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Jonathan Cook Podcast
by Jonathan Cook
Analysis and commentary from award-winning, independent journalist, covering media, politics and corporate power jonathancook.substack.com
Episodes
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Listen: Worried about Russian meddling in UK politics? Wait till you see what Israel is up to
Andy Burnham’s government is rolling out a new “Centre for Information Defence”. But the outside actors most aggressively undermining what little remains of British democracy – Israel and the US – are nowhere in its sights. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: No state has a ‘right’ to exist – least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel
After the UK Greens passed a motion declaring ‘Zionism is racism’, every establishment journalist is suddenly playing dumb about the most elementary of issues in international law. No states have a "right" to exist – least of all the apartheid, genocidal state of Israel. Get full access to…
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Listen: How the BBC sets a trap to make sure leftwing politicians never get a fair hearing
There’s a reason why so few truly leftwing politicians are visible in public life. Because the media’s role is to weed them out, discredit them, place them beyond the pale. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: What’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist
Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again
Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows a hole in the idea of a ‘free press’
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Ed Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him
Sheeran’s ‘political neutrality’ is a cover story – one hiding an implicit deal. He’s allowed to grow rich but only so long as he denies a platform to anyone who tries to hold the billionaire class to account. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: The media can make us believe anything they want – even that Charles loved Diana
Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – and most especially the media – they can mould our minds into believing it would be a catastrophe if they did not own everything. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Super-intelligent AI won’t kill us. Dumb billionaires are doing that all by themselves
The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen / Ed Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires for genocide is a bad look
During Israel's genocide, the billionaire class has maintained its grip on our cultural spaces. Now in the bust-up between Ed Sheeran and Macklemore, that chokehold has been exposed – and it looks every bit as ugly as, indeed, it is. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at...
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Listen: It is chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis making British Jews less safe, not Ed Miliband
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis confirms the worst assumptions of antisemites when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect his self-declared Jewish state from ever being held accountable for its crimes. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Britain's settlement trade ban is cosmetic. For it to work, it must sanction Israel
The UK may end up assisting Tel Aviv by reinforcing a preposterous distinction between 'illegal' Jewish settlements that ethnically cleanse Palestinians and a supposedly 'law-abiding' Israel that establishes and arms those settlements. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at...
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Listen: BBC asks, ‘What will I tell my grandkids about the summer of ’26?’ How much I miss it
The BBC suggests 2026 will replace 1976 as the ‘benchmark’ for a hot summer. It could not be more wrong. We will look back on this year’s succession of heatwaves with unbearable nostalgia. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents
The UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors
Governments knew what was coming with the climate. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It's time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: With Karim Khan's dismissal, the war crimes court's elimination is near-complete
The clearest of messages was sent by a majority of ICC member states when they voted to be rid of Karim Khan. The short-lived experiment in creating a mechanism for enforcing international law is over. We are back to the law of the jungle. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at...
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Listen: Britain's Big Brother state is already here - we just don't realise it yet
While immigrants, Muslims and the left are conveniently scapegoated for the state's failures, our rights are being eroded under the guise of protection from these bogeymen. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham
For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid punishing Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Burnham's contrition on Gaza is hollow. Watch what he actually does in power
Here is a list of the things Britain's incoming prime minister is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Israel is an apartheid state – and its weird marriage laws show us how
Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of segregation. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics, or fail just like him
Even if Starmer's likely successor, Andy Burnham, wants change, he'll face formidable external controls from the financial markets and insuperable internal constraints from the Labour machine. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: The plot against Palestine Action
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Listen: The Labour MPs determined to show they represent Israel, not the British people
Labour wants the repression of Palestine Action to serve as a blueprint for politics. Why not lock up opposition party leaders and any constituents who protest government policy? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: How Israel planned the Gaza genocide decades ago
In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time have been of scale and duration. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Legal profession revolt against the UK judge whose job is to protect Israel's genocide
Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson's dirty work is not yet complete. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Like Midas, our rulers want to monetise everything they touch – and kill it
War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: UK policing – from the Nowak murder to crushing protest – grows ever more rotten
The disorientating goal of the Israel lobby has been to loosen evidence thresholds, constrain critical thinking, and redefine racism and criminality. The effects have bled into dangerous new policing norms. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Israeli claims about an Iran 'threat' were always a lie. Now we have proof
What the past 20 years of lies and misdirections about Iran have sought to hide is a simple fact: it is not Tehran that is led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at...
