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Caitlin Johnstone – Military-Industrial Complex Assures Investors That Wars Will Be Endless, And Other Notes

Caitlin Johnstone, Oct 17, 2026

Today in dystopia, the military-industrial complex is reassuring investors that the wars will indeed be endless.

Asked about concerns over falling defense stocks in a recent interview on CNBC, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet replied, “Investors need to know and understand that this demand is not fleeting — it’s permanent.”

In 2023 Taiclet called Washington’s soaring military budget “as good an outcome as our industry or our company could ask for.”

These people are such evil freaks. War profiteering should be fucking illegal.

A Washington Post photojournalist was savagely beaten by a gang of Israeli settlers who were attacking Palestinian villagers on Friday, reportedly with the support of the IDF.

The reporter, Heidi Levine, said her assailants “just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times” while she was wearing a clearly marked PRESS vest.

This is why everyone hates Israel now. They just can’t seem to stop themselves from doing evil things in broad daylight.

The western political/media class are always making up bogus excuses for Israel’s plummeting worldwide approval rating, from antisemitism to TikTok to Iranian propaganda, but ultimately public opinion of Israel is falling because there’s a glaring contradiction between Israel’s PR interests and the way Israelis actually conduct themselves.

In other words, Israel’s PR problem is caused by Israeli behavior. They can increase their propaganda budget as much as they like and western hasbarists can churn out all the narrative spin in the world, but it still won’t cancel out what happens when you just film Israelis doing Israeli things…………………………………………………………..

A judge in Brazil’s top electoral court ruled on Thursday that Meta has been algorithmically favoring right wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro over President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, instructing the social media titan to cease its election interference and begin providing equal treatment to both candidates.

Meta’s own employees have acknowledged election interference favoring Bolsonaro over Lula, as Reuters reports:…………………………………………………….

This Zuckerberg scale-tilting is a reminder of why right wing “populism” has been so successful: it is able to posture as a revolutionary anti-establishment movement while still retaining the backing of western oligarchs and empire managers. It gets the votes that come with opposing the status quo without actually opposing the status quo. It gets the popularity of revolutionary politics with none of the cost………………………………………………………………………..

Sinesto on Twitter asks, “Hi Caitlin. You are brilliant on Palestine, but I still don’t get why you are not sympathetic to the people of Ukraine?”

Well Sinesto I am sympathetic to the people of Ukraine. That’s why I want a negotiated settlement to end the war, which is what polls say the people of Ukraine want, rather than continuing to force them to keep fighting and dying in a war they don’t support like the people of Washington want to do…………………………………………………………………………….. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/military-industrial-complex-assures?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=220842792&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

October 23, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster