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Biden Says Ukraine Is Not Ready to Join NATO

Pool/Ukrainian Presidentia/Planet Pix, Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was designed to help member countries rebuild and bolster security after World War II through something called “collective defense.” In essence, an attack against one member is considered an attack…

The US Just Shot Down High-Altitude Chinese “Spy Balloon”

A photo of the high-altitude balloon floating over Billings, Montana, on Wednesday.Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The giant white, aerial blob that US officials described as a Chinese spy balloon was seen plummeting towards the Atlantic Ocean near Surfside Beach,…

How a Hostile America Undermined Its Black World War II Veterans

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In August 1944, just two months after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (a.k.a. the GI Bill of Rights), Harry McAlpin, Washington correspondent for the National Negro Publishers Association, warned that the new law, though race-neutral…