The Real Story Tying Starmer and Mandelson is Being Buried By A Conspiracy Of Silence
The system is rigged – and the political and media class rigging it are not about to draw our attention to the ugly reality of what they have been up…
Replay: Israel’s Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Christians From the Holy Land
Israel has used the steady decline in Palestinian Christian numbers to promote a claim that Muslims are hounding them out of the region. But the real blame lies with Israel…
Starmer’s Go-To Excuse: ‘I Was In The Dark’. Don’t Believe It. He’s Deeply In The Loop
From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was…
Israel Is Making Sure Trump Can’t Find An Off-Ramp In Iran
Netanyahu pitched the war 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 Jonathan…
Does The Tail Wag The Dog? How Both Sides Are Missing The Bigger Picture
Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and…
BBC Editor’s Libel Case Against Owen Jones Falls At The First Hurdle. Here’s Why
Jonathan Cook Substack The High Court’s preliminary ruling this week in the libel case brought by the BBC’s online Middle East editor, Raffi Berg, against journalist Owen Jones is highly…
Israel Planned This War on Iran for 40 years. Everything Else is a Smoke Screen
Jonathan Cook Substack It is near impossible to make sense – at least from the justifications on offer – of what US President Donald Trump really hopes to achieve with…
In Iran, Israel’s Morbid Military Cult Now Has the US Fully in its Grip
Jonathan Cook Substack The admission this week by US secretary of state Marco Rubio, echoed by Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, that Israel forced Washington’s hand in…
Rubio Declared a Return to Brutal Western Colonialism – and Europe applauded
In Munich, 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…
Ch4 Doc Shows Starmer’s Ban on Palestine Action Was Done To Protect the Arms Industry
Why is it still ok to imply that Palestinians are collectively responsible for the actions of Hamas?
The BBC Pushes 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 important international events but drive us ever closer to global conflagration.
Genocide Isn’t a Mistake. Which Is Why the Media Can’t Tell You the Truth About Gaza
A new film about Hind Rajab’s murder points to a deeply sick Israeli society, driven into the darkest of places by a racist ideology that says Jewish lives count, Palestinian…
Four Observations on the US Kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro
Difficult as it is for westerners to hear, we don’t need a stronger West, we need a weaker one. Harder still, Trump is teaching us that the very concept of…
How Reporting Facts Can Now Land You in Jail for 14 Years as a Terrorist
Starmer’s government has set the most dangerous of precedents: it can now outlaw any political group it chooses as a terrorist organisation – and thereby make it impossible to defend…
Western Elites Fear a ‘Globalised Intifada’ Because They Are Its Targets, Not Jews
While western publics are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us all.