Pilger’s law: “If it’s been officially denied, then it’s probably true”

John Pilger hopes that his last documentary – The War on Democracy – and his forthcoming one, will encourage colleagues to take a more critical view. “If journalists can look behind the press-release version of events, or push back the screen of what is often propaganda but rarely recognised as such,” he says, “then we will produce true journalism, …

Peres stands accused over denial of ‘meaningless’ Armenian Holocaust

By Robert Fisk in Jerusalem, The Independent, 18 April 2001 One of Israel’s leading scholars of the Jewish Holocaust has angrily compared the country’s Nobel prize-winning Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, to a holocaust denier after an interview in which Mr Peres made the astonishing claim that the Armenians – 1.5 million of whom were slaughtered by Ottoman …