The death of a British national, Bradley Townsend, killed in Ukraine in June while fighting for Russian forces has been widely reported in the media. “British traitor who joined Vladimir Putin’s army ‘killed by Ukraine drone'” splashed the Daily Star while former security minister Tom Tuge...

Subscribe now 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 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In a recent interview with Time Magazine, Altman said he knows mo...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now People who believe capitalism is working out great are just sloppy thinkers who’ve fallen victim to survivorship bias and the just-world fallacy . Survivorship bias is when your analysis focuses on those who...

Speechless Mr Fish Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. The Trump White House has put into place a series of mechanisms to fix or invalidate the midterm elections. Congress will not ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Israeli officials have spent recent days circulating antisemitic conspiracy theories, with Benjamin Netanyahu boasting that he manipulated the United States into war with Iran, and Itamar Ben-Gvir sharing an AI vi...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Today in dystopia, ICE is planning to add police robots to the arsenal with which it will be patrolling US streets. Fortune reports : “The Trump administration is exploring adding robot dogs to the expanding a...

With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win. The Iran War Is the Greatest Strategic Blunder in U.S. History Joshua Scheer Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has branded the Trump a...

“I won’t stop resisting. you can’t use the word ‘hope’ if you don’t resist.” Joshua Scheer In this wide-ranging Q&A, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges answers questions directly from his readers and viewers about the crises defining our age: the genocide in Gaza, the disa...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The empire shall not dull your kindness. The cruelty of the bank boys shall not drain the brightness from your eyes. You are not like the others. The dollar-drilled and Pentagon-pilled. The ones whose youthful ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The US has joined the UK in adding the activist group Palestine Action to its list of designated terrorist organizations . The UK proscribing Palestine Action was already arguably the most insane attack on free...

Chris Hedges Substack In Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges, who has extensive experience as a former New York Times Middle East Bure...

British police have run more than a dozen training sessions since 2023 for countries that the government has flagged for their poor human rights record, Declassified UK can reveal. The College of Policing, the professional body for policing in England and Wales, trained police officers fro...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eye...

Joy to the World – by Mr. Fish Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The Western media manufactures consent for genocide. It no...

Thirty-seven Russian army officers were given two weeks of military training in Britain in September 1995, declassified files show. The “intensive military cooperation” involved the Russians “driving tanks and firing a range of weapons”, and was paid for by Britain under then prime minister ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Anna on Twitter asks, “Is anyone else really stressed about their future and where they are in life and what they’ve accomplished and their worth as a person?” I understand what you’re saying, but that’s mostly...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I still find myself fuming at the way ostensibly well-informed individuals can stand right in the heart of the empire denouncing its targets, as we saw in the open letter that a group of left-wing western indivi...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The Wall Street Journal has a new article out titled “ The Hidden Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA ,” subtitled “Without CIA funding that helped keep NeXT afloat in the ’80s, Steve Jobs might not have made a triump...

Five activists who broke windows and threw red paint at a Barclays Bank branch in protest over Israel’s genocide in Gaza will not be sentenced as terrorists, a judge has ruled. Judge Robert Altham told a packed room at Preston Crown Court on Friday that the damage the activists caused with t...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now “What radicalized you?” I dunno man maybe it was all the wars based on lies or the corporate ecocide or the live-streamed genocide or the people sleeping on sidewalks while billionaires become trillionaires or th...