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Mar 21 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is the message desktop Twitter users are receiving at the top right of their screen. We talk a lot about Silicon Valley's role in facilitating US government censorship, but we should probably talk a lot more about its role in facilitating US government propaganda as well.
We have two different words for censorship and propaganda, but in reality they're just different aspects of the same one thing: narrative control. Propaganda is the positive aspect of imperial narrative control (adding information), censorship the negative (removing information).
Whoever controls the world's dominant narratives controls the world itself. Narrative management constructs like Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the oligarchic "news" media play an even greater role in upholding the US-centralized empire than the US military.
I believe there's no evidence that Russia is intentionally targeting civilians. Because there isn't.
newsweek.com/putins-bombers…
Former UN weapons inspector:

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Mar 22
I see this "War in Ukraine" Twitter Topic, which I never followed, far more often than Twitter Topics which I DO follow. And it's always chock full of unproven propagandistic claims about Russian malfeasance, often by the European Endowment for Democracy-funded Kyiv Independent. Image
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Mar 22
The saying that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism is directly related to people's inability to imagine anything other than increasingly aggressive escalations between nuclear powers in the competition-based systems we live under.
It really doesn't need to be this way. There's no reason nations can't cooperate with each other for the good of everyone without trying to dominate each other. There's no reason we can't move from competition-based models of domination to collaboration-based models of thriving.
Parenti said years ago that the ultimate plan of the neocons (which today has become simply the mainstream orthodoxy on US foreign policy) is a confrontation with disobedient governments, the ultimate target being China, to ensure the supremacy of American global capitalism. Image
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Mar 22
This is moving so fast now. The doors on information control are being slammed and bolted shut all around the world as fast as they can get away with it. And of course Australia is on the front line of this war against mental sovereignty. Image
minister.infrastructure.gov.au/fletcher/media…
I guess this would be a good time to remind everyone to get on my mailing list on my website (caitlinjohnstone.com) or on Substack (caitlinjohnstone.substack.com)
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Mar 21
The US and all its imperial member states are strangling Russia's economy in response to a war they provoked because Putin threatens US unipolar planetary domination and there are still right wingers whispering "I bet there's a hidden conspiracy to create a one world government."
Yes there's an agenda to unite the world under a single power structure, but it's the one leftist anti-imperialists have long warned about. And it's evidenced in public information like the Wolfowitz Doctrine and by just watching the movements of military equipment and resources.
Our world's problems are systemic. Pretending our problems are due to specific individuals like Klaus Schwab is tempting for people who are ideologically invested in existing systems like capitalism and US supremacy, because then you just need to get rid of those few bad apples.
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Mar 21
The Only 'Agency' Ukraine Has Is The Central Intelligence Kind

"That Ukraine has lacked independent agency in this war and the events leading up to it is something you are simply not allowed to say.
Well, I'm saying it."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-only-age…
The Only 'Agency' Ukraine Has Is The Central Intelligence Kind

"Denying the western role in subverting Ukrainian sovereignty doesn't benefit ordinary Ukrainians, it hurts them."
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The Only 'Agency' Ukraine Has Is The Central Intelligence Kind

"This IS a proxy war. Kyiv IS a puppet regime. Ukraine does NOT have independent agency in any meaningful way."
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Mar 20
Here Let Me Help You

Here let me take
that heavy great coat
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when the kid from school made fun of you
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Here let me help
you untangle scribbled innards
that bottle up your rivers
and cause dams to swell and break.
Let me gently take the rocks
that you formed from fright and timber
to try and keep the outside world
from dumping you in its wake.
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