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Jonathan Cook is a writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. He is the 2011 winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His latest books are "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East" (Pluto Press) and "Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair" (Zed Books). His website is www.jonathan-cook.net
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022Blocking roads isn't crazy - It's our last hope that sanity will prevail As long as there is a war to worry about - even nuclear Armageddon, as President Joe Biden recently warned - the threat of an environmental Armageddon can be deemed less pressing, less horrifying, less worthy of attention.
Saturday, November 5, 2022Fascists In Government Won't Dent Western Support for Israel Israel's shift further rightwards will quickly be normalised. Having open fascists inside government will soon become unremarkable.
Friday, October 14, 2022Westerners live in denial - Convinced they're 'the Good Guys Stark contradictions in West's treatment of the Ukraine war and the occupation and siege of Palestine should serve as a wakeup call.
Saturday, September 17, 2022Europe, more than Putin, must shoulder the blame for the energy crisis The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fueled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession.
Saturday, September 10, 2022The Queen and her legacy - 21st century Britain has never looked so medieval Black suits, hushed tones, an air of reverence, conceal the panic of an establishment that has just lost the main vehicle for justifying its privilege.
Thursday, August 18, 2022Those Angry at Rushdie's Stabbing have been Missing in Action Over a Far Bigger Threat to our Freedom 'The Satanic Verses' novelist is championed by western liberals not because he has bravely articulated difficult truths but because of who his enemies are.
Wednesday, August 17, 2022Why is Amnesty apologising for telling the truth about Ukrainian war crimes? Allowing only one side to be criticised for its crimes, reinforcing the loaded western political narrative of good guys versus bad guys is likely to fuel war rather than resolve it.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022Contenders for Boris Johnson's crown stress fealty to Israel Following Israel's recent savage attack on Gaza the last two Tory candidates for PM are outcompeting each other to offer Israel support.
Thursday, August 4, 2022How the Pentagon dictates Hollywood storylines New documentary discloses the ways western publics are softened up for aggressive global US militarism through the Pentagon's influence over thousands of films and TV shows.
Friday, July 8, 2022By making China the enemy - Nato is threatening world peace Both Russia and China, forced into deeper alliance by Nato hostility, have been seeking to overturn the international trading system by decoupling it from the US dollar, the central pillar of Washington's hegemonic status.
Thursday, June 23, 2022If the media can probe Shireen Abu Akleh's death, why not the murder of other Palestinians? An Israeli sniper shot the Al-Jazeera journalist according to four US news organisations but the only investigation the Biden administration will heed is an Israeli one.
Wednesday, June 15, 2022Israel calls the Nakba a lie - So why do its leaders threaten a second one? While Israel denounces Palestinians and their supporters as liars for speaking of the Nakba its own officials publicly cite the Nakba as a real event that can be repeated if Palestinians do not submit completely.
Tuesday, June 14, 2022Forget Liberating Ukraine - We First Need To Liberate Our Minds We imagine ourselves under constant threat from any other tribal group that asserts its own tribalism in the face of our more empowered tribalism.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022Russia-Ukraine war: George Bush's admission of his crimes in Iraq was no 'gaffe' The former president's confusion over the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine should lead to western soul-searching, not mirth.
Friday, May 13, 2022Shireen Abu Akleh was executed to send a message to Palestinians Reporting on Israel and Palestine I learned first-hand that Israel's version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted.
Thursday, May 5, 2022The persecution of Julian Assange According to UN torture expert, the UK and US have colluded to publicly destroy the WikiLeaks founder and deter others from exposing their crimes.
Friday, April 29, 2022Elon Musk Isn't a Threat to Society's Health - All Billionaires Are We cannot make sense of a world so corrupt, so divided, so harsh. Instead, we are drawn to simplistic narratives of good vs. evil, right vs. wrong.
Friday, April 15, 2022Why Zelensky's dream of Ukraine becoming 'big Israel' makes Moscow nervous The Israeli government has been trying to keep as low a profile as possible over the war in Ukraine but Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president seems determined to drag Israel on to centre stage.
Saturday, April 2, 2022Joe Biden has confirmed to Russia that the US really wants regime change Biden's comment - given the US record in Iraq, Libya, and elsewhere, serves Putin's claim that his Ukraine invasion was pre-emptive.
Friday, April 1, 2022Palestine is a Loud Echo of Britain's Colonial Past and a Warning of the Future It is a fight to end colonialism in all its forms, to end our inhumanity towards those we live alongside, to remember that we are all equally human and all equally entitled to respect and dignity.
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