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Caitlin Johnstone
Personal blog · caitlinjohnstone.compoliticsphilosophy
Caitlin Johnstone's personal blog at caitlinjohnstone.com covers politics and philosophy. Since 2018, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Caitlin Johnstone's posts on US foreign policy, war, sanctions, media and WikiLeaks/Assange, mostly as sources or responses to news stories. Most comments only cite the posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Daily Writings About The End Of Illusions
What Hacker News says?
A key witness against Assange is a convicted pedophile and sociopath who was being paid by the US government and offered immunity in exchange for his testimony. He has since admitted that his testimony was false. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/06/27/assange-prosecution-...
Comment linking /2021/06/27/assange-prosecution-relied-on-false-testimony-from-a-diagnosed-sociopath-and-convicted-pedophile/
on “Julian Assange Extradition Appeal: Day 2”Submitted Universal Basic Income + Automation + Plutocracy = Dystopia as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThe key witness against Assange is a convicted pedophile and sociopath who was being paid by the US government. He has since admitted that his testimony was false. https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/06/27/assange-prosecution-...
Comment linking /2021/06/27/assange-prosecution-relied-on-false-testimony-from-a-diagnosed-sociopath-and-convicted-pedophile/
on “Julian Assange Extradition Appeal: Day 2”Submitted Oh Great They’re Putting Guns on Robodogs Now as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThe deafening silence regarding the fudged OPCW reports is an indictment on most outlets (WP is mentioned explicitly): https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/07/syria-many-media-lie-a... https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/15/deluge-of-new-leaks-...
Comment linking /2019/12/15/deluge-of-new-leaks-further-shreds-the-establishment-syria-narrative/
on “France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax”Submitted It’s only a ‘conspiracy theory’ when it accuses the US Government as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSanctions can be just as deadly as warfare, though, and they almost exclusively affect civilians, and don't get nearly as much media attention as warfare. From https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/23/starvation-sanctions... "Starvation sanctions kill people. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have reportedly already died as a result of this administration’s relentless assault on their economy; those human beings are n…
Comment linking /2019/06/23/starvation-sanctions-are-worse-than-overt-warfare/
on “America’s aggressive use of sanctions endangers the dollar’s reign”Submitted The Pendulum of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward Again as a story · 12 points
HN discussion"... the WikiLeaks team has racked up numerous awards for journalism over the years, including the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (2011), the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011), the International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National Union of Italian Journalists (2011), the Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (2011), the Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award (20…
Comment linking /2019/04/07/assange-is-not-a-journalist-yes-he-is-idiot/
on “Chinese authorities detain Bloomberg News staff member”Submitted Humanity Is Deciding If It Will Evolve or Die as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIt’s 1984, folks. No joke. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/09/facebook-allies-with-u... https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/10/01/twitter-suspends-acc... https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/20/ciad-a20.html (As for the R’s, I saw but can’t find a clip of John Bolton bragging about helping R’s elect people with similar pedigrees.) https://www.corbettreport.com/psychographics-101/ https://www.corbettreport.com/t…
Comment linking /2019/10/01/twitter-suspends-accounts-for-propaganda-has-literal-propagandist-as-high-level-executive
on “Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook”Submitted US Hegemony Doesn’t Make the World More Peaceful, It Makes It More Dangerous as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSee also: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/07/28/in-refusing-to-defen...
Comment linking /2018/07/28/in-refusing-to-defend-assange-mainstream-media-exposes-its-true-nature/
on “Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters”Submitted The Guardian Could Help Assange by Retracting the Lies It Published About Him as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSure is! https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/11/17/us-empire-views-ukra...
Comment linking /2022/11/17/us-empire-views-ukrainians-and-russians-as-lab-rats-for-weapons-testing/
on “It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia”Submitted The US Could Use Some Separation of Media and State as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's interesting that this Twitter ban gets all this attention, while a far more civically damaging coordinated mass-ban by Twitter and Facebook has largely escaped notice. [0] If one were a cynic, one might suggest that there is only enough space in the news cycle for one group of unsympathetic ban victims. [0] https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/10/13/internet-censorship-...
Comment linking /2018/10/13/internet-censorship-just-took-an-unprecedented-leap-forward-and-hardly-anyone-noticed/
on “Twitter has barred hundreds of accounts for posing as liberal activists”Submitted PayPal Blocks Multiple Alt. Media Figures Critical of US Empire Narratives as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUnprovoked? Have a read through these: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/09/07/its-not-okay-for-gro... Rand Corporation https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html
Comment linking /2022/09/07/its-not-okay-for-grown-adults-to-say-the-ukraine-invasion-was-unprovoked/
on “Address by the President of the Russian Federation”Submitted Oppose the Censorship of David Icke as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm an African American living in Asia. I have lived in China. And I have experienced much more racism in America than in China. Some will not believe me so I'm prepared to prove it if necessary. Recently, certain politicians have made grave proclamations about people/thugs fighting for freedom in HK, Minneapolis, and other places around the world. It should be interesting and instructive to observe the cognitive di…
Comment linking /2020/03/19/liberal-npcs-hate-russia-conservative-npcs-hate-china/
on “The U.S. Military Is Monitoring Protests in Seven States”Submitted Professional Assange Smearers Finally Realize His Fate Is Tied to Theirs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs is commonly the case, Caitlin Johnstone has the most insightful analysis: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/03/27/the-new-york-times-i...
Comment linking /2023/03/27/the-new-york-times-is-a-disgusting-militarist-smut-rag/
on “An Anxious Asia Arms for a War It Hopes to Prevent”Submitted The Disappearing of Julian Assange: The Archibalds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think John Mearsheimer summed it up quite well. Australia doesn't really have a choice. They don't really know what will happen if they go against China, but there are a lot of precedents on what happens to countries that go against the US. I guess the general consensus is to not risk that. The Aukus deal is completely crazy. Australia is paying the US to build their own shipyards in the hopes that they get the ri…
Comment linking /2023/03/14/on-war-with-china-australia-is-caught-between-a-rock-and-a-pentagon/
on “US rejects Australia’s calls to end pursuit of WikiLeaks”A response: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/05/19/the-friendly-mask-of... Facebook involving itself with this malignant warmongering psyop factory constitutes an open admission that the social media site considers it its duty to manipulate people into supporting the agendas of the western empire.
Comment linking /2018/05/19/the-friendly-mask-of-the-orwellian-oligarchy-has-fallen-off/
on “Facebook: Announcing New Election Partnership with the Atlantic Council”Interesting quote: > If it seems a bit hypocritical to you that the empire is blasting us in the face all day with narratives alleging Russian war crimes while that same empire is imprisoning a journalist for exposing its war crimes [1], that's because it absolutely is hypocritical. [1] https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/12/16/the-assange-case-exp...
Comment linking /2021/12/16/the-assange-case-explained-simply/
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