It’s Official: US Determines Russia has Committed “Crimes Against Humanity” in Ukraine
Sven Hoppe/dpa/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris told an international security gathering that the United States has formally determined that Russian forces have committed “crimes against humanity” during their invasion of Ukraine. “Let us be clear: Russian forces…
“An Abyss of Fear and Wild Lawlessness”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Signs of the Russian presence linger everywhere in the recently liberated southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. In shops, vendors still sell “Crimea” brand lemonade, made in Russia. Hanging from billboards are exhortations that “Russians and Ukrainians are one people”—old-fashioned…
Scenes of Joy Spread in Ukraine After Russia’s Withdrawal From Kherson
STR/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For nearly nine months, the people of Kherson, Ukraine, had been living under Russian occupation, with countless families forced to live without basic means including food, running water, and electricity. But after Russian troops suddenly announced a retreat from…
The Blob Delivers a Message: Shut Up About Ukraine
Congressional Progressive Caucus Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Chair, with Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) Mark Takano (D-Calif) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) in August. All four signed and later renounced the progressive letter on Ukraine.Graeme Sloan/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Amid the lingering freakout over the…
Pathos and Panic: Russians Are Mobilized for an Undeclared War
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 writer from potential reprisals. Russia is not at war, despite what you may have heard. Despite the mobilization of reservists, the stories and images of destruction and death,…
CPAC Hastily Deletes a Pro-Russia Tweet
The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), Matt Schlapp, delivers the welcome speech at the CPAC conference in Budapest, Hungary, this May.Szilard Koszticsak/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s mostly surprising that it took this long. CPAC has deleted a tweet that…