If you criticize Israel on the American right today, expect to be labeled a Qatari shill by a network of pro-Israel commentators who have turned accusations of Gulf Arab money into a political weapon while ignoring the elephant in the room of Jewish influence in American foreign policy. This campaign has intensified dramatically since October...

My (b.1959) generation, the tail-end boomers giving way to GenX, took our boomer elders as guides. I was about to write: “Big mistake.” But coincidentally, at the exact instant I put the period on this essay’s first sentence, the piped-in music here aboard the Rusadir, a cruise-ship-size ferry plying the Mediterranean between Malaga and Melilla,...

Caitlin and Tim discuss this strange dark future we’ve all tumbled into and the things that make life worth living. Available in audio as well. This conversation can be found on every major podcast platform. Please send us your questions, comments and feedback so we can answer them in the next show. Audio version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/podcast-talkin-about-dystopia-paintin-687

Iran is the first country to stand up to Israeli-American hegemony and force both would-be-hegemons to stand down. China and Russia have issued words in support of Iranian sovereignty and have used words to condemn the Israeli-American aggression against Iran, but have done nothing to aid Iran in withstanding the Netanyahu-Trump joint aggression against Iran....

The COVID-19 pandemic is long over. The headlines have shifted to a relentless cycle of bloody invasions and political scandals. It is very tempting to file the years of lockdowns, vaccine tyranny, and assaults on freedom into a folder of “unfortunate history” and never open it again. Most have. But the victims and a few...

The tensions between the US and Iran remain very taut after both sides exchanged of fire late on June 2 (early morning June 3 in the Persian Gulf). It apparently started when a US helicopter tried to stop an Iranian tanker headed for the port of Bandar Abbas. The US helo launched a hellfire missile...

The “wipe Israel off the map” quote is a deliberate mistranslation—one the media has used for decades to manufacture hostility toward Iran. It has often been claimed by the Western news media, usually in the context of Iran’s nuclear program, that Iran has threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”. Specifically, the quote is attributed...

INTRODUCTION Few people realize how very Jewish the government of the Soviet Union was in its first two decades. Given the realities of publishing in today’s world, those who wish to learn more could read numerous books, encounter a blizzard of unfamiliar Russian names, and never realize that many of the crucial figures were actually...

The JFK assassination has attracted all manner of conspiracy theorizing from virtually all corners of humanity. After the 1963 assassination, it is noteworthy how many people close to the slain President, including his own brother Robert F. Kennedy and his personal secretary Evelyn Lincoln, were “conspiracy theorists”. Interestingly, so was Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother, Marguerite...

Do you remember Margaret Thatcher? And Indira Gandhi? Have you ever heard of Golda Meir? All three were “Iron Ladies” who as leaders of their countries and staunch defenders of national interests, truly made a difference. One may or may not agree with their political philosophies and opinions, but there is no denying these women...

I. Introduction The Church has never wanted for accusers. From the first centuries she was charged with atheism for refusing the gods of the city, with hatred of mankind for holding herself apart from its feasts, with novelty by men who trusted nothing that could not show its age. The charges have shifted with the...

The bodycam footage from the murder of Henry Nowak has been released and it is worse than anyone could have imagined. The chilling image of a pale white hand, drained of blood and handcuffed by agents of the state, captures the entire situation faced by Western Civilization. This is a moment for action. Millennial Woes,...

When a celebrity writes a memoir, one can expect a certain scrubbing of the public image, but Bill Gates’s memoir of growing up, Source Code/ My Beginnings (Vintage Books, 2025), is refreshingly free of that. Maybe it’s because the book ends just before he’s made his first million. Or maybe it’s because he makes a...

Pepe Escobar and I received the following intelligence report last Thursday, which was produced by a knowledgeable source with access. I am not reproducing the entire report, but want to highlight the issue of whether or not Iran now has, or soon will have a nuke. Let me emphasize that I firmly support past US...

It has long been a common observation that many U.S. presidents have had difficult relationships with Benjamin Netanyahu. Of course, American presidents often say publicly that the alliance between the United States and Israel is strong and unbreakable. However, in private, some have reportedly found Netanyahu difficult to work with. For example, when Bill Clinton...

As I finished writing the article below, Iran decided to take matters out of the hands of Trump and Netanyahu. The decision was a consequence of Netanyahu’s order to the American-provided Israeli Air Force to commence the bombing of civilian residential areas of Beirut, Lebanon, and warning the residents to flee their soon to be...

In May 2026, the global geopolitical landscape has been redefined by two divergent philosophies of violence. On one hand, the Russian Federation continues its slow-motion, attritional grind in Ukraine—a conflict defined by a cautious management of Western “red lines.” President Putin runs it a “special military operation”, essentially a “limited war”. On the other, Israel...

On April 12th, a political earthquake in Hungary upended 16 years of continuous rule by Viktor Orban. It was a period characterised by ever-mounting and fractious confrontation between Budapest and the European Commission, the EU’s executive body. Now, Orban’s exit has removed a major barrier to EU federalisation, and militarisation. Brussels’ fingerprints are plastered all...

Multiple far right Israeli ministers attended New York City’s Israel Day Parade on Sunday, including Israel’s genocidal finance minister Bezalel Smotrich. Smotrich is ideologically not significantly different from a Nazi. Which means New York City just hosted a Nazi parade that was attended by thousands of people. New York officials are acting shocked and appalled...

I launched my American Pravda series a decade ago next month. My conscious strategy was quite unusual, being almost exactly the opposite of that followed by nearly everyone else covering those same controversial topics. As some of them explicitly told me, they had always deliberately avoided exploring too many different and unrelated historical controversies. Instead,...