Russian Forces Shelled a Mosque in Mariupol, Ukrainian Officials Say
The besieged port city has experienced some of the war’s worst suffering. Women and children sit on the floor of a corridor in a hospital in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine Friday. AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Russian military shelled…
Report: Putin Threatened to Arrest Google Exec Over Pro-Democracy App
Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last week, Russia banned Facebook and Twitter within its borders. The week, it barred its citizens from using Instagram. But it turns out that Vladimir Putin’s regime has been cracking down on…
A Top Advocate for a No-Fly Zone in Ukraine Has Some Baggage
Kurt Volker testifies on November 19, 2019.Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.US foreign policy establishment figures are calling for NATO to impose a “limited” no-fly zone over Ukraine. And one of the most vocal advocates downplaying the…
Ukrainian Refugees Are Being Embraced by Europe. Why Weren’t Syrians?
Women and children wait to board a bus heading to Przemysl after fleeing Ukraine.Visar Kryeziu/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On March 3, a Spanish TV station filmed several guards beating and kicking an African migrant as he climbed down a border…
Russia Has a Long, Cruel History of Attacking Hospitals. Maybe This Time Its Leaders Will Be Prosecuted.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Leonard Rubenstein is a professor of practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. He is the author of Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to…
The NRA Can’t Erase Its Ties to a Russian Agent Who Targeted Ukraine
Mother Jones illustration; AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Four days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the political arm of the National Rifle Association published an article praising a “valiant” Ukranian army and resistance from “ordinary Ukrainians taking up arms to…