Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Dec 16 – South Korea – Impeached Coup President 'Aligned With Washington's Values'
Related:
– Saving Democracy? – New Left Review
– Washington's Bad Bet on Yoon – Daniel Larison
– South Korea’s impeached leader avoids investigators as court begins meeting to determine his fate – AP
- Dec 17 – Russia – Agree To Be Provoked Or Fall For Lucy's Football?
Related:
– The story of 152nd Jaeger Brigade – Military Land
– Ukraine faces difficult decisions over acute shortage of frontline troops – Guardian
– Five months on, Ukraine clings to Kursk amid doubts over operation (archived) – Washington Post
- Dec 19 – New Reports On Gaza
Related:
– ‘Tired of writing about dead kids’: why a US state department worker resigned over Israel-Gaza policy – Guardian
– ‘Cruelty’: Pope doubles down on condemnation of Israeli attacks on Gaza – AlJazeerah
– How Israel admits to blocking aid to Gaza without saying it – Responsible Statecraft
– Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply – Guardian
– The War in Gaza Is Far Worse Than You Thought – Reason
- Dec 21 – Insane Anti-Muslim Jihadist Terrorizes Christmas Market
Related:
– A matter of state: The politics of German anti-anti-Semitism – Wolfgang Streeck
– "Pro-AfD" terror attack in Germany – Thomas Fazi
The attack is likely to intensify calls for greater restrictions on free speech — and even for the AfD to be banned outright
Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois – 3:18 UTC · Dec 21, 2024
– The audience's down. We need a plot twist for this year's finale.
– A terror attack on a German Christmas market?
– Boooring …
– By a far right, Greater-Israel supporter, Saudi, atheist psychotherapist, mourning the demise of Germany's safety?
– A bit OTT, but it will do …
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Other issues:
Romania:
- Disclosure: the campaign on TikTok, paid by the NLP it should be promoted, in fact, Calin Georgescu (in Romanian) – Digi24
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand – 4:06 UTC · Dec 22, 2024
This is an absolutely bombshell: the story about the cancelled elections in Romania is even far more sinister than previously thought.
A new report from investigative outlet http://snoop.ro (https://snoop.ro/anaf …) reveals that the TikTok campaign which was cited in the declassified Romanian intelligence documents (summarized in my post below 👇) as evidence of foreign interference – and used as grounds to cancel the presidential election – was actually paid for by the ruling National Liberal Party (PNL), the very party that supported cancelling the elections! …
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand – 4:27 UTC · Dec 22, 2024
Also, interestingly, Politico is completely misrepresenting this bombshell investigation: https://politico.eu/article/investigation …
Let me show you how they're trying to spin it.
Politico claims that the investigation shows that "a campaign from a governing center-right party may have been hijacked to benefit far-right candidate." They're framing PNL as being a victim here, seeing their TikTok campaign "hijacked to benefit Georgescu".
But the http://snoop.ro investigation demolishes this narrative with hard evidence …
Biden:
- How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge WSJ via MSN
- Biden throws up a last-minute obstacle to Trump’s natural gas plans – MSN
- Joe Biden’s poisonous ‘gifts’ to the incoming Trump administration – Gilbert Doctorow
Syria:
- The Fall of Assad – Scott Ritter / Energy Intel
- Lebanon and Syria: My Interview for L’Indipendente – Craig Murray
- How the US and Israel Destroyed Syria and Called It Peace – Jeffrey D. Sachs / UNZ
- Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation – Indian Punchline
- Gas, Power, and Borders: How Turkey Outmaneuvered Rivals in Syria’s Chessboard – Elijah Magnier
- Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem Assesses Developments in Lebanon and Syria – Resistance News
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …