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…
Did the US Military Take Out a $12 Hobbyist Balloon With a $400,000 Missile?
A US fighter jet. Both F-22s and F-16s have been used to shoot down objects in US and Canadian airspace in recent weeks.bfk92/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The United States has popped a whole bunch of balloons lately. Earlier this month, famously, an American…
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…
VA Will Provide Abortions to Eligible Vets—Even in States That Forbid It
Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The US Department of Veterans Affairs will begin offering abortion services for the first time, opening up new options for veterans and other VA beneficiaries whose pregnancies resulted from rape or incest or otherwise pose a threat…
“You Do Not Want to Be Assigned to a Location Which Is Hostile to Your Existence”
Soldiers and sailors pose together at Camp Lemonnier’s Thunderdome in Djibouti. The event was organized to talk about and recognize the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Randi Brown, courtesy of the U.S. Navy Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support…