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...

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

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?

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.

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.

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 #asiapacificreport @jonathan-cook.bsky.social #Iran #warthreats #waroniran #DonaldTrump #newsmedia #BBC #disinformation asiapacificreport.nz/2026/01/31/j...

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...

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: jonathancook.substack.com

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

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

Remember Biden's disastrous "aid pier" to Gaza that broke apart the first time it faced a bit of rough weather. Trump's "Board of Peace" is no more serious as a solution for rebuilding Gaza. I explain why here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...

Trump’s 'Board of Peace' is the nail in Gaza’s coffin. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trum...

Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the ICC war crimes court for committing crimes against humanity in Gaza, joins Trump's 'Board of Peace' to decide Gaza's future.

The Guardian finds it perverse that Putin has been invited to join the Board of Peace. That's the same Board to which fugitive war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has also been invited and that will be chaired by Israel's main arms supplier, Donald J Trump.

Chief constable upsets Israel lobby by refusing to let violent, racist Israeli football hooligans prowl his city – out of a job. School cancels MP's visit after parents protest because he's a cheerleader for genocidal Israel – Ofsted announces it's inspecting the school. 🤔

Finally, it will be crystal clear how complicit Keir Starmer is in the eradication of Gaza and its people:

Keir Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. In a mesmerising speech, Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is a vital last defence against government tyranny. Read my latest here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01...

Barrister's powerful speech at the Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

Stop making moral outcasts of doctors and teachers for their principled opposition to genocide. Turn your fire instead on MPs, the media and pro-Israel lobby groups for their pitiless hypocrisy. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/every-time...

Critically acclaimed The Voice of Hind Rajab, backed by Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix, could not get a film distributor in the US. Why? Because it tells the story of an indisputable Israeli war crime against a five-year. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-gen...

A new film about Hind Rajab's murder points to a deeply sick Israeli society, driven into the darkest of places by a racist ideology that says Jewish lives count, Palestinian lives don’t. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/genocide-i...

Private school pupils are over-represented at Cambridge university by more than 400%. Trinity Hall college wants change – by recruiting even more students from rich families.

Difficult as it is for westerners to hear, we don’t need a stronger West, we need a weaker one. Harder still, Trump is teaching us that the very concept of 'the West' is an illusion. Read my four observations on the US kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro here: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01...

Difficult as it is for westerners to hear, we don’t need a stronger West, we need a weaker one. Harder still, Trump is teaching us that the very concept of 'the West' is an illusion. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/four-obser...

I'm always astonished by the number of journalists who block me, even though I never interact with them privately and barely do so publicly. They are so used to being lauded by employers for their craven journalism, they're utterly confounded by real criticism.

The path to Venezuela – and potentially next to Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland, other targets of Donald Trump’s colonial greed – was paved in Gaza. Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

As Trump seems so keen to enforce the law against wayward state leaders – Maduro is to be put on trial for drugs and firearms offences – I have a suggestion: Send a special ops team to grab Netanyahu in Jerusalem. I hear there's a warrant out for his arrest for war crimes.

Starmer: "We regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime." Pretty sure Putin regarded Zelenskiy as an "illegitimate president" too. So presumably invading Ukraine was okay, then?

Remember, it's the same people who were shocked at Russia illegally invading Ukraine who are now gloating over the US illegally invading Venezuela. They have no principles, no scruples, no morals at all. And they head every western state.

Time to recognise the Nobel Committee's role in awarding this year's Peace Prize to Trump's favourite Venezuelan, Maria Corina Machado? Without their efforts, it would have been far harder to whitewash the US illegal invasion, the kidnapping of a sitting president, and the murder of Venezuelans.

You can't make this stuff up. Trump's AG has charged Maduro with "possession of machine-guns and destructive devices against the US". That's the same US that's just used thousands of "destructive devices" to illegally bomb Venezuela. It's clear who should really be on trial.

I guess Putin made a mistake in not kidnapping Zelensky during Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Would the BBC and the Guardian have calmly explained back then that the Ukrainian president had been "captured" and was due to face trial in Moscow?

If the West's claims are right, Vladimir Putin has been secretly on our side – against himself and Russia – for years. Satirist Matthew Alford examines the evidence: drmattalford.substack.com/p/stop-worry...

Thank you all for your support over the past year. It's been another difficult year, designed to crush our spirits and our belief that change is possible. It lightens the burden to share it with so many other like-minded souls. I wish us all a more just and peaceful year ahead.

Israel is expelling 37 aid groups – a likely death sentence for 100,000s of Palestinians. But the Times speaks only of 'new rules' in Gaza, and 'suspensions' for those who 'resist registration'. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/once-again...

Once again, the New York Times sells Israel's genocide in Gaza as law enforcement. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/once-again...

Starmer's government has set the most dangerous of precedents: it can now outlaw any political group it chooses as a terrorist organisation – and thereby make it impossible to defend it. Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-how...

Starmer's government has set the most dangerous of precedents: it can now outlaw any political group it chooses as a terrorist organisation – and thereby make it impossible to defend it. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-report...

How reporting facts can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-report...