By Philip C. JohnsonNovember 1, 2025 Outside the Le Carillon, bar and café at 18 Rue Alibert in Paris's 10th arrondissement. Eleven people were killed here. I was in Paris on November 13, 2015, waiting for a student group that would not arrive the next day—for obvious reasons. The 13th had felt ordinary; I walked … Continue reading 10 Years After the ISIS Paris Attacks: Arthur Dénouveaux’s Bataclan Survival Story
By Philip C. Johnson - July 17, 2025 What’s Happening in Syria?The Middle East is burning again, and it’s throwing a wrench in President Donald Trump’s Abraham Accords, his push for regional peace. As of July 17, 2025, Israel is hammering Damascus with airstrikes, targeting the Syrian Defense Ministry, military convoys, and areas near the … Continue reading Israel Bombs Damascus: Druze Protection or a Bigger Play?
Philip C. Johnson, Ph.D. March 27, 2025 Israel has been in conflict with her neighbors for 538 days. For a short time, ceasefires held. A few Israeli hostages have been returned. Hundreds of Palestinian terrorists were released from Israeli prisons, some of whom will undoubtedly return to their old habits. But ceasefires do not last. … Continue reading Israel’s Complicated Multifront Defense: Here’s Your Summary of the Current Conflicts
Philip C. Johnson, Ph.D. January 20, 2025 This past week I traveled to Beirut, Lebanon to survey the damage of the war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. In the process, I was able to hold a meeting with Dr. Ali Hamie. Who is Dr. Ali Hamie? Dr. Hamie is a prominent doctor and independent strategist … Continue reading Ali Hamie: “Just look to the year 1717. You get the Masons, the Luciferians and the Zionist Problem.”
Philip C. Johnson, Ph.D. January 1, 2025 For the past five days I have been taking a look at the major events of the last 25 years. If you missed the previous posts, click here (Part 1), here (Part 2), here (Part 3) and here (Part 4) In this final section, I will take a … Continue reading 2025: QUARTER CENTURY REVIEW: PART 5
Monday, December 9, 2024 Philip C. Johnson, Ph.D. December 8, 2024: Syrian opposition fighters celebrate. Photo by Omar Sanadiki/AP What Happened? Most people have not been thinking about the Syrian Civil War that has been raging since 2011. And that’s because since 2020, it’s been a mostly static conflict, and very much out of the … Continue reading Assad is Out – Syria is Free (Or Maybe Not)
September 12, 2024 Phil Johnson, Ph.D. Boaz Bismuth is a current Knesset Member in the Likud party. Until 2022 he was a journalist and editor-in-chief of Israel Hayom. Before that, he was Israel’s ambassador to Mauritania. Sitting in his office in the Knesset building in Jerusalem, I asked Boaz Bismuth to tell me about the … Continue reading Knesset Member, Boaz Bismuth: “Responsibility for Israel’s intelligence failure will be very deep, very high and very large.”
Philip C. Johnson October 10, 2023 The war between Israel and Hamas is escalating - so I thought that now might be a good time to ask a few questions. Here are some things that I’m thinking about. Maybe you are too. I am sure I don’t have all the answers, but I think it’s … Continue reading ISRAEL AT WAR: WHAT QUESTIONS SHOULD WE BE ASKING?
March 16, 2022 Philip C. Johnson While the world worries that World War 3 could begin at any moment, it seems that the world has already decided to head to Ukraine to join the war effort. There are lots of people heading to Ukraine at the behest of Ukrainian President Zelensky from a variety of … Continue reading Al-Qaeda Fighters Join the War in Ukraine
Philip C. Johnson, Ph.D. October 30, 2019 http://www.globalnext.org On October 26th, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the world’s most-wanted terrorist finished his time on earth. Thankfully. According to reports, with the help of an ISIS informant, the Kurdish-led SDF and the skill of U.S. special forces, the leader of ISIS was tracked down in his hideout in … Continue reading ISIS Leader, Al-Baghdadi Dead – U.S. Dog, Alive and Well
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