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Jonathan Cook

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19 Apr

Read this investigation and understand that Boris Johnson didn't 'take one for the team'. He took a gun and played Russian roulette with his own life and the lives of many thousands of others. He had a choice – they didn't

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1) UK governments had known for nearly two decades that pandemic was the No 1 threat facing the country. But Tory austerity policies progressively undercut the resources needed to cope

2) Even plans the UK still had in place were not activated when the pandemic threat became real in early February. ‘Almost every government department has failed to properly implement their own pandemic plans,’ a Downing Street source told the Sunday Times

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Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

10 Oct 19

A 1981 internal memo – nearly 40 years ago! – reveals that Exxon knew there was a 'distinct possibility' its 50-year emissions plan would 'produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the Earth’s population)' dumptheguardian.com/environment/ng…

A 1988 confidential report for Shell warns the rise in temperatures over the next 40 years may be ‘the greatest in recorded history’. By the time changes are detectable, ‘it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even stabilise the situation’

The following year, 1989, major US industries launch a lobbying campaign to deny global warming and delay action that could harm their profits. Pet scientists are bought, including those who duped the public over the dangers of tobacco smoke for decades. They are still at work

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Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

17 Jul 19

The Guardian and Steve Bell are heading for the rocks, it seems. Paradoxically it's over the Guardian banning his new cartoon strip. It shows Tom Watson as the 'antisemite-finder general'. Too close to the bone for the Guardian, which has been cheerleading the same witch-hunt

The Guardian objects to Bell including Israeli PM Netanyahu in the strip. Corporate media now treat any mention of Israeli involvement in the antisemitism smears against Corbyn as antisemitism, despite lots of evidence proving otherwise – not least Al-Jazeera's Lobby documentary

Bell notes that the Guardian published a ‘highly partisan’ advert against Corbyn (mis)using the Labour party's logo: ‘Is it that you don’t want to offend poor Tom [Watson] but are quite happy to offend poor Jeremy?’ That's a rhetorical question. We all know the answer

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Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

13 May 19

Truly shocking report showing not only that the OCPW covered up its own investigators' findings that the Ghouta gas attack in April 2018 was staged, but hid the most likely conclusion: that western-backed 'rebels' murdered the 35 Syrian victims syriapropagandamedia.org/working-papers…

Report: 'As the staging of the Douma incident entailed mass murder of civilians, those in OPCW who have suppressed the evidence of staging are, unwittingly or otherwise, colluding with mass murder'

'OPCW employees have to sign a strict confidentiality agreement, and face instant dismissal and loss of pension rights if they breach this agreement. We would welcome any initiative to set up a legal defence fund for OPCW staff members who come forward publicly as whistleblowers'

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Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

10 May 19

A sign of the future. As it becomes impossible to ignore the fact the planet is dying because the super-rich are asset-stripping it, even senior Murdoch journalists begin to notice the utter 'craziness' of what they are expected to do dumptheguardian.com/media/2019/may…

It now sounds like they're fans of Herman & Chomsky's Propaganda Model:

'The people at the top know what [the editorial line] is';

'Murdoch hires editors who are very much like him';

'If you’re senior you will know what the line is roughly and you will file stuff that fits'

These journalists are still deluded about a 'golden era' of Murdoch journalism: 'Something has changed in the last six months.' No, denying the reality of a suicidal, neoliberal capitalism simply becomes harder and harder to do once they understand the stakes are so high

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Jonathan Cook

@Jonathan_K_Cook

3 May 19

The world's leading experts on arbitrary detention note the continuing and intensifying violations of Julian Assange's rights as he languishes in a UK high-security prison on 'a minor bail violation'. Why aren't any in the UK media making these points? ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…

Assange was jailed for 12 months even though the bail-related bond 'has been lost in favour of the British Government, and Mr Assange was still detained after violating the bail which, in any case should not stand after the [UN's] Opinion [against his detention] was issued'

The panel: 'It is equally worth noting that that [the Swedish] prosecutor did not press any charges against Mr Assange and that in 2017, after interviewing him in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, she discontinued investigations and brought an end to the case'

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