The Corporate News Media at Work
By Jonathan Cook / Consortium News When all we have to rely on in understanding our relationship to the news media is the media’s self-proclaimed assessment of its own role,…
The Media Kept Assange Behind Bars
By Jonathan Cook / Declassified UK It is only right that we all take a moment to celebrate the victory of Julian Assange’s release from 14 years of detention, in…
Evidence Missing in ‘Mass Rape’ Charge Against Hamas
Jonathan Cook examines two articles in Haaretz that form the backbone of Western political and media claims about mass rape by the Palestinian resistance group.
West Fears ‘Atrocity Upsurge’ While Ignoring Gaza
The problem isn’t “global inaction” to prevent mass atrocities, as The Guardian claims, writes Jonathan Cook. It’s intense U.S. and U.K. support for atrocities so long as they bolster their…
Without Hamas, Gaza Would Still Not Be Free
By Jonathan Cook / Popular Resistance As A Classic Settler-Colonial State, Israel Is Doing The Only Thing It Knows How To Do. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that…
The Priority Must Be to Put Bush, Blair and Cheney Behind Bars Before Trump
So long as swamp creatures like Cheney. Bush and Blair can direct our gaze exclusively at Trump, they grow in power. They can keep waging wars, keep stealing resources, keep…
The Queen and Her Legacy: 21st Century Britain Has Never Looked So Medieval
In this moment there is no public room for ambivalence or indifference, for reticence, for critical thinking...The British establishment expects every man, woman, and child to do their duty by…
How Spooks and Establishment Journalists are Circling the Wagons
In the second of this two-part series, we examine why so many journalists are keen to cooperate with and parrot the key messages of the US and British intelligence agencies.
How Spooks and Establishment Journalists are Circling the Wagons
It would be foolish to imagine that, in this more complex information age, the U.S. and U.K. intelligence services’ influence over journalists has diminished. Both Carole Cadwalladr and Paul Mason’s…
A Lemming Leading the Lemmings: Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left
By Jonathan Cook / MintPress News Have you noticed how every major foreign policy crisis since the U.S. and U.K.’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 has peeled off another layer…
Over 500 Scholars Launch Fightback Against Israel Lobby’s Antisemitism Smear of UK Academics
The question, raised by the petition and letter of complaint, is whether universities like Glasgow will continue to submit to such attacks on academic life under the cover of false…