Ukraine Faces Yet Another Bloody Weekend Under Assault From Russian Forces
An apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol this monthAnadolu Agency/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.More than three weeks after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the war reached new bloody lows this weekend. On Friday, Russian leader Vladimir Putin emerged…
The Ex-Kremlin Deputy Who Openly Opposed Putin’s War in a Mother Jones Exclusive Has Been Forced to Resign
Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and current International Chess Federation (FIDE) President Arkady DvorkovichMikhail Svetlov/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The former top Russian official who broke ranks with Kremlin leaders by condemning his country’s invasion of Ukraine in a recent Mother…
Americans Want a No-Fly Zone—Until They Learn What That Actually Means
Protesters rally in support of Ukraine in Washington, D.C. Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Toward the end of his address to Congress yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy played a disturbing and graphic video that interspersed clips of the Russian aerial…
Bill O’Reilly Defends Tucker Carlson—and Makes One Big, Embarrassing Mistake
Nathan Congleton/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Earlier this week, Bill O’Reilly, the disgraced former Fox loudmouth, took to the internet, where he is still permitted to pontificate, to defend current Fox loudmouth Tucker Carlson. This came after Mother Jones revealed…
Has Ukraine “Won the Information War”? Not So Fast.
Mother Jones illulstration; Alexey Nikolsky/AFP/Getty; Ukrainian Presidential Press Office/AP; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Many people in the global north—at least many voices in the media—are rather optimistic about Ukraine’s ability to dominate the “information war” unleashed by Russia’s invasion. Writers…
Top Putin Propagandist Says the Ukraine War Is Just the Beginning
Journalist, television and radio host Vladimir Solovyov at a Federation Council meeting. Vladimir Fedorenko/Sputnik via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A key champion in the Russian media of Vladimir Putin’s illegal attack on Ukraine served up a troubling threat on Monday:…