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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

@caitoz

May 25

It's definitely not a coincidence that the nation which serves as the hub of a globe-spanning empire that's held together by mass murder and war propaganda and mass-scale psychological manipulation is the only nation with a mass shooting epidemic. But this will never be studied.

It will never be studied because empire is invisible to mainstream science and social psychology, in the same way it's invisible to mainstream media and mainstream politics. The empire is not even acknowledged to exist within the spheres of mainstream thought. This is deliberate.

The spheres of mainstream thought which prevent people from understanding that we are dominated by an unacknowledged empire which spans the globe and influences our lives more than virtually anything else our attention is diverted to are actively influenced by that very empire.

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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

@caitoz

May 25

There's probably a correlation between the fact that the US is the only nation with a mass shooting epidemic and the fact that Americans are the most aggressively propagandized population on earth.

If you took any armed population and psychologically pummelled them from birth with narratives about how mass military slaughter is fine while turning them into underpaid, alienated gear-turners and giving them an artificial culture mass-produced in LA, you'd see mass shootings.

There's only so far you can warp the human psyche before it snaps. Bash hundreds of millions of people in the brain their entire lives with indoctrination programs telling them madness is sanity and sanity is madness, and a few of them are going to wind up mass murderers.

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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

@caitoz

May 25

This is journalistic malpractice.

@ASPI_org

The think tank in question is the profoundly corrupt @ASPI_org. Citing think tanks that are funded by governments and war profiteers on foreign policy matters, without ever even mentioning their immense conflict of interest, is journalistic malpractice.
abc.net.au/news/2022-05-2…

@ASPI_org

@ASPI_org Among the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's funders are global weapons makers Thales, BAE Systems, Raytheon, SAAB, Northrop Grumman, MDBA Missile Systems and Naval Group, as well as government entities including the US State Department.
michaelwest.com.au/independent-th…

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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

@caitoz

May 24

Kissinger hasn't been one of the world's worst war hawks for decades. This is true not because he has gotten less psychopathic but because everyone else has gotten more so.

Bush-era neocons made Kissinger look like a Teletubby, and their foreign policy is just the mainstream Beltway orthodoxy now.

https://twitter.com/cogitatotomato/status/1529155247238569985?s=20&t=v3jeDBRFsIJa-5F7RQyVnw

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Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

@caitoz

May 24

They're Just Outright Telling Us That Peace In Ukraine Is Not An Option

"US Senator Joe Manchin said at the World Economic Forum on Monday that he opposes any kind of peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/theyre-just-…

They're Just Outright Telling Us That Peace In Ukraine Is Not An Option

"Manchin, who at the moment is one of the most powerful elected officials in Washington, added that only the complete forcible ejection of Russia from all of Ukraine is acceptable"
soundcloud.com/going_rogue/th…

Manchin also said the war should ideally be used to remove Putin from power, and that he and the strategists he talks to see this war as an "opportunity".