I met Caitlin Johnstone on Twitter and I immediately appreciated her anti-interventionist and anti-imperialist arguments, starting from her opposition to USA-Western-Globalist interventionism in Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, and militarist propaganda against Russia, China, and elsewhere. I don't know much about her education, and political background, if she had any, but I bet she knows enough about George Orwell and many others anti-totalitarian writers.
She lives in the periphery of the USA-Western-Globalist Empire, and precisely in Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria. Then, she is a candid provincial, living very far from the imperial centers, like me. In time, I understood she is a world-class public intellectual.
I consider her a perfect embodiment of the active, connected, politically aware and socially mobilized citizen of our contemporary world. More precisely, a tangible proof that social mobilization, as envisaged by the great Karl Deutsch, is a reality.
I consider her a de-facto contributor to what I define Decentralism International, along with many other anti-colonialists, localists, autonomists, independentists and independentistas, who are active in every corner of the world.
Decentralism is growing in the contemporary world, and of course changing, making people of very different background to come along together, against centralism. Decentralism meets profound human needs that globalization has empowered instead of repressed, as I argued in my research Disintegration as Hope.
For Caitlin Johnstone opposes centralized, militarized, authoritarian USA-Western-Globalist Empire, she is also hated by the many who are messing with centralism.
Geopolitically speaking, radical-chic leftism, cleptocrat democratic centrism, neoconservative warmongering rightism, all are subaltern to USA-Western-Globalist centralism, militarism, and imperialism.
They all have many more biases in common, about "global change", "global progress", "global defense", than what their leaders, intellectuals and elites would love to admit.
They simply do not want to acknowledge that structural racism, social injustice, colonialist militarism, cannot be resolved by those who created them.
Puerto Rico, Vermont, Hawaii, as independent states, will be able to do something about, not certainly the USA Presidency or global financial elites.
But I will return on this many more times, hopefully discussing with person like Caitlin Johnstone.
For the moment, among so many lovers of centralism and imperialism and therefore haters of Caitlin Johnstone, nobody will doubt I side on her.And I strongly recommend to follow her.
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