Welcome To The Empire CAITLIN JOHNSTONE JAN 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLT-u2x2d0c&t=3752s Welcome to the empire Where genocide is self-defense and peace rallies are genocide Where war criminals are the victims and the hospitals are terrorists Where calls for freedom are hateful and ceasefires are anti-semitic Where civilians get called terrorists and real terrorists get Nobel Peace Prizes Where the propaganda is journalism and the journalism is propaganda Where the democracy is real and the apartheid is imaginary Where the corporations are people and the people are corporate resources Welcome to the empire Whose bombs are humanitarian and whose provocations are invisible Whose veterans are heroes and whose victims are forgotten Whose wars are always just and whose enemies are always Hitler Whose cause is always righteous and whose critics are always Russian Whose sufferings are unforgivable and whose crimes are erased from history Whose atrocities are always an unfortunate accident and whose enemies kill civilians for fun Whose disastrous interventions are always innocent mistakes no matter how often they happen Welcome to the empire Ever the victim of unprovoked attacks from the people it has been strangling Ever the shining city on a hill of human corpses Ever the defender of the poor helpless plutocrats of Wall Street Ever the savior of the families incinerated by missiles made by Raytheon Ever the protector of natural resources in the soil of foreign nations Ever the upholder of the rules-based order of a world with a boot on its throat The empire loves you with a heart made of dollars and oil The empire watches over you through your smartphone and your computer The empire is your only friend The empire is the only one who will ever love you You can’t leave You can’t get rid of the empire If you get rid of the empire, this world could be taken over by tyrants _______________ _______________ _______________ Caitlin’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece here are some options where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. Go here to buy paperback editions of my writings from month to month. All my work is free to bootleg and use in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. The best way to make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list on Substack, which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley. Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2 Featured image via Adobe Stock (formatted for size). Caitlin’s Newsletter. © 2024 Caitlin Johnstone PO Box 378, Mentone, 3194, Victoria, Australia