The September '23 edition of a monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions. Includes: Thirty Signs You Might Be An Empire Simp, Vivek Ramaswamy Is Just Another Disgusting Warmonger, The Illusory Truth Effect And The "Unprovoked" Invasion Of Ukraine, and more.

A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions. This month includes: a Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix version of the unfolding events in the Palestine-Israel conflict; the burgeoning popularity of the word “unprovoked” both in Ukraine (p60) and Israel (p70); the great argument for revolution a wealthy capitalist accidentally made (p14); and the island calling into question whether the US gains enthusiastic consent for inserting its military bases into foreign countries (p23); and much more.

A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions. The November edition of JOHNSTONE is dedicated solely to the ongoing genocide in Gaza because, quite frankly, that’s all we could think about this month. Each day has served up new and fresh horrors for our eyeballs as the worst massacre of this century dovetailed with social media and we all found ourselves with a front seat to rolling atrocities.

Includes:

Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests By Talking ... 7
US Says It’s Powerless To Stop The Genocide That It Is Directly Funding And Supplying ... 11
The US Empire’s PR Crisis In Gaza ... 16
Biden ‘Countering Islamophobia’ While Incinerating Gaza Is The Most Democrat Thing Ever ... 24
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The Ten Dumbest Things We’re Being Asked To Believe About Israel’s War On Gaza ... 29

A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions. THIS month’s cover of JOHNSTONE is dedicated to the Palestinian poet, academic and activist Refaat Alareer who was recently assassinated by a surgical strike on 7 December 2023 as a part of the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing attempt being committed in Gaza. In the weeks before his death, he tweeted “If I must die, let it be a tale” with his now famous poem “If I Must Die”.

Refaat, here is our humble attempt to tell at least a part of that tale.

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A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions. Welcome to the empire, "where genocide is self-defense and peace rallies are genocide" (p34), a month when the US and eight of its allies responded to the International Court Of Justice's ruling to cease killing and harming the Palestinian people by suspending funding to the primary humanitarian agency in Gaza (p16) and where we turn our eyes to Belmarsh where the final stage of Julian Assange's extradition trial is about to take place on Feb 21 and 22 (p3).

For new readers, there is a summary of Where I Stand, Issue By Issue (p60).

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A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions.

As of this writing, Julian Assange’s fate for publishing on US war crimes is being deliberated by two judges from the UK, while the rest of the world is being startled awake to the reality of what the pat phrase “war crimes” has really meant this whole time. For too long the western empire has successfully hidden its depravity from its subjects, but the stark reality of Gaza and the images of what western bombs do to human flesh now means we can’t pretend that exposing war crimes is the kind of journalism we can do without.

Eyes are snapping open all over the globe, and the anger at what is being done in our name and with our tax dollars is palpable. But is it too late for Julian?

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A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions.

ON the 25th of February, 2024, a young Airman recorded himself approaching the Israeli embassy in Washington DC and said these words:

“I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

He then set the camera down, walked a small distance and calmly emptied accelerant over his entire body, put on his hat and lit himself on fire, uttering the words “Free Palestine” with increasing urgency as the flames took hold of his body until he physically couldn’t make a sound ever again.

His name was Aaron Bushnell and this month’s edition of JOHNSTONE is dedicated to his memory.

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A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions.

As November gets closer and the Biden administration gets more murderous and tyrannical by the day, liberal spinmeisters are falling all over themselves to portray the president as some kind of passive witness to the atrocities we’re witnessing in Gaza and the authoritarian suppression of dissent we’re seeing in the US. No no, he’s completely powerless to stop the government that’s completely dependent on US military support from conducting a military operation. No no, he’s completely powerless to stop the violent police crackdowns he’s openly supporting and encouraging on protesters against his genocide.

Bullshit. Biden has always been a murderous swamp monster. That’s the only reason he got the job. And that’s why the cover of today’s issue of JOHNSTONE features the US president dining on an ice cream cone of gore.

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