Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson
Mother Jones; Tucker Carlson Tonight/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a…
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…
The GOP’s Four Biggest Lies About Joe Biden and Fossil Fuels
Rep. Jim Jordan is among the Republican lawmakers trying to mislead the public about the Biden administration and its actions.Graeme Jennings/AP This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican lawmakers and right-wing media have responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by waging a misinformation campaign about the Biden…
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…
Russia Bombs Maternity Hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine Claims
Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Ukrainian officials accused Russia of destroying a maternity and children’s hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, even after both sides had agreed to a tentative ceasefire to allow civilians to escape. Victims, including…
John Bolton: Trump Cared More About a “Spaghetti Bowl of Conspiracy Theories” Than Ukraine
As Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion kills Ukrainian civilians and raises fear of nuclear war, Donald Trump and his minions have repeatedly insisted that this war would have never happened had Trump won a second term. That, says former ambassador John Bolton, is bunk. In an interview with Mother Jones this week, Bolton, who was Trump’s…