Jonathan Cook confronts the demand throughout the Western press and social media to not only “condemn” the Russian president, but do so without qualification.
The West’s Hands in Ukraine as Bloody as Putin’s
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Boris Bashing & the Assange Factor
The sudden chorus of outrage at the prime minister for impugning the reputation of the opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is strange in many ways, writes Jonathan Cook.
Guardian Writer: ‘China World’s Only Imperialist Power’
It’s revealing how alarming empire propagandists find China’s simple warning to defend itself from aggression, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Preserving Out-of-Control Power
Jonathan Cook examines how intellectual and cultural life gets captured by the billionaire class.
JOHN PILGER: Justice for Assange Is Justice for All
In the land of Magna Carta this disgraceful case ought to have been hurled out of court long ago.
CIA Plan to Poison Assange Wasn’t Needed
RUSSIAGATE: Luke Harding’s Hard Sell
The only interests this leak serves — if it was a leak — are those of Harding and U.S. intelligence, who were hung out to dry by the collapse of the Russiagate narrative, writes Joe Lauria.
EDITORIAL: US Offer on Assange is New Evidence & Should Have Been Rejected
The U.S. offer to keep Julian Assange out of SAMS and to let him to serve time in Australia if convicted amounted to new evidence not normally allowed under appeal procedures.
The Guardian Misinforms on UK Role in World
The U.K.’s global influence is routinely seen as benign, writes Mark Curtis. Only occasionally does a more accurate picture emerge.
The Guardian Revealed Itself in Sacking Columnist for Criticizing US Military Aid to Israel
Jonathan Cook says a long line of journalists, himself included, have run afoul of the paper’s unwritten but tightly policed constraints on the subject of Israel.