Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Feb 23 – Lunatic Voice Of The Day
Related:
– Russia drops record number of guided aerial bombs in Ukraine – Defence Blog
– Russia Weighs Halt to Peace Talks Unless Ukraine Cedes Territory (archived) – Bloomberg (likely disinformation!)
– Thinking Backwards. And hoping for miracles. – Aurelian
– Ukraine Is Losing the War (archived) – Foreign Affairs
– How the Ukraine war ends – A multipolar world is coming – Thomas Fazi / Unherd
– Four years into the Ukraine war, Moscow sees vindication, not failure – Leonid Ragozin / AlJazeerah
– ‘Something has to give’: EU weighs options to lift Hungarian veto on Ukraine loan – Euronews
- Feb 24 – Despite Four Weeks Of Build-Up Trump’s Choices On Iran Are Still The Same
- Feb 26 – Iran – U.S. Negotiators Block Progress With Unreasonable Demands
- Feb 27 – U.S. Middle East Build Up Continues
- Feb 28 – U.S., Israel Are Waging War On Iran
- Feb 29 – U.S.-Iran – A War Of Aggressions Which Aims Can Not Be Achieved
- Mar 1 – RIP Ali Khamenei
Related:
– Push from Saudis (!), Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran (archived) – Washington Post
– Trump: ‘Freedom’ for Iran is goal of ‘major military operation’ (archived) – Washington Post
– Insurers to cancel policies and raise prices for ships in Gulf and Strait of Hormuz (archived) – Financial Times
– Hundreds of ships drop anchor in Gulf water as Iran war escalates – Strait Times
– U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out (archived) – WSJ
– Trump (offers ceasefire,) seeks swift end to Iran operation – Ynetnews
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Other issues:
India – Hindufascism:
- The folly of India’s dalliance with Israel stands exposed – M K Bhadrakumar
- With Iran under attack, Modi’s Jerusalem visit will haunt India – Frontline
- US-Iran War blows double whammy to India: From oil bills to diplomatic tightrope walk, from trade disruptions to stock market fall, all explained – DNA India
Epstein:
- The Epstein Conspiracy Wasn’t What We Suspected – Public – also here
The available evidence does not point to a sex blackmail operation run by the Intelligence Community - DEBUNKED: A Woman Filed a Lawsuit Against Donald Trump, Claiming He and Jeffrey Epstein Abused Her – But it Was All a Politically-Motivated Lie – Jay Beecher
- The Epstein Myth Unravels: Why Capitulating to Hysteria Only Fueled Prince Andrew’s Downfall – Michael Tracey
The Bezzle I:
After a heavy OpenAI donation to Trump the DoD kicked out Anthropic to hire (and save) OpenAI:
- Retired US Air Force General Jack Shanahan on the Anthropic-Pentagon tensions – Gary Marcus
- (Scam Altman defends Anthropic) – Did Trump just overplay his hand? – Gary Marcus
- (While stealing Anthropic’s contract) – The whole thing was a scam – Gary Marcus
The Bezzle II:
- The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity – Apple
- The Silicon Valley billionaires spending big to write America’s AI rules (archived) – Financial Times
- Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated. (archived) – Washington Post
- Data center outlook: half of 2026 pipeline may not materialize – Sightline Climate
- Moody’s alert cites gap in data centre accounting for Big Tech companies (archived) – Financial Times
- Tech groups shift $120bn of AI data centre debt off balance sheets (archived) – Financial Times
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …