The words are Caitlin Johnstone's.
This may be controversial, but I just can't get behind Caitlin, never could, and don't share her stuff no matter how smart bits and pieces of her analyses are. This is because she believes (or pretends to, for the sake of a dumbed-down audience) and puts front and center, that the US and other nations are sovereign and independent. I see the US as a proxy of the monied, globalist, transnational bureaucracies that have engineered gradual cession/surrendering of sovereignty to them - thus they control The West and most other places, and use the illusion of national sovereignty to confuse the public and shield themselves.
I see the US as an economic and military tool that this nearly global power structure uses to advance their agenda, as, by extension, is NATO. And yes, a lot of these people are effectively communists and are moving The West in that direction because that particular economic system flattens the power pyramid faster, and drains economic power from the bottom faster than capitalism can, and diminishes threats to them faster. Historically, communism has featured this dystopian, totalitarian stripping of rights, freedoms, and economic power from the public that we see progressing with glaring clarity and directness. If the global structure is really fracturing, it makes sense that the Western globalists would urgently go the communist and strict authoritarian route with increasing speed.
Catilin uses the same deceptive, general, and misleading language that the mainstream media do to incite black & white division, hatred, and stereotyping. She prefers to refer to countries by name as if they are the actors (instead of each's political leaders), painting all the people in them with the same color, when we know that the decisions and plans she (and we all) despise come from a few people in a room somewhere, probably being directed by internationals who control them. In the West we're so programmed by media that when the average persons sees, for example, "Iran" in a headline, they know that Iran is being "bad." Caitlin effectively does the same, which hampers education, IMO. Way too much black & white. Just my opinion. She's far the only one who does this, of course.