Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
- July 12 – U.S. Launches Another Attempt To Regime Change Cuba
Related:
– Cuban President addresses the nation calling for peace and solidarity – Granma
– Fake Social Media Operation from Abroad Catalyzes Cuba Incident Telesur
– The Bay of Tweets: Documents Point to US Hand in Cuba Protests – Mintpressnews
Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod – 10:57 UTC · Jul 18, 2021
Incredible.
Fox News' editors blurred out the signs at what they claimed were "anti-government" demonstrations in Cuba 🇨🇺 because they said things like "Long Live the Cuban Revolution" and "The Streets Belong to the Revolutionaries." 😂
Taking fake news to a whole new level.
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And check this: with no notification, the @NyTimes has gone back and stealth edited their original article on the protests.
"Hundreds" nationwide becomes "thousands" in one small town alone!
Pretty sus!
- July 13 – Taliban Reject U.S./Turkish Plans To Keep A Foothold In Kabul
Related:
– Menace, Negotiation, Attack: The Taleban take more District Centres across Afghanistan – Afghan Analyst Network
– Analysis: How Afghan war showed limits of US military power – AP
> Although civilian leaders may be accused of having overreached with visions of building Afghanistan into a democracy capable of defending itself, the military eventually embraced that goal. Claims by senior military officers of having “turned a corner” toward success in Afghanistan were repeated so regularly that critics wondered whether the military was going in circles. <
Has the AP author read MoA?
Nov 28 2017 – Turning The Corner In Afghanistan – Moon of Alabama
- July 15 – Steele Dossier Peddlers Confirm Its Substance With New Forgeries
Related:
– RUSSIAGATE: Luke Harding’s Hard Sell – Consortium News
– A blockbuster document purportedly from the Kremlin raises lots of questions — about itself – Washington Post(!)
- July 15 – U.S. Announces Retreat From Iraq (And Syria)?
Related:
– Syria and Iraq impose themselves on Biden’s agenda – Elijah Magnier
– US military presence in spotlight after Baghdad meeting – AL Monitor
- July 17 – 'Civilized Nations'
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Other issues:
Covid-19 Delta:
- Viral infection and transmission in a large well-traced outbreak caused by the Delta SARS-CoV-2 variant – Virological
- SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 Delta variant emergence, replication and immune evasion – bioRxiv
- Why England’s COVID ‘freedom day’ alarms researchers – Nature
Covid-19 Ivermectin:
- Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns – Guardian
- Why Was a Major Study on Ivermectin for COVID-19 Just Retracted? – Grftr
- Some problems in the dataset of a large study of Ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19 – Steamtraen
Weather:
- Pictures of flood damage in Germany – Daily Mail
Use as open thread …