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
The government and police appear keen to expand the 'hostile environment' policy for immigrants to encompass the British public – and deter political dissent on Israel's genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
As the dusting off of Israel's E1 Plan emphasises, the intended fate of Palestinians in the West Bank is ultimately no different from the fate of Palestinians in Gaza – unless we act. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Netanyahu's mass ethnic cleansing strategy in Gaza pulls the rug out from under the West's cherished pretext for supporting Israeli criminality: the fabled two-state solution. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
It is no small task to unpack how a BBC reporter thought it fine to make the following obscene observation in a segment on Israel’s murder of Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: "There's the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?" Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. The painful reality is that, through Israel, the West can dress up boilerplate colonialism as a 'Jewish' project. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Some 17 years ago an Israeli general and government minister threatened Gaza with a "Shoah" – a word until then reserved for the Holocaust. The trajectory in Gaza has been unwavering ever since. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
US corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The confected Gaza ‘scandals’ are designed to browbeat the BBC into even greater cravenness. If it was reluctant before to give Palestinians a voice, now it will avoid doing so entirely. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
An Israeli Jew is charged over referring to 'Nazi Israel'. An anti-genocide protester risks arrest as a terrorist for waving a Palestinian flag. Starmer is intentionally stoking a climate of fear to crush criticism of his complicity in genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
From an attack on Iran to chants at Glastonbury and direct action at RAF Brize Norton, Starmer's government keeps selling us red herrings to throw us off the scent of the UK's complicity in Israel's genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Israel, Starmer's government and the media are fomenting a moral panic about words 'glorifying violence' towards the IDF, while glorifying the IDF's all-too-real violence towards Palestinians. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe