Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explicitly stated that the US deliberately caused a financial crisis in Iran with the goal of fomenting civil unrest ...

In October 2001, two years into his presidency, Hugo Chávez made a trip to London to meet with then UK prime minister Tony Blair and other high-level officials. Official records detail how the Venezuelan president’s proposed Hydrocarbons Law, a major restructuring of Venezuela’s oil industry...

One August night, Riyaadh Kadhim Alateya and his family’s lives changed forever.   The 54-year-old lived in the southern Iraqi city of Basra with his wife, Sabeeha Rasheed Mashi and his teenage son, Ali.  He ran a livestock trading business, and when he wasn’t working, his preferred w...

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 . As with all my work, everything contained in this magazine is free to reuse, reproduce or republish in any way. There are, b...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Political maturity is finally admitting to yourself that the angriest, most disconcerting communist you’ve ever met was pretty much right about everything. If you learn enough, stay humble enough, and pay close...

Six Palestine Action protesters have been found not guilty of aggravated burglary at an Elbit weapons site near Bristol. Zoe Rogers, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Jordan Devlin were also not convicted of any other charges by a jury at Woolwich Crown Co...

The Ministry of Defence is reportedly set to award a £2 billion contract to a consortium led by Raytheon UK despite major corruption and fraud violations recently levelled against its parent company in the US.  The contract, which aims to modernise the army’s training infrastructure using ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I need you to understand that nothing is going to be done about anything in the Epstein files. Nothing. The people in the documents will suffer no consequences. The institutions responsible for the abuses you’...

The US military owns 22 sites in Britain whose “replacement value” is $15.6bn (£11.4bn), according to a US War Department document found by Declassified UK . This number of sites is larger than previously believed and more than UK governments have told parliament. A US document pub...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I saw a video of a food delivery robot navigating around the body of a homeless person lying on the sidewalk, and I can’t stop thinking about it. This video is as close to a self-portrait of western civiliz...

The UK government has approved over £11m worth of surveillance exports to a repressive Gulf state in the past five years, Declassified has found. British companies have been issued 11 licences for exporting “telecommunications interception equipment” to Oman since 2021, with three earmarke...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Epstein documents have been confirming for months that he was clearly and undeniably an Israeli intelligence operative, which the latest round of releases have strongly reinforced . So naturally the western m...

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone : Subscribe now Smoke and sky spiders fill the air as missiles smash into Gaza and powerful men drive needles into the flesh of young girls. Turns out Chomsky partied with Epstein, so now I have to take up vaping and g...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now “Government X does bad things” and “therefore the US should forcibly overthrow Government X” are two completely different claims. Propagandists keep acting like they’re the same claim and like the second claim n...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I don’t know what to say today. We are ruled by abusive monsters. The US is preparing for war with Iran. They’re going in for the kill shot on Cuba. The latest batch of Epstein emails looks horrifying . ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Any time things heat up with an empire-targeted government I always get people demanding to know why I’m not critical of that government. “Why don’t you criticize Iran? You spend all your time criticizing the w...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now It’s just incredible how quickly and aggressively the US is advancing longstanding agendas of global conquest under the Trump administration. Now they’re racing to take out Cuba. The US president has signed an...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now There is nothing you can say to me to convince me that US regime change interventionism in the middle east is a swell idea. There is nothing you can say to convince me that the Trump administration is telling u...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The justifications for war with Iran keep changing. First it’s nukes, then it’s conventional missiles, then it’s protesters, and now it’s back to nukes again. Kinda seems like war with Iran is itself the objecti...

Labour Friends of Israel has been referred to the Electoral Commission over concerns about its opaque funding. Activist Andrew Feinstein, who filed the complaint, said he was concerned that the pro-Israel group “may have breached electoral law”. Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) has previo...