Quick bit of recent background on the author, I don't think it's an ad hominem as it's at least peripherally relevant to the matter of what's being discussed he

Quick bit of recent background on the author, I don't think it's an ad hominem as it's at least peripherally relevant to the matter of what's being discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Russia > On the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, Wiltshire on 4 March 2018, Pilger said in an interview on RT (formerly Russia Today): "This is a carefully constructed drama as part of the propaganda campaign that has been building now for several years in order to justify the actions of NATO, Britain and the United States, towards Russia. That’s a fact" > "Without a single piece of evidence, the US and its NATO allies and their media machines blamed ethnic Russian 'separatists' in Ukraine and implied that Moscow was ultimately responsible". He asserted that "the newspaper has made no serious attempt to examine who shot the aeroplane down and why". That said, he's not wrong, but as with Assange the motivation and choices aren't what can be called honest journalism.