ï»As the Wests assault on Ukraine gets ever bloodier, the "news" on National Public Radio (NPR) is teeming with anti-Russian propaganda, interspersed with the usual pieces declaiming on ones senior prom and other matters of equal import. All in all it is a pretty dismal substitute for news and analysis.

But even at the "Diane Rehm Show," very near the bottom of the dung heap that is NPR, a few scraps of truth can be scavenged on occasion – usually uncovered by a callers question. Such was the case on March 27 when Rehms guests were Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, before which he was Director of Policy Planning at the Bush/Powell State Department, and Ian Brzezinski, son of Zbig.