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Listen: Western leaders play their part in our charade democracies. Can you spot the tell?
Just as apartheid states always end up producing a violent, oppressive, surveillance institution like Israel's Shin Bet, capitalist states always end up producing voracious, unscrupulous, anti-democratic business entities like the corporation. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at...
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Listen: If Starmer gets his way, Reform - not the Greens - will be his legacy
The Epstein class are once again imposing a discourse trap for the anti-racist left on antisemitism. The question for Zack Polanski, as for Corbyn before him, is whether the spear of an insurgent politics can pierce the billionaires' defences. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at...
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Listen: The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel - and about itself – is finally being burst
Israel's genocide in Gaza and its ethnic cleansing in Lebanon have exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: The real story tying Starmer and Mandelson is being buried by a conspiracy of silence
The real story of Starmer’s political subservience and vulnerability to Peter Mandelson is not being told by the establishment media. For good reason. Because the media itself is deeply implicated in this bigger story, of decade-long dirty tricks and illegality. Get full access to Jonathan Cook…
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Listen: Starmer's go-to excuse: 'I was in the dark'. Don't believe it. He's deeply in the loop
From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Sir Keir Starmer has proved he is the most clueless man ever to have entered high office. Here are a few highlights of his long history of career-enhancing ignorance. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Blair’s latest deceit-riddled column vilifies the UK left to justify genocide
Tony Blair proves there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Israel is making sure Trump can't find an off-ramp in Iran
Netanyahu pitched the war on Iran as a repeat of Israel’s apparent 'audacious feat' of smashing Hezbollah. The US president should have noted instead Israel’s moral and strategic defeat in Gaza. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Does the tail wag the dog? How both sides are missing the bigger picture
The joint US-Israeli war on Iran has thrust back into the spotlight a divisive debate about whether the dog wags the tail, or the tail wags the dog. Who is in charge of this war: Israel or the United States? Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Replay: How the Pentagon dictates Hollywood storylines
Western publics are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism – of the kind now only too evident in the war on Iran – through the Pentagon’s chokehold on thousands of blockbuster films and TV shows. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: BBC editor's libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here's why
Raffi Berg may be fighting in the courts for damages from Owen Jones, but it's really the BBC in the dock – for being utterly wedded to an editor whose objectivity on Israel is so clearly in question. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen
There is no clear rationale from Washington for the attack on Iran because the author of this attack is not to be found in either the White House or the Pentagon. This plan was cooked up in Tel Aviv decades ago. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: In Iran, Israel’s morbid military cult now has the US fully in its grip
In this catastrophic war of choice, it is Tehran fighting a rearguard action to restore geopolitical sanity. If Iran loses, god only knows where Israel and the US will drag the world next. The world’s fate, in a real sense, is in Tehran’s hands. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at...
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Listen: Rubio declared a return to brutal western colonialism - and Europe applauded
At the Munich Security Conference, 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. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: 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. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was to protect the arms industry
Palestine Action wasn’t banned because it’s a terrorist organisation, a new documentary shows. It was banned because large corporations, like the weapons firm Elbit Systems, have captured the UK government. Get full access to Jonathan Cook at jonathancook.substack.com/subscribe
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Listen: The jury were right to acquit the Palestine Action defendants. Here's why
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...
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Listen: The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth
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
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Listen: The Guardian joins the cheerleading for a war of aggression against Iran
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...
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Listen: The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump's
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...
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Listen: Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is the nail in Gaza’s coffin
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
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Listen: Every time, the media sides with the discredited apologists for genocide
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...
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