Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Sep 8 – Ukraine's Victory Redefined
- Sep 9 – NYT Pushes Another Scare Report About Nuclear Sites In Ukraine
Related:
– We won’t stop until Putin falls, say the Russians fighting against him –Telegraph (another Nazi puff piece)
– Men Up to 65 Aggressively Conscribed from Ukrainian Streets by Forceful Press Gangs (archived) – Daily Mail– Lockheed Martin, lamb chops, and landlocked navies: the real story of NATO expansion and how this Yale historian trid to stop it – Brian McDonald
– NATO launches new command headquarters in Finland, 200 km from Russian border – TASS
– The Beginning of the End of NATO – Robert Kagan / Atlantic
If Putin had at any time decided to bomb the supply lines to Ukraine from Poland, Romania, or Slovakia, he would have been within his rights to do so.
- Sep 11 – When You Try To Remove A Piece Of Art And Accidentally Make It Better
Related:
– Banksy mural of a judge beating a protester is scrubbed from London court – AP
– The Ghostly Brilliance of Banksy’s Anti-War Masterpiece – American Conservative
- Sep 12 – A.I. Valuations Reach La La Land
Related:
– World's first AI minister will eliminate corruption, says Albania's PM – BBC
– How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart – Guardian
– Oracle’s astonishing jam-tomorrow OpenAI trade (archived) – Financial Times
– How Oracle’s Larry Ellison rode the AI ‘tsunami’ (archived) – Financial Times– UAE just dropped K2-Think world’s fastest open-source AI reasoning model … – Ihtesham Haider
– K2-Think: A Parameter-Efficient Reasoning System – arXiv
– www.k2think.ai/guest – IFM
- Sep 13 – Trump Calls European's Sanction Bluff
Related:
– The U.S.-Europe Divide on How to Hurt Moscow – Foreign Policy
– US to urge G7 to impose high tariffs on China and India (archived) – Financial Times
– Trump demands NATO action on Russian oil before any U.S. sanctions – Washington Post via MSN
– Trump threw India under the bus to appease China but things only got complicated – Indian Punchline
– Joint Statement from Secretary Bessent and Ambassador Greer on Emergency G7 Finance Call – Treasury
– Trump’s Economic Team Pursues the Chimera of Collapsing the Russian Economy – Sonar21
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Other issues:
Gaza:
- What the wounds are telling us (archived) – Volkskrant.nl <– Recommended
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, which spoke with the doctors who are among the last international eyewitnesses. - “Settler madness.” – Sanity and psychosis in the West Bank. – The Floutist
- The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich – Guardian
- Israeli intelligence agency balked at Netanyahu’s strike in Qatar (archived) – Washington Post
Europe:
- European genuflection to America – Press TV
- Europe’s future depends on dismantling the EU — part one – Thomas Fazi
- Europe’s future depends on dismantling the EU — part two – Thomas Fazi
- Europe Faces Four Self-Inflicted Crises – Victor Davis Hanson /RealClear Politics
- European are mostly against Ursula and Trump – Inter Affairs
- Wondering why the EU is so screwed? Just look at its top diplomat – RT
- Kaja Kallas' shocking lack of historical literacy – Responsible Statecraft
- Ursula von der Leyen’s EU speech was an exercise in delusion – Unherd
Don't trust these guys:
Other issues:
- Neoliberalism Comes for the Warfare State – Compact
- Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence – Conversation
- Korean women target US military in landmark forced prostitution lawsuit – Yahoo
- US vs Venezuela: a new Caribbean Crisis [i] – "Enforcing Democracy While Taking the Oil" – Black Mountain Analysis
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …