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A fast test for SARS-CoV-2 infections is urgently needed. One is now is coming to the market: FDA Authorizes First Antigen Test to Help in the Rapid Detection of the Virus that Causes COVID-19 in Patients The name “antigen test”…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: July 6 – Choices Related: Trump accuses Biden of plagiarizing his economic proposals – Politico July 7 – The Latest ‘Russiagate’ BOMBSHELL Took Just One Week To Be Exposed As Dud. Who Was…

This morning I saw this map on the Washington Post homepage. Reported cases per 100,000 residents by county since last week bigger I immediately remembered that I had earlier seen a map with a similar pattern. It was in my…

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Yesterday the United States registered more than 60,000 new Covid-19 cases. As the number of new cases continues to increase unabated about two weeks from now it is likely to reach hundred thousand new cases per day. Source: 91-divoc -…

Within just one week the recent attempt to revive ‘Russiagate’ has failed. It was an embarrassing failure for the media who pushed it. Their ‘journalists’ fell for obvious nonsense. They let their sources abused them for political purposes. On June…

Secretary Pompeo @SecPompeo – 12:16 UTC · Jul 5, 2019 Today, #Venezuela’s Independence Day, we are reminded of the country’s prosperous past – and the future the Venezuelan people deserve. The U.S. stands with @jguaido, @AsambleaVE, and all Venezuelans yearning…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: [Sorry for postings this little during the last week. I had to take care of some repair issues I had to put off during the lockdown.] June 30 – Boris Johnson’s Government Hides…

Lebanon is drifting towards hyperinflation and armed strife. The main reason is the deflating of a Ponzi scheme with which the governor of the Central Bank enriched Lebanese business banks and politicians. Since December 1997 the rate of the Lebanese…

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After the U.S. instigated riots in Hong …

Britain has had quite a problem with the Covid-19 epidemic. The coronavirus travails of Boris Johnson did not help. The countrywide lockdown came too late and had therefore stay on longer than elsewhere. In April 2020 monthly gross domestic product…

There were allegations about emails that someone exfiltrated from the DNC and provided to Wikileaks. Russia must have done it. The FBI and other intelligence services were all over it. In the end no evidence was provided to support the…

The epidemic trend in the United States is grim: Source: 91-divoc – bigger The graphic does not yet include yesterday’s number of new cases. It was the highest ever. U.S. hits highest single day of new coronavirus cases with more…

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is pushing at the United Nations to prolong the arms embargo against Iran. Under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which solved the issue of Iran’s civil nuclear program, the current arms embargo will…

By next month Egypt will probably be fighting two wars. bigger The war to its west would be against Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) which threatens to extend itself from west Libya to the Egyptian border. The war to…

Talks between Russia and the United Stat…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: June 22 – Arms Control Diplomacy Used To Be Serious – It Has Been Replaced With Stupid Stunts June 23 – Egypt Is Facing Two Wars – How Will Sisi Decide? Related: Egypt,…

There were allegations about emails that someone exfiltrated from the DNC and provided to Wikileaks. Russia must have done it. The FBI and other intelligence services were all over it. In the end no evidence was provided to support the…

The corona pandemic has brought many companies to the brink of bankruptcy. Some can and should be saved by the government. Lufthansa, the 94 years old Germany airline, just made a deal with the German government that shows how this…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: June 15 – Harry Harris – Insubordinate U.S. Ambo To South Korