Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Nov 10 – Ukraine – Zelenski Friend Accused In Energy Sector Corruption Case
Related:
– Bags of cash and a gold toilet: the corruption crisis engulfing Zelenskyy’s government (archived) – Financial Times
– Russia Tried to Cut Ukraine’s Lights. Now It’s Aiming for the Heat. (archived) – NY Times
– Impressions from the field research trip to Ukraine – October 2025 – Rochan Consulting
– Russia to produce 120,000 glide bombs and 70,000 drones this year – Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence – Ukrainska Pravda
- Nov 11 – How To Start War With Russia – A British Think Tank Has Ideas
Related:
– Lavrov: Russia ready to offer non-aggression guarantee to NATO, EU – Yahoo
– The new Russian arsenal that can deter wars – Bhadrakumar / New Indian Express
– Responses by Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, to questions from the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which the newspaper refused to publish in full without cuts or censorship, Moscow, November 13, 2025 – Mid.ru
- Nov 13 – Justice Department Office Which Justified Torture Now Argues For Killing
Related:
– Secret U.S. Memo Authorizing Drug-Boat Strikes Cites Chemical Weapon Threat (archived) – WSJ
– Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels (archived) – NY Times
– Trump’s Killings at Sea Escalate the US’s Forever Drug War – Jacobin
– Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice (archived) – NY Times
– Trump weighs Venezuela strikes as U.S. forces prepare for attack order (archived) – NY Times
- Nov 14 – Thoughts On The Shutdown
Related:
– Letter: By capitulating on the shutdown, Democrats showed their true colors – Salt Lake Tribune
– ‘Epstein Hoax’ Got Legs? – Meaning in History
– Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It. – Nation
– A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers – Wired
– Is This When Trump Became a Lame Duck? – American Conservative
– Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap That Ensnared Biden – Bulwark
Republicans learned nothing from how badly Dems bungled inflation.
– Trump, like Biden before him, finds there’s no quick fix on inflation – AP
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Other issues:
Gaza:
- Russia Counters U.S. Plan for Gaza With Its Own Proposal at U.N. Security Council (archived) – NY Times
The Trump administration wants the Security Council to adopt a resolution that has the 20-point U.S. plan annexed, effectively making it international law. - Navy Considers Base for 10,000 Near Gaza Without US Troops – Bloomberg (archived)
- EXCLUSIVE: Soros Bankrolling Anti-Israel Drop Site News – Free Bacon
Europe:
- The EU’s new censorship machine – The Democracy Shield will police speech – Unherd
- EU to set up new intelligence unit under Ursula von der Leyen (archived) – Financial Times
- The E.U. ‘Derisks’ Itself Into Another Disaster – Naked Capitalism
- Europe’s carmakers face ‘devastating’ chip crisis as Nexperia supply crunch continues (archived) – Financial Times
Economy:
- New York Fed convened meeting with Wall Street firms over key lending facility (archived) – Financial Times
Impromptu talks come amid worries about strains in money markets - Ford CEO says he has 5,000 open mechanic jobs with 6-figure salaries from the shortage of manually skilled workers: ‘We are in trouble in our country’ – Fortune
- The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance (archived) – Economist
A frenzy of financial innovation has ensnared America Inc. What could go wrong? - Economist Warns That Trump’s Investments in the Tech Industry Could Crash the Whole Economy – Futurism
China:
- China Accuses U.S. of Stealing 127K BTC in High-Profile Crypto Hack – Coindesk
- White House memo claims Alibaba is helping Chinese military target US (archived) – Financial Times
- NEW ARTICLE: US Plans for China Blockade Continue Taking Shape – Brian Berletic
Syria:
- Syria comes in from the cold – Indian Punchline
- > Syrian presidency dismissed reports that President al-Sharaa had cooperated with Western intelligence services since 2016 to eliminate al-Qaeda and ISIS. Al-Sharaa was Abu Mohammad al-Joulani — an ISIS emir who later became al-Qaeda’s Emir in the Levant. < – Elijah Magnier
- > Hakan Fidan, the Turkish Foreign Minister (formerly the head of MİT intelligence) announced publicly about HTS as: “We’ve had excellent cooperation on sharing intelligence to fight against especially DAESH leadership. They helped us a lot, but because of the sensitivities…” < – Husaan Hamoud
Miscellaneous:
- The vampires feed on us when we’re alone – Nefarious Russians
This parasocial technology took over from where television left off and pushed society even more radically into an atomized configuration.
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
