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#JonathanCook | The real story tying Starmer and Mandelson is being buried by a conspiracy of silence
"With the help of rich donors, Labour Together created a secret slush fund worth at least £730,000 to wage a public relations war against Corbyn and the left – a campaign that was enthusiastically supported by the establishment media.
With Corbyn finally ousted, Labour Together then mounted a new operation, using those same funds, to deceive party members into crowning Starmer as leader on the basis he would continue Corbyn’s policies."
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#JonathanCook | Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry
"But I want to add a point of criticism, in particular, about one scene from the first half. An interview with Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, included a truly cringe-inducing request that she condemn Hamas over its October 7 2023 attack.
We should have long moved past the point where Palestinians – more than two years into a genocide of their people – are expected to make such ritual denunciations before they can be heard.
If that isn't obvious, consider another interview during the programme – this one with Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. The CAA is a virulently pro-Israel organisation that was recently excoriated by a judge for repeatedly misleading him – lying – in an antisemitism case it brought before the court.
Why did the programme makers not ask Falter, who actually is an apologist for Israeli violence, whether he would condemn Israel for its two-year slaughter of children in Gaza? Presumably they shied away from that confrontation because it would have suggested that they were holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government."
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#JonathanCook | Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Rajiv Menon KC: "Obviously, if you agree with the judge’s opinion, you may adopt it. But the opposite is equally true. If you don’t agree with the judge’s opinion, you may reject it. That is your right. That is your privilege, as jurors, because I repeat, you are the sole judges of the facts. Nobody, not even His Lordship, can direct you to convict in this case. So that’s what I say about criminal damage."
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#JonathanCook | Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Rajiv Menon KC: "Obviously, if you agree with the judge’s opinion, you may adopt it. But the opposite is equally true. If you don’t agree with the judge’s opinion, you may reject it. That is your right. That is your privilege, as jurors, because I repeat, you are the sole judges of the facts. Nobody, not even His Lordship, can direct you to convict in this case. So that’s what I say about criminal damage."
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#JonathanCook | Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Rajiv Menon KC: "Obviously, if you agree with the judge’s opinion, you may adopt it. But the opposite is equally true. If you don’t agree with the judge’s opinion, you may reject it. That is your right. That is your privilege, as jurors, because I repeat, you are the sole judges of the facts. Nobody, not even His Lordship, can direct you to convict in this case. So that’s what I say about criminal damage."
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#JonathanCook | Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Rajiv Menon KC: "Obviously, if you agree with the judge’s opinion, you may adopt it. But the opposite is equally true. If you don’t agree with the judge’s opinion, you may reject it. That is your right. That is your privilege, as jurors, because I repeat, you are the sole judges of the facts. Nobody, not even His Lordship, can direct you to convict in this case. So that’s what I say about criminal damage."
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#JonathanCook | Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Rajiv Menon KC: "Obviously, if you agree with the judge’s opinion, you may adopt it. But the opposite is equally true. If you don’t agree with the judge’s opinion, you may reject it. That is your right. That is your privilege, as jurors, because I repeat, you are the sole judges of the facts. Nobody, not even His Lordship, can direct you to convict in this case. So that’s what I say about criminal damage."
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Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/22/jonathan-cook-britain-has-officially-criminalized-journalism/
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net CN at 30 The moment the British government began proscribing political movements…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #PressFreedom #UnitedKingdon #ArmedResistance #Authoritarianism #BbcNewsAt10 #Democracy #DirectAction #DominicCasciani #Hamas #InternationalLaw #JonathanCook #PalestineActionProscription #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct -
Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/22/jonathan-cook-britain-has-officially-criminalized-journalism/
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net CN at 30 The moment the British government began proscribing political movements…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #PressFreedom #UnitedKingdon #ArmedResistance #Authoritarianism #BbcNewsAt10 #Democracy #DirectAction #DominicCasciani #Hamas #InternationalLaw #JonathanCook #PalestineActionProscription #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct -
Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/22/jonathan-cook-britain-has-officially-criminalized-journalism/
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net CN at 30 The moment the British government began proscribing political movements…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #PressFreedom #UnitedKingdon #ArmedResistance #Authoritarianism #BbcNewsAt10 #Democracy #DirectAction #DominicCasciani #Hamas #InternationalLaw #JonathanCook #PalestineActionProscription #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct -
Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/22/jonathan-cook-britain-has-officially-criminalized-journalism/
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net CN at 30 The moment the British government began proscribing political movements…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #PressFreedom #UnitedKingdon #ArmedResistance #Authoritarianism #BbcNewsAt10 #Democracy #DirectAction #DominicCasciani #Hamas #InternationalLaw #JonathanCook #PalestineActionProscription #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct -
Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/22/jonathan-cook-britain-has-officially-criminalized-journalism/
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net CN at 30 The moment the British government began proscribing political movements…
#Politics #CivilRights #Commentary #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Israel #Legal #PressFreedom #UnitedKingdon #ArmedResistance #Authoritarianism #BbcNewsAt10 #Democracy #DirectAction #DominicCasciani #Hamas #InternationalLaw #JonathanCook #PalestineActionProscription #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer #U.k.TerrorismAct -
Jonathan Cook: Breaking Out of Media Group-Think
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/21/jonathan-cook-breaking-out-of-media-group-think/
The Western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on Oct. 7. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net [This is an adaptation of a…
#Politics #Commentary #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Media #Zionism #AlisonWeir #AntiDefamationLeague(adl) #Apartheid #Bbc #Camera(committeeForAccuracyInMiddleEastReportingAndAnalysis) #ChrisMcgreal #DonaldNeff #EthnicCleansing #Gaza.Genocide #HonestReporting #IainHook #JonathanCook #LucyWilliamson #MichaelAdams #Nazareth #OwenJones #RaffiBerg #TheGuardian #TimeMagazine -
#JonathanCook | Recognition of Palestine is a repeat of the West’s Oslo 'peace' fraud
'That is what is meant when the media talk about recognition being chiefly “symbolic”. Starmer and others see it as amounting to little more than a retrospective rap on knuckles for Israel not playing fair.
