the way narrative has been used to manipulate us into consenting to our own extinction. Throughout recorded history, all around the globe, wise humans have been attesting that it is possible to transcend our delusion-rooted conditioning and come to a lucid perception of the narrative world and reality. There are many names for this lucid perception, but the one that caught on most widely is enlightenment. We all have this potential within us. It has been gestating in us for many millennia. As we approach our adaptation-or-extinction juncture, we are very close indeed to learning if that potential will awaken in us or not.This book rests on the meniscus of that possibility.