{"id":681,"date":"2014-07-28T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T20:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=681"},"modified":"2022-03-11T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T22:11:55","slug":"smith-truths-counter-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2014\/07\/28\/smith-truths-counter-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith: &#8220;Truths &amp; counter-truths&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalviewpoint.org\/spip.php?article3479\">Truths and Counter-Truths: The Front of Information and Misinformation<\/a>,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalviewpoint.org\/spip.php?article351\">Fourth International<\/a>\u00a0(Trotskyist) activist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalviewpoint.org\/spip.php?auteur11\">Murray Smith<\/a> provides a detailed analysis of the Ukraine-Russia conflict from a\u00a0left-wing\u00a0perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Smith is a Scottish socialist who has been active in leftist politics in various European countries since the 1960s. Since 2009 he has lived in Luxemburg, where is a leader of the party &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Left_(Luxembourg)\">The Left&#8221;\u00a0(d\u00e9i L\u00e9nk)<\/a>,\u00a0its leadership representative in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Party_of_the_European_Left\">Party of the European Left<\/a>, and associated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_United_Left%E2%80%93Nordic_Green_Left\">European United Left-Nordic Green Left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article is thoroughly referenced and\u00a0includes\u00a0a very good summary of the Russian misinformation campaign. I highly\u00a0recommend it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalviewpoint.org\/spip.php?article3479\">It can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Truths and Counter-Truths: The Front of Information and Misinformation,&#8221; Fourth International\u00a0(Trotskyist) activist Murray Smith provides a detailed analysis of the Ukraine-Russia conflict from a\u00a0left-wing\u00a0perspective. Smith is a Scottish socialist who has been active in leftist politics in various European countries since the 1960s. Since 2009 he has lived in Luxemburg, where is a leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103264,103257],"tags":[103301,103299,4458,103300,12325,103285],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-war","category-russian-propaganda","tag-fourth-international","tag-infowar","tag-left","tag-misinformation","tag-russia","tag-western-left"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdPO21-aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}