Jonathan Cook
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Israel and its Allies are Repurposing the Goals and Lies of 1948 in Gaza in 2023
Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Yet, just as happened with the first Nakba in 1948, Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative
November 21st, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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The Media’s Nord Stream Lies Just Keep Coming
Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is
November 14th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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What the BBC Fails to Tell You about October 7
It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account of that day
November 2nd, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Jonathan Freedland’s Enduring Bad Faith
Guardian columnist feigns concern for two peoples ‘fated to share the same land’. But yet again he finds excuses to keep one of those people penned into a prison
October 30th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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With Hamas Gone, Gaza Still Wouldn’t be Free
As a classic settler-colonial state, Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide
October 28th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Did Israel choose to kill Hamas and the hostages indiscriminately?
The case builds that Israel may have invoked its infamous ‘Hannibal directive’, which requires that the army kill Israelis rather than let them be taken hostage
October 23rd, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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This is Another Iraqi WMD Moment. We are Being Gaslit
It’s not just ‘unlikely’ that a Palestinian rocket hit the Gaza hospital. It’s impossible. The media know this, they just don’t dare say it
October 18th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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What the Media Forgets to Tell You about Israel and Gaza
Ignore the fake news. Israel isn’t defending itself. It’s enforcing its right to continue ethnically cleansing Palestinians
October 16th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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The West’s Hypocrisy towards Gaza’s Breakout is Stomach-turning
There will be little sympathy in the West as, yet again, besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel, their immense suffering justified by the term ‘Israeli retaliation’
October 8th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore
Almost no one seems willing to hold their tongue on the latest claims. Here are my observations: not on the allegations, but on all the noise
September 19th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Why the Media Aren’t Telling the Whole Story of Libya’s Floods
There are reasons for Libya’s ‘chaotic’, ‘dysfunctional’ response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home
September 15th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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We’re rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic: don’t ask me to help out
Highlighting the climate crisis is not ‘alarmism’, as critics say. Big Business wants an exclusive focus on climate because it downplays the true reasons for alarm
September 10th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine
Europe fears losing access to Chinese markets, plunging it deeper into a cost-of-living crisis. But it fears Washington’s wrath more
September 8th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Once again, the FDA admits it lied to us, and once more, we yawn
On critical matters, our medical authorities have no interest in settling the science. Instead, battles are won in the arena of smear and insinuation
August 23rd, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Starmer is selling Labour to big business; in power he will do the same
Labour policy is shifting ever further rightwards. That won’t and can’t change as long as only tainted City money is filling the party’s empty coffers
July 27th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Across the West, people are dying in greater numbers: nobody wants to learn why
There’s only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what the research may uncover
July 18th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Weaponised Antisemitism Crushed the Political Left: Now it’s the Cultural Left’s Turn
Having dispatched Corbyn, the smear industry is targeting icons like Ken Loach and Roger Waters over their support for Palestinian rights and opposition to Nato’s war machine
July 15th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Another Act of Terror: How the Media do PR for Biden and Zelensky
Coverage of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam and Nord Stream pipelines shows a western media willing to prioritise anti-Russian propaganda over facts
July 14th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Daniel Ellsberg is Lauded in Death by the Same Media that Lets Assange Rot in Jail
The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked
July 14th, 2023 by Jonathan Cook
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Fascists in Government won’t Dent Western Support for Israel
Israel is not suddenly a more racist state. It is simply growing more confident about admitting its racism to the world
November 7th, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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Westerners live in denial, convinced they’re the good guys
Stark contradictions in West’s treatment of the Ukraine war and the occupation and siege of Palestine should serve as a wake-up call
November 2nd, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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Whenever it Truly Matters, from Assange to Corbyn, George Monbiot cripples the Left
Aside from his genuine passion for the environment, Monbiot’s position on every major issue chimes precisely with that of his employer, the Guardian. He is not his own man. He’s owned
October 11th, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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Can Europe Afford to Turn a Blind Eye to Evidence of a US Role in Pipeline Blasts?
If Washington was involved, it would mark a dangerous new stage not only in the Ukraine war but in Europe’s acceptance of vassal status
October 9th, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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Truss’ Mauling is a Sharp Reminder that the City can Bend Any Politician to its Will
The same ‘market discipline’ currently giving Britain’s PM a bloody nose would have crushed a Corbyn programme if he’d won power
September 30th, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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The Queen and Her Legacy: 21st Century Britain has Never Looked So Medieval
Black suits, hushed tones, an air of reverence conceal the panic of an establishment that has just lost the main vehicle for justifying its privilege
September 13th, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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Those Angry at Rushdie’s Stabbing have been Missing in Action Over a Far Bigger Threat to our Freedom
The Satanic Verses novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are
August 18th, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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How the Pentagon Dictates Hollywood Storylines
New documentary discloses the ways western publics are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism through the Pentagon’s influence over thousands of films and TV shows
August 8th, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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Forde Inquiry exposes Labour’s biggest problem: Keir Starmer
Factionalism’ is identified as an electoral liability by Labour’s new report. But it has only intensified since Jeremy Corbyn’s exit
July 21st, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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By making China the Enemy, NATO is threatening World Peace
NATO’s new posture towards Beijing brings into question its whole claim to be a ‘defensive’ alliance
July 13th, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
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If the Media can probe Shireen Abu Akleh’s Death, Why Not the Murder of Other Palestinians?
An Israeli sniper shot the Al-Jazeera journalist, according to four US news organisations. But the only investigation the Biden administration will heed is an Israeli one
June 22nd, 2022 by Jonathan Cook
