October 2, 2019
Caitlin
Johnstone
Dateline: Feb 18, 2018
Many of our readers are interested in
(and admire) Caitlin Johnstone, the fierce Australian journalist who often
makes us believe that the pen may be mightier than the sword (or the gun and
bomb!). Since we bet they are almost as curious as we were about
Caitlin’s background, and, above all, what makes her tick, we thought it a good
idea to repost this short piece clarifying that and much more. Enjoy, and don’t
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Well it looks like it’s attack editorial season again, so I’m just going to write a bit about who
I am and what I do in order to put everyone’s mind at ease about me (or confirm
all their worst suspicions, depending on where they’re coming from). In any
case I’ve acquired a lot of followers lately and I figure it’s also a good idea
to introduce myself in detail so people are fully aware of what I’m about and
what I stand for.
I’d like to start off by publicly
proclaiming that I am in fact a resident of Australia and not American so that
Mueller doesn’t indict me for conspiring to defraud the United States. Those
thirteen Russian trolls will never face trial, but you can bet your ass
my crony vassal
state would ship me
to the States in a heartbeat if they were asked to.
I write about US politics because
that’s where I reckon the head of the beast is. Australia is essentially an
intelligence/military asset of the US-centralized
international empire, so
there’s no point writing about Aussie politics if I’m interested in helping our
species avoid extinction. And that’s really the only reason I write.
Everything I write these days is
focused on pointing to the fact that our world is becoming increasingly
dominated by a sociopathic plutocracy with no loyalty to any nation or
government, whose power-hungry manipulations keep marching our species toward
extinction via nuclear annihilation or climate chaos. Until the people take
their power away from these dangerous, exploitative warmongering elites, things
are going to keep getting worse until we are at worst extinct or at best
enslaved in a homogenized Orwellian dystopia where dissent is fully
suppressed by AI censorship.
Since my focus is on worldwide
restoration of power to ordinary people by prying it from the clutches of the
oligarchs, my writings are often described as populist, and I think that’s
fair. I have faith that ordinary people as a collective are much better governors
of the world than a few depraved elites, and I have faith that humanity can
wake up enough to reclaim its power.
I believe capitalism is the
underlying reason that these nationless elites have been able to so effectively
seize control of the world’s governments, media, militaries and infrastructure.
The more you are willing to step on other people to get ahead, the easier it is
to become wealthy, and the more willing you are to throw your fellow humans
under the bus to exploit, manipulate, pollute, cheat, and enslave, the
wealthier you can become.
This has led to a system where the
wealthiest people are also the most sociopathic. It has also led to a system
where money
translates directly into political power, and therefore a system where we are all ruled by
sociopaths. Nowhere is this more true than in the United States, which is where
the nationless imperialist oligarchs focus their influence most aggressively.
In theory capitalism is fine. In
practice it crushes the weakest and most disadvantaged while turning the worst
among us into emperors. For this reason I am a leftist, but I am a leftist who
understands that as long as unelected plutocrats control a political system, socialism cannot be possible. For this reason I
focus a lot more on attacking the oligarchy than on promoting socialist
policies. I start at step one.
This is why I have often promoted the
idea of working with anti-establishment
conservatives toward
this end, since libertarians, paleocons and civic nationalists are also
generally interested in ridding the world of oligarchic influence and rampant
corporatist corruption, as well as senseless military interventionism and
Orwellian surveillance and censorship. I get a lot of criticism from the left
about this. I insist that I am correct.
Leftists call me a right-winger and a
Nazi. Right-wingers call me a man hater, an Iran propagandist and a Soros
shill. Centrists call me a Russian propagandist, an Assadist, and WikiLeaks
asset. Really I’m just a mother doing her best to turn our species away from the
omnicidal, ecocidal trajectory it appears to be travelling on.
I
oppose the following:
- US military interventionism (all)
- Corporate
censorship
- Government
secrecy
- US
intelligence agencies (all)
- Capitalism
- Corruption
- Propaganda
- Mainstream
media (all)
- Racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia,
transphobia, antisemitism, bigotry in all forms
I
support the following:
- Government
transparency
- Sovereignty
(personal and national)
- Wealth redistribution and/or total redesign of
the mechanics of wealth
- Economic justice, including universal healthcare
and a living wage
- WikiLeaks
- Feminism
- Alternative
media
- Freedom
of speech
- Environmentalism
- Spiritual
enlightenment
- Humans
Establishment loyalists write smear
pieces about me because they can’t get me fired since I’m crowd-funded and
can’t get me deplatformed since I don’t have any platform beyond blogging and
social media. Their only shot, then, is to circulate material making the
general public suspicious of me so that nobody will read what I write. That doesn’t
really work either, though; the most prominent lefty outlet in America spent all of
last July throwing smear
pieces at me and it didn’t even slow me down. My leftist haters are out of
ammo, and my centrist and right-wing haters only help me.
I really don’t think there’s much
left to smear me about. I’ve said a few things that make people uncomfortable;
I don’t mind Mike Cernovich retweeting my stuff, I think it’s okay to ask
questions about things like Seth Rich and Pizzagate, and I am absolutely
certain that we are being extensively lied to by establishment media about
Russia and Syria. I stand by all of the above, and if anyone has a problem with
that I don’t care.
I was recently accused in a Progressive Army smear piece of being a “WikiLeaks asset”, which is a new one
for me. This is false. I have no relationship with WikiLeaks beyond my very
enthusiastic and aggressive support for the outlet. I have never received any
money from any WikiLeaks affiliate that I know of, nor for that matter from the
Russian, Syrian, Iranian, or North Korean governments, nor for that matter from
Soros or any other plutocrat.
Every once in a while a man who raped
and pervasively abused me for years makes fake accounts on Medium telling
people that I am a fraud because my husband writes my articles for me. This is
false. I’ve been very open about the fact that my husband and I have a very
intense and intimate relationship and we do everything together, including
working on my articles, but they are mine and I retain full authorship and
editorial authority over them. We’re basically the way we are on our podcast all the time; a lot of laughter, swapping of
ideas, handing the laptop back and forth and coming up with witty one-liners
together. It infuriates my abuser that I have a good feminist man who deeply
cherishes and supports me now, and he wants people to hate me for that.
That’s all I can think of as far as
things people might try to smear me for in the near future. I’m sure there’s
stuff I’m missing, but whatever. Haters gonna hate.
Love
you.
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This is a dispatch from our ongoing
series by Caitlin Johnstone
About the Author
Caitlin Johnstone is a brave journalist, political junkie, relentless feminist, champion of the 99 percent. And a powerful counter-propaganda tactician.
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