Jonathan Cook

Congratulations to the US for killing Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and a steadfast opponent of Iran developing nuclear weapons.

Doubtless Iran's new leader will learn from Khamenei's mistake and expedite an Iranian nuclear bomb as quickly as possible.

Keir Starmer says "British planes are in the sky" but played no active part in the strikes on Iran.

Does he mean it in the same sense as our planes being in the skies above Gaza? Because those planes provided Israel with the data to help it murder Palestinians en masse.

It's time to understand – and if the attack on Iran doesn't prove it to you, I don't know what will – that the US is an oil-guzzling, planet-crunching, war juggernaut.

It's doing exactly what it is designed to do. And unless it's stopped, it'll keep doing it till we're all dead.

The Voice of Hind Rajab: The Film They Don’t Want You to See Reaper Madness - by Mr.

Despite critical acclaim, an Oscar-nominated director and industry heavyweights like Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix behind it, it's almost impossible to find a screen showing the Voice of Hind Rajab – the story of how Israel slowly killed a 6-year-old in Gaza. chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-voice-...

Rubio declared a return to brutal western colonialism - and Europe applauded In Munich, the US announced its intent to crush all opposition to its permanent status as imperial top dog, even if that means destroying everything, and all of us, in the process

Rubio declared a return to brutal western colonialism - and Europe applauded.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-r...

It's not only last week's acquittal by a jury of six Palestine Action defendants.

Now a panel of three deeply establishment judges agree that the Starmer government was utterly bonkers to declare Palestine Action a terrorist organisation.

Starmer is toast. But the dark forces that brought him to power are as strong as ever The political and media classes that once venerated Mandelson and are now cutting him adrift are the same ones that spent five years destroying Corbyn

The political and media classes that once venerated Mandelson and are now cutting him adrift are the same ones that spent five years destroying Corbyn.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/star...

Starmer is toast. But the dark forces that brought him to power are as strong as ever The political and media classes that once venerated Mandelson and are now cutting him adrift are the same ones that spent five years destroying Corbyn

Starmer is toast. But the dark forces that brought him to power are as strong as ever.

Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/star...

Listen: Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was to protect the arms industry Read by Matthew Alford

Channel 4 documentary shows Starmer's reasons for banning Palestine Action were a lie. It was really about protecting the profits of the arms industry.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-ch4...

Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry Palestine Action wasn’t banned because it’s a terrorist organisation. It was banned because large corporations, like the Elbit weapons firm, have captured the UK government

Channel 4 documentary shows Palestine Action wasn’t banned because it’s a terrorist organisation. It was banned because large corporations, like the Elbit weapons firm, have captured the UK government.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/ch4-doc-sh...

Lots of people on social media suggesting that the 12 randomly selected jurors must have been biased because they all agreed to acquit the six activists accused of smashing up Israeli drones used to kill children in Gaza.

That argument really isn't the win they seem to think it is.

It took considerable courage for the jury in the Palestine Action trial to ignore the demands to convict from the judge, government, police and media and instead to weigh the actual evidence.

My latest sets out why jurors were right to reject all the bullying: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-02...

The jury were right to acquit the Palestine Action defendants. Here's why Jurors bravely set aside social conditioning, the natural instinct we all share to defer to authority, and expectations fomented by establishment media. Instead they considered the actual evidence

The jury were right to acquit the Palestine Action defendants.

Read my latest article to learn why: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-jury-w...

Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action - Craig Murray As the trial finished at Woolwich Crown Court of the six Palestine Action activists who entered the Filton factory to destroy Israeli killer drones, Starmer, Cooper, Lammy and Mahmood are left bereft ...

Ex-ambassador Craig Murray explains how the Palestine Action trial was rigged by the government, police and judge to secure convictions – and yet still the jury refused to do as they were told.

They had good reason, as Murray explains: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...

Entirely reasonable that there's so much fury that a jury of 12 ordinary people, having heard all the evidence, has reached a verdict that does not accord with the directions of the judge, Starmer's government and the billionaire-owned media.

Who do these people think they are?

The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth A handful of figures will be sacrificed - but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don't apply to the ruling elite

A handful of figures will be sacrificed - but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don't apply to the ruling elite.

Read my latest on the Epstein Files here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/crim...

What Israel's idea of "ceasefire" looks like.

Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know.

Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

The UK government pinned its case for declaring Palestine Action a terrorist organisation largely on the trial of the so-called Filton Six, claiming they had proved the group to be violent.

A jury today found none of them guilty of any of the charges.

Trump, Pirate of the Caribbean - Craig Murray I have now been here a week and I think that I have absorbed enough to attempt a little analysis, as opposed to the simple impressions I gave shortly after arrival. Those impressions remain valid howe...

If ex-UK ambassador Craig Murray's view from the ground in Caracas sounds so plausible, it's chiefly because the US throttling of Venezuela to destroy a rival model of economic governance is a long staple of US aggression abroad.

Read more here: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/202...

Quite sickening to hear Wes Streeting and other ministers accuse Peter Mandelson of "betraying Labour party values".

This is a government whose values did not just embrace child abuse. They actively colluded in the slaughter of children in Gaza by the tens of thousands.

Jonathan Cook: BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump’s | Asia Pacific Report

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Listen: The Guardian joins the cheerleading for a war of aggression against Iran Read by Matthew Alford

International law is clear. If the US attacks Iran, it would be a war of aggression. 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.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...

Substack has a Notes function that operates like Bluesky. Mine is here: jonathancook.substack.com/notes

Jonathan Cook | Substack Independent journalism, against the grain. Click to read Jonathan Cook, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Another reminder that, contrary to expectations, Bluesky is by far the most hostile social media platform for genuinely progressive writers like me.

I grow my reach by a follower or two a day. Better to follow me on a site where algorithms aren't a factor, like Substack:
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Reform scents power, so what does it do? It creates a Friends of Israel group.

After all, which self-respecting, mainstream party doesn't wish to offer a warm welcome to genocide supporters?

Lots of people arguing that it's ok for Trump to attack Iran because Iran killed its own people.

So do they think it was ok for Russia to attack Ukraine because for years Ukraine killed its own people in Donbas?

If not, why?

The Guardian joins the cheerleading for a war of aggression against Iran Corporate media doesn't represent humanity's interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war machine in constant need of excuses to kill

The Guardian joins the cheerleading for a war of aggression against Iran.

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Listen: The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump's Read by Matthew Alford

There are already deep layers of deceit from western politicians regarding Iran. But that’s not enough for the BBC, which needs to add more of its own.

Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...

The BBC pushes 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

The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump's.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-bbc-pu...