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John Ransom

John Ransom is a Heartlander News contributor and a national political writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Epoch Times, at Townhall.com, Newsmax, the Daily Caller and IBT.

World
Pakistan’s US-Iran peace gambit shows China’s vulnerability

Pakistan is hosting backdoor U.S.-Iran peace talks this week, confirming a strategic realignment with Washington that is leaving China increasingly isolated. The shift may be a better measure of how… Read More

March 25, 2026
Politics
Prominent Illinois Democrat breaks with progressives on crime, illegal aliens 

A noted Illinois Democrat is breaking ranks with progressives in Chicago over the Sheridan Gorman murder, calling for deportation of the alleged perpetrator to the Terrorism Confinement Center in… Read More

March 25, 2026
World
Israel used Iran’s totalitarian surveillance system to track Khamenei before assassination

Tehran’s own network of street surveillance cameras was hacked by Israel to track Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the hours before the Iranian leader’s assassination. Two… Read More

March 24, 2026
World
‘A yes to Trump’: Pakistan attacks Taliban in what may be ‘strategic opening’

The war between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban escalated Tuesday after a Pakistani airstrike on what Afghanistan called a drug rehab facility that Pakistan claims also stored ammunition. Read More

March 18, 2026
World
Trump: ‘Numerous’ nations to help with Strait of Hormuz closure despite lack of support from UK, NATO

President Trump has said multiple nations have committed to helping the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, even as allies in Europe and Asia publicly declined. Trump made the statement at a White House meeting Tuesday with… Read More

March 17, 2026