No, That Putin Video Didn’t Use a Green Screen
Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Saturday afternoon, Reddit’s top-performing post claimed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was green-screened into a video. It was later deleted and flagged by moderators as “misinformation”—but casual viewers could be forgiven for believing…
No. Ted Cruz Was Not Right About Russia’s Ukraine Invasion.
Ted Cruz at a March 2 press conference.Michael Brochstein/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Sen. Ted Cruz, who hopes one day to be president, would like Americans to believe that his policies could have saved Ukraine, if Democrats weren’t such weenies. Since…
US Politicians and Oil Execs See Opportunity in Ukraine’s Crisis
Mother Jones illustration; Rod Lamkey/ZUMA; Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency/Getty; Angus Mordant/Bloomberg/Getty On Monday, the United Nations’ climate change assessment body, the IPCC, released a landmark report finding that 150 years of unchecked fossil fuel burning had left the planet with a “brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for…
After 30 Years of Taking Their Money, It May Be Too Late for the West to Get Putin’s Oligarchs
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has put the issue of international corruption front and center, sparking conversations and regulatory changes that policymakers in Washington and European capitals had put aside for decades. But…
Biden Rallies Congress With a Furious Rebuke of Putin in His First State of the Union
President Biden forcefully denounced Vladimir Putin during his first State of the Union address, outlining further steps to damage the Russian economy and declaring that, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the European Union this week, “Light will win over darkness.” “Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the…
The World Is Less Unified in its Support of Ukraine Than You Might Think
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has pointedly refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Mother Jones illustration; Mikhail Metzel/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.If you went looking for evidence of international unity in the…