It is a cost-free exercise because, while Israel feigns indignation about recognition serving as a supposed “reward for terrorism”, it and its patron in Washington know nothing tangible is really at stake.'
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/recognition-of-palestine-is-a-repeat
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#JonathanCook | Even the media's Gaza 'investigations' hide the real story of Israel's atrocities
"These are the straws that western leaders, and the large contingent of genocide apologists in western professional circles, including journalists, so desperately clutch at.
Because otherwise it would be only too clear that they have been cheerleading – and assisting – a genocide for two years."
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/even-the-medias-gaza-investigations
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As I was saying a day or so ago: this #genocide has been able to continue for this long largely because of media collusion.
#JonathanCook says it better though.
How western media helped turn Israel's genocide into 'fake news'
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-western-media-helped-turn-israels
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#JonathanCook | No, Piers. It was a genocide in Gaza from day one. Here's why
"There are too many pundits, like the interminably dim-witted Piers Morgan, who are slowly, oh-so-slowly coming round to the idea that Israel might be committing a genocide in Gaza. But of course, they are still dismissing as “antisemites” those of us who pointed out from the start that it was a genocide.
They hope to get away with this face-saving ploy only because the establishment media continues to ignore what happened before 7 October 2023, events that over many years had made clear Israel was readying to commit genocide – and would grasp a pretext when it arrived."
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/no-piers-it-was-a-genocide-in-gaza
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Jonathan Cook: The BBC’s Complicity in Genocide
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/25/jonathan-cook-the-bbcs-complicity-in-genocide/
Armed with a report on the state broadcaster’s pro-Israel coverage of Gaza, journalist Peter Oborne in a parliamentary meeting last week eviscerated the BBC over its shameful reporting. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Veteran journalist Peter Oborne eviscerated the BBC…
#Politics #Commentary #Disinformation #Gaza #Israel #Media #Palestine #Propaganda #Ukraine #Amalek #AviShlaim #Bbc #CentreForMediaMonitoring #DahiyaDoctrine #GenocideDenial #HannibalDirective #IsraelDefenseForces(idf) #IsraeliApartheid #IsraeliHostages #IsraeliOccupation #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #JonathanCook #PalestinianJournalists #PeterOborne #RafAkrotiri #RichardBurgess -
#JonathanCook | Israel's attack on Iran: The violent new world being born is going to horrify you
"If all this sounds like a sociopath’s approach to foreign relations, that is because it is. Years of impunity for Israel and the US have brought us to this point. Both feel entitled to destroy what remains of an international order that does not let them get precisely what they want."
