Letter: On facts and obfuscations

Published: 02-09-2023 11:40 AM

A Mass Bay Community College colleague in critical thinking, Frederick, often said, “All words are political,” each slanted. Bruce Currie’s recent analysis of Russia’s war on Ukraine needs critique of his words. WMD lies were told in the “run-up to the Iraq war,” yes, but told by President George W. Bush and associates, then reported by the New York Times and other papers, not begun. “Corporate-controlled media” for Ukrainian war coverage? No, Bruce. The New York Times photographers, honest journalists, risking their lives to document the death and destruction in Ukraine, aim for and give us precious truth.

This war is so bad. President Eisenhower warned us about what Currie calls “cheer-leading” arms firms. “Beware the military-industrial complex,” said Ike. But TV news coverage is so underwritten by big Pharma, toilet tissues, candy, auto manufacturers, insurers, it hardly warrants the slant that corporations control good media.

“NATO expansion eastward [to Russia’s border] was a bad idea.” Likely, yes. Ukraine, though, beats out Hungary, as “the poorest and most corrupt nation in Europe”? Only read Yale Professor Timothy Snyder on Ukraine’s history and see it as constantly the conquerors’ objective. Ukraine must defend itself, again. Currie suspects our government’s motives. Rather, blame corporations, with allegiance to no country. Now Exxon, during COVID-time, while families struggle to balance the costs of fuel, food, housing, achieved record income in 2022. Their taking advantage is a fact. Currie shines, though, in wanting fairer sharing of our world’s resources.

Lynn Rudmin Chong

Sanbornton

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