Amazon Is Censoring My Most Recent Magazine Issue

Amazon Is Censoring My Most Recent Magazine Issue

Jan. 13, 2025

THE U.S. EMPIRE - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

Without explanation Amazon has blocked and unpublished my last issue of JOHNSTONE magazine which features my painting of Luigi Mangione on the cover. The link to order it is now dead. When I asked for an explanation or appeal they just sent a template response referring me back to their publishing rules.

So that’s annoying. The pay-what-you-want ebook of the issue is still available for anyone who wants it.

In her bid to secure her confirmation as Trump’s next Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard is now pledging to support Section 702 of the FISA Act. This notorious law allows for the warrantless surveillance of Americans, and in congress Gabbard had previously fought to repeal it.

This is how the national security state works. You don’t change the machine, the machine changes you. Anyone who starts off opposing the imperial status quo of authoritarianism, warmongering and corruption either finds themselves excluded from the halls of power or adapts new positions in favor of the status quo.

I saw a viral post from somebody saying that it’s “hard to find the balance between educating yourself on current events and not making yourself so indescribably sad that you can’t properly function.”

I have come to be very dismissive of such notions. It’s a pervasive myth in our society that you have to choose between being happy and being informed. You don’t. In fact, it’s impossible to be truly happy if you are turning away from truth in any way at all. Rigorous self-honesty is a prerequisite to true happiness. This means being uncompromisingly honest with yourself about your inner life, about your interpersonal relationships, about your society, and about your world.

Nobody who avoids the truth is really having a good time, as hard as some of them try to make it look like they are. It’s impossible to be truly happy and content if you’re carving up your inner landscape into all these compartmentalized little chambers in order to avoid unpleasant truths. Psychological wellbeing comes from facing uncomfortable truths, not from avoiding them.

Reading by Tim Foley

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