@jonathan-cook.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. Throttled by Bluesky algorithms.
https://jonathancook.substack.com
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialIn an excited column on the "Burnham bounce", Jonathan Freedland, the notorious anti-Palestinian racist and genocide apologist, calls Zack Polanski a "charlatan and a coward". Another timely reminder that the Guardian's main role is to keep the left tethered to neoliberalism.
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialThere’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.
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialWhat’s shameful is that no party before the Greens called Zionism racist.
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/what...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialYou can read my takedown of Panorama's hatchet job on Corbyn here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/pano...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialPanorama editor who oversaw entirely discredited episode stitching up Jeremy Corbyn with antisemitism smears wins top job at BBC News. Rachel Jupp is feted as a "trusted troubleshooter". In other words: a safe pair of hands, ready to do the British establishment's dirty work.
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialRees-Mogg says he supports the mass-murder of children – and liberals fawn over him.
Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/rees-mogg-...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialThe West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again.
Read my latest here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/west...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialIf the “foreign actor” of Iran can recruit petty criminals to unwittingly spark a major security incident outside RAF Fairford, why can't the “foreign actor” of Israel do exactly the same?
I unpick the absurd spin on the RAF Fairford arrests: jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...
@medialens.orgReposted by @jonathan-cook.bsky.socialJonathan Cook forensically exposes how the 'mainstream' press is keeping our minds right for the security state's propaganda: jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialThe uniform, absurd coverage of an Iranian “terror plot” since five men were arrested on Sunday close to RAF Fairford is blowing a very big hole in the idea of a “free press”.
Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-rep...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialReporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water.
Read my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialThe furore engulfing Sheeran wasn't provoked by his silence on Gaza. But now it's clear that billionaires dictate what artists can say in venues, Sheeran’s silence looks a lot more malign than it did before.
Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-ed-...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialEd Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him.
Read my latest article here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/ed-sheeran...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialThe media can have us believe anything – that black is white, that up is down. They can, by imposing a new narrative consensus, make us believe the very opposite of what we were encouraged to believe a few moments earlier.
Matthew Alford reads my latest:
jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialThrough sheer force of a new, imposed narrative consensus, the media can make us believe the very opposite of what we were encouraged to believe moments earlier.
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-media-...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialWhy 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.
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@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialEd Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires for genocide is a bad look. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/ed-sheeran...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialNo Ed, Israel's genocide of Gaza isn't "the most complex political issue on the planet". It's the simplest political issue on the planet. You don't mass-murder children because they're the "wrong race".
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialDuring 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 it is.
Matthew Alford reads my latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-ed-...
@jonathan-cook.bsky.socialEd Sheeran just learnt: Being pimped by the billionaires in support of genocide is a bad look.
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/ed-sheeran...