Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Jun 29 – War On Iran: – Iran’s Negotiators Are Under Pressure
- Jun 30 – War On Iran: – Vance-Rubio Struggle – Oman Supports ‘Fees’
- Jul 1 – War On Iran: – Trump Requested Briefing For War Renewal
- Jul 3 – War On Iran: – Good Guy/Bad Guy Story Of USraeli Assassination Attempt Makes Little Sense
Related:
– The War to Win the Peace – Why Tehran Sees Diplomacy as a Contest Over Strategic Leverage – Iran Analytica
– Musings on the funeral ceremony in Tehran – Indian Punchline
- Jul 1 – English Outsider: Why Europe’s Provocation Of Russia Is Likely To Fail
Related:
– On Russophobia – Reflections on the European racism at the heart of the continent’s war obsession with Russia. – Pascal Lottaz
– Russia Hearing the European Clamour for War, Announces It Is Ready – Alastair Crooke – UNZ
– Russia Must Defeat Ukraine Before Trump 2.0’s “War Of Attrition” Really Gets Going – Korybko
- Jul 4 – A Settler-Extremist Rebellion …
Related:
– F$$K the Fourth: Declaring Our Collective Independence from the Sinking Ship of U.S. Empire – Black Agenda Report
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Other issues:
Gaza:
- Israeli strike kills Palestinian in Gaza as army continues demolitions – Anadolu
- Explaining the Numbers in Gaza – Karen Kwiatkowski
- 1000 Days of Genocide: The Ten Most Undeniable Well-Documented Israeli Atrocities in Gaza (vid) – Empathy For Palestine
- What’s happening inside Israeli detention facilities? | Fault Lines Documentary (vid) – Al Jazeerah
- All footage collected from Gaza: Israel Exposed — War Crimes Archive – Archive Genocide
China:
- Why the West Still Can’t Decode China’s Rise – Bejing Review
- An Incomplete Report on US Military Activities in the South China Sea in 2025 – East Is Read
- A new Plaza Accord for global currencies wouldn’t work (archived) – Economist
Yen Crisis:
- Yen Hits Four-Decade Low in Historic Slide That’s Rattled Japan (archived) – Bloomberg
- Bank of Japan’s monetary monster is finally turning on its maker – Asia Times
- Traders plot worst-case scenario for yen if currency crisis hits (archived) – Japan Times
Trumpistan:
- Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin (archived) – NY Times
- JD Vance and Melania Trump Also Had Sharp Earnings Increases in 2025 – NY Times
- How Bezos Learned to Love Trump—and Win More Contracts for Blue Origin (archived) – WSJ
- Inside the fantasy world of Donald Trump (archived) – Economist
- Opioid For The Masses (2016) – J. D. Vance / Atlantic
To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.
Tail Wags Dog:
- Congress Is Preparing to Surrender American Sovereignty on the Eve of America’s 250th Anniversary – Kucinich Report
- Congress Aims to Give Israel Leverage Over America – American Conservative
- CENTCOM considers relocating US bases from Gulf States to Negev after painful Iran strikes – report – JPost
Natural Stupidity:
- The AI Industry Is Losing – Ed Zitron
- Report: Meta plans cloud business to sell excess AI compute capacity – Ynetnews
- How Companies Are Managing AI Token Spend (archived) – WSJ
- Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200/week except for Grok” – Electrek
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Iran) thread …