Call People To Account With Facts

Oliver Kamm is 61. What was John Pilger when he was 61, in the year 2000? And what is Kamm now? Pilger once kind of half-fell for a kind of half-ruse, since there really were child labour and child prostitution in Thailand. He sincerely believed what he was saying, and there is the whole of the rest of his stellar career to consider. By contrast, let us consider just a few of the greatest hits of Kamm and of the rest of Pilger's embittered detractors, none of whom has ever believed one word of any of these barefaced lies.

100,000 military age males had not been murdered in Kosovo. The attacks of 11th September 2001 had not come from Afghanistan; the suggestion that they had done so is the only 9/11 conspiracy theory that has ever done any active harm. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Therefore, those weapons were not capable of deployment within 45 minutes. Saddam Hussein had not been feeding people into a giant paper shredder. He had not been attempting to obtain uranium from Niger.

A genocide had not been imminent in Benghazi. Gaddafi had not been feeding Viagra to his soldiers in order to encourage mass rape. He had not intended to flee to Venezuela. It was not an undisputed fact that Assad had gassed Ghouta. Sergei and Yulia Skripal were not dead, as announced on the front page of The Times on 12th March 2018. And 40 people in Salisbury had not required treatment for nerve agent poisoning, as claimed by The Times on 14th March 2018.

In the same way, as the Israelis themselves now admit, there were not 1400 dead Israelis on 7th October, although seen from most of the world, even that would not have been awfully many, and certainly not enough to have justified subsequent and ongoing events. There was no more than one dead baby, who had been neither decapitated nor incinerated; most of the dead were military personnel.

As most of the world has always simply taken as a given, it was the Israelis who bombed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, and there were no Hamas bases under that or any other hospital, or school, or church. Just as there was no pornography in Osama bin Laden's den, so there was no Arabic translation of Mein Kampf under the bed of a murdered child in Gaza. There is no Russian plan to invade Western Europe. There is no Iranian nuclear weapons programme.

This list is far from exhaustive. It was Pilger who alerted the West to Japanese militarism and revisionism, a key factor in the impending hysteria around Taiwan. From a lot more recently, ITV should reshow The Coming War on China as soon as practicable. This General Election would also be uninformed without a broadcast of The Dirty War on the NHS, along with Dr Bob Gill's The Great NHS Heist. Oliver Kamm is 61. What was John Pilger when he was 61, in the year 2000? And what is Kamm now?