media criticism
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Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods
The reality of the West’s trademark current foreign policy – marketed for the past two decades under the principle of a “Responsibility to Protect” – is all too visible amid Libya’s flood wreckage. Continue reading
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Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to the Scottish police on Sunday morning. He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge… Continue reading
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Why is the world going to hell? Netflix’s The Social Dilemma tells only half the story
If you find yourself wondering what the hell is going on right now – the “Why is the world turning to shit?” thought – you may find Netflix’s new documentary The Social Dilemma a good starting point for clarifying your thinking. I say “starting point” because, as we shall see, the film suffers from two… Continue reading
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How the Guardian betrayed not only Corbyn but the last vestiges of British democracy
It is simply astonishing that the first attempt by the Guardian – the only major British newspaper styling itself as on the liberal-left – to properly examine the contents of a devastating internal Labour party report leaked in April is taking place nearly four months after the 860-page report first came to light. Continue reading
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UK Labour party teeters on brink of civil war over antisemitism
New leader Keir Starmer spurns two chances to clear Jeremy Corbyn’s name, preferring instead to pay damages to former staff Continue reading
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Has the left been gulled into believing its small right to speech is already too much?
My post earlier this month on the so-called “cancel culture” letter proved to be the most polarising I have written – matched only by another recent post on the pulling down of a statue in the UK to a slave trader. The ferocity of the reactions to both, I believe, is related. It derives from… Continue reading
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Welcome to the era of the Great Disillusionment
This is a column I have been mulling over for a while but, for reasons that will be instantly obvious, I have been hesitant to write. It is about 5G, vaccines, 9/11, aliens and lizard overlords. Or more accurately, it isn’t. Continue reading
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How we stay blind to the story of power
If one thing drives me to write, especially these blog posts, it is the urgent need for us to start understanding power. Power is the force that shapes almost everything about our lives and our deaths. There is no more important issue. Understanding power and overcoming it through that understanding is the only path to… Continue reading
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Labour’s next leader has already betrayed the left
In declaring their support for Zionism, the three contenders for Corbyn’s crown are offering only the cynical politics of old Continue reading
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With Panorama’s hatchet job on Labour antisemitism, BBC has become the Tory’s attack dog By Jonathan Cook
It is difficult to describe as anything other than a hatchet job the BBC Panorama special this week that sought to bolster claims that the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has become “institutionally antisemitic”. Continue reading
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Mark Field and the danger of getting sidetracked
I really do not wish to write about Mark Field, the British government minister who assaulted a climate change activist this week, grabbing her by the neck and violently marching her out of a City of London dinner while all the hundreds of other wealthy diners watched either impassively or approvingly. But whatever my wishes,… Continue reading
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The western media is key to Syria deceptions By Jonathan Cook
By any reckoning, the claim made this week by al-Qaeda-linked fighters that they were targeted with chemical weapons by the Syrian government in Idlib province – their final holdout in Syria – should have been treated by the western media with a high degree of scepticism. Continue reading
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Media smoothed way to Corbyn target practice
It is time to stop believing these infantile narratives the political and media establishment have crafted for us. Like the one in which they tell us they care deeply about the state of British political life, that they lie awake at night worrying about the threat posed by populism to our democratic institutions. Continue reading
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Labour and anti-Semitism in 2018: The truth behind the relentless smear campaign against Corbyn By Jonathan Cook
Bombarded by disinformation campaigns, many British Jews are being misled into seeing Corbyn as a threat rather than as the best hope of innoculating Britain against the resurgence of right-wing anti-Semitism menace Continue reading
The New Dark Age 