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Judge threatens to break the UK’s wall of secrecy around Assange’s persecution

Judge threatens to break the UK’s wall of secrecy around Assange’s persecution
13.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Jonathan Cook

Syria’s Assad has fallen – just as the Pentagon planned 23 years ago

When westerners see ‘enemy’ governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural...

12.12.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Jonathan Cook

Capitalism’s in-house critic: Hedges’ Monbiot interview

Capitalism would need to invent a Guardian, if it did not already exist, writes Jonathan Cook. And in turn, The Guardian would need to invent a...

26.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Jonathan Cook

Is this how western media would report Netanyahu’s killing by Hezbollah?

Western journalists claim to report the news objectively and fairly. If they really did, this is what coverage of Netanyahu’s assassination might...

02.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Jonathan Cook

Media complicit in the crimes of Israel

The pro-Israel bias in Western reporting makes the media utterly complicit in Israel’s war crimes, including when Israeli soldiers throw...

29.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Jonathan Cook

The World Court has cleared the fog hiding western support for Israel’s crimes

The legal ruling by the world’s highest court obliges Western states not just to end their persecution of the boycott movement but to take up...

27.07.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Jonathan Cook