“Read With Extreme Caution”: A Journalist’s Guide to Israel-Palestine Media Literacy
Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Dina Ibrahim Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others…
Why Has Joe Biden Just Rewarded a Guy Who Supported Murderous War Criminals?
Kamran Jebreili/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Why the hell did President Joe Biden nominate a one-time protector of war criminals to a top administration post? On the Monday before July 4—a black hole day for news—the White House let drop the word that…
The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later: It Was Indeed a Big Lie that Launched the Catastrophic War
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before there was Donald Trump’s Big Lie, there was George W. Bush’s Big Lie. Twenty years ago this week, Bush and his sidekick Vice President Dick Cheney launched a war against Iraq. They greased the way to this tragic…
It’s Been 21 Years and Politicians Still Say the Same Things About 9/11
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Twenty-one years ago today, hijackers directed two passenger airlines into the World Trade Center’s twin towers and another into Pentagon. A fourth flight, likely headed toward the US Capitol, crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. The series of…
Colin Powell Dies of COVID
Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Colin Powell, the highly decorated Army general who was the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, national security adviser, and secretary of state, died Monday at Walter Reed Medical Center from complications of…
It’s Not Too Late to Learn the Lessons We Didn’t Learn From 9/11
A man watches smoke emit from the former site of the World Trade Center on September 12, 2001, from Hoboken, New Jersey.Chris Hondros/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This changes everything. Well…kind of. After the devastating strikes of September 11, 2001, much…