A world where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and secretly manipulate public opinion through the media. Thankfully, these bleak visions never materialised. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The band Primal Scream had the audacity to tell its audience that the British government is complicit in genocide. They have been reported to the police for doing so, and the UK media is once again baying for blood. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Israel has penned us all into a 'debate', one entirely divorced from reality, that relates only to those killed directly by its bombs and gunfire in Gaza – not the genocide it is waging by other means. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The current trial in London of six peace activists for attacking an arms factory is proving just how determined the British state is to hollow out the public’s civil, political and legal rights to justify its continuing support for Israel’s slaughter of Gaza’s children. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The film ‘Palestine 36’ is a potent reminder that the blueprint for Israel's depraved war crimes in Gaza were laid down by a British empire whose tyranny the Palestinians tried - and failed - to end. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Six political prisoners who targeted factories arming Israel's genocide are weeks into a hunger strike. But in contrast to the IRA's 1980s hunger strike, this one is being blanked by the media. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
Ousting the review judge in the appeal against Palestine Action's proscription, and replacing him with a panel of three new judges, is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Keir Starmer's outlaw government. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
The western media's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. I know because for 20 years I suffered firsthand the same editorial pressures now faced by my colleagues. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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