Jonathan Cook Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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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

In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time have been of scale and duration. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson's dirty work is not yet complete. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The disorientating goal of the Israel lobby has been to loosen evidence thresholds, constrain critical thinking, and redefine racism and criminality. The effects have bled into dangerous new policing norms. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 is Tel Aviv and Washington. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 entities like the corporation. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 billionaires' defences. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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.substack.com/subscribe

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, of decade-long dirty tricks and illegality. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe