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Author: MoonOfAlabama.org

This site's purpose is to discuss politics, economics, philosophy and blogger Billmon's Whiskey Bar writings. Some time ago, the commenting at Billmon's Whiskey Bar became a bit excessive. Billmon therefore closed the comments at his place on June 29, 2004. The community of commentators was left behind to search for a new place. Moon Of Alabama was opened as an independent, open forum for members of the Whiskey Bar community. Bernhard started and still runs the site. Once a while you will also find posts and art from regular commentators. The name of the original Whiskey Bar was taken from Bertolt Brecht's Alabama Song where the first line goes: "Show me the way to the next whiskey bar". The name Moon of Alabama was taken from the first line of the chorus of that song: "Oh, moon of Alabama ...". The design of this site has been directly stolen or re-engineered from the Whiskey Bar site.

U.S., NATO Give Up – Will Leave Afghanistan By September 11

This from the Washington Post is surprisingly good news: Biden will withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021 President Biden will withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan over the coming months, people familiar with the plans said,…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-13Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

U.S., NATO Give Up – Will Leave Afghanistan By September 11

This from the Washington Post is surprisingly good news: Biden will withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021 President Biden will withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan over the coming months, people familiar with the plans said,…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-13Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

U.S., NATO Give Up – Will Leave Afghanistan By September 11

This from the Washington Post is surprisingly good news: Biden will withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021 President Biden will withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan over the coming months, people familiar with the plans said,…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-13Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

CNN – Ukrainian Trains With Heavy Weapons Going East Are ‘Russian Aggression’

Today CNN continued its long stint of publishing anti-Russian propaganda. But this video ‘report’ falls on several levels. Unprecedented footage shows front line of Ukrainian conflict with Russia As tensions with Russia continue to rise in eastern Europe, CNN gains…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-12Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-027

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: April 5 – How Russia ‘Weaponized’ 111 Times Related: – Jimmy Dore and Aaron Maté filled a show with ‘Russia weaponized’ stuff. No mention of MoA even while we have been on the…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-11Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

After The Bear Showed Its Teeth The Ukraine Filed For Peace?

First the Ukraine said it would use force to recover the renegade Donbass region as well as Crimea. It then moved heavy troops towards the contact lines. The ceasefire at the contact line was broken multiple times per day. Several…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-10Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Why The U.S. Might Want War In Ukraine

Yesterday CNN said that the US is considering sending warships to the Black Sea amid Russia-Ukraine tensions. That the U.S. is ‘considering’ this is however disinformation: The United States has notified Turkey that it intends to deploy two warships to…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-09Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

U.S. Iran Conflict In Iraq Put On Pause

During their recent strategic dialogue the U.S. and Iraq agreed to relabel U.S. combat troops in the country into train and assist forces. A common statement said: Based on the increasing capacity of the ISF, the parties confirmed that the…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-08Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

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Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-07Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

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Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-07Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Will There Be A Global Resistance Economy?

Alastair Crooke’s latest is, as usual, very interesting: China and Russia Launch a ‘Global Resistance Economy’ What is ‘it’? It is not just a trade and investment pact with Tehran; neither is it simply allies helping each other. The ‘resistance’…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-06Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

How Many Songs? How Many Glasses?

The crazies at Hamburg’s miniature wonderland used the lockdown to create a classical music medley and quiz. Astonishing that they spent time to built such a magnificent background for this video. The making of the above with English subs is…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-05Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

How Russia ‘Weaponized’ 111 Times

Last night Brian MacDonald, an Irish journalist currently working for RT, picked up on a theme we previously noted here. Bryan MacDonald @27khv – 19:21 UTC · Apr 4, 2021 With the US/UK press in full Russia hysteria mode, right…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-05Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-025

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: March 31 – False Assertions, Misleading Quotes, Fake Sources – How The NYT Writes Anti-China Screeds Related: – The Origins of a Distinguished Diplomatic Career and the U.S.-China Fight for Primacy—BPR Interviews: Chas…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-04Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-025

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: March 31 – False Assertions, Misleading Quotes, Fake Sources – How The NYT Writes Anti-China Screeds Related: – The Origins of a Distinguished Diplomatic Career and the U.S.-China Fight for Primacy—BPR Interviews: Chas…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-04Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Happy Easter

Today we celebrate the Roman-Christian equivalent of Nowruz, the festivity that welcomes spring and with it the resurrection of life. bigger My personal Easter ritual, inherited from my father, is to read out loud, and then take, the Easter Walk…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-04Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Former U.S. Official: Al-Qaeda In Syria Is “An Asset” For U.S. Strategy

