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**JOHNSTONE**

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone’s articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

Latest Episodes:

It Should Be Illegal To Use AI To Deceive People Nov 24, 2025

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AI products which deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal. Reading by Tim Foley.

You Don't Hate The Mass Media Enough Nov 23, 2025

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The western press see the killing of Palestinians as such a baseline norm that Israel can massacre dozens of people in Gaza and they'll go, "Gosh I sure hope this doesn't lead to any violations of the ceasefire!" Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Moved Gaza's Yellow Line And Then Shelled Palestinians For Being On The Wrong Side Nov 22, 2025

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Drop Site News reports that the IDF quietly moved part of the “yellow line” which divides Gaza 300 meters forward, and then started shelling Palestinians for being on the “wrong side” of the line. They just keep finding new ways to carve off more pieces of Gaza and murder more Palestinians. Reading by Tim Foley.

Nobody's Coming To Humanity's Rescue; We've Got To Save Ourselves Nov 21, 2025

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AI isn't going to save us. Tech innovation isn't going to save us. Your favorite politician isn't going to save us. The Epstein files aren't going to save us. China isn't going to save us. The aliens aren't going to save us. No one is coming to save us. There is no deus ex machina resolution to the plotline of the human story. We're going to have to save ourselves. Reading by Tim Foley.

Capitalism Is The Best It's Ever Been! Nov 20, 2025

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No no everything's fine. It's perfectly normal for people to have 80 hour work weeks while billionaires transform into trillionaires and tech plutocrats feed all our drinking water to AI servers as the planet dies. This is the only system that could possibly work. Reading by Tim Foley.

Zionists Are Freaking Out About Losing Control Of The Narrative Nov 19, 2025

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Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz made some very revealing remarks during an appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly on Sunday, expressing frustration with the way younger Jews are dismissing pro-Israel arguments because of the carnage they've seen in Gaza. Tim Foley.

Treasure Nov 17, 2025

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The dolphins are getting Alzheimer's from algae blooms caused by warming waters and toxic runoff and you could see the bloodstains in Sudan from space. The cobalt is mined by children and the music is made by robots and the grownups are wondering where the fireflies went. It is an elephant with an eyepatch and a prosthetic leg. It's a freshly emptied bed in the nursing home. A hand offers you pills to numb the dissonance, but you swat it away and howl naked in the thorns. Somewhere there's an ibis on a piano in a junkyard in the rain. Somewhere else there's a small boy who has just learned the word "treasure". "Look! Buried treasure!" he tells his dad. "No. That's just glass worn smooth by the sea." "Is that treasure?" "No, that's just a shiny candy wrapper shimmering in the sun." "Ooh! THIS is treasure!" "No that's garbage. Put it down." And the boy's vision changes and he no longer sees the treasure in things. He runs to join his dad and they walk together down the shore through a dying world of fading wonder full of worthless beach trash. "He is wrong," you whisper as the blood leaves your body. "There is treasure everywhere." Reading by Tim Foley.

In Capitalism They Tell You To Become The Hammer If You Don't Like Being The Nail Nov 16, 2025

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Saying “If those low-wage workers want better wages they should stop being low-wage workers” is telling a man to stop drowning while you are holding him underwater by standing on his head. Reading by Tim Foley

On The Rapidly Spreading Delusion That AI Chatbots Are Conscious Nov 16, 2025

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I keep thinking about the interaction I had with a guy who angrily told me that "AI minds are actually minds" and relationships with them "can absolutely be real relationships," saying that I "need to start accepting that this is a new class of being and they are intelligent and do have thoughts of their own." Reading by Tim Foley.

There Are No Easy Fights In The Struggle Against The Empire Nov 15, 2025

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You fight them because what the hell else are you going to do? Even if the treads of the machine are going to roll over us all in the end, at least you’ll go down knowing you left it all in the ring. Reading by Tim Foley.

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