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Caitlin Johnstone

Pearls and Irritations

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Israeli officials explain balancing act between overt genocide and maintaining Western support

23.05.2025 9

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Multiple Western press outlets have suddenly pivoted hard against Israel

14.05.2025 7

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Washington drops Ukraine, Israel backs down on Hamas demands

14.02.2025 6

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The Gaza ceasefire is being sabotaged by Israel, by Trump, and by the media

13.02.2025 10

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Only pathetic bootlickers spend their energy criticising China

30.01.2025 10

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Trump reveals plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza

27.01.2025 8

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Donald Trump is the Empire unmasked

21.01.2025 20

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Thoughts on the ceasefire deal

16.01.2025 10

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Israel is killing civilians in Gaza on purpose, and it’s not even debatable

Just so we’re all clear, it is a fully established fact that the IDF is directly, deliberately killing civilians in Gaza. There was a time in the...

05.01.2025 5

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That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be

“That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be.” This is a line by fantasy author PC Hodgell, though it’s often misattributed to Carl...

27.12.2024 3

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I have learned a few things

I have learned a few things in my time on this earth. Not many, but a few. I have learned that western regime change interventionism is reliably...

26.12.2024 8

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In the fight against tyranny, don’t let your happiness depend on big wins

If you stand for truth, peace and justice in this world then it’s important not to make your happiness dependent on large-scale wins. Because the...

23.12.2024 3

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Assad is out, woke Al-Qaeda is in

Well it looks like the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is on its way out, likely to be replaced by one or more US puppet regimes...

08.12.2024 3

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The mainstream western worldview pretends the Global South does not exist

Mainstream western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist. The mainstream western worldview shrinks the earth down to...

07.11.2024 2

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The festering sore of Western civilisation is the only soil in which genocide in Gaza could take root

Some days it’s hard to say which is more horrific: the Gaza genocide itself, or the moral decay throughout our society which makes it possible. I...

06.11.2024 3

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Lying western press scramble to frame Israel’s attack on Iran as self-defence

Israel has launched a round of airstrikes on Iran which the western news media are falling all over themselves to falsely frame as “retaliatory”...

28.10.2024 3

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When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing Anti-Semitism and wearing a star of David

When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing anti-semitism and wearing a Star of David. It was never going to look how we were expecting. It...

25.10.2024 2

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More authoritarian Western crackdowns on speech critical of Israel

British “counterterrorism” police raided the home of Electronic Intifada editor Asa Winstanley on Thursday morning, seizing multiple electronic...

19.10.2024 2

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We must purge genocide from the marrow of our bones

The Israeli outlet Haaretz has a new article out titled “Israeli Defence Officials: Gov’t Pushing Aside Hostage Deal, Eyeing Gaza Annexation,”...

15.10.2024 2

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Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian kids in the head

There’s yet another doctor testimonial about Israeli forces constantly shooting Palestinian children in the head, this one published in The New...

11.10.2024 30

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Meta is aggressively censoring criticism of US-Israeli warmongering

I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed...

08.10.2024 3

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Israel hates truth

Israel has continued its war on journalism with another attack on Al Jazeera, this time with a raid on the outlet’s office in the West Bank and an...

23.09.2024 2

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On war crimes and Western hypocrisy

The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in thousands of pagers....

23.09.2024 20

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Rainbow flag genocide vs MAGA hat genocide

Kamala Harris has enthusiastically accepted the endorsement of Dick Cheney. The degree of comfort US liberals have with men like Cheney is more...

11.09.2024 2

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The West truly doesn’t see Palestinians as human

You never see the dehumanisation of Palestinians in Western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the...

04.09.2024 3

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Democrats release insanely hawkish Middle East policy platform

“When you’re siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you’re as insanely hawkish as it gets.” Celebrity progressive Alexandria...

22.08.2024 2

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Peace is not on the ballot in November

I keep seeing liberal commentators like George Takei trying to frame Kamala Harris as the best candidate to bring peace to the middle east, despite...

17.08.2024 1

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“Another Massacre”

They bombed the Tabeen school in Gaza City with so much explosive force that not a single full body was recovered. It was just pieces of people...

13.08.2024 2

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“Well What SHOULD Israel Have Done After October 7?”

People often object to criticisms of Israel’s ongoing mass atrocity in Gaza by saying, “Well what SHOULD Israel have done in response to October 7...

06.08.2024 2

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