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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Daniel Ellsberg

    Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on June 20, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked.

  • Benjamin Netanyahu

    Israel’s crisis is about who gets to play tyrant: the generals or religious thugs

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on March 29, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    In pushing through his ‘judicial overhaul’, Netanyahu wasn’t destroying ‘Israeli democracy’. He was richly exploiting the lack of it.

  • Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader (Photo: middleeastmonitor.com)

    Starmer is paving the way for the triumph of dark politics

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

    By waging an all-out war on the left and its ideas, the Labour leader is strangling hope of change in a time of crisis–and risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians

  • Twitter

    How social networks became a ‘subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on February 20, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    THE BIG STORY: The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment

  • Julian Assange (Photo: apublica.org)

    Why the western media is afraid of Julian Assange

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on January 30, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The shared desire of the security services and the corporate media is to disappear Assange in the hope that his revolutionary model of journalism is abandoned or forgotten for good.

  • Deutsch: Blick vom Wilhelmturm nach Nordosten auf den Ortsteil Castrop von Castrop-Rauxel, das Kraftwerk Knepper in Dortmund-Brüninghausen, dahinter auf die Kraftwerke am Datteln-Hamm-Kanal

    Europe, more than Putin, must shoulder the blame for the energy crisis

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on September 14, 2022 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fueled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession.

  • Craig Murray, poses with supporters outside the Scottish Parliament. (Photo: The Scotsman)

    Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on July 30, 2021 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of “jigsaw identification”.

  • Seymour Hersh

    Useful idiots who undermine dissent on Syria

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on July 3, 2017 by Jonathan Cook (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    There has been much disingenuous criticism of those, like me, who question why the western corporate media have studiously ignored the latest investigation by renowned journalist Seymour Hersh on Syria. Hersh had to publish his piece in a German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, after the entire US and UK media rejected his article. There has still been no mention of his investigation more than a week later.

  • Media’s propaganda war on Syria in full flow

    Media’s propaganda war on Syria in full flow

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on June 30, 2017 by Jonathan Cook (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    If you wish to understand the degree to which a supposedly free western media are constructing a world of half-truths and deceptions to manipulate their audiences, keeping us uninformed and docile, then there could hardly be a better case study than their treatment of Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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