Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- Sep 7 – The ‘Longstanding Tradition’ Of Defense Corruption In Ukraine
- Sep 10 – “Almost” – War Propaganda Including Vague Air Incidents
Related:
– Ukraine is fighting Russia anywhere it can – even in the deserts of Africa – CNN
– Neither money nor corn – Budgetary and agricultural problems – Events in Ukraine
– Ukraine’s way of fighting war can’t match what’s coming (archived) – Eric Schmidt / Washington Post
– The language ombudsman is investigating why SBU and GUR officers spoke Russian during the shootout in Kyiv. (in Russian) – Strana
- Sep 8 – War On Iran: Crude Price Nears $100 Barrel While Trump Still Hopes To Win
Related:
– Iran is forging a new ring of proxies to threaten US allies in the Gulf, officials say – AP
– The Gulf Region Needs Its Own MOU – Bourse and Bazaar
– US limits air defense time slots for tankers sailing through Hormuz, FT reports – Arab News
- Sep 9 – Biden And Netanyahoo Were Warned Of Oct. 7 – Both Ignored The Hostages
Related:
– Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film – Guardian
– ‘Where do we go?’: How Israel’s ‘yellow line’ is closing in on Palestinians – UN News
– Three Major Revelations About The Gaza Holocaust In The Israeli Press – Caitlin Johnstone
– Liberal Zionists Are Evil Shitbags – Caitlin Johnstone
– Super Sparta: Israel’s new military dependence on America – MEMO
– Israel’s neglected threat from within (archived) – Economist
Educational decay, driven by demographic change, endangers the nation’s future, writes Dan Ben-David
- Sep 11 – War On Iran: Ansar Allah Goes On The Offensive
- Sep 12 – War On Iran: More On Ansar Allah’s Offensive
Related:
– A bad day for Saudi Arabia’s ruling family, in Yemen and New York – Helena Cobban
– ‘A f***-up of epic proportions’: Blame game begins after Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance down Red Sea coast – CNN
– As Iran proxies activate in Yemen and Iraq, Trump’s Mideast morass deepens (archived) – Washington Post
– Footage of the battles from the first days of the military operation “Wallahu Ashaddu Ba’san wa Ashaddu Tankilan.” (video) – IWN
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Other issues:
Economy:
- Private equity faces existential crisis in US as unsold companies pile up – Guardian
- Treasury sell-off piles pressure on weakest US borrowers (archived) – FT
- Bessent’s big talk runs into bigger market realities – Asia Times
AI Bezzle:
- Top A.I. Leaders Call for Slowing Down A.I. Development – NY Times
- Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists – Prospect
- The latest ‘crack in the thesis’ for the trillion-dollar AI boom: Tokens are getting cheaper – Fortune
- US calls for AI poisoning to sabotage China’s model distillation – Asia Times
- OpenAI’s apparent maths breakthrough raises profound questions (archived) – Economist
Europe:
- The AfD is still missing an economic agenda – Unherd
- EU races to Le Pen-proof its agenda (archived) – FT
- Facing global crises, Europe rearranges the diplomatic deckchairs (archived) – Economist
China:
- The Emerging U.S.-China Détente (archived) – Da Wei / Foreign Affairs
- Huawei drives China’s push to make advanced chips (archived) – FT
- US claims Chinese AI firms are carrying out ‘industrial-scale’ theft of trade secrets – CNN
Culture War:
- Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans’ Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious – Futurism
- Hunter Biden’s ‘$LAPTOP’ crypto coin crashes minutes after launch (archived) – Washington Post
- Mother charged after 5-year-old walks to pond alone, stirring parenting debate (archived) – Washington Post
- Gloria Steinem: leader of the “Women’s Movement,” peddler of “Satanic ritual sex abuse” garbage – Michael Tracey
- The banality of Gloria Steinem: a final word – Michael Tracey
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Iran) thread …