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/israels-attack-on-iran-the-violent
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: For Whom the Drones Buzz
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/10/patrick-lawrence-for-whom-the-drones-buzz/
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Those drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report…
#Politics #Books #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #Gaza #HumanRights #Israel #Militarism #Military #Palestine #Russia #Surveillance #Ukraine #WarCrimes #AlAqsaHospital #AndreiKelin #AnneDufourmantelle #CaraMarianna #CivilianCasualties #IsraelDefenseForces(idf) #JonathanCook #MilitaryDrones #PatrickLawrence #Sbu #ShaabanAl–dalou #UkraineArmedForces #UniversityOfMichigan -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: For Whom the Drones Buzz
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/10/patrick-lawrence-for-whom-the-drones-buzz/
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Those drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report…
#Politics #Books #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #Gaza #HumanRights #Israel #Militarism #Military #Palestine #Russia #Surveillance #Ukraine #WarCrimes #AlAqsaHospital #AndreiKelin #AnneDufourmantelle #CaraMarianna #CivilianCasualties #IsraelDefenseForces(idf) #JonathanCook #MilitaryDrones #PatrickLawrence #Sbu #ShaabanAl–dalou #UkraineArmedForces #UniversityOfMichigan -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: For Whom the Drones Buzz
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/10/patrick-lawrence-for-whom-the-drones-buzz/
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Those drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report…
#Politics #Books #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #Gaza #HumanRights #Israel #Militarism #Military #Palestine #Russia #Surveillance #Ukraine #WarCrimes #AlAqsaHospital #AndreiKelin #AnneDufourmantelle #CaraMarianna #CivilianCasualties #IsraelDefenseForces(idf) #JonathanCook #MilitaryDrones #PatrickLawrence #Sbu #ShaabanAl–dalou #UkraineArmedForces #UniversityOfMichigan -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: For Whom the Drones Buzz
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/10/patrick-lawrence-for-whom-the-drones-buzz/
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Those drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report…
#Politics #Books #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #Gaza #HumanRights #Israel #Militarism #Military #Palestine #Russia #Surveillance #Ukraine #WarCrimes #AlAqsaHospital #AndreiKelin #AnneDufourmantelle #CaraMarianna #CivilianCasualties #IsraelDefenseForces(idf) #JonathanCook #MilitaryDrones #PatrickLawrence #Sbu #ShaabanAl–dalou #UkraineArmedForces #UniversityOfMichigan -
PATRICK LAWRENCE: For Whom the Drones Buzz
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/10/patrick-lawrence-for-whom-the-drones-buzz/
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Those drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report…
#Politics #Books #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #Gaza #HumanRights #Israel #Militarism #Military #Palestine #Russia #Surveillance #Ukraine #WarCrimes #AlAqsaHospital #AndreiKelin #AnneDufourmantelle #CaraMarianna #CivilianCasualties #IsraelDefenseForces(idf) #JonathanCook #MilitaryDrones #PatrickLawrence #Sbu #ShaabanAl–dalou #UkraineArmedForces #UniversityOfMichigan -
Jonathan Cook: Piers Morgan Versus Palestinians
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/05/jonathan-cook-piers-morgan-versus-palestinians/
The news host’s treatment of a Palestinian journalist reveals a lot about why the Western political and media class have been so comfortable watching Israel commit a genocide. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net I already had a very low opinion of…
#Politics #Commentary #Israel #Media #Palestine #AhmedAlnaouq #Hamas #Islamaphobia #JonathanCook #PiersMorgan #Zionism -
Jonathan Cook: Theroux’s ‘Settlers’ Is About ‘Us’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/14/jonathan-cook-therouxs-settlers-is-about-us/
Criticism of the film after it was aired by the BBC is not because the director got it wrong. It’s because the extremist settlers in the film, along with Israel’s state terrorism, “are us.” By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Louis Theroux…
#Politics #Commentary #Film #Israel #Media #Palestine #UnitedKingdon #ArmsToIsrael #ArthurBalfour #BalfourDeclaration #Bbc #DaniellaWeiss #EdwinMontagu #IsraeliSettlers #JonathanCook #LouisTheroux #OccupiedWestBank #U.k.PrimeMinisterKeirStarmer -
#JonathanCook | How the West hides its #Gaza #genocide guilt behind #Holocaust Day remembrance
"There was an unwanted ghost at the commemorations. In fact, tens of thousands of ghosts."
""The brutalities of western colonialism were veiled by outsourcing the crimes to local dictators and strongmen."
"The Holocaust has been turned into a shield that, rather than protecting others from becoming victims of genocide, is used to protect those in the West who wish to perpetrate it."
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-west-hides-its-gaza-genocide
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News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective
Jonathan Cook: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-medias-role-in-lying-about-amsterdam @ethics 🧶
#mainstreamMedia #massMedia #media #London #UKPol #Amsterdam #MaccabiTelAviv #football #soccer #JonathanCook #SkyNews #BBC #TheGuardian #DumpTheGuardian #Maccabi #TelAviv #Zionism #JewishSupremacy #conflation #antisemitism #NL #Netherlands #UEFA #EuropeIsrael #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia #mediaCritique #disinformation #fakeNews #hooliganism #hooligans #OwenJones #UK #Britain
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News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective
Jonathan Cook: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-medias-role-in-lying-about-amsterdam @ethics 🧶
#mainstreamMedia #massMedia #media #London #UKPol #Amsterdam #MaccabiTelAviv #football #soccer #JonathanCook #SkyNews #BBC #TheGuardian #DumpTheGuardian #Maccabi #TelAviv #Zionism #JewishSupremacy #conflation #antisemitism #NL #Netherlands #UEFA #EuropeIsrael #propaganda #manipulation #coOpting #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #islamophobia #mediaCritique #disinformation #fakeNews #hooliganism #hooligans #OwenJones #UK #Britain
