Jonathan Cook

Silicon Valley has rammed through a series of changes over the past few days at dizzying speed, making explicit what should already have been obvious: Social media firms have rapidly become little more than propaganda arms of the United States and its allies. That role has been increasingly difficult to conceal as western politicians and … Continue reading “Social Media Giants Allow Hate Speech Against Russia but Silence Israel’s Critics”

How convenient for western leaders that every time another country defies the West’s projection of power, the western media can agree on one thing: that the foreign government in question is led by a madman, a psychopath or a megalomaniac. At a drop of a hat, western leaders are absolved of guilt or even responsibility … Continue reading “Russia-Ukraine War: A Different Invasion, the West’s Same ‘Madman’ Script”

The walls protecting Israel are quickly crumbling. A year ago, it was Israel’s most celebrated human rights group, B’Tselem. Months later, it was the New York-based Human Rights Watch, whose senior staff have often enjoyed a revolving door with the US State Department. Now, the one speaking up is Amnesty International – an organization widely … Continue reading “Amnesty Apartheid Report: The Walls Protecting Israel Are Finally Crumbling”

The most pressing threat to global security right now isn’t so-called “provocations” by either Russia or China. It is the United States’ misplaced obsession with its own “credibility”. This rallying cry by Washington officials – echoed by the media and allies in London and elsewhere – is code for allowing the US to act like … Continue reading “Why Washington’s Focus on ‘Credibility’ Is a Recipe for War”

It is no accident that Julian Assange, the digital transparency activist and journalist who founded WikiLeaks to help whistleblowers tell us what western governments are really up to in the shadows, has spent 10 years being progressively disappeared into those very same shadows. His treatment is a crime similar to those WikiLeaks exposed when it … Continue reading “The Hounding of Julian Assange Leaves Honest Journalism With No Refuge”

On Friday, the English High Court paved the way for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to the United States and tried over the publication of hundreds of thousands of documents, some of which contained evidence of US and British war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The decision reversed a ruling in January by … Continue reading “Assange Ruling a Dangerous Precedent for Journalists and British Justice”

An “honest mistake” is buying your partner the wrong perfume or copying someone into an email chain by accident. It is not firing a drone missile at a car, killing 10 civilians – and doing so when a small child was clearly visible moments earlier. And yet, a supposedly “independent” Pentagon inquiry this month claimed … Continue reading “‘Honest Mistakes’: How US and Israel Justify Targeting and Killing Civilians”

It certainly looked that way last Friday as Israel’s defense minister – who has been presented as a force for moderation in an Israeli government led by the settler right – declared six leading Palestinian human rights groups to be “terrorist organizations”. The move effectively outlaws the most prominent organizations in the Palestinian human rights … Continue reading “Israel Calls the Fight for Palestinian Rights ‘Terror’ – and So Turns Reality on Its Head”

The Israel lobby appears to be readying for a campaign to root out left-wing academics in the UK critical of Israel’s continuing oppression of the Palestinian people – echoing its efforts against the previous leader of Britain’s Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn. As with the attacks on Corbyn, the assault on academia is being led by … Continue reading “After Corbyn, Israel Lobby Turns Its Guns on UK Academia”

Battles in the US Congress that erupted again this week, holding up an extra $1bn in military funding for Israel, underscored just how divorced from reality the conversation about US financial aid to Israel has become, even among many critics. For 48 hours last month, a small group of progressive Democrats in the US House … Continue reading “Iron Dome Funding: Don’t Be Deceived – US Aid to Israel Is Not About Saving Lives”