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Lydia Conwell#JonathanCook | BBC editor's libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here's why
"Berg and his lawyers had hoped to force Jones to defend the article on the basis it was a “statement of fact”.
This distinction is crucial. Had the judge agreed with Berg’s team, responsibility would have fallen on Jones to prove what amounts to intent by Berg to skew BBC coverage – something that, in the absence of internal documents revealing what was being said behind closed doors – would have been nigh impossible."
#JonathanCook | Israel planned this war on Iran for 40 years. Everything else is a smoke screen
"If the idea that an Iranian opposition is poised to sweep to power looks plausible, it is only because western media has been priming their audiences with two likely falsehoods.
First, that the Iranian regime has no mass support. And second, that those out protesting exclusively blame their plight on their own rulers rather than reserving a share of their anger for external actors meddling maliciously in their lives."
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#JonathanCook | Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry
"But I want to add a point of criticism, in particular, about one scene from the first half. An interview with Huda Ammori, Palestine Action’s co-founder, included a truly cringe-inducing request that she condemn Hamas over its October 7 2023 attack.
We should have long moved past the point where Palestinians – more than two years into a genocide of their people – are expected to make such ritual denunciations before they can be heard.
If that isn't obvious, consider another interview during the programme – this one with Gideon Falter, the head of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. The CAA is a virulently pro-Israel organisation that was recently excoriated by a judge for repeatedly misleading him – lying – in an antisemitism case it brought before the court.
Why did the programme makers not ask Falter, who actually is an apologist for Israeli violence, whether he would condemn Israel for its two-year slaughter of children in Gaza? Presumably they shied away from that confrontation because it would have suggested that they were holding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government."
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#JonathanCook | The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth
"Predictably, these revelations [about Israel] are gaining almost no traction in the establishment media – the very same media whose billionaire owners and career-minded editors once courted Epstein.
Instead, the media seem much more engrossed by weaker leads that suggest Epstein might have also had connections with Russian security services."
arvindThe Guardian joins the cheerleading for a war of aggression against Iran
Corporate media doesn't represent humanity's interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war machine in constant need of excuses to kill
by Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook's Newsletter
January 30, 2026
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-guardian-joins-the-cheerleading
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#JonathanCook | The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump's
[The] "BBC’s reporting by Sarah Smith coolly lays out the US mechanics of attacking Iran – the build-up to war – without ever mentioning that such an attack would be in complete violation of international law."