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Jan 17, 2025 | 
original.antiwar.com | Jonathan Cook
There are so many lies, deceptions and misdirections in Sir Keir Starmer’s statement on the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas yesterday that they need to be picked apart line by line. Starmer: After months of devastating bloodshed and countless lives lost, this is the long-overdue news that the Israeli and Palestinian people have desperately been waiting for.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
transcend.org | Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service Zuckerberg, Trump, Musk. None care about free speech, least of all yours or mine. They care about power and remaining billionaires – or, better still, becoming trillionaires. 8 Jan 2025 – A few observations on Mark Zuckerberg’s astonishing volte face today, declaring that he will end the crushing climate of censorship on his Meta platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, in time for Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
transcend.org | Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service Israel isn’t eradicating ‘the terrorists’. It’s turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
original.antiwar.com | Jonathan Cook
If there was an image from 2024 that captured the year’s news, it was this one: Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, in a white lab coat, picking his way through the wreckage of the Kamal Adwan hospital he ran – the last surviving major medical facility in northern Gaza – towards two Israeli tanks, their gun barrels aimed at him. The past year has been dominated by the death and destruction Israel has wrought throughout the tiny enclave.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
blackagendareport.com | Joseph Andoni Massad |Jonathan Cook |Justin Podur |Margaret Kimberley
Well over a year after the Al Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023, Israeli officials have yet to bring forth a single alleged victim of sexual assault or any credible evidence that any sexual violence occurred. Admissions of this lack of evidence continue to roll out. Originally published in Electronic Intifada. There are still zero complainants in alleged cases of rapes committed by Palestinians on 7 October 2023, an Israeli prosecutor has admitted.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
johnmenadue.com | Jonathan Cook
When westerners see ‘enemy’ governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth. The long-harboured aspirations of the US, Turkey and Israel to topple the Syrian government, mainly through their rebranded al-Qaeda allies, succeeded at lightning speed.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
transcend.org | Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service If the West was really worried about Europe’s Nazi past, it would be better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab and Muslim minorities11 Nov 2024 – There has never been a harder time to do political and media analysis than right now. Each day, the western establishment unmoors itself further from reality. Its priorities are so inverted, so obscene, that the most appropriate response is ridicule.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Jonathan Cook |Justin Podur |Ann Garrison
Bill Clinton couldn’t be cozier, or more richly rewarded, in what he calls “the dictator’s club.”In Bill Clinton’s infamously unhinged speech last week in Michigan, he said that Jews had been living in Judea and Samaria before Islam existed, that anyone upset by the Gaza genocide should understand how Israelis feel, and that Kamala Harris’s promise to work for a ceasefire should be enough to make them vote for her. Those statements were so tone deaf that they dominated the outraged response.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Jonathan Cook |Justin Podur |Margaret Kimberley
Detailing Israel’s “crime of extermination,” the report makes it clear bombing hospitals is no accident. Originally published in Salon. ix days after the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel ordered the evacuation of 22 hospitals in northern Gaza. In fact, 1.1 million people were ordered to evacuate the entire north of the enclave within 24 hours.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Jonathan Cook |Justin Podur |Margaret Kimberley |Ann Garrison
“Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds fly after the last sky?”We are at a loss for words. We have lost all language. What words can describe the horrors and sorrows of a genocide, unremittingly live streamed, that has continued for more than a year?
