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Jonathan Cook

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Friday · 19 min
Listen: The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again
Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
September 30 · 9 min
Listen: Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows a hole in the idea of a ‘free press’
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
September 23 · 5 min
Listen: Ed Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him
Sheeran’s ‘political neutrality’ is a cover story – one hiding an implicit deal. He’s allowed to grow rich but only so long as he denies a platform to anyone who tries to hold the billionaire class to account. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
September 21 · 5 min
Listen: The media can make us believe anything they want – even that Charles loved Diana
Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – and most especially the media – they can mould our minds into believing it would be a catastrophe if they did not own everything. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
September 20 · 17 min
Listen: Super-intelligent AI won’t kill us. Dumb billionaires are doing that all by themselves
The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
September 18 · 11 min
Listen / Ed Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires for genocide is a bad look
During Israel's genocide, the billionaire class has maintained its grip on our cultural spaces. Now in the bust-up between Ed Sheeran and Macklemore, that chokehold has been exposed – and it looks every bit as ugly as, indeed, it is. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
September 14 · 7 min
Listen: It is chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis making British Jews less safe, not Ed Miliband
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis confirms the worst assumptions of antisemites when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect his self-declared Jewish state from ever being held accountable for its crimes. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
September 13 · 21 min
Listen: Britain's settlement trade ban is cosmetic. For it to work, it must sanction Israel
The UK may end up assisting Tel Aviv by reinforcing a preposterous distinction between 'illegal' Jewish settlements that ethnically cleanse Palestinians and a supposedly 'law-abiding' Israel that establishes and arms those settlements. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
September 4 · 4 min
Listen: BBC asks, ‘What will I tell my grandkids about the summer of ’26?’ How much I miss it
The BBC suggests 2026 will replace 1976 as the ‘benchmark’ for a hot summer. It could not be more wrong. We will look back on this year’s succession of heatwaves with unbearable nostalgia. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
August 31 · 10 min
Listen: The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents
The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
August 17 · 12 min
Listen: Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors
Governments knew what was coming with the climate. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
August 11 · 11 min
Listen: A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It's time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
August 10 · 16 min
Listen: With Karim Khan's dismissal, the war crimes court's elimination is near-complete
The clearest of messages was sent by a majority of ICC member states when they voted to be rid of Karim Khan. The short-lived experiment in creating a mechanism for enforcing international law is over. We are back to the law of the jungle. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
July 16 · 26 min
Listen: Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these bogeymen. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
July 14 · 9 min
Listen: The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham
For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid punishing Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
July 11 · 5 min
Listen: Burnham's contrition on Gaza is hollow. Watch what he actually does in power
Here is a list of the things Britain's incoming prime minister is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
July 2 · 18 min
Listen: Israel is an apartheid state – and its weird marriage laws show us how
Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of segregation. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
June 27 · 18 min
Listen: Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics, or fail just like him
Even if Starmer's likely successor, Andy Burnham, wants change, he'll face formidable external controls from the financial markets and insuperable internal constraints from the Labour machine. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
June 22 · 19 min
Listen: The plot against Palestine Action
Originally published here: Although my posts are freely accessible, they are reader-supported. If you liked this one or any of the others, please consider sharing it with friends and making a donation to support my work. You can do so by becoming a paid Substack subscriber, via Paypal or my bank account, or alternatively setting up a monthly direct debit mandate with GoCardless. A complete archive of my writings is available on my website. I’m on X and Facebook. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
June 18 · 5 min
Listen: The Labour MPs determined to show they represent Israel, not the British people
Labour wants the repression of Palestine Action to serve as a blueprint for politics. Why not lock up opposition party leaders and any constituents who protest government policy? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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