Jonathan Cook Podcast

Politicians battling for our votes are fully on board with the months-long murder of Gaza’s children by Israel. The western media has failed to subject these candidates to even the most cursory scrutiny for their role in perpetuating that slaughter. The current barbarism at the heart of western politics has been turned into a non-issue. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com...

With a properly adversarial media playing the role it declares for itself, as a watchdog on power, Julian Assange could never have been disappeared for so long. He would have been freed years ago. The establishment media acted as a willing tool in the demonising narrative the US and British governments carefully crafted against him. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/sub...

We live in a world of make-believe, where strings pulled in the interests of the super-rich are ever more visible. Yet we are expected to pretend we can't see those strings. More astonishing still, many people seem blind to the puppet show. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Israelis dancing in the streets, the White House hailing a ‘daring’ operation, Sunak expressing 'relief'. The day the West defined the massacre of 270 Palestinians in Gaza as 'success'. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Pick at the Israeli thread of war crimes in Gaza, and the entire cloth of atrocities around the world committed and promoted by the US and its closest allies starts to unravel. That's why it's not just Israel waging war on international law. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

I was the first foreign correspondent to track down Israel's secret torture prison back in 2003. Now Israel has opened a new one called Sde Teiman, where Palestinian inmates are held in horrifying conditions. The purpose of ‘black sites’ is to remind those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/su...

Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed as "absurd and false" the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by Israel and Hamas. He's right: Israel's war crimes are far worse than Hamas'. I explain why Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The establishment media’s role is to draw attention away from what the students are protesting – western complicity in genocide – and engineer a moral panic to leave the genocide undisturbed. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The western media is pretending the West's efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza are serious. But a different script has clearly been written in advance by Israel and the US. I set it out step by step. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

There's a reason western leaders and media want us focused an imaginary "antisemitism" threat posed by marches in London and student sit-ins across the US. So long as western publics are focused on evil anti-war protesters, they will ignore the kind of evil that dares, in broad daylight, to kill 15,000 children, destroy hospitals, and hide bodies in mass graves. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at...

With the Middle East on the brink of war, the West suddenly demands 'restraint' between Israel and Iran – after months of fuelling a genocide in Gaza. I analyse how the US and its allies created a Frankenstein's monster in the region by indulging Israel's every military excess. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I explore the context for Israel's killing of foreign aid workers in Gaza, how Israel has been isolating the enclave for decades, and has now torn up the laws of war to ensure the enclave is completely at its mercy. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I discuss how figureheads like the Guardian’s George Monbiot have wrecked the left’s ability to think critically, encouraging an analysis of power politics more suited to the playground. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I look at Al Jazeera's new documentary on Hamas's October 7 attack, examining how it has finally loosened Israel's stranglehold on the narrative about what happened that day, and why western media are still so uncritically in thrall to Israel's self-serving version of events. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

Washington has had years to clarify an intention to give Assange a fair trial, but it has always refused to do so. In this episode, I examine the UK court's latest ruling on US extradition proceedings, arguing that British judges are colluding in Assange's permanent incarceration. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I argue that the West's support for Israel's slaughter in Gaza forces us all to reconsider what a 'liberal democratic order' really stands for. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters. In this episode, I analyse the western media's task of helping to build the case for genocide in Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

The film Son of Saul showed how the Holocaust's horrors required inmates to hollow out their humanity. In this episode, I pose the question: Have the horrors of Gaza made a moral monster of its director, Laszlo Nemes? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I consider why the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas is so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I explain how film-maker Jonathan Glazer’s crime at the Oscars was to threaten the establishment's stranglehold on the West’s narrative about Israel – and itself. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, I discuss how the UK and other western capitals have come to treat Israel not as a state, as a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. That means any opposition to Israel's actions has to be a blasphemy. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe

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