Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:

• May 26 – A Week Long Drone Fight Which Russia Is Winning
• May 28 – U.S.-Supplied Air Defenses Fail In Ukraine
  Related:
  – Trump won’t walk away from Ukraine war – Indian Punchline
  – The 2026 bill for the Ukraine war is already in the mail – Responsible Statecraft
  – On the formation of a contour of equal and indivisible security and cooperation in Eurasia – Sergej Lavrov 

• May 27 – Recycling Old News Media Push For More War In Ukraine
  Related:
  – Desperation Time in Ukraine End-Game – Gordon Hahn
  – The real winner of Europe’s Russia policy America stands to gain – Unherd
  – How Peace-Oriented Norway Learned to Stop Worrying and Love War – Glenn Diesen
  – Merz has already lost the escalation battle with his comments on cruise missiles – The Peacemonger

  – Ukrainian Political Scientist Exposes The Ukraine Proxy War. – The Dissident
  – The Ukrainian Government Keeps Sanctioning Its Domestic Critics. – The Dissident

• May 29 – Tariffs Defeated, DOGE Failure, Big Bill Endangered – What's Trump Gonna Do?
  Related:
  – GOP runs into voter buzzsaw of criticism on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ – The Hill
  – American finance, always unique, is now uniquely dangerous (archived) – Economist

• May 31 – Trump Accuses China Of Violating Agreement He Did Not Adhere To
  Related:
  – "Johnny can’t read. Mary can’t do math. And you wonder why America never built its own chip industry?"
  – China forms new global mediation group with dozens of countries – AP

  – Birth of the Cruel: How Truckee Pioneered Modern Anti-China Hate – Peter Lee / Counterpunch
  – The U.S. Made a Terrible Mistake When It Deported This Scientist (archived) – NY Times
  – Trump Makes a New Push to ‘Decouple’ U.S. From China (archived) – NY Times

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Other issues:

Gaza:

• A short guide on how to starve a population to death – Jonathan Cook
• The ‘chaos’ of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail. – Mondoweiss
• Israeli Mossad named as funder of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – Grayzone
• At least 21 Palestinians killed while heading to Gaza aid hub, hospital says – AP
• The Shame of Israeli Medicine – NY Books
• The British Roots of Violence in Palestine – Peter Lee
• The Empire Never Died – Orinoco Tribune
• EXCLUSIVE: Inside Trump’s New Gaza "Ceasefire" Proposal – Drop Site News
  The “term sheet,” circulated by Steve Witkoff. It would allow Israel to resume war after 60 days.

Signs of the Times:

• Rémi Brague. False Europe – CL online
  Before finding the means of defense, we need to ask the fundamental question: What exactly are we trying to defend?
• A Storm in the West: The Liberal Intellectual Paradigm Is Broken – Alastair Crooke
• Does "Abundance" Beat America’s Culture-Warrior-In-Chief? – David Sirota / The Racket

The Bezzle:

• Digital Corruption Takes Over DC – Time to call crypto what it is: A criminal enterprise – Paul Krugman
• French Crypto Chiefs Step Up Security After String of Violent Kidnappings (archived) – NY Times
• It's 3 a.m. and Private Equity is Extending an Invitation to "The Big Club" – The Racket
  Private Equity is ramping up efforts to get at the $12 trillion 401k sector.
• America is a scam – Pluralistic

Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …