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...

Senior British military and intelligence figures including two former UK security ministers and a head of special forces are advising a US organisation that has long supported military action against Iran and is now congratulating Donald Trump for his war on the country.    United Against Nu...

On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’ , the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi, the Iranian ambassador to the UK: ‘Since we last spoke, your government has killed thousands of its own people in the streets who had...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Nobody wants to believe they’re the villain in the story. Nobody wants to believe their government is run by psychopaths who are inflicting unfathomable evils upon populations around the globe in order to rule t...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now People tell me, “It’s possible to oppose this war AND oppose the Iranian regime. You can denounce BOTH.” Sure you can. But you shouldn’t. You should not do this. You should not be a pro bono Pentagon propagand...

Keir Starmer has said that the UK “does not believe in regime change from the skies” and that lessons from the Iraq war have been learned. Yet 11 days into the US-Israeli war on Iran, the prime minister is letting the UK become increasingly involved in a conflict which has been roundly criti...

On 28 February, a girls’ primary school in southern Iran was hit by a missile, killing 168 people, mostly children. The UN education agency, UNESCO, said the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab was a “grave violation of humanitarian law”. Videos analysed by Bellingcat re...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Watching Amazon Prime while the Iranians burn. Stuffing our mouths with cheesysugarbacon while the sky turns black over Tehran. Laughing without smiling. Laughing with full mouths and empty eyes while their wate...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now It’s not okay for grown adults to believe the United States wages wars to promote humanitarian interests and bring freedom and democracy to oppressed populations. It’s not okay for grown adults to believe that ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The US soldiers who are getting killed in the war with Iran were not heroes. They did not die defending their country. They did not die fighting to protect Americans. They died advancing the geostrategic agendas...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Young people keep asking me if this was what the Iraq invasion was like. I’ve been telling them “Sort of, but this is way dumber and crazier.” There were fairly intelligent people who bought into the Iraq war p...

After a drone hit a Royal Air Force base in Cyprus on Sunday night, the debate in Britain has centred on why the airfield was not better protected. But in Cyprus, anger is focused on why Britain still has military bases there at all. “We got no sleep last night,” local resident Melanie Steli...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave one of his signature “I don’t have a small penis” tirades at the Pentagon on Wednesday , ranting and raving about the big, powerful, masculine war machinery that’s currently r...

Keir Starmer has given his approval for Donald Trump’s US to attack Iran using British military bases. But the UK government imposes a considerable veil of secrecy over the US use of these bases, keeping the British public in the dark about how its territory is used in foreign wars.  Fo...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Iran is better than the United States. The United States is worse than Iran. This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil. Iran isn’t blanketing a major me...

Commenting last week on the build-up of US military forces targeting Iran, Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, got it right : ‘This represents 40-50% of the deployable US air power in the world. Think air power on the order of the 1991 and 2003 Iraq ...