There is near certainty that Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2027 will pass through the House of Representatives to become law this coming week after a failed attempt last Thursday in the House Armed Services Committee to pass an amendment to delete it led by Democratic Party Congressman Ro Khanna...

Netanyahu and Trump have come up with a way to protect and enlarge American military support to Israel despite the large upswing in opposition to Israel by the US population–yet more proof that citizens have no influence on government policy. The trick being used is to integrate the US and Israeli militaries. In this way...

The enormity of Washington’s crimes and lies continue to be accepted.

For some time I have been watching John Helmer carefully work his way to the conclusion that Putin’s ever-widening, never-ending “special military operation” was not working out for Putin, for Russia, or for Europe and by implication for the US. For those of you with sufficient interest, here is Helmer’s latest: Putin tries to straddle...

I want to draw your attention to two news items that may complicate, if not derail, President Trump’s hopes of securing a peace agreement with Iran. Pakistan, as Pepe Escobar and I reported last week, continues to play a central role in trying to craft a solution that will be acceptable to Iran and the...

The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This issue features a painting of Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin. The western empire is targeting antiwar activist group Code Pink with increasing aggression as US officials fabricate incidents of assault against the organization and launch...

A bill’s provision to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries will go to a U.S. House vote after an effort to stop it failed Thursday. Passage will make it nearly impossible to end the U.S.-Israel special relationship. Amid widespread and growing public opposition to the Israeli genocide of Gaza and South Lebanon, a controversial new...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s announcement that she would leave her current congressional seat behind and compete for Florida’s 20th Congressional District has triggered one of the most intense confrontations between black and Jewish political forces in recent years. The district, situated in Broward County and reliably Democratic, has served as a cornerstone of black political power...

There are many ways to compare size of economies. The most common method is the nominal GDP, based on exchange rates of different currencies. By this standard, the US has the largest economy of the world at US$30.5 trillion in 2025, approximately 50% bigger than China’s US$19.4 trillion. Another popular measure is the Purchasing Power...

America’s 2025 National Security Strategy calls for gaining control of the world’s oil trade. Toward this end, Donald Trump’s Oil War aims at depriving Iran, Iraq and its neighboring OPEC countries of their sovereignty over whom they may sell their oil to, just as he has done to Venezuela. There is no remorse for the...

Vladimir Putin used a phrase during the closing session of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that I think most non-Russians missed or ignored. He said, “Work, Brothers.” First, let me explain the context for Putin saying this. Zelensky published an open letter to Putin that I, and many others, believe was timed deliberately...

Israel’s +972 Magazine reports that the Israeli military establishment has launched a training program designed to “influence public consciousness” around the world, with courses aimed at training hundreds of operatives per year in strategies for “actively disrupting or manipulating the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of target audiences.” Citing a leaked Defense Ministry tender, +972 reports...

Not least because I was 12 years old, the Bicentennial festivities felt very different from this year's 250th birthday celebrations for the United States. This being America, commercialization was inevitable — everything was red, white and blue and was official whatever of the shindig. Overall, though, 1976 was a nonpartisan affair despite being an election...

Busting African Delusions: Intelligence, Institutions and the Path to Progress Lipton Matthews Independently Published, 2026 We are told by our masters that there are no race differences in intelligence or personality and that countries with Sub-Saharan African populations are poor as a consequence of exploitation by Europeans. Busting African Delusions does precisely what the title...

Here are two things that can be true at the same time: First, the actions of police officers in Southampton in handcuffing 18-year-old student Henry Nowak and reading him his rights as he lay on the ground taking his last gasps of air, his lungs filling with blood from a stab wound, are barely comprehensible....

The release of the Epstein Files has shocked the public with unimaginable stories of the pedophilia, exploitation of women and brash depravity of the ruling class. While these stories have been the major source of public outrage, a deeper dive into the Epstein Files reveals the inside world of how the billionaire class operates to...

On May 18, Israeli commandos attacked 54 civilian boats carrying food and medical supplies to Gaza. The boats were near Cypress, nearly 300 miles from Gaza, in international waters. The Israelis fired at the boats and kidnapped 428 unarmed humanitarian activists. Those people were never charged with any crime. How could they be? When kidnapped,...

As I was writing this article several thousand British citizens were outside a police station in Southhampton, England, demanding accountability for the murder of a young white British student, Henry Nowak, by a black immigrant-invader and the white British police. The black immigrant-invader murdered Nowak by stabbing him five times. The white British police murdered...

The seeming conclusion of the Iran war, dubbed a humiliating defeat for the soon to be fully integrated US and Israeli militaries, is more than another one of Washington’s failed Middle Eastern adventures (the sixth in 25 years). This time, regime insiders are warning that the end of Pax Judaica, the world order established by...

There has been a dramatic and noticeable shift in Donald Trump’s rhetoric and social media posts regarding Iran since Pepe and I received the report of Iran’s threat to do a demonstration detonation of a nuclear warhead if the US does not cease its attacks on Iran. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Iran is still...