John Stanton (journalist)

In April 2018, Stanton, who had been Sputnik News Agency's Pentagon Correspondent for roughly two years, published a report highly critical of Sputnik News, Sputnik Radio, and RIA Novosti, declaring that the organizations were part of a larger Russian Information Warfare Operation. His public findings were part of an insider research effort while at Sputnik on behalf of the US government.[2]

In May 2018 PBS NewsHour published an article in which Stanton said that Sputnik mixes "real with unreal" and uses "dubious sources." He also said that to pin down what he really found problematic was difficult because proving disinformation can be impossibly slippery.[3]

Stanton wrote on cyberwarfare/information warfare in the 1994–2000 timeframe when the Bill Clinton Administration was pushing cyber defense initiatives.[4] Other articles discussed technical matters such as electromagnetic pulse affects, urban warfare, orphan nukes[5] and intelligence after 9/11.[6] He presented papers on Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Strategic Cultural Analysis and Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience.[7] He is the author of "Broadband Communications Networks and Multimedia: Public and Private Sector Initiatives", a paper for the 19th Annual Meeting of the Technology Transfer Society in 1994.

Stanton has authored over 100 articles over a five-year period on the US Army's (United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)) Human Terrain System (HTS).[8] He also appeared on Russia Today to comment on HTS.[9] His coverage on the Human Terrain System was cited in the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities, Final Report.[10]

His last work on the US Army Human Terrain System was titled Last Waltz in Saga of US Army Intelligence Program published by the Sri Lanka Guardian, Pravda, Dissident Voice and Scoop-NZ in December 2013.

Commentaries in 2020 include the short story published by Counterpunch How the World Ends [11] and What is the United States of America?: A Military Democracy published by Dissident Voice [12]

Counterpunch also published in 2020 John's piece US National Security is Meant to Protect Wall Street, Congress, the White House and the Pentagon, from COVID-19 [13]

His work The Price of Participating in Society is the Sacrifice of Privacy and Self was published by Counterpunch in 2019, [14]

Works published in 2017 include United States Drowning in an Ocean of Subjectivism [15] and Trump's Psychopathy Threatens the Internal Stability of the United States and the World [16]

The Sri Lanka Guardian and Pravda first carried Stanton's 2010 piece titled "USA Undermines Democracy in Turkey: It's Turkey Stupid, Not Israel". That piece discusses the internal dynamics of Turkey's efforts to maintain democratic reforms, a free press and an open culture which; since that writing, has encountered stiff resistance from the government of Turkey .[17][18]

He has written articles for online publications such as Pravda.ru,[19][20] Sri Lanka Guardian,[21] CounterPunch,[22][23][24] Cryptome,[25] The Intelligence Daily (IntelDaily),[26] Journal of Technology Transfer,[27] Seoul Times, and TRDEFENCE (Turkish Military & Geopolitics Portal).[28] He has also written for National Defense Magazine,[29][30] Defense Daily, American Behavioral Scientist[31] and Convergence Magazine. His work has been cited by information security researchers.[32] Stanton's analysis on homeland security issues, following the events of September 11, 2001, was carried by Investors Business Daily,[33] CBS Evening News, ABC and CNN.

• America 2020: A Nation in Turmoil. 2020. p. 126. ISBN 979-8619455953.
• US Military's Progressiveness Leaves Civil Society Behind. 2016. p. 154. ISBN 978-1539142416.
• La máquina de guerra caníbal. 2015. p. 136. ISBN 978-84-15373-27-8.
• US Army's Human Terrain System 2008–2013: The Program from Hell. 2013. p. 207. ISBN 978-1491063927.
• Cyber Noodles, Orphan Nukes and the Failure of the US National Security State. 2013. Amazon's Create Space (self publishing). ISBN 978-1484899045.
• The Raptor's Eye: JIEDDO, MISO, General P and the Prophet Smith. USA: Amazon. 2012. p. 134. ISBN 978-1480276413.
• General David Petraeus' Favorite Mushroom: Inside the US Army's Human Terrain System. Wiseman Publishing. 2009. p. 189. ISBN 978-9089630193. OCLC 677926603.
• Talking Politics with God and the Devil in Washington, DC. PublishAmerica. 2007. p. 151. ISBN 978-1424191246.
• America 2004: A Power But Not Super. Tempe, AZ: Dandelion Enterprises. 2004. p. 156. ISBN 978-1893302266. OCLC 68679199.
• America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II. Tempe, AZ: Dandelion Enterprises. 2003. p. 173. ISBN 978-1893302297. OCLC 55941597. (with co-author Wayne Madsen)