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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Sir Keir Starmer

    Starmer’s go-to excuse: ‘I was in the dark’. Don’t believe it. He’s deeply in the loop

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on April 17, 2026 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was knighted.

  • western media

    Breaking free of media group-think is a scary, lonely journey. I know. I was forced to do it

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on November 16, 2025 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on 7 October 2023. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the truth about Palestine.

  • US President Donald Trump takes questions from the press during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office of the White House on 18 November, 2025 (AFP)

    Trump is turning Gaza into a brutal colonial protection racket

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on November 21, 2025 (more by Middle East Eye)  |

    Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realized–and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell.

  • Middle East Eye – 9 September 2025

    In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on September 9, 2025 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up.

  • Israel's so-called E1 Plan

    Our complicity in Gaza has set the stage for a second genocide-in the West Bank

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on August 15, 2025 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    As the dusting off of Israel’s E1 Plan emphasizes, the intended fate of Palestinians in the West Bank is ultimately no different from the fate of Palestinians in Gaza–unless we act.

  • Israel’s genocide

    Israel’s genocide is big business–and the face of the future

    Jonathan Cook

    U.S. corporations and military planners welcome the ‘legal maneuver space’ Israel has opened up for them to profit from warfare that slaughters and starves civilians.

  • Trump-Netanyahu

    The Gaza “war” was a lie, as is the ceasefire

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on February 8, 2025 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing

  • Biden

    Is U.S. democracy a sham? Biden gave us the answer. Were you listening?

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on December 30, 2024 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The emperor, we are now told, was naked all along.

  • The site of an Israeli strike on Gaza’s al-Aqsa Hospital is pictured on 14 October 2024 (Unrwa/AFP)

    The West’s support for Israel’s genocide is destroying the world as we know it

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on October 21, 2024 (more by Middle East Eye)  |

    The old world is dying once again, but the U.S.-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster.

  • Elon Musk

    First, Elon Musk made us pay for “free speech”; Now he decides who’s allowed it

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on August 20, 2024 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    The ‘saviour of free speech’ is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide. What he calls the ‘faaaaar left’ is in his crosshairs. It’ll be erased so utterly, you won’t remember it was ever there.

  • War on Gaza

    War on Gaza: We were lied into genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 28, 2024 (more by Middle East Eye)  |

    Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October.

  • Israel has reduced Gaza to ruins. (Photo: UNRWA)

    How the western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza

    Originally published: Declassified UK on March 20, 2024 (more by Declassified UK)  |

    From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.

  • Norman Finkelstein

    The Antisemitism Industry doesn’t speak for Jews. It speaks for western elites

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on March 14, 2024 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    Film-maker Jonathan Glazer’s crime at the Oscars was to threaten the establishment’s stranglehold on the West’s narrative about Israel–and itself

  • Pro-Israel supporters protest in Trafalgar Square, London, 14 January 2024 (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

    How the ‘fight against antisemitism’ became a shield for Israel’s genocide

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on March 7, 2024 (more by Middle East Eye)  |

    Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.

  • Smoke rises as a result of Israeli occupation army bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip on 15 November, 2023 AFP)

    ‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on December 27, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.

  • Smoke billows after an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza Strip near the Israel border, 4 December 2023 (AFP)

    How Israel uses AI genocide programme to obliterate Gaza

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on December 5, 2023 (more by Middle East Eye)  |

    According to whistleblowers, Israel is using an AI system to generate targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs.

  • Nord Stream Pipeline explosion ({Photo: Reuters)

    The Media’s Nord Stream lies just keep coming

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on November 14, 2023 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    Why do billionaires and governments scramble to control the media? Because the power over our minds is the greatest power there is.

  • Palestinians walk through debris amid the destruction from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City's al-Rimal neighbourhood on 10 October, 2023 (AFP)

    Israel-Palestine war: Mounting evidence suggests Israel may be ready to ‘cleanse’ Gaza

    Originally published: Middle East Eye on November 1, 2023 (more by Middle East Eye)  |

    All the signs are in place that Israel is once again seriously considering a massive ethnic cleansing operation, conducted at lightning speed and with U.S. assistance.

  • Israeli army quietly admitted that it was responsible for killing the children.

    Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on October 24, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    Disinformation over the blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.

  • More than 5,300 feared dead in Libya flooding auburnpub.com

    Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on September 15, 2023 by 'Middle East Eye' (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    There are reasons for Libya’s ‘chaotic’, ‘dysfunctional’ response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.

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  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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