Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone

Pretty sure what's tyrannical is invading a country, murdering scores of people, and abducting its leader in order to steal control of its resources. Reading by Tim Foley.

After spending days enthusiastically applauding Trump's freakish act of imperialist aggression to oust the president of Venezuela on the grounds that he is a murderous tyrant, Republicans in the United States are falling all over themselves to justify the cold-blooded murder of a mother of three by an ICE officer in Minneapolis. Reading by Tim Foley.

The empire needs its skillful orators and apologists like Obama, but it also needs its iron-fisted overt tyrants like Trump. Reading by Tim Foley.

After all those months of babbling about fentanyl and "narcoterrorism" and freedom and democracy, the Trump administration has come right out and admitted that its regime change interventionism in Venezuela has always been a good old-fashioned oil grab. Reading by Tim Foley.

Their research has concluded that convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel. Reading by Tim Foley.

Doctors and aid workers largely became the de facto journalists on the ground in Gaza when Israel banned international news media and began systematically assassinating Gaza-based Palestinian journalists. So Israel wants to get rid of those de facto reporters to hide its crimes. Reading by Tim Foley.

Reading by Tim Foley.

My name appears at the top of a list in a document the Israeli government released earlier this month in order to draw false associations between the Bondi Beach shooting and online criticism of Israel and its atrocities. Reading by Tim Foley.

If they weren't concern-trolling about "globalize the intifada" they'd make up some other excuse to express their concern, and they know it. Their objection is to criticism of Israel, not to the way those criticisms are being expressed. Reading by Tim Foley.

But of course it would be antisemitic to suggest that there's anything strange about the US president meeting with the Israeli prime minister more frequently than with any other foreign leader on the planet. Reading by Tim Foley.

Stop picking on poor little Israel. It's just sitting there minding its own business trying to do a little genocide in peace while aggressively lobbying your government to crush your freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and you're OBSESSING about it for NO REASON. Reading by Tim Foley.

The dumbest thing we are being asked to believe today is that pro-Palestinian protests caused the Bondi shooting. It's self-evidently moronic. No one sincerely believes it. They're just pretending to believe it to get protests banned and criticism of Israel outlawed. Reading by Tim Foley.

If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech. Reading by Tim Foley.

You are allowed to subvert and undermine Israel's interests, because Israel is trying to subvert and undermine your rights. You are allowed to interfere in Israel's affairs, because Israel is interfering in your country's affairs. As Israel tries to exert more and more influence over western society and pushes western governments to crush our freedom of speech and assembly, we should be doing everything we can to make sure that western society turns against Israel, and that western governments alienate this freakish apartheid state on the world stage. And we should feel perfectly entitled in doing so, because Israel certainly feels comfortable coming after us and our rights. Reading by Tim Foley.

Not just hate speech against Jews. Criticism of a foreign state. They’re coming right out and saying it. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's so American how the Sackler family caused a national opioid crisis which ultimately led to the fentanyl crisis, and instead of imprisoning them the US eventually went "Hang on, we can use this as an excuse to start a war with a country that doesn't even produce fentanyl." Reading by Tim Foley.

Of course, these outlets and individuals do not actually care about the phrase “globalize the intifada”. If pro-Palestine activists had never chanted that slogan, pro-Israel spinmeisters would be focusing on a different line today. They are not trying to stop chants which they perceive as dangerous, they are trying to stomp out criticism of Israel’s genocidal atrocities. Reading by Tim Foley.

Palestinians don't love their families any less than Australians do. Australian lives aren't any more significant or valuable than Palestinian lives. There is no valid reason for the world to have focused any less on the 15 people who were killed in Gaza on March 16 than on the 15 people who were murdered on Bondi Beach. But it did. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's so gross watching the tail-wagging excitement of Israel supporters in response to this shooting. They're so happy they have another rhetorical weapon with which to bludgeon pro-Palestine voices into silence. They can barely contain their glee. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US pirating a Cuba-bound oil tanker from Venezuela illustrates how the empire is hurrying to shore up control over Latin America in the same way the US and Israel are quickly shoring up control over the middle east. Reading by Tim Foley.