Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone

Nothing's more enraging than seeing the western officials who are making this genocide possible weep crocodile tears about how "heartbreaking" it is. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Liberals only try to compartmentalize these things away from each other to stave off the cognitive dissonance inherent in their contradiction-soaked worldview." Reading by Tim Foley.

There's a motherfucking genocide happening and we're being told we need to be worried about TikTok and defaced portraits of Lord Balfour. Reading by Tim Foley.

US airman Aaron Bushnell said the words "This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal" before self-immolating in protest of the genocide in Gaza. That simple line has been reverberating throughout our collective consciousness ever since. Reading by Tim Foley.

A recently released UNRWA document says its staff report having been tortured while detained by Israeli forces, who pressed them to provide false statements about ties between the agency and Hamas. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Such a tactic is not meaningfully different from lining up children on their knees on the battlefield and shooting them one by one in the back of the head until the enemy unconditionally surrenders." Reading by Tim Foley.

Pointing pistols as the man burns, as Gaza burns, as civilization burns, as the planet burns. I don't need guns  I need fire extinguishers. Raytheon racketeers and Pentagon pimps swollen fat from the blood of unnamed victims glossed over in headlines by The New York Times while National Guard troops patrol the New York subways and babies with legs like toothpicks fill our screens. Pouring arms into Israel  while humanitarian-LARPing aid airdrops. Waving around armageddon weapons while accusing peacemongers of treason. Well sure I'd ask for seconds mister president sir, but see I don't need guns I need fire extinguishers. I need someone to put some fat back on those babies. I need someone to get the plastic out of the oceans. I need the bombs to stop and the siege to lift and a healthy planet for the kids to play in. I need kids to stop getting their limbs blown off so they can run and play in that healthy world. Can you drone strike me a thriving biosphere? Can you ICBM those Gazans some food? Can you extin

The Biden administration is supposedly planning to set up a temporary pier in Gaza to allow for the large-scale shipment of sorely needed goods into the enclave, which reportedly will take weeks to build and will still be subjected to an Israeli checkpoint. Reading by Tim Foley.

Every Hollywood celebrity who fails to speak out against the US-backed genocide in Gaza at the Oscars this Sunday is complicit in that genocide. If you're given a major platform and your government is committing genocide, you are morally obligated use that platform to condemn your government's actions. Reading by Tim Foley.

We've managed to get a third podcast episode up! Recording it and making enough time to create it and edit it are skills we're still developing, but we've always learned on the job in this weird little project of ours anyway. Personally I think this is our best one yet. In this episode we discuss Aaron Bushnell and the pathetic performative airdrop of a few meals in Gaza, we make some embarrassing revelations about how we stay productive amidst a daily deluge of negativity, and we answer a few questions from readers and trolls. Questions we address in this episode: "Discuss the reasons explaining the impressive level of US support for Israel." "How do you maintain such productivity in the face of the negativity you're dealing with daily? Mindset, routines, practices?" "Why weren't you so ragey about the civil war waged on Syrians by Assad about a decade ago, where far more were slaughtered than in Gaza right now?" "We talk about pro-war corporate media narratives all the time. Who is the narrator? How is the

"Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." That's the constant message we're getting from the dominant institutions in this present-day dystopia. From our news media. From our political parties. From our government. From our mainstream culture of diversion and superficiality. Reading by Tim Foley.

The problem is not that the wrong people keep getting elected, it's that the elections don't matter and voters don't have a say. Reading by Tim Foley.

Haaretz has a new article out titled "Gaza Becomes Israel's Testing Ground for Military Robots", which reports that "In an effort to avoid harming soldiers and dogs, the IDF has been experimenting with the use of robots and remote-controlled dogs in the Gaza War." Reading by Tim Foley.

There's an infuriatingly common type of liberal who purports to oppose Israel's actions in Gaza while also saying they support "Israel's right to exist", as though Israel's existence is somehow separable from its genocidal murderousness. Reading by Tim Foley.

In the case of suicide as we conventionally understand it, death is the goal. It is the both the means and the end, in and of itself. Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation was a means to a very different end: a free Palestine and the cessation of an ongoing genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.

You have either consciously chosen to side with the people who are being continually massacred by Israel, or you have consciously chosen to side with Israel, or you have sided with Israel by being "neutral", or you have sided with Israel by being indifferent. Reading by Tim Foley.

Imperial propaganda outlet The New York Times is currently embroiled in a massive scandal over its reporting which alleges mass rapes on October 7 - and the scandal is being fueled in part by leaks from its own staff. Reading by Tim Foley.

So that's what happens when the imperial media report on an Israeli massacre, in case you were curious and haven't been paying attention since October 7 or the decades which preceded it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Many high-profile Israel supporters have been circulating a fake screenshot of a Reddit account run by Bushnell saying "Palestine will be free when all the jews are dead." The fact that they're doing this illustrates two things: that Israel supporters are unscrupulous liars, and that they are freaking the fuck out about how much damage Bushnell has done to their cause. Reading by Tim Foley.

One of the main reasons the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell is having such an earthshaking impact on our society is because it's the single most profound act of sincerity that any of us have ever witnessed. Reading by Tim Foley.