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Like Midas, Our Rulers Want to Monetise Everything They Touch – and Kill It, by Jonathan Cook

10 June 2026 at 05:10
War and profit are intimately tied together. The billionaires cannot secure their profits without war, or the threat of it – whether against workers at home or against other nations abroad I am old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the wave of excitement it unleashed. With the Soviet Union consigned...

UK Policing Culture – from the Nowak Murder to Crushing Protest – Grows Ever More Rotten, by Jonathan Cook

5 June 2026 at 05:00
Here are two things that can be true at the same time: First, the actions of police officers in Southampton in handcuffing 18-year-old student Henry Nowak and reading him his rights as he lay on the ground taking his last gasps of air, his lungs filling with blood from a stab wound, are barely comprehensible....

Israeli Claims About an Iran ‘Threat’ Were Always a Lie. Now We Have Proof

1 June 2026 at 01:00
Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression – was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv? Far from Tehran posing an existential danger to Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed for […]

Israeli Claims About an Iran 'Threat' Were Always a Lie. Now We Have Proof, by Jonathan Cook

30 May 2026 at 05:10
It is not Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington ould it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran - one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression - was always a fiction,...
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