Jonathan Cook Podcast

It took considerable courage for the jury in the Palestine Action trial to ignore the demands to convict from the judge, the government, the police and the media. Instead they weighed the actual evidence and found the prosecution case was legal chicanery. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

A handful of Jeffrey Epstein's most disposable allies will now be sacrificed to satisfy our hunger for accountability. But don’t be fooled: the Epstein culture is still going strong. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

International law is absolutely clear. If the US attacks Iran, it would be a war of aggression and the “supreme international crime”. The job of even supposedly liberal media like the Guardian is to persuade you this is not what is at stake. To disbelieve your lying eyes. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The BBC is pushing 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. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Feckless European leaders like Keir Starmer let Israel and the US tear up international law in Gaza. Now, faced with Greenland and Ukraine, they are suffering from a severe case of buyer’s regret. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

A UK tribunal cleared British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah of misconduct charges initiated by UK Lawyers for Israel, over supposedly antisemitic social media posts. Yet, the media still sides with the utterly discredited apologists for genocide. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 lives don’t. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Difficult as it is for westerners to hear, we don’t need a stronger West, we need a weaker one. Harder still, Donald Trump is teaching us that the very concept of 'the West' is an illusion. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The path to Caracas – and potentially next to Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed – was paved in Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel is expelling 37 aid groups – a likely death sentence for 100,000s of Palestinians. But the New York Times speaks only of 'new rules' in Gaza, and 'suspensions' for those who 'resist registration' Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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 it. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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

Sir Mark Rowley, your primary concern is not public safety but protecting the interests of the British establishment. And it has decreed that no opposition to Israel’s genocide will be tolerated. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Netanyahu, a suspected war criminal and fugitive from justice, is being given a platform by every western news outlet to turn reality on its head and blame others for a supposed “crisis of antisemitism” he is centrally responsible for stoking. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

A world where corporations run the politicians, promote endless war and secretly manipulate public opinion through the media. Thankfully, these bleak visions never materialised. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The band Primal Scream had the audacity to tell its audience that the British government is complicit in genocide. They have been reported to the police for doing so, and the UK media is once again baying for blood. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israel has penned us all into a 'debate', one entirely divorced from reality, that relates only to those killed directly by its bombs and gunfire in Gaza – not the genocide it is waging by other means. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The current trial in London of six peace activists for attacking an arms factory is proving just how determined the British state is to hollow out the public’s civil, political and legal rights to justify its continuing support for Israel’s slaughter of Gaza’s children. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The film ‘Palestine 36’ is a potent reminder that the blueprint for Israel's depraved war crimes in Gaza were laid down by a British empire whose tyranny the Palestinians tried - and failed - to end. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Six political prisoners who targeted factories arming Israel's genocide are weeks into a hunger strike. But in contrast to the IRA's 1980s hunger strike, this one is being blanked by the media. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Ousting the review judge in the appeal against Palestine Action's proscription, and replacing him with a panel of three new judges, is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Keir Starmer's outlaw government. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The western media's failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. I know because for 20 years I suffered firsthand the same editorial pressures now faced by my colleagues. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The BBC is now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further rightwards, even as the billionaire-owned media claim it's too 'left wing'. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State? I respond to four of the biggest fallacies about Islam. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The legal and ethical earthquake from Israel’s carnage in Gaza was never going to be contained in Gaza. As the Maccabi Tel Aviv row shows, the shockwaves for Britain will keep growing louder. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe