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Analysis and commentary from award-winning, independent journalist, covering media, politics and corporate power
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The BBC is now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further rightwards, even as the billionaire-owned media claim it's too 'left wing'. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State? I respond to four of the biggest fallacies about Islam. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The legal and ethical earthquake from Israel’s carnage in Gaza was never going to be contained in Gaza. As the Maccabi Tel Aviv row shows, the shockwaves for Britain will keep growing louder. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Starmer wanted punk band Bob Vylan prosecuted for chanting 'Death to the IDF!' Four months on, he's bullying the police to let Israeli football thugs into the UK to chant 'Death to the Arabs!' Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ for Gaza is doomed. No people in history has ever resigned itself to permanent servitude and oppression. The Palestinians will prove no different Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Yet again the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen is misrepresenting a key issue in Gaza – and as always, he is doing so in a way that places Israel in the most flattering light possible. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Starmer's government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel – from classing protests as 'terrorism' to banning repeat marches and fining universities that allow student to demonstrate. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel's demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza's children – and that our grief is shameful. They need us to succumb to their lies. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The Met's police chief Sir Mark Rowley claims he is worried about rising 'community tensions'. But the only tensions he cares about are those belonging to an imaginary community he has created of a Jewish hive mind. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The attack on a Manchester synagogue is evidence not of a rising tide of antisemitism but of something else entirely: a growing and dangerous political illiteracy being cultivated in our societies Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The media aren’t reporting the news. They are shaping the news to shape our minds, our perceptions, our sympathies. Until we grasp that simple fact, we will continue cheering those whose only goal is to keep oppressing us and enriching themselves. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The reluctant recognition of Palestinian statehood by Britain, France, Australia, Canada this week is a con – it is the same switch and bait that has been blocking the creation of a Palestinian state for three decades now. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Charlie Kirk’s killing is being treated as the firing of a starting pistol: it will legitimate a rapid escalation of more political violence from the emerging US fascist right for whom Trump is the figurehead. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Aside from the spectacle of our leaders openly prostrating before Trump, the truth of Britain’s “special relationship” with the US was mostly found in unscripted moments around his visit. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Western elites don’t care what you think or say, so long as you don’t notice that they are the ones making money from a genocide, asset-stripping western economies and trashing our planet. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now, with Gaza, the game is up.. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Why is the Met blaming protesters for 'wasting' its resources on arresting 'terrorist' pensioners? There’s a proper address for its grievances: Starmer's authoritarian, genocide-complicit government. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The atrocity news treadmill makes sure western media are so busy chasing after Israel’s latest crime in Gaza they never pause long enough to piece together the bigger story of genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Israel's intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC and Piers Morgan. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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