I hear Ukraine CW parroted daily by radio and TV here in France, and I know it's arrant bullshit. I look at Russian sources, and find a pile of arrant bullshit too. In both cases, it's deference to the "party line". When I see stuff from Counterpunch or above all Global Research I also find heaps of arrant bullshit, in a kind of anti-party-line mirror image of the former. Not only is there poor sourcing, but often also "misrepresentation of facts, framing and improper contextualization", and above all facile speculation passed off for expert geopolitical knowledge.

I don't find these sources help reach informed understanding of events. (I repeat, if Dobbin's speculations came to us from the Moustache after a chat with his taxi driver, we'd be ROTFLMAO). It's not that I'm Zen Master in understanding events (I want to heave a brick through the screen too), but I don't get any relief from the well-worn "alternative" groove.