Writer, journalist. Winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. Throttled by Bluesky algorithms. https://jonathancook.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3muowk6hl7s2nThe BBC asks: ‘What will you tell your grandchildren about the summer of ’26?’ How much I miss it, how much I want it back. Matthew Alford reads my latest article: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-bbc-asks-what-will-i-tell04 Sep 2026 12:08 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3muowk6hl7s2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3muoquxrkrk2vThe BBC suggests 2026 will replace 1976 as the ‘benchmark’ for a hot summer. It could not be more wrong. We will look back on this year’s succession of heatwaves with unbearable nostalgia. Read my latest here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/bbc-asks-what-will-i-tell-my-grandkids04 Sep 2026 10:27 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3muoquxrkrk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3muen5tdtpc2yThe UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room. Matthew Alford reads my latest: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the-british-state-has-lost31 Aug 2026 09:53 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3muen5tdtpc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3muadvsh35c2iThe British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents. Read my latest here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-british-state-has-lost-the-argument29 Aug 2026 16:57 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3muadvsh35c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mu57bduhk22mThe UK's Labour government is so authoritarian it declared Palestine Action a terrorist organisation (for opposing genocide) a year before Trump did.28 Aug 2026 10:56 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu57bduhk22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mu56e4qyr22gWhat if our tech overlords lured us into a trap, persuading us to hand over everything we know, believe and feel to a Great Mind – a neural network that eventually could and would replace us. Paul Kingsnorth sets out the ultimate conspiracy theory: paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-trap https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-trap28 Aug 2026 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu56e4qyr22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mtzku23h522rBritish "democracy" is an empty husk, hollowed out by a grossly unrepresentative voting system and mega-donors who have captured the political class. Now in power, Burnham has scrapped a commitment to electoral reform and is ditching a pledge to cap political donations. 🤔27 Aug 2026 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzku23h522rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mtvjd5snac26Coming climate shockwaves over the next two decades are likely to kill between 2 and 4 billion people, research shows. What has been the response of corporate media invested in the very activities fuelling those deaths? Silence, of course. Media Lens explain: https://medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-dead-there-are-no-words25 Aug 2026 09:35 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvjd5snac26https://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mszvkg56w22oAll governments have known what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever. Read my latest here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/thatcher-warned-in-1989-of-a-climate14 Aug 2026 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mszvkg56w22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3msw6q335c22lThis one aged badly – in just a few weeks12 Aug 2026 22:33 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3msw6q335c22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mstq2pip522hMatthew Alford reads my latest: A dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism. https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-a-dying-west-is-eating-its11 Aug 2026 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstq2pip522hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mstaoxttjc2nHaaretz newspaper's new map shows Israel's apartheid rule in the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority has nominal control – unless Israel decides otherwise – in the orange bits (18%). The rest is controlled full-time by the Israeli army and its Jewish settler militias.11 Aug 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstaoxttjc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mssiyyqzkk2xThe role of the media, from the BBC to Fox, is to so clog up our minds with propaganda extolling iPhones and jeans that we choose to continue worshipping at the altar of capitalism, even as the walls of the temple visibly crack and crumble. My latest here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-dying-west-is-eating-its-children11 Aug 2026 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssiyyqzkk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3msscl33iec2wA dying West is eating its children. Yet we still can't imagine life without capitalism. Read my latest article here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-dying-west-is-eating-its-children11 Aug 2026 09:31 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3msscl33iec2whttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3msqa2qkeks22The clearest of messages was sent by ICC member states when they voted to be rid of Karim Khan. The short-lived experiment in creating a mechanism for enforcing international law is over. We're back to the law of the jungle. Matthew Alford reads my latest: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-with-karim-khans-dismissal10 Aug 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqa2qkeks22https://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mruka2myos2yWere Netanyahu ever to face trial, other leaders would have good reason to fear they might be next – not least for their complicity in Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Read my latest on the campaign to eliminate Karim Khan and the ICC: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07-30/karim-khan-dismissal-war-crimes-court/30 Jul 2026 13:28 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruka2myos2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mruk6w2oik2yAs each brick protecting the ICC war crimes court is dismantled by the Trump administration, another brick is added to the wall of protection around Netanyahu and Israel’s genocidal war machine. Read my latest article here: https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-07-30/karim-khan-dismissal-war-crimes-court/30 Jul 2026 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruk6w2oik2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mruk5c2se22yThe clearest of messages was sent by a majority of ICC member states when they voted to be rid of Karim Khan. The short-lived experiment in creating a mechanism for enforcing international law is over. We are back to the law of the jungle. My latest: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim-khans-dismissal-the-elimination30 Jul 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruk5c2se22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mru73uy2h22bWith Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete. Read my latest here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim-khans-dismissal-the-elimination30 Jul 2026 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mru73uy2h22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mrpauh6on227Spraying red paint on the building of a business complicit in genocide can now see a UK judge lock you up as a terrorist. No need for the British government to push through the abolition of juries. Judges are showing they're only too eager to overrule jury verdicts.28 Jul 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrpauh6on227https://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqrbypayqc2pBritain's Big Brother state is already here – we just don't realise it yet. Read my latest here: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/an-unpalatable-truth-big-brother-state-already-here-we-just-do-not-realise-it-yet16 Jul 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrbypayqc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqncocwmlk2sStarmer admits his government failed the people of Gaza by colluding in Israel's genocide: "Time and again the cry for justice was ignored by the British state because of who the victims are..." Sorry, scratch that. He's talking about the victims of Hillsborough 37 years ago.14 Jul 2026 22:59 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqncocwmlk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqmugb63yc2lAgain this week, western leaders showed they have no intention whatsoever of severing support for Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements, however violent the Jewish colonisers who live on stolen Palestinian land prove to be. Matthew Alford reads my latest: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-the-west-wont-punish-the-settlements14 Jul 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmugb63yc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqm4h2nmh223For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace. Read my latest here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-west-wont-punish-the-settlements14 Jul 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqm4h2nmh223https://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqjggygwls2uIsrael continues to block international journalists from Gaza, despite a "ceasefire". Israel ignores its own Supreme Court's ruling to allow Red Cross visits to prisons – deemed "torture camps" by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Does Israel have something to hide?13 Jul 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjggygwls2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqh5ry4zm22yIf Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers feel bold enough to take hostage a US Congressperson at gunpoint, just imagine what these same soldiers and settlers do to Palestinians.12 Jul 2026 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqh5ry4zm22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqepkoz25c2f"They could not stop you from looking at Palestine, so they bought the screen you were looking through." How the western ruling class and the Zionist lobby spent $14 billion to take back control of our minds:11 Jul 2026 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqepkoz25c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqcm5fphj22pBurnham's contrition on Gaza is entirely hollow. Watch what he actually does in power. Read my latest here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnhams-contrition-on-gaza-is-hollow10 Jul 2026 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcm5fphj22phttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mqcm4elbq22pHere is a list of the things Andy Burnham is obligated to do to avoid collusion in Israel's genocide in Gaza, according to an International Court of Justice ruling. Will he do any of it? Read my latest here: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnhams-contrition-on-gaza-is-hollow10 Jul 2026 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcm4elbq22phttps://bsky.app/profile/jonathan-cook.bsky.social/post/3mpoe6lkkds23Israel is the only country in the world that does not recognise its own nationality. Why? Because a common national identity would sabotage Israel’s carefully veiled system of apartheid. Matthew Alford reads my latest: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/listen-israel-is-an-apartheid-state02 Jul 2026 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:rf3titnx2okrypvnpcnukd4f/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpoe6lkkds23