The US Empire Needs Men Like Trump The empire needs its skillful orators and apologists like Obama, but it also needs its iron-fisted overt tyrants like Trump. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-emp...

Gotta wash my hair, if it gets any more oily I'll have Delta Force breaking down my door to steal it.

Listen to Venezuelans! No, not the Venezuelans in the streets demanding Maduro's return. No, not the polls saying most people in Venezuela oppose US regime change. Those are the wrong Venezuelans. I meant listen to the Venezuelan talking to Fox News from his mansion in Miami.

The new edition of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. As with all my work, everything contained in this magazine is free to reuse, reproduce or republish in any way. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/new-issue-...

Democrats spent more than a decade saying Trump is an evil fascist and then when he invades a sovereign country and abducts its leader all they've got to say is oh gosh I wish he'd been more polite about it, he shoulda asked Congress first. They're just Trump with a rainbow flag.

Russia invades Ukraine claiming there's a NATO proxy force directly on its border = Crazy. Evil. Worse than Hitler. US invades Venezuela claiming China is making energy deals there thousands of miles from the US border = Fine. Normal. Monroe Doctrine. Just wish he'd asked Congress.

New Painting Video: The Monroe Doctrine Is Bullshit In which I paint a portrait of Nicolas Maduro and rant about the "Monroe Doctrine". Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

They Kidnapped Maduro Because The World Is Ruled By Unaccountable Tyrants Trump is spelling out the truth of what he is and what the US empire is, and anyone with open eyes can see it plain as day. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-kidna...

Israel And Its Supporters Deliberately Foment Hate And Division In Our Society "Their research has concluded that convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-and...

When Zionists say "antisemitism" they mean "criticism of Israel". If you think I'm wrong, go ahead and name me some high-profile non-Jewish individuals who (A) consistently and aggressively criticize Israel's abuses and (B) aren't routinely accused of antisemitism by Zionists.

Israel Bans Aid Groups For The Same Reason It Bans Journalists They want to keep their crimes in the dark. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-ban...

New Year's Resolutions 2026 Do some landscape paintings Start a podcast with Tim Enrage the Israeli government Finish writing that novel Grow some luffa and make my own kitchen sponge Fall more deeply in love with everything See beauty everywhere

The Israeli Government Put My Name At The Top Of An 'Antisemite' List Israel is so intensely creepy. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-israel...

They Feign Concern About Pro-Palestine Chants In Order To Shut Down Pro-Palestine Protests Their objection is to criticism of Israel, not to the way those criticisms are being expressed. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-feign...

Netanyahu Is Visiting Trump For The FIFTH Time This Year But 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. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/netanyahu-...

Stop Picking On Poor Little Israel There was a mass shooting in Australia so now everyone needs to shut up and do whatever Israel wants. Israel feels sad about the shooting so now it gets to do a bit more genocide, as a treat. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-picki...

Notes On Bondi Beach And Free Speech "It’s crazy how the Bondi shooters got radicalized by the anti-genocide protests from 2023 to 2025 and then invented a time machine and went back to 2019 to join ISIS." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/notes-on-b...

Fifteen Jewish people getting killed on Bondi Beach doesn’t magically make genocide and apartheid okay, and it doesn’t magically make it okay to support those things. Supporting Israel was evil the day before the shooting, and it remained evil the day after. None of that changed.

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. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...

If Israel Gets To Undermine Our Rights, Then We Get To Undermine Israel If Israel is going after us, then we get to go after Israel. It’s just basic self-defense at this point. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-israel-...

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. Some are just pretending to believe it in order to promote the interests of a genocidal apartheid state.

The Australian Israel Lobby Is Flat-Out Saying They Want A Ban On Criticism Of Israel Not just hate speech against Jews. Criticism of a foreign state. They’re coming right out and saying it. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-austra...

Re-Launch: Secretary Of Perpetual War E-Book www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/re-launch-...

Trump Moves Closer To War With Venezuela, And Other Notes That’s right buddy, the US is preparing for a regime change war justified by lies again, in an oil-rich nation again, and they’re citing “weapons of mass destruction” again. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-move...

Israel Propagandists Are Uniformly Spouting The Exact Same Line About The Bondi Shooting They are not trying to stop chants which they perceive as dangerous, they are trying to stomp out criticism of Israel’s genocidal atrocities. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-pro...

Australians Being Massacred Shouldn’t Bother Us More Than Palestinians Being Massacred Palestinians don't love their families any less than Australians do. Australian lives aren't any more significant or valuable than Palestinian lives. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/australian...

It’s so gross watching the tail-wagging excitement of Israel supporters in response to the Bondi 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. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-apo...

Point 1: Obviously it is evil to massacre civilians for being Jewish. Point 2: Obviously Israel's genocidal atrocities must continue to be opposed, and will continue to be opposed. Today the worst people in the world are trying to pretend Point 1 and Point 2 are contradictory.

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."

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. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire...

Just as the United States hits its first official trillion-dollar annual military budget, the New York Times editorial board has published an article which argues that the US is going to need to increase military funding to prepare for a major war with China. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/new-york-t...

How To Heal When The World Is On Fire We definitely don't need to wait until the bastards have been defeated and we're feeling safe and secure in order to begin our healing journey. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-to-hea...

The blue whales have stopped singing because the krill are vanishing because the oceans are warming because we are ruled by long-toothed liars whose insides are full of dead leaves.

Trump's Henchmen Keep Calling Their War Slut President A Peacemaker This would be the same President Trump who has bombed Somalia more times in the last year than presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama did in their combined twelve years in office. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trumps-hen...

New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Secretary Of Perpetual War www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/new-issue-...

Sudan, Venezuela, And Other Notes If Maduro really was a monstrous tyrannical dictator the US would be selling him F-35s. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/sudan-vene...

We’re on track to become the first species to go extinct due to politeness. Gonna follow the dinosaurs out the door because it was too uncomfortable and confrontational to tell a few billionaires and empire managers to fuck off. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-becomin...

Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners One thing I try not to think about is how many reports we’ve been seeing about Israeli prison guards training dogs to rape Palestinian captives in torture camps like Sde Teiman. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/sorry-if-t...

If Maduro really was a monstrous tyrannical dictator the US would be selling him F-35s.

World's Most Tyrannical Government Wants To Free Venezuela From Tyranny If the US empire wants to make the world less tyrannical, its first and only move should be to dismantle itself. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/worlds-mos...

Ah, Good Old War Propaganda The mass media do this every time the US empire gets war-horny. And the Murdoch press are always the most egregious offenders. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ah-good-ol...

The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't It’s just so insane how this doesn’t sit front and center in our attention all the time. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-crazie...

US regime change wars are reliably disastrous, and are always justified based on lies. This would be true even if Venezuela really was a major drug trafficking threat and even if Maduro really was the world’s most evil dictator, neither of which are the case. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-regime-...

Americans who saw through the propaganda for war in the middle east but now fully buy into it for regime change in Venezuela are the weirdest. That’s like managing to pull your head out of your ass, taking a deep breath, and then shoving it right back in there.