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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,…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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’…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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’ -…

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…

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…

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 …

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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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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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?…

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…

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…

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…

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’…

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“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…

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…