Republican Candidates Waste No Time Pinning the Hamas Attack on Biden
President Joe Biden with Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hours after Palestinian militants launched a deadly multi-pronged assault on Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip yesterday, and…
Russian Military Continues to Kill Aid Workers in Ukraine
A Ukrainian soldier near Bakhmut, the site of fierce battles with the Russian military, on September 4. AP Photo/Libkos Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Russian military killed two foreign aid workers in eastern Ukraine this weekend and injured two more, launching a missile…
The US Nuked Nagasaki 78 Years Ago Today. “Oppenheimer” Barely Mentions It.
A man pushes his bicycle through the remains of Nagasaki roughly a month after the United States detonated its second atomic bomb over the city.Stanley Troutman/ACME/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Seventy-eight years ago today, on August 9, 1945, the US military detonated a…
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,…