Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Aug 25 – Ukraine – Zelenski Rejects Giving Land As Fascists Promise To Kill Him
- Aug 29 – Why 3,350 New Bombs For Ukraine Will Not Make A Difference
- Aug 30 – Prominent Ukrainian Fascist Shot Dead In Lviv
Related:
– 'A Shot to the Heart of Ukraine' – Andriy Parubiy and the "Bandera Lobby" – Moss Robeson
– Six months before the murder, Parubiy asked for protection, but was refused (in Russian) – Strana
– Pro-Western Ukrainian politician and former parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy shot dead in Lviv – Sky News– Mapping the Russia-Ukraine War Endgame – National Interest
- Aug 26 – Australia Breaks With Iran – Sign Of A New War Coming?
Related:
– West Asia is lurching toward war – Indian Punchline
– Gallant Warns of Renewed Conflict: Israel Prepares for Second War with Iran – IWN– Europe’s Iran ‘Snapback’ Is a Dangerous Escalation – American Conservative
– Why Europe’s ‘snapback’ miscalculation risks war, not diplomacy – Amwaj
– Russia, China, reject attempt of E3 to Reimpose Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program – Juan Cole
- Aug 28 – They Voted For Brexit To Stop Immigration Only To Get More Of It
Related:
– Trump shocks UK business with stealth tariffs on 400 products (archived) – The Times
– UK sought broad access to Apple customers’ data, court filing shows (archived) – Financial Times
Document suggests British government’s ‘back-door’ demand was not limited to the company’s most secure iCloud service
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Other issues:
Gaza:
- Seven common tropes used to deny Gaza’s famine, debunked by an expert – Telegraph
- Killing Medics and Journalists: What Impunity for Genocide Looks Like – New Republic
- Exclusive: US contractors in Gaza pursued MEE journalist before his killing – MEE
- Syria’s Unity Myth Unravels as Barrack Changes Tunes – Al-Akhbar
- Lebanese army chief raised prospect of stepping down over Hezbollah disarmament process – National
- Why Netanyahu Rejects Peace with Syria and Lebanon: Redrawing Borders with US Support – Elijah Magnier
- How to prove Israel is not a settler colony even as it pursues 'Greater Israel' – MEE
Russia:
- World War III has already begun (July 2025) – Dimitri Trenin / Russia Council
- Peace deal dead, new war drums beating for Ukraine – Asia Times
- The ghost in the Kremlin’s corridors: Yevgeny Primakov’s lasting power – Brian McDonald
- Trump as ‘Myth’ Is Understood in Moscow. They Reciprocate – Alastair Crooke / UNZ
South America:
- The untold story of Bolsonaro’s weird and wild coup attempt (archived) – Economist
How Brazil’s ex-president and his cronies tried to take down democracy - From zero to a diverse arsenal: A look at Venezuela’s military drones – Miami Herald
- Argentina's President Milei pelted with rocks at Buenos Aires district rally – Euronews
Europe:
- Mario Draghi’s neoliberal hypocrisy He turned Europe into an American vassal – Thomas Fazi / Unherd
- Mathew D. Rose: The EU – Fascism is coming home – BraveNewEurope
- Inept Leaders' Tunnel Vision Drives Europe into Turmoil - Simplicius
- Europe’s ‘century of humiliation’ could be just beginning – Politico
- EU ministers split over Gaza in Copenhagen meeting – Reuters
- Hungary sues E.U. over decision to use frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine – Meduza
- Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged covert influence operations in Greenland (archived) – Financial Times
Danish foreign minister accuses ‘foreign actors’ of trying to sway future of vast Arctic island - Germany debates gender law as convicted neo-Nazi heads to women’s prison (archived) – Washington Post
Some officials see mockery of the law as a neo-Nazi, convicted as a man, now plans to enter a women’s prison and is demanding kosher meals, claiming to be a devout Jew.
A.I.
- AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content – Register
- Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave (archived) – Financial Times
- Microsoft talks set to push OpenAI’s restructure into next year (archived) – Financial Times
- Asahi, Nikkei sue AI search outfit Perplexity for copyright infringement – Register
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