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To: Les H who wrote (38450)	9/25/2023 10:33:35 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50955

Both Russia and the West have released only carefully selected news about military developments this past week. The omissions distort perceptions of the decision-making processes that are carrying us along to WWIII. When it comes to “news” about the war issued by Kiev, we do not have to think twice about its worth. Nearly everything said by Zelensky and his entourage is fake news. They systematically invert figures on casualties and materiel lost published by the Russians on any given front to claim that it is the Russians who have taken a beating. Or they falsely claim to have taken some hamlet on the front line, thus demonstrating the victorious advance of their counter-offensive, only to quietly retract the claim a couple of days later when it is proven that the Russians have control over the hamlet. In the West, these falsehoods, however outrageous and contrary to common sense they may be, are trumpeted by the State Department in Washington and are passed uncritically to the general public by mainstream media. There are exceptions to this rule, such as The New York Times this week debunking the story of Russian responsibility for a 6 September missile attack on a market town under Ukrainian control, but the exceptions are very, very rare. However, I believe the bigger issue we confront is propaganda resulting from only partial disclosure of what is going on at the front. And it concerns both sides in the conflict. This may have a number of explanations, including at least one that is meritorious: namely to avoid incensing the domestic public over outrages committed by the enemy thereby allowing rabid nationalists, who exist both in the East and in the West, to take control of policy and hasten Armageddon. In today’s discussion, I will allow that possibility to stand. But whatever the intentions of news managers in the respective governments and in the respective editorial boards, the net result is the public everywhere is under-informed and incapable of intervening in the decision-making processes that are leading us to all out war by baby steps, if not by the gallop that the nationalists would like. more... gilbertdoctorow.com