A New Rudy Scandal: FBI Agent Says Giuliani Was Co-opted by Russian Intelligence
Mother Jones illustration; Theodore Parisienne/Getty; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was big news when Rudy Giuliani, once hailed as America’s Mayor, was indicted last month by a district attorney in Atlanta for allegedly being part of a criminal enterprise led by Donald…
Russian Spacecraft Crashes Into the Moon, “Ceases to Exist”
VOYAGE TO THE MOON, 1902 (LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE), directed by GEORGES MELIES. Copyright MELIES. Credit: MELIES/Album/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Russia’s space program, commonly known as Roscosmos, is employing some impressive verbal gymnastics to explain the failure of its pilotless spacecraft…
The End of Russia and Ukraine’s Grain Deal Is Bad News For The Global Food Supply
A worker cleans grain after trucks unloaded in a grain elevator in Melitopol, Ukraine.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In July 2022, the United Nations and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helped broker the Black Sea Grain Initiative: A deal between Russia and Ukraine…
What It Was Like to Be in Russia and Watch a Failed Coup
Members of the Wagner Group military company load their tank onto a truck on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, before leaving the headquarters of the Southern Military District.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: This essay is anonymous in order to protect the…
Mercenary Group Head Announces His Forces Have Halted Their Advance to Moscow
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin delivers a video address. Gavril Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Update, June 24, 2:30 p.m. ET: Wagner Group Chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin said his forces were turning around. The announcement came after President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus reportedly made…
How John Durham Succeeded by Failing
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.John Durham succeeded. Not in the conventional sense. This special counsel, appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr and handed the task of proving Donald Trump’s claim that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal had been…