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– Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His books include “Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East” (Pluto Press) and “Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair” (Zed Books). Visit his website www.jonathan-cook.net. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.

Palestine is a Loud Echo of Britain’s Colonial Past – and a Warning of the Future

March 31, 2022

[This is a transcript of a talk I gave to Bath Friends of Palestine on 25 February 2022.] Since I arrived with my family in the UK last summer, I have been repeatedly asked: “Why […]

Didn’t Those Now Enraged at Boris Johnson’s ‘Smears’ of Keir Starmer Defame Corbyn at Every Turn?

February 9, 2022

“Why is Boris Johnson making false claims about Starmer and Savile?” runs a headline in the news pages of the Guardian. It is just one of a barrage of indignant recent stories in the British media, […]

How A Boy Called Christmas Converted Me to the Politics of Greed

December 31, 2021

This was the Christmas my young daughter finally cornered me into admitting that Father Christmas doesn’t exist. I felt a small pang of regret that she had taken another step towards graduating into the less […]

Elites Buy us off with Trivial Protections, While they Raid the Common Wealth

November 12, 2021

In these posts, I try to highlight how our social, cultural and political structures are rigged to reflect the interests of an economic elite and maintain their power. Because the forces that shape those structures […]

After Corbyn, Israel Lobby Turns Its Guns on UK Academia

October 19, 2021

The Israel lobby appears to be readying for a campaign to root out left-wing academics in the UK critical of Israel’s continuing oppression of the Palestinian people – echoing its efforts against the previous leader […]

Haugen isn’t Really a ‘Facebook Whistleblower’ – and It’s Dangerous to Imagine She is

October 11, 2021

The enthusiasm with which much of the media and political establishment have characterized Frances Haugen as a “Facebook whistleblower” requires that we pause to consider what exactly we think the term “whistleblower” means. Haugen has […]

CIA Plan to Poison Assange wasn’t Needed, US Found ‘Lawful’ Way to Disappear Him

October 2, 2021

A Yahoo News’ investigation reveals that, through much of 2017, the CIA weighed up whether to use wholly extrajudicial means to deal with the supposed threat posed by Julian Assange and his whistleblowers’ platform Wikileaks. […]

AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Gown is Designer Protest Meant to Dull Class Struggle

September 17, 2021

The left is currently dividing very publicly over a viral clip on social media of AOC – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – arriving on Monday night at an exclusive gala event in New York in a slinky, […]

Jewish Chronicle’s Libel Payouts were a Small Price to Pay for Smearing Corbyn and the Left

September 2, 2021

The Jewish Chronicle, a weekly newspaper that was saved from liquidation last year by a consortium led by a former senior adviser to Theresa May, has been exposed as having a quite astonishing record of […]

Where Best to Ride out the Climate Apocalypse? The Billionaires’ Bunker Fantasies Go Mainstream

August 20, 2021

Having written posts on this blog for several years now, I have become ever more sensitive to how we, as news consumers, are subject to ideology – the invisible, shifting sands of our belief system. […]

Craig Murray’s Jailing is the Latest Move to Snuff out Independent Journalism

August 2, 2021

Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish […]

What Happened to Glenn Greenwald? Trump Happened – and Put the Left’s Priorities to the Test

June 25, 2021

There’s been a new public fracturing of the intellectual left, typified by an essay last week from Nathan J Robinson, editor of the small, independent, socialist magazine Current Affairs, accusing Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi […]

Jewish Groups that Aid Israel’s War Crimes Can’t Deny All responsibility for Those Crimes

May 25, 2021

Here is something that can be said with great confidence. It is racist – antisemitic, if you prefer – to hold Jews, individually or collectively, accountable for Israel’s crimes. Jews are not responsible for Israel’s […]

Ignore Starmer’s Moral Posturing: He’s the One We Should Blame for Stoking Antisemitism

May 20, 2021

No one should be surprised that Britain’s right-wing prime minister, Boris Johnson, has had barely anything to say about Israel’s pummeling of Gaza, with nearly 200 Palestinians reported to have been killed by airstrikes and […]

Boris Johnson’s Lies Don’t Harm Him because the UK’s Political System is More Corrupt than He is

May 4, 2021

Britain’s corporate media are suddenly awash with stories wondering whether, or to what extent, the UK’s prime minister is dishonest. Predictably in the midst of this, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg is still doing her determined […]

We are Living through a Time of Fear, Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other

March 25, 2021

Welcome to the age of fear. Nothing is more corrosive of the democratic impulse than fear. Left unaddressed, it festers, eating away at our confidence and empathy. We are now firmly in a time of […]

Like the Diana Story, Meghan’s Fight with the Royals Will Ensure Nothing Really Changes

March 11, 2021

Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry is a perfect case study of how an important political debate about the corrupting role of the monarchy on British life gets shunted aside yet again, not just […]

Why Politicians and Doctors Keep Ignoring the Medical Research on Vitamin D and Covid

February 21, 2021

It is probably not a good idea to write while in the grip of anger. But I am struggling to suppress my emotions about a wasted year, during which politicians and many doctors have ignored […]

The Guardian Revealed Its True Face in Sacking a Columnist for Criticizing US Military Aid to Israel

February 12, 2021

The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticizing Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian […]

The ‘Humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War

January 25, 2021

The instinct among parts of the left to cheerlead the right’s war crimes, so long as they are dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism”, is alive and kicking, as Owen Jones revealed in a column last […]

Trump May Be on Trial, but the System that Produced Him Will Be Acquitted

January 16, 2021

It is a fitting end to four years of Donald Trump in the White House. On one side, Trump’s endless stoking of political grievances – and claims that November’s presidential election was “stolen” from him […]

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Twitter’s Ban on Trump Will Deepen the US Tribal Divide

January 12, 2021

Anyone who believes locking President Donald Trump out of his social media accounts will serve as the first step on the path to healing the political divide in the United States is likely to be […]

How the Left is Being Manipulated into Colluding in Its Own Character Assassination

January 9, 2021

There was a fascinating online panel discussion on Wednesday night on the Julian Assange case that I recommend everyone watch. The video is at the bottom of the page. But from all the outstanding contributions, […]

The US and UK May Not Will Assange’s Death, but Everything They are Doing Makes it More Likely

January 8, 2021

There was a hope in some quarters after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday against an application to extradite Julian Assange to the US, where he faced being locked away for the rest of his […]

Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom, and the Labeling of Dissent as Mental Illness

January 4, 2021

The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail for the rest of his life, is a welcome […]

Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror across Europe

December 14, 2020

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has run a fascinating long report this week offering a disturbing snapshot of the political climate rapidly emerging across Europe on the issue of antisemitism. The article documents a kind of […]

Establishment Journalists are Piling on to Smear Robert Fisk Now He Cannot Answer Back

December 1, 2020

Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days. Leading journalists in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not […]

The Planet Cannot Heal until We Rip the Mask off the West’s War Machine

November 30, 2020

Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values; […]

‘I Am Greta’ isn’t about Climate Change. It’s about the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World

November 19, 2020

Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between […]

Biden Will Fail to Bring back ‘Normal’ Politics. What’s Needed Now is a Populism of the Left

November 13, 2020

Analysts are still grappling with the fallout from the US election. Trumpism proved a far more enduring and alluring phenomenon than most media pundits expected. Defying predictions, Trump improved his share of the overall vote […]

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