<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Tedd.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m currently reading a book by Canadian author John Vaillant. On page 29 of “The Tiger” he includes this footnote about Russian journalistic methodology:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">“ …. reflects a tendency among many Russian writers to use facts not as inflexible units of information, but as malleable elements that may be arranged, elaborated on, or added to as the author sees fit. Evidence of this can be found throughout the country’s nonfiction and journalism. On a practical level, fact checking and the documentation of sources is pursued much less rigorously in Russia than in many Western countries. But there is a more serious problem and that is the notions of “truth” and “fact” have been so aggressively stifled in Russia since czarist times that its effects have impacted the collective psyche of the country, including writers, who, if they told the truth, did so at considerable risk. As a result, many “factual” Russian narratives should probably be approached as memoirs: subjective interpretations of events that may or may not have occurred exactly as described. It is by no means unique to Russia, but the most egregious examples of this freewheeling approach to reportage are to be found in the State’s representation of itself, a tendency that transcends regime and political philosophy.”</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">F.Y.I.</div><div class="">Allan</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 10, 2022, at 3:13 PM, Tedd Dillon via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca" class="">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This Steven Zunes article is well worth a read…surprisingly balanced…<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.tikkun.org/the-u-s-hypocrisy-on-ukraine/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d8139b84-e62f-4e69-bdfa-6027b63dd242" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.tikkun.org/the-u-s-hypocrisy-on-ukraine/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d8139b84-e62f-4e69-bdfa-6027b63dd242</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">DD</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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