Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Aug 29 – Europe's Economic And Social Suicide – Provoked by The U.S. And Helped Along By Europe's Leaders
Related:
– Dead of Winter – Doomberg
– Putin has pulled off a shock win that could destroy the free world – Telegraph
– United States and Europe Shoot Themselves In the Head and Blame Russia – Larry Johnson
– New Fertilizer Production Cuts Heighten Concerns for Global Food Supplies – Gro-Intelligence
– ‘Fantastic confession’: Lavrov rips Baerbock's remark that Germans must suffer for Ukraine – TASS
– The “Peacewar” of Sanctions – LA Review of Books
> Despite the hopes pinned on them, sanctions typically don’t produce the regime change desired, and they take an enormous toll on those subjected to them. The very anticipation of sanctions triggers actions that preclude their effectiveness: aggressive states’ ambitions are stoked further by desire to secure additional resources to immunize against the deprivations of threatened sanctions. The premise of sanctions — that societies make political decisions based on economic rationalism like fear of falling living standards — is not borne out by history. People often prefer bad conditions to foreign rule. <
- Aug 30 – Ukraine – A 'Counteroffensive' That Was Destined To Fail
- Aug 31 – Ukraine – A Frontline Report – Vanishing Foreign Weapons
- Sep 1 – Ukraine Tries To Prevent IAEA Inspection Of The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- Sep 3 – The Ukrainian 'Counteroffensive' Was Destined To Fail – Today It Did So
Related:
– Why Are We in Ukraine? – Claremont Review
– America’s Wars Take on a Divisive Edge – SCF
– Why Wars Are Easy to Start and Hard to End – Foreign Policy
– Book Review: ‘How the West Brought War to Ukraine’ – US-Russia Accord
– What Is America’s Goal for the Ukraine War? Answer: We Don’t Have One – 1945
- Sep 1 – The Pizza Ad Guy Is Dead
Related:
– MIKHAIL GORBACHEV – Patrick Armstrong
– How the Cold War Was Resurrected – Ray McGovern
– THE 100 YEAR WAR – U.S. ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY RUSSIA – M. Springman
- Sep 2 – Biden Launches Divisive Attack On MAGA
Related:
– Biden backtracks on ‘threat’ to America – RT
– Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions – Bloomberg
– Biden Approval Falls, Holding Near Low End of His Presidency, Reuters/Ipsos Finds – US News
- Sep 4 – On Comment Moderation
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Other issues:
Technological Ignorance / Headline Disaster:
- High Seas Deception: How Shady Ships Use GPS to Evade International Law – New York Times
Hint: AIS spoofing, the common trick the piece is about, is done by NOT using GPS.
Brexit:
- Craig Murray: Marx Was Right Consortiumnews
- How Boris Johnson Rigged British Politics for the Tories – Naked Capitalism
- Bitter Race to Lead U.K. Is Ending With Little to Offer for Economic Ills – New York Times
- Fears Over Cost of Living ‘Solutions’ Proposed by Truss-Backed Think Tanks – Naked Capitalism
China:
- Why Kennan’s containment won’t work on China – Asia Times
- America Must Prepare for a War Over Taiwan – Foreign Affairs
- Semiconductors and Taiwan’s “Silicon Shield” – Stimons Center
- US ramps up China tech sanctions faster than expected – Asia Times
- Chinese yuan’s role as global economic stabilizer highlighted amid irresponsible Fed rate policies – Global Times
Use open (NOT Ukraine) – thread …