Last week's post on Moon of Alabama:
- October 2 – The Average Age Of Ukraine's Army
- October 3 – Ukraine SitRep: Bad Demographics – End of Support
Related:
– The Many Lessons of the Ukraine War – Chas W. Freeman / Consortium News
– Ukraine lacks workers due to migration and war mobilization – National Bank (in Russian) – Strana.news
– Arestovich believes that the West will force Kiev to make peace, accepting the loss of Crimea and Donbass. (Russian) – Strana.news
- October 4 – Ukraine – Fatigue Sets In
- October 6 – Ukraine: Financing The War About Hegemony
Related:
– Panic of the proxy warriors – Aaron Mate
– Ukraine and NATO need a Russia deal now, not later – Asia Times
– Biden considering huge ‘one and done’ Ukraine aid package – Telegraph
– Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism – FAIR
– Ukraine battles to shape the narrative on its grueling counteroffensive – Washington Post
- October 7 – Palestine Is Striking Back
Related:
– Hamas Just Torched Biden’s Deal to Remake the Middle East – Bloomberg
– An Alternative to the P.L.O. – Fundamentalists (OpEd – Sept 9, 1989) – NY Times
– Prominent Settler Activist Says Spitting on Christians 'Ancient Jewish Custom' – Haaretz
– Israel: Spitting on Christians in Jerusalem ‘not criminal’, says Ben Gvir – Middle East Eye
– Israel’s State Archives Reveal Long and Sordid History With Anti-semitic Extremists in Europe – Scheerpost
– Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Remarks on the Escalation of Tensions Between Palestine and Israel – MFA China
> The recurrence of the conflict shows once again that the protracted standstill of the peace process cannot go on. The fundamental way out of the conflict lies in implementing the two-state solution and establishing an independent State of Palestine. <
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Other issues:
Nazis:
- Nazi past rattles Dutch royal family as their popularity wanes – Times of Israel
- How did a man who fought for the Nazis get honoured in Canada? – The Star
- Neo-Nazis, white nationalists go on pilgrimage to Galicia Waffen-SS memorial – Globe & Mail
- Exclusive: Canada apologizes for honoring another veteran from unit that fought with Nazis – Forward
- The OUN, the UPA, and the Nazi Genocide in Ukraine (2019) – Ivan Katchanovski
Chinese chips:
- China's First 28nm Lithography Tool to Be Delivered This Year – Tom's Hardware
- China Aims to Use Particle Accelerators to Build Chips and Evade EUV Sanctions – Tom's Hardware
- Raimondo wants more and better tools to curb Huawei – Asia Times
- Huawei’s New Smartphone and the Future of Semiconductor Export Controls – CSIS
> Industry sources told CSIS that U.S. companies were losing revenue not as a direct result of no longer selling to Huawei, but rather because Huawei was replacing U.S. chips with their own self-designed versions.
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The United States has incurred essentially all of the costs of an aggressive export control policy toward China, but it has done so in a way that does not provide all the potential strategic benefits of actually constraining China’s future technological capabilities. <
Spooks:
- Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group – Computer Weekly
- Contempt for Press Freedoms: U S Officials Bar Tucker Carlson from Interviewing Putin – Anti War
- Exclusive: Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears – Newsweek
- British govt funded plan for censorship of factual NATO criticism – Grayzone
- Trump endorses Jim Jordan for Speaker – The Hill
- Have They Gone Mad? – Racket
Use as open (not Ukraine related) thread …