Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – April 30th marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end when Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon, soon to be renamed Ho Chi Minh City. The war was a terrible experience for the United States, but even more so for the people of Vietnam and much of the […]
Top Seven Things People Get Wrong About the Ukraine-Russia War
Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – As the Russo-Ukraine war drags into its third year, peace talks are finally underway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. All parties to the conflict are busy trying to control the narrative. While we do not exonerate Russia from its very bad behavior, others have behaved badly as well. […]
It is Time to Junk the “Munich” Analogy
Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – No sooner had the announcement about a new policy for Ukraine from the Trump administration been made than the cries of “appeasement! Munich! Hitler! Neville Chamberlain” began to ring out from almost all corners of the mediaverse. The lessons to be learned from the events in Munich […]
Think Again: Do You Think the US Economy Performs better under Republican Administrations?
Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Quite a few people believe things that are not true, but that do not do much harm. The 70 percent of Americans who believe in angels would be an example of this. On the other hand, some false notions have real-world negative consequences. We will show briefly below […]
What the World needs Now is another Winter Truce
Tiffin, Oh. (Special to Informed Comment) – An iconic song back in the 1960’s addressed the causes of war, and what leads young people to fight in them. Buffy Saint Marie’s Universal Soldier advised that we could end war if soldiers refused to fight. So what if we gave her idea a test this Winter? […]
Hacking the Political Lexicon: They aren’t Conspiracy Theories, they’re Disinformation Plots
Tiffin, Ohio (- Special to Informed Comment) – Some time ago, several millennia in fact, a wise man known as Confucius admonished the Chinese people to “call things by their proper names” in order to better perceive and grapple with reality, and to avoid disorder. It is said that he was among the first to […]
How to Avoid War: Why it is time for a Neutral, Demilitarized Eastern Europe
Tiffin, Oh. (Special to Informed Comment) – Europe has been a flash point for war among both great and small powers for centuries. Conflicts beginning there have been known to spill over outside Europe, sometimes encompassing nearly the entire planet. These wars have unleashed untold human suffering and death, destroyed entire societies and produced campaigns […]
Why does Trump get a Pass for Pledging Economic Populism, but they Ask Sanders about the Cost?
Tiffin, Ohio (Special to Informed Comment) – It may come as a shock, but Presidential candidates Trump and Sanders have made a number of similar policy commitments. How are we to make sense of this? Need some evidence? Both Sanders and Trump have called for affordable health care for all. Sanders’ support for Medicare for […]
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