Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone
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The political podcast for clear-eyed rebels and utopia preppers. ---Subscribe on Stitcher(http://bit.ly/2HgCPvw) or subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes (https://apple.co/2oWPa0c).-- Intro theme by Captain Pablo -- Outro theme by Carol Vasquez (bit.ly/2oUFNyX)This podcast is sponsored by Caitlin's patrons. You can support Cait by becoming a patron here -- www.patreon.com/caitlinjohnstone -- or throw a couple of coppers into her hat on PayPal -- www.paypal.me/CaitlinJohnstone or follow Caitlin on Twitter @caitoz -- twitter.com/caitoz
Episodes
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Meanwhile, We're Still WAY Too Close To Nuclear Armageddon
24/05/2024 Duration: 04minWhile the antiwar zeitgeist has been quite understandably focused on the genocide in Gaza, over the past few weeks we've been seeing some very disturbing reports about empire managers ramping up nuclear brinkmanship escalations in Ukraine that are worth going over. Reading by Tim Foley.
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If You Can't Even Elect A Candidate Who'll End A Genocide, How Real Is Your "Democracy"?
23/05/2024 Duration: 05minAnd this just says so much about the nature of this "democracy" - a word which literally means "rule by the people". If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they never get a vote. Reading by Tim Foley.
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It's Not Unusual That We're Being Lied To, It's Unusual That People Are Noticing
22/05/2024 Duration: 06minIt's important to understand that there's nothing unusual about the western empire's depravity in Gaza or the mass media's constant lies and distortions about it - they do these things constantly, year after year. What's unusual is that people are waking up to it. Reading by Tim Foley.
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The Problem Isn't Civil Disobedience, It's Civil Obedience
21/05/2024 Duration: 04minOur problem is not that more and more people are opposing Israel's empire-backed atrocities in Gaza with more and more aggression, our problem is that people are not opposing it aggressively enough. Our problem is that too many people still have their minds jacked into the mainstream worldview and ignore the most urgent matter of our time, letting their thoughts be preoccupied with frivolous garbage and trusting that our leaders are doing what's best for us. Reading by Tim Foley.
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The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East
15/05/2024 Duration: 03minIt's actually a brilliant self-reinforcing scam. It works like this: Step 1: Murder people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism". Step 2: This causes people to hate you and your allies and to want to retaliate with violence. Step 3: Designate these people "terrorists". Step 4: Send more war machinery to the region to go fight "terrorism". Step 5: Murder more people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism". Do you see how this cycle would repeat over and over again, leading to more and more US military expansionism in the middle east? That's exactly what we've been seeing, and it's exactly what the US empire wants. Reading by Tim Foley.
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I Criticize The US Power Alliance Because It's The Most Destructive Force On Earth
14/05/2024 Duration: 06minI don't spend my time attacking the US war machine because I have any special love for Hamas, Iran, Russia, China, or any other power. I do it because the US empire is quantifiably the most destructive and tyrannical force on this planet, by an extremely massive margin. Reading by Tim Foley.
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When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something
12/05/2024 Duration: 05minWhen nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they're falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid of and where you should really be focusing your political energy. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Using A Fictional Antisemitism Crisis To Support A Real Genocide
11/05/2024 Duration: 08min"It's like responding to warnings of another holocaust by babbling about Sauron." Reading by Tim Foley.
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When Opposing Genocide Is Seen As Radical, Radicalism Becomes A Moral Imperative
10/05/2024 Duration: 04minIsrael supporters are such psychopathic war sluts that they're currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won't give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Protest And Dissent Can Absolutely Push The Empire To Retreat On Gaza
10/05/2024 Duration: 05minThe imperial murder machine has many strengths, but it also has weaknesses. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them
09/05/2024 Duration: 07minDon’t let anyone tell you your protests don’t make a difference or your dissident speech poses no threat to the powerful. If what you’re doing wasn’t working, empire managers wouldn’t be losing their minds right now. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Opposing The War Machine Is Cool Again, And The Empire's Getting Nervous
08/05/2024 Duration: 03minWhat are they going to do, win the young back by writing another Wall Street Journal think piece? Have Netanyahu rap about how Zionism is rad while Tony Blinken plays guitar? They’ve got nothing. Reading by Tim Foley.
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The Destruction Of Gaza SHOULD Be Radicalizing People
07/05/2024 Duration: 06minWhat's happening in Gaza SHOULD radicalize you. It absolutely should. Right now, even as its own criminality hits fever pitch, the western political-media class is fretting with increasing shrillness about young people getting "radicalized" and turned against their government by the spread of information and ideas at campus demonstrations and on TikTok. But young people should be radicalizing right now. Everyone should. Reading by Tim Foley.
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I Oppose Israel's Atrocities In Gaza Because I'm Not A Psychopath
06/05/2024 Duration: 05minI don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America. I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist. I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm not a fucking psychopath. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Israel's Defenders Talk So Much About Feelings Because They Can't Talk About Facts
04/05/2024 Duration: 04minIsrael is the only issue where the western political-media class treats people's feelings as a matter of supreme importance. If you're a stressed-out single parent struggling to pay bills and keep a roof over your kids' head, they don't care about your feelings. If you're an American who's been cast into destitution and homelessness by medical bills, they don't care about your feelings. If you're a Palestinian whose apartment complex was bombed with your entire family inside, they definitely don't care about your feelings. But if you're a western Zionist who doesn't like the cognitive dissonance that comes with encountering anti-genocide protesters, or even if you're an Israeli who's upset about anti-genocide protests in whole other country on the other side of the planet, they're very, very interested in your feelings. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Opposing Every War But The Current One, Supporting Civil Rights But Never Right Now
03/05/2024 Duration: 07minAs Democrats get worse and worse the longer Biden's genocide in Gaza continues, I find myself recalling a tweet that went viral back in November by an account with the handle @eyeballslicer, "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now." Reading by Tim Foley.
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The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier
03/05/2024 Duration: 05minSo let me get this straight. The US wound up building its "floating pier" a few miles off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, but nobody will be able to ship the aid directly to the pier to get it to Gaza. Instead, the aid will be delivered to Cyprus via air or sea, and then from Cyprus the aid will be shipped 200 miles to the pier. From there the pallets of aid will be loaded onto smaller US army boats, which will then carry the aid from the pier to a long causeway on Gaza's actual coast. Those pallets will then be carried from the boats to the shore via the causeway - possibly by British troops or possibly by Israeli troops depending on what source you're reading - and taken into Gaza by IDF troops after careful examination and approval of their contents. All to deliver some 90 to 150 truckloads worth of aid per day, which is far short of the 500 truckloads the UN says Gaza needs. And this is all being done because Israel isn't simply letting people drive an adequate amount of aid through the cu
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The 'Antisemitism' Moral Panic Has Officially Jumped The Shark
02/05/2024 Duration: 05minSo, to be absolutely clear, Israel's top government official has announced that charges against himself and other Israeli leaders for obvious war crimes like intentionally bombing and starving civilians would be both "antisemitic" and a "hate crime". Reading by Tim Foley.
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CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment
02/05/2024 Duration: 04minIn one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN's Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany - doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters. Reading by Tim Foley.
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Remember, All This Fascism Would Feel Way More Fascismy Under Trump
01/05/2024 Duration: 03minIf Trump was letting these horrible things happen, we'd feel outraged and upset. We might even feel obliged to get up and go protest the things he is doing, which as we all know can often cause us to miss brunch. But because a trusted Democrat is in office, we can just relax and think pleasant thoughts and drink bottles of wine and Nyquil in the bathtub. Reading by Tim Foley.