Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
- August 23 – To Instigate Against Taliban CNN Claims Contradiction Where None Is Evident
- August 24 – The Foreign Policy Borg And The Retreat From Afghanistan – by Michael Brenner
- August 26 – Further U.S. Hostility Against The Taliban Is Not In Its Best Interest
- August 28 – The Never Ending Lies About The War On Afghanistan
- August 29 – How The CIA Used ISIS-K To Keep Its Afghanistan Business
- August 25 – Russian And U.S. Prison Tales
Related:
– Moscow's meddling bad, Western interference good: Ahead of next month's Russian elections, the hypocrisy is on full view again – RT
– #SKRIPAL TIMELINE REDUX (thread) – Twiki
Other issues:
Spying:
- The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy – Edward Snowden
Covid-19 – Fluvoxamine:
- How a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment – Vox
- Results of the randomized trial (preprint)
- Exclusive: Chinese leader of WHO-China joint expert team says 2nd-stage probe should focus on earlier suspected cases around the world – Global Times
China Tech cleanup:
- China Takes on Its Tech Leaders – War on the Rocks
- China blasts '996' excessive work culture – CNN
- Translation: Internet Information Service Algorithmic Recommendation Management Provisions (Opinon-Seeking Draft)
Major new regulations on the use of recommendation algorithms issued for public comment
Iran:
- Is Washington sabotaging the JCPOA talks? – Responsible Statecraft
- Israeli PM presented Biden with "death by a thousand cuts" Iran strategy – Axios
- Iran and the US: Checking the Scoreboard After the Afghanistan Withdrawal – Seyed Mohammad Marandi / Al Mayadeen
Use as open thread …