Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
Ukraine:
- Oct 8 – Ukraine – FT Proposes Impossible Peace Deal, Demands More Violence
Related:
– Recruiters raid Kyiv venues in search of Ukrainians not registered for conscription – Euronews
– Wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not treated and sent back to the front-Da Vinci medic (in Russian) – Strana
– Corruption schemes in the MSEC. Who receives millions of disability payments? (in Russian) – Strana
– The Russian ‘Steamroller’ in Donbas – Gilbert Doctorow
– Victims of Communism memorial faces call to remove over 330 names linked to Nazis, fascists – Ottawa Citizen
Palestine:
- Oct 8 – For Doubters – Hizbullah Reports That It Is Back
- Oct 12 – Hizbullah, Iran Put More Pressure On Israel
Related:
– US deploys THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense to Israel amid rising tensions with Iran – Ynetnews
b here – Note on the last headline:
The IRIB video of an alleged hit on a THAAD radar has been geolocated and it has nothing to do with THAAD. But the news that the U.S. is scrambling an additional THAAD to Israel seems to confirm that the one stationed there is in deep trouble after Iran somehow hit it.
- More related:
– It's So, So Bad, And It's About To Get A Whole Lot Worse – Caitlin Johnstone
– How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October – Electronic Intifada
– The great emigration: Israel sees an unprecedented number leave the country – Jerusalem Post
– Zionist groups are falsifying antisemitism statistics and the media are playing along – Redflag
– 'Prepare for post-Hezbollah phase' US envoy tells Lebanon as Israeli massacres intensify – The Cradle
– 'No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine: Arundhati Roy – The Wire
> As the horror we are witnessing in Gaza, and now Lebanon, quickly escalates into a regional war, its real heroes remain outside the frame. But they fight on because they know that one day—
From the river to the sea
Palestine will be Free.
It will.
Keep your eye on your calendar. Not on your clock.
That’s how the people – not the generals – the people fighting for their liberation measure time. <
Empire:
- Oct 9 – Emmanuel Todd On Europe's Hopefully Fading Submission To The U.S.
- Oct 10 – Biden's Intent Is To Sow Chaos – Netanyahoo And Zelensky Are Working For Him
Related:
– The End of History or a War of American and Russian Messianisms – Gordon Hahn
– The Arabs are transparently displaying their crossover to multi-alignment in a US-led Middle Eastern war – Indian Punchline
– Commentary: US not walking the talk in Southeast Asia as Biden skips ASEAN Summit again – Channel News Asia
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Other issues:
China:
- Five Principles are China’s major diplomatic achievement George Yeo Interview (video) – CGTN Podcasts
- China’s ‘wiser’ long-term strategy paves way to No 1 world power: Kishore Mahbubani – SCMP
- Developing Whole-Process People’s Democracy to Advance Chinese Modernization – Lin Shangli / Qiushi Journal
- House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas – Responsible Statecraft
- US Grand Strategy in the Middle East to Contain China-Peter Lee interview (video) – Carl Zha
Boeing (is aiming for bankruptcy and a government bail-out):
- Hit by strike, Boeing flies in out-of-state janitors, applies furloughs broadly – Seattle Times
- ‘Why We Need Medicare for All’: Boeing Revokes Health Benefits for Striking Workers – Naked Capitalism
- Boeing to cut 10% of workforce, stop most 767 production amid strike – Seattle Times
Also:
- Things Don't Always Get Better. – Aurelian
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …