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Jonathan Cook hosts Jonathan Cook Podcast, a news show with 172 episodes published.
What the past 20 years of lies and misdirections about Iran have sought to hide is a simple fact: it is not Tehran that is led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It
Just as apartheid states always end up producing a violent, oppressive, surveillance institution like Israel's Shin Bet, capitalist states always end up producing voracious, unscrupulous, anti-democratic business entitie
The Epstein class are once again imposing a discourse trap for the anti-racist left on antisemitism. The question for Zack Polanski, as for Corbyn before him, is whether the spear of an insurgent politics can pierce the
Israel's genocide in Gaza and its ethnic cleansing in Lebanon have exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substa
The real story of Starmer’s political subservience and vulnerability to Peter Mandelson is not being told by the establishment media. For good reason. Because the media itself is deeply implicated in this bigger story, o
From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Sir Keir Starmer has proved he is the most clueless man ever to have entered high office. Here are a few highlights of his long history of career-enhancing ignorance. Get full access
Tony Blair proves there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathanc
Netanyahu pitched the war on Iran as a repeat of Israel’s apparent 'audacious feat' of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel’s moral and strategic defeat in Gaza. Get full access to Jonath
The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? Get full acc
Western publics are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism – of the kind now only too evident in the war on Iran – through the Pentagon’s chokehold on thousands of blockbuster films and TV shows. Get full acces
Raffi Berg may be fighting in the courts for damages from Owen Jones, but it's really the BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question. Get full access to
There is no clear rationale from Washington for the attack on Iran because the author of this attack is not to be found in either the White House or the Pentagon. This plan was cooked up in Tel Aviv decades ago. Get full
In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the US will drag the world next. The world’s fate, in a real sen
At the Munich Security Conference, the US announced its intent to crush all opposition to its permanent status as imperial top dog – even if that means destroying everything, and all of us, in the process. Get full acces
The political and media classes that once venerated Mandelson and are now cutting him adrift are the same ones that spent five years destroying Corbyn. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscr
Palestine Action wasn’t banned because it’s a terrorist organisation, a new documentary shows. It was banned because large corporations, like the weapons firm Elbit Systems, have captured the UK government. Get full acce
It took considerable courage for the jury in the Palestine Action trial to ignore the demands to convict from the judge, the government, the police and the media. Instead they weighed the actual evidence and found the pr
A handful of Jeffrey Epstein's most disposable allies will now be sacrificed to satisfy our hunger for accountability. But don’t be fooled: the Epstein culture is still going strong. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at j
International law is absolutely clear. If the US attacks Iran, it would be a war of aggression and the “supreme international crime”. The job of even supposedly liberal media like the Guardian is to persuade you this is
The BBC is pushing the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump's. The UK state broadcaster streams disinformation into our living rooms – deceptions that not only leave us clueless about importan
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