Lockerbie: a furious sham

Not that you'd know it from the headline, or the egregiously selective summary written below the video, but Dr Jim Swire has tirelessly maintained that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced 27 years in prison for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, was and is wholly innocent.

Dr Swire – whose daughter Flora died in the bombing – has also long campaigned for a genuine inquiry into the tragedy, in direct and urgent opposition to the appalling lies, deliberate misdirection and reprehensible silence of the UK government over the true nature of the event.

Unsurprisingly, Swire's views are rarely aired in full.

His unerring and heartbreaking fury at the UK and US governments' despicable actions (a cover-up which goes "all the way to Number 10") is a rare thing to see published by any mainstream media outlet.

Watch the whole video.

Then do some digging.

You might begin here, or, say, with the unspoken mass crime of Iranian flight 655.

As the excellent Nick Turse has written, our capacity for gross hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Turse’s account of the differing treatments of al-Megrahi and William Calley – the US soldier sentenced to life in prison for the massacre of civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in 1968 – is a remarkable exposition of the US regime’s near-psychopathic disregard for the lives and suffering of its victims.

So too its dutiful corporate press. Consider the gulf between reporting of Turse’s calibre and the mass media’s response.