There is a new public relation campaign pushed by Turkey to whitewash al-Qaeda in Syria. ‘Western’ journalists were invited to Idleb governorate through some Turkish agency to make some fan flicks about Hayat Tahrir al Sham, the al-Qaeda entity under…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-03Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

The ‘Russian Military Build-Up’

There is some concern about a ‘Russian military buildup’ near Ukraine. NATO Says It Is Concerned About Russian Military Build-Up Near Ukraine – US News/Reuters, April 1, 2021 US official says buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine is ‘concerning’ -…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-02Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

“America Is Back” Collides With A Multipolar Reality

The World Health Organization recently published its report on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which has caused the Covid-19 pandemic. Most scientist agree that the virus is of zoonotic origin and not a human construct or an accidental laboratory…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-04-01Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

False Assertions, Misleading Quotes, Fake Sources – How The NYT Writes Anti-China Screeds

This, from yesterday’s New York Times, is supposed to be a news piece: An Alliance of Autocracies? China Wants to Lead a New World Order. Written by Steven Lee Myers, the NYT’s bureau chief in Beijing, the piece is full…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-31Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Somewhat Out Of The Mud

Thought of making another joke about the boat but that ship has now sailed. Your host will, hopefully, be back by tomorrow. Use as open thread …

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-30Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Still Stuck In Mud

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Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-28Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Taking A Few Days Off

Your host feels somewhat drained. Several posts I started to write over the last few days turned out to be rubbish and got trashed. That is sure sign that I need a few days off. I’ll leave an open thread…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-26Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Taking A Few Days Off

Your host feels somewhat drained. Several posts I started to write over the last few days turned out to be rubbish and got trashed. That is sure sign that I need a few days off. I’ll leave an open thread…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-26Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Stuck In Mud

I am feeling a bit like the operator of that excavator. There is too much to do and too little motivating progress. bigger Those are 200,000 metric tons stuck in sand and gravel on both ends. Too much weight for…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-25Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

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Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-24Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Afghanistan – More Dead End Proposals Seek Time To Allow U.S. Face Saving Exit

The Doha agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban includes a promise by the Taliban to not attack U.S. troops or major cities. In exchange the U.S. promised to leave Afghanistan by May 1. The problem for the U.S. is…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-23Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Afghanistan – More Dead End Proposals Seek Time To Allow U.S. Face Saving Exit

The Doha agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban includes a promise by the Taliban to not attack U.S. troops or major cities. In exchange the U.S. promised to leave Afghanistan by May 1. The problem for the U.S. is…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-23Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Syria – The War Is Resuming On Several Fronts

Ten years after it began, and after a short lull in fighting, the war on Syria seems now to resume on several fronts. bigger Last week Bloomberg published an op-ed by the Turkish President Erdogan in which he begged for…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-22Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-023

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: March 15 – U.S. And Its Five Eye Partners Use ‘Persuasion’, Sabotage And Disinformation To Gain Vaccine Supremacy Related: Sputnik V: EU Sacrifices Its Citizens by the Thousands on the Altar of Anti-Russia…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-21Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

U.S. Aggressiveness Follow Up

The ‘western’ media reporting of the spat between Biden and Putin is typically bad. The Guardian @guardian – 18:15 UTC · Mar 18, 2021 ‘Takes one to know one’: Putin-Biden spat escalates over ‘killer’ accusation That was not what Putin…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-19Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

U.S. Aggressiveness Will Accelerate Its Demise

The foreign policy of the current U.S. administration is exactly the same as the foreign policy of the previous one. In short: disasterous. There are dozens of examples: The “maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran continues, the sanctions on Venezuela will…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-18Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

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Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-18Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

The New Yellow Peril – Causes And Effects

The New York Times reports of a mass murdering of Asian people near Atlanta. Its front page summary says: “The motive for the killings was unclear.” bigger However, the suspect, one Robert Aaron Long, does not leave much doubt about…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-17Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Britain’s Nuke Increase Is In Breach Of Its NPT Obligations

Less than a month ago the British government chided Iran to ‘come back into compliance’ with the nuclear deal: “I don’t think that we should be sending a signal that we are going to overlook this non-compliance or just brush…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-16Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

U.S. And Its Five Eye Partners Use ‘Persuasion’, Sabotage And Disinformation To Gain Vaccine Supremacy

The U.S. and some of its allies are engaged in efforts to malign the Russian Sputink V vaccine and to promote the more expensive mRNA vaccines produced by ‘western’ companies. Back in November we warned that the vaccine competition would…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-15Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-021

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: March 8 – U.S. Launches New Afghanistan Initiative Which Is Unlikely To Fly Related: – With clock ticking before exit deadline, U.S. appears poised to postpone troop withdrawal from Afghanistan > Although the…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-14Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Why The War In Ukraine May Soon Resume

Several Russia watchers – Patrick Armstrong, Andrei Martyanov and Andrei Raevsky – are musing about a renewed attack by the government of Ukraine on its eastern Donbass region. The Donbass separated in 2014 after the U.S. driven coup in Kiev…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-13Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Oil Spill Caused By Israeli Attacks On Iranian Oil Bound for Syria

The Wall Street Journal reports today: Israel has targeted at least a dozen vessels bound for Syria and mostly carrying Iranian oil out of concern that petroleum profits are funding extremism in the Middle East, U.S. and regional officials say,…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-12Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Opinion: The Pentagon Has An Admirable Hail Mary For Washington DC. It Also Needs A Plan B.

UNITED STATES – JANUARY 7: Workers install more robust fencing along the east side of the U.S. Capitol,following the riot at the Capitol the day before. bigger Opinion by Editorial Board, Kabul Post The Pentagon inherited a particularly daunting challenge…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-11Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

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Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-10Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

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Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-10Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

In Support Of Regime Change – The New York Times Continues To Disinform Its Readers

U.S. President Joe Biden continues Donald Trump’s regime change policy towards Venezuela. From yesterday’s press briefing by the State Department: QUESTION: Staying in Latin America, is it fair to say that the Biden administration is pursuing regime change in Venezuela?…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-09Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

U.S. Launches New Afghanistan Initiative Which Is Unlikely To Fly

The U.S. has an agreement with the Taliban which commits it to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by May 1. Should the U.S. stay longer the Taliban will again start attacking U.S. troops and bases in Afghanistan and the conflict…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-08Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-019

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: March 1 – Biden Breaks Campaign Promise On MbS Punishment – Psaki Lies To Hide That – Guardian Fakes Quote To Hide Psaki’s Lie Related: – The Goldilocks Stimulus Myth – Yanis Varoufakis…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-07Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Is China Hacking Random Servers To Put Itself Into A Bad Light?

When I was an IT manager I never liked Mircosoft’s Exchange email servers. Like many other Microsoft products it is overloaded with useless niche features and legacies from previous versions. I am thereby not astonished that it was seemingly quite…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-06Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

On ‘Shia Backed’, ‘Iran Backed’ Nonsense And Other Warmongering Journalism

The recent U.S. airstrike at the Syrian-Iraqi border and the missile attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq were followed by many examples of bad journalism. U.S. media, as FAIR documents, have purged inconvenient facts from their coverage of Biden’s ‘first’…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-05Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

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Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-05Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

Biden’s “Nothing Will Fundamentally Change” Promise Extends To His Foreign Policy

“America is back” claimed Joe Biden to no ones amusement. But the world has changed after four years of Trump and after a pandemic upset the world. The U.S. position in this world and its role in it have thereby…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-04Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

By Following Trump’s Policies Biden’s ‘Deterrence’ Predictably Fails

U.S. politicians and military love to claim that they are acting to restore deterrence: When the president illegally ordered the assassination of Soleimani in January of this year, administration officials eventually lined up behind the excuse that it was intended…

Author MoonOfAlabama.orgPosted on 2021-03-03Categories All Posts, Alternative, Blog, In English

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This site's purpose is to discuss politics, economics, philosophy and blogger Billmon's Whiskey Bar writings.

Some time ago, the commenting at Billmon's Whiskey Bar became a bit excessive. Billmon therefore closed the comments at his place on June 29, 2004. The community of commentators was left behind to search for a new place.

Moon Of Alabama was opened as an independent, open forum for members of the Whiskey Bar community.

Bernhard started and still runs the site. Once a while you will also find posts and art from regular commentators.

The name of the original Whiskey Bar was taken from Bertolt Brecht's Alabama Song where the first line goes:
"Show me the way to the next whiskey bar".

The name Moon of Alabama was taken from the first line of the chorus of that song:
"Oh, moon of Alabama ...".

The design of this site has been directly stolen or re-engineered from the Whiskey Bar site.

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