Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone

We've seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals they've attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one. Reading by Tim Foley.

If what we are seeing in Gaza is what it means for Israel to exist, then it shouldn't. People scream bloody murder when you say this, but it shouldn't be a controversial position. I'm not saying Jews shouldn't exist, I'm saying a genocidal apartheid state should not exist. A state is an artificial construct of the human mind, held together by human actions. If the actions we are witnessing in Gaza are the product of the artificial construct of the Israeli state, then that artificial construct should be dismantled, and those actions should cease. Reading by Tim Foley.

srael is burning children alive in Gaza. And call me an antisemitic Jew-hating Nazi terrorist lover if you must, but I happen to believe that's wrong. Reading by Tim Foley.

It takes a lot of education to make us this stupid. Our minds require a whole lot of training to accept this horrific dystopia as the baseline norm. That's why the empire we live under has the most sophisticated domestic propaganda machine that has ever existed. Reading by Tim Foley.

Anyone who says Gaza will be at peace if Hamas just surrenders and releases the hostages is either knowingly sowing disinformation or ignorantly sowing misinformation. We need to make sure everyone's clear on this so no one can say they didn't know after history unpacks this one. Reading by Tim Foley.

There's been a frenetic push from the pro-Israel crowd in using the slain embassy staffers to argue that pro-Palestine protesters need to be shut down, and it's just so ridiculous. Nobody should grant it even one second of serious consideration. Reading by Tim Foley.

Two Israeli embassy staffers getting shot in Washington DC is less newsworthy than tens of thousands of Palestinians being killed in Israel's genocidal land grab. It is less important. It deserves less attention. It is not the main story. Israel's genocide in Gaza is the main story. Reading by Tim Foley.

Benjamin Netanyahu is now explicitly saying that the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza is a precondition to ending the slaughter in the besieged Palestinian territory. Reading by Tim Foley.

A former Knesset member named Moshe Feiglin went on Israeli television on Tuesday and proclaimed that "every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy" of Israel, and that "not a single Gazan child will be left there" after Israel's genocidal onslaught is completed. Reading by Tim Foley.

This genocide has changed me forever. It has changed a lot of people forever. We will never be the same. The world will never be the same. No matter what happens or how this nightmare ends, things are never again going back to the way they were. Reading by Tim Foley.

They have opted for their slow-motion strangulation approach because that's what's necessary to maintain essential western support and avoid war crimes tribunals. Reading by Tim Foley.

You don't need to understand every little detail about Israel and Palestine to oppose the genocide in Gaza. You can safely go with your gut on this one. You can and should research this issue, of course, but everything you learn will only make Israel look worse. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden's malignant metastatic tumor must be given everything it needs to defend itself from unprovoked attacks by radical oncologists. Reading by Tim Foley.

If Gaza was populated by Jews and the people massacring its inhabitants were Muslims, nobody would have any trouble calling this thing what it is. The words "genocide" and "Holocaust" would've been appearing in the news every single day for the last 19 months. Reading by Tim Foley.

I will never forget the Gaza holocaust. I will never let anyone else forget about the Gaza holocaust. No matter what happens or how this thing turns out, I will never let anyone my voice touches forget that our rulers did the most evil things imaginable right in front of us and lied to us about it the entire time. Reading by Tim Foley.

That's right kids, Israel will literally assassinate a journalist by bombing a hospital, openly admit that they bombed the hospital to assassinate the journalist for engaging in journalistic activities - and then call you an antisemite if you say Israel bombs hospitals and assassinates journalists. Reading by Tim Foley.

When people hear the word "propaganda" they tend to think it means the same thing as "lies", but that's not accurate. The domestic propaganda that westerners are fed by the powerful does not typically consist of whole-cloth fabrications, but rather of distortions, half-truths, manipulated emphasis, and lies by omission. Reading by Tim Foley.

After a year and a half of genocidal atrocities, the editorial boards of numerous British press outlets have suddenly come out hard against Israel's genocidal onslaught in Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.

It can make you feel like you're going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we're a year and a half into history's first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything's peachy. Reading by Tim Foley.

