“The most I can boast is, I try hard to understand,” Nation contributing editor Stephen Cohen told Thom Hartmann yesterday in an interview about the latest from Ukraine. “There is so much misinformation, whether intended or unintended, coming out of Washington, particularly [out of] Kiev and out of Moscow that a person has to figure out what is true and what isn’t true.” What’s for sure, Cohen said, is that Kiev’s heavy weapons attack on two cities in eastern Ukraine has intensified. — Alana de Hinojosa