Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
- March 1 – Biden Breaks Campaign Promise On MbS Punishment – Psaki Lies To Hide That – Guardian Fakes Quote To Hide Psaki's Lie
Related:
– The Goldilocks Stimulus Myth – Yanis Varoufakis / Project Syndicate
– This Is Who Democrats Are: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix – Caitlin Johnstone
The Senate past the stimulus bill. The checks are smaller than promised. The unemployment support was cut in half from what it had been under Trump. The minimum wage was not lifted at all. But this is the delusional headline:
– Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty in defining move of presidency – Washington Post
- March 3 – By Following Trump's Policies Biden's 'Deterrence' Predictably Fails
Related:
– Tulsi Gabbard calls out the US dirty war on Syria that Biden, aides admit to – Aaron Maté / Grayzone
– Rand Paul Slams Biden Bombing of Syria: ‘We’ve gone to a liberal form of John Bolton’ -Scott Horten / Antiwar
– Roaming Charges: No Neanderthal Ever Bombed Syria – Jeffrey St. Clair / Counterpunch
- March 4 – Biden's "Nothing Will Fundamentally Change" Promise Extends To His Foreign Policy
Related:
– The Left Will Never Achieve Its Goals Until It Prioritizes Countering Establishment Propaganda – Caitlin Johnstone
- March 5 – On 'Shia Backed', 'Iran Backed' Nonsense And Other Warmongering Journalism
Related:
– Missile defenses did not stop rocket attack in Iraq – Asia Times
- March 6 – Is China Hacking Random Servers To Put Itself Into A Bad Light?
Related:
My hunch is that this hack was launched by anti-Chinese forces to malign that country. It is even stronger now as we learn that a Taiwanese company was the first to find the zero-day security flaws used in that hack. It also knew when the patch was coming was probably involved in dropping the webshells to amplified the issue.
– Biden administration moving to address a global compromise by Chinese and other hackers of Microsoft email servers – Washington Post
> [Steven Adair, president of Volexity,] said his firm tracked the malicious activity back to early January, though researchers in Taiwan identified Exchange software bugs as far back as December.
For much of January and February, the Chinese theft of email seemed stealthy and targeted, Adair said. Then suddenly about a week ago, shortly before Microsoft issued its patch, the activity exploded. The hackers seemed to be dropping webshells on anyone running an Exchange server, he said. It was, he said, almost as if they suspected a patch was forthcoming. <
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Other issues:
Fukushima Dai-Ichi – 10 years on:
- Three fantastic threads by Doctora Malka Older on the human struggle during the melt down of reactor one, two and three.
- Six questions to learn from the Fukushima disaster through Human and Organizational Factors – IRSN
- Water leaks indicate new damage at Fukushima nuclear plant Mainichi
- A decade after Fukushima nuclear disaster, contaminated water symbolizes Japan’s struggles – Washington Post
- Where b Was Wrong On Fukushima – Malooga / Moon of Alabama (May 2011)
China:
- China’s ‘two sessions’ 2021: Beijing zeroes in on eight core areas for country to become manufacturing superpower – SCMP
- The shape of things to come in China – Pepe Escobar
Syria / Turkey:
- Attackers target SDF post in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor – North Press Agency
- Aftermath of Russian missile strikes on illegal oil reservoirs in Aleppo – ISW News
- A Mystery Helicopter Crash on a Volcano in Eastern Turkey – Agit Papadakis
Covid-19:
- How a coronavirus variant is overrunning Brazil – DW
- Virus Variant in Brazil Infected Many Who Had Already Recovered From Covid-19 – NYT
- Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making – Financial Times (Free to read)
- David Graeber: After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep – Jacobin
- Vaccine Debacle (in Europe) – NewLeftReview
- Desperate E.U. nations are hunting for coronavirus vaccines — sometimes on a murky open market. – NYT
- Hacked emails allegedly detail how EU drug regulator was pressured to approve Pfizer jab despite ‘problems’ with the vaccine – RT
Use as open thread …