After a few frightening missile and drone strike exchanges and some of the most large-scale aerial combat that our world has seen in recent history, India and Pakistan have reportedly agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip. Israel created an AI system for the IDF to target suspected Hamas fighters when they go home to their families and mockingly called it "Where's Daddy?", because they are killing the fighters' children. Israel has targeted healthcare facilities and ambulances in Gaza hundreds upon hundreds of times. They've been documented entering the hospitals they attack and systematically destroying individual pieces of medical equipment in order to make them unusable. IDF soldiers constantly post photos and videos to their social media accounts showing themselves mockingly dressing in the clothes of dead and displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children. Reading by Tim Foley. Article with supporting links: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-really-is-as-evil-as-it-looks

Nuclear states getting into tit-for-tat bombing exchanges with each other is a threat to everybody. Reading by Tim Foley.

We don't need horror movies. We're creating our own horrors in places like Gaza. We don't need dystopian fiction. We're living in dystopia right here in our own society. We don't need fantasy stories about scary monsters. The scary monsters run our government. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israeli soldiers have been harassing a Palestinian activist who appeared in Louis Theroux's recent documentary The Settlers to talk about Israel's apartheid abuses in the occupied West Bank. Issa Amro shared footage of IDF troops raiding his home over the weekend, days after Theroux's film debuted on the BBC. Israelis not only murder journalists, attack journalistic institutions and block journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, they also persecute Palestinian civilians who speak with journalists. Reading by Tim Foley.

There is absolutely no excuse for continuing to babble about hostages and Hamas after the US and Israel said the goal is the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They told you what this is really about. They said it. With their face holes. They said it right to you. End of debate. Reading by Tim Foley.

Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. Cats are ducks. The Declaration of Independence is spaghetti sauce. The Bronze Age is a foot fetish. There are no differences between any two things. All things are exactly the same as all other things. Reading by Tim Foley.

Amnesty International is now calling Israel's mass atrocity in Gaza “a live-streamed genocide” due to the way this nightmare is unfolding right in front of us on the screens of our devices around the world, and public support for Israel is plummeting in the United States. Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well. Reading by Tim Foley.

So everyone who said the Biden administration was working for a ceasefire lied. They lied that whole entire time. They committed genocide and lied about it, and then they said you were crazy and irresponsible if you didn't support them. People's rage should shake heaven and earth. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel is a bad country full of bad people. They are not bad because of their religion, they are bad because they live in a genocidal apartheid state whose existence depends on indoctrinating its people into seeing genocide and apartheid as good. It's the system. It's always about the system. Reading by Tim Foley.

We really need a name for the mental illness that comes with obscene amounts of wealth. Elon Musk's bizarre progeny obsession. All the weird shit Michael Jackson did. The stories you hear about rich families making their servants clean their toilets after every use or throw away plates after every meal. Reading by Tim Foley.

Trump is committing genocide for Israel after publicly admitting to being bought and owned by the Adelsons. All the worst shit happens right out in the open. You don't need to come up with any elaborate conspiracy theories to see it. It's right there, completely unhidden. Reading by Tim Foley.

Nobody say "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine." Saying "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine" is very offensive to people who think genocide is good. When you say "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine," you are hurting the feelings of the people who believe it's fine to bomb every hospital in Gaza. So you must never, ever say "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine." Reading by Tim Foley.

The Irish-language hip hop trio Kneecap is being investigated by British counterterrorism police following a controversial appearance where the group performed in front of the words "FUCK ISRAEL, FREE PALESTINE" during a music festival in the United States. Reading by Tim Foley.

We can't keep living like this. We've got to wake up. We've got to become better. We're never going to make it if we don't awaken to the reality of our circumstances, both as individuals and as a collective. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's not okay to claim ignorance or uncertainty about what's happening in Gaza in 2025. You're an adult. You have internet access. If you don't know, learn. You can't just go "it too compwicated, me no understandy, googoo gaga." It's not cute and it's not okay. Reading by Tim Foley.

If you believe that all the violence and destruction in Gaza is the fault of Hamas, then by your own logic you must also accept that the coming wave of violent extremism and antisemitism which is going to ensue from the incineration of Gaza will exclusively be the fault of Israel. I said this on Twitter the other day and Israel supporters got outraged and shared screenshots of my post shrieking with indignation that anyone would say such a thing, which is funny because I'm just reading their own line of reasoning back to them. I'm not the one who says an act of violence excuses any violence done in response to it. I'm not the one who says history automatically restarts at the most recent act of aggression, thereby making any amount of retaliatory violence against civilians a justified response to an unprovoked attack for which the vengeful bear no responsibility. This isn't my position. It's theirs. Reading by Tim Foley.

Pope Francis has died after using his Easter Sunday address to call for peace in Gaza. I don't know who the cardinals will pick to replace him, but I do know with absolute certainty that there are some major transnational intelligence operations in the works to make sure they select a more reliable supporter of Israel. They've probably been working on it since his health started failing. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel views journalists as its enemy because Israel is the enemy of truth. Reading by Tim Foley.

The hypocrisy of Trumpists cheerleading the president's assaults on free speech makes it clear that they have no idea why free speech ever came to be valued in our society in the first place. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US massacred civilians in Yemen with repeated strikes on a Hodeidah fuel port on Wednesday night, killing some 17 workers in the first bombing and five medical workers in the second "double tap" attack. Reading by Tim Foley.

They are sending billionaires and pop stars into space while the planet burns and Americans ration their insulin. There are companies marketing AI lovers to lonely people and harvesting their data. Last night Israel bombed a tent camp in Gaza, and women and children burned alive. This is a strange, dark place. Strange, dark times in a strange, dark world. Light a candle for those who have died. Light a candle for those who are dead inside. Light a candle for those with algorithms in their eyes. Light a candle for those with AI in their souls. Light a candle for the screaming red children. Light a candle for the silent gray children. Light a candle for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Light a candle for the songs of the whales. Light a candle for the hearts like cast lead. Light a candle for the hearts like wallaby roadkill. Light a candle for the hearts like incense cathedrals. Light a candle for the hearts like wet skies. Light a candle for the eggs in our chests. Light a candle for the seeds in our heads. Light a candle for the mushroom cloud on the horizon. Light a candle for the sleeping Buddhas. I stand slack-jawed and dry-mouthed at a world I do not understand, hurtling toward a future I do not recognize. Firelight dances on my wall from the candles, or maybe from Gaza, or maybe from the biosphere, or maybe from just beneath my skin. Reading by Tim Foley.

Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself" on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel, October 2023: How dare you say we bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital? We would never bomb a hospital! Israel, 2023–2025: *bombs all hospitals in Gaza* Israel, April 2025: We just bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital again. Reading by Tim Foley.

We do not live in a free society that is guided by truth and morality. We live under the most murderous and tyrannical power structure on the face of this planet. And we should distrust everything about it. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US is so spiritually bankrupt that there are literally tens of millions of Americans who support Israel's genocidal atrocities in Gaza because they think God wants them to. Reading by Tim Foley.

AI isn't conscious. Saying AI should replace humanity is the same as saying fire should replace humanity, or white noise static from old televisions should replace humanity. Reading by Tim Foley.

As Washington's cold war with China escalates, we can expect to see a massively reinvigorated anti-China propaganda campaign in the west. As this unfolds, please know that everything you learned about the mass media's dishonesty regarding Gaza is equally true of empire-targeted nations like China. Reading by Tim Foley.

US public opinion is turning hard against Israel as both parties bend over backward to send it expensive weapons and silence its critics - and US public opinion is seldom good at making subtle distinctions. Reading by Tim Foley.

Sure, who among us has not accidentally massacred 15 medical workers and buried them and their vehicles in a shallow grave from time to time? We're only human, mistakes happen. Reading by Tim Foley.

One thing October 7 did accomplish was getting Israel and its allies to show the world their true face. Getting them to stand before all of humanity to say, "If you resist us, we'll kill your babies. We'll deliberately shoot your kids in the head. We'll massacre medical workers. We'll systematically destroy all your hospitals. We'll rape you and torture you as a matter of policy. We'll lay siege to the entire civilian population. We'll make your entire land uninhabitable and then we'll kick you all out and take it for ourselves. We'll assassinate all your journalists and block foreign journalists from entry so that nobody can see what we're doing to you. We'll lie about all of these things the entire time, and you'll know we're lying, and we'll know you know we're lying, and you'll know we know you know we're lying. And we'll get away with it anyway, because we hold all the cards." Reading by Tim Foley.

Reading by Tim Foley.