Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan? How mainstream western politicians are able to call out the RSF and the UAE without having their careers nuked by high-powered lobby groups? How the western media aren’t churning out op-eds concern trolling about the possibility that anyone who opposes the el-Fasher massacres is actually a closet Nazi? How opposition to mass murder in Darfur isn’t being algorithmically hidden by Silicon Valley plutocrats? … How western governments and institutions aren’t doing everything they can to stomp out all speech that is critical of this particular humanitarian crisis? That’s the difference, right there. That’s why many westerners have been paying special attention to Gaza.” (10/30/25)
“Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love of grand projects papers over fundamental inadequacies.” (10/30/25)
“According to the Treasury Department’s monthly report for September, the budget deficit turned positive last month, with tax receipts coming in at $197 billion above federal outlays. This sizable one-month surplus was due to a large month-to-month drop in federal spending for the month. Contrary to what some protectionists and Trump advocates have claimed, however, the surplus was not significantly driven by tariff revenues.” (10/30/25)
“When the White House included a gilt-framed image of an autopen in the new Presidential Walk of Fame installed outside the West Wing last month, it was more than just another epic troll by President Trump of his predecessor. The stark image on the wall among presidential portraits from George Washington to Donald Trump encapsulates Joe Biden’s failed presidency. It wasn’t just the opportunity cost of a commander in chief who was asleep at the wheel but the sum total of catastrophic judgments over four years of a man whose manifest flaws were only magnified by his cognitive decline.” (10/29/25)
“On Tuesday, October 28th, Nick Fuentes appeared on the Tucker Carlson show for an over two-hour interview. The video now has almost 4 million views on YouTube. Fuentes, along with Candace Owens, is the Right’s snarling face of gutter antisemitism. (The fallen preppie Carlson still peddles a slightly more genteel version, naturally.) Tucker said he was not sure about putting the 29-year-old on his show, fearing that the public would think he was ‘a Nazi just like Fuentes.’ But put him on, he did, and they amiably chatted, and even seemed to reconcile after their feud. Antisemitism is no longer treated as an obscenity, the equivalent of announcing you’re pro-child molester, but as an opinion like any other, subject to polite disagreement.” (10/30/25)
“The Trump administration has been blowing up fishing boats in the Caribbean — and now one in the Pacific — claiming without evidence that they’re ‘drug boats.’ These are extrajudicial executions outside any system of law. And there’s a reason we shouldn’t allow drug warriors to act as judge, jury, and executioner: because over the years, they’ve made many, many tragic mistakes and killed lots of civilians. … Here’s what drug warriors don’t understand: The U.S. isn’t under armed attack from drug traffickers. It’s actually the opposite.” (10/30/25)
“Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) emerged like a laboratory experiment equal in ambition and madness. MMT is the idea that governments and central banks can print money and flood the economy with their respective currency without consequences, as long as the velocity of cash in circulation remains under control. In 2019, the theory had begun to seep into the political mainstream as a means to pay for large government expenditures, such as The Green New Deal, by potential 2028 presidential candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The brainchild of Stephanie Kelton, advisor to the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign, MMT underlines the idea that, unlike a household, the government can disregard its budget entirely.” (10/30/25)
“As Israel continues its genocide of the Palestinians under the new umbrella of US President Donald Trump’s ‘peace plan’, the Americans are mounting a diplomatic campaign that feigns opposition to the Jewish settler-colony’s latest moves to annex the West Bank. To secure backing for a ceasefire in Gaza (where Israel has killed at least 88 Palestinians and injured 315 others since it took effect on October 10), Trump promised his Arab client regimes last month that he would not allow Israel to proceed with annexation, a red line they feared would ignite public anger and jeopardize Washington’s broader normalization project in the region. Israel’s parliament, however, gave preliminary approval last week to two bills calling for the formal annexation of the West Bank.” (10/30/25)
“In summer 2016, Vanity Fair published the article, ‘How Tony Soprano Paved the Way for Donald Trump,’ which argues that the protagonist of the lauded television series The Sopranos explains the allure of Donald Trump. The article is written with a blasé air as if to say, ‘Trump may be a charming sociopath like Tony Soprano, but it’s not like he’s ever going to be president.’ It’s time to update the parallel for 2025. … the Tony Soprano presidency has reached an inevitable plot point: the ‘bust out.’ A bust out is when the mob seizes a business from an indebted civilian, bleeds its resources, bankrupts it, and then maybe burns it down for the insurance money. This entire country is now David Scatino’s sporting goods store in Paramus, New Jersey — a once-thriving place being consumed from the inside for the benefit of a corrupt few.” (10/30/25)
