British officials had at least five meetings with a former Iranian army Colonel who sought to overthrow the regime in Tehran and promote a “military government”, declassified files show.  The Colonel, Nasrullah Tavakoli, said in 1991 that he had been in contact with MI6 “since 1980”, the doc...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now There’s another giant “No Kings” protest scheduled for this weekend , and right now all I can think about is how disgusting it is that this is the closest thing to a mass-scale antiwar protest in the United Sta...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The only worthwhile “western culture” in modern times is culture which rejects and opposes the dystopian nature of western civilization and the abuses of the western empire. Western civilization is what’s bombi...

Israel’s nuclear arms programme was seen as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from 1993 show. An agreement to introduce such a zone could have curbed Iran’s nuclear ambitions which were then described as being at an “early stag...

Last summer, as the death toll in Gaza climbed above 50,000, punk group Bob Vylan provoked a media storm by chanting “death, death to the IDF” at Glastonbury festival. The scene was broadcast live on the BBC and quickly racked up millions of views online. Shortly after, Avon and Somerse...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Israel’s Foreign Ministry has posted a statement on Twitter which reads, “The Iranian regime devastated Arad and Dimona by deliberately striking civilians with missiles. Over 100 people were injured, including...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I saw a clip of Fox News war propagandist Sean Hannity solemnly reading a tweet by Atlantic Council fellow Jamie Metzl which said, “It is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has a tweet that’s got me absolutely fuming right now. “In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbi...

Trump isn’t the first US president tempted by an Israeli plan to destroy Iran and thereby “remake the Middle East”, as this extract from my book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations sets out.

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) arrested pro-Palestine activists against its own internal guidance, documents seen by Declassified suggest. The files, obtained through Freedom of Information requests, also show that the force is cracking down on the use of Arabic words far beyond its...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world. Israel has bombed the world’s lar...

The Ministry of Defence is refusing to apologise for an official describing Declassified as “extreme” in a private briefing given to the Australian Attorney General’s office. Brigadier Geoffrey Dodds was found to have described Declassified as an “extreme, non-msm [mainstream media]” o...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now This is what it looks like when you give Zionists everything they want. This is Zionism put into practice. The wars. The massacres. The bombed-out schools and hospitals. The millions of displaced individuals...

On a summer’s day in 2018, a British army drone crashed near a school in Wales where students were taking part in a sports day. It marked the third time that this type of drone – the Watchkeeper WK450 – had crashed, with two more having plunged into the Irish sea. Following the incident...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now My enemies are not in Iran. My enemies are in Washington and Tel Aviv. In London and Canberra. My enemies are the western oligarchs and empire managers who are poisoning my society and making everything awful w...

Subscribe now Every month I publish a collection of my work called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new issue is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version . This one is titled “They’re Going To Keep Lying About This War Th...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt gave a bizarre appearance on CNN in response to an attempted car bombing of a Michigan synagogue by a man whose Lebanese family members were killed by Israeli fo...

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is refusing to tell the media or parliament how many Iranian civilians have been killed by US bombing missions from British air bases. Officials are also not commenting on whether target lists for so-called “defensive” US strikes from British soil are ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now An ongoing internal US military investigation has reportedly found the United States responsible for a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian girls’ school which killed at least 175 people at the beginning of t...

The UK media’s take on the use of ‘hard power’ depends entirely on who’s exercising it. The labelling of Russia’s war in Ukraine in February 2022 was clear from the start. According to the Nexis database, 12,700 stories across the UK media in the first week of the war were focused on what wa...