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John Stanton is a journalist, analyst and teacher (national security) living in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. He has written dozens of articles for online publications (non-compensated) such as Pravda (also publishes a broadsheet in Russia), Sri Lanka Guardian, Counterpunch, Cryptome, Dawn, Intel Daily, Security Management, Journal of Technology Transfer, Seoul Times and many more. He has also written dozens of articles (compensated) for publications including National Defense Magazine, Defense Daily, American Behavioral Scientist (Terror in Cyberspace) and Convergence Magazine. He appeared on CBS, ABC and CNN immediately after 911 commenting on Homeland Security & Defense. He is a former radio talk show host, magazine editor, and deputy program manager. He appeared on Russia Today TV commenting on the US Army's Human Terrain System. His book on that subject is titled General David Petraeus' Favorite Mushroom--The Inside Story of the US Army Human Terrain System. That book is published by Wiseman Publishing, a print-on-demand editing and publishing firm (no fees paid by the author). Stanton has three other POD published books/collections of essays: America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II, A Power But Not Super, and Talking Politics with God and the Devil in Washington, DC.

His analysis and commentary has been carried in print and radio around the globe. He wrote extensively on cyberwar/information warfare in the 1994-2000 timeframe when the Bill Clinton Administration was pushing cyber defense initiatives. He has written articles on technical matters such as electromagnetic pulse affects, MOUT, training and simulation, and orphan nukes; presented papers on Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Strategic Cultural Analysis and Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience; along with authoring numerous articles commenting on media, culture, race and politics.

Stanton has authored roughly 30 articles over a two year period on the US Army's (TRADOC) Human Terrain System. Those articles are based on nearly 80 sources. All of them are available at Dr. Max Forte's Zero Anthropology Zero Anthropology and John Young's Cryptome. Intelligence Daily and Pravda have also carried the works.

The Sri Lanka Guardian first carried his 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. Pravda also carried the effort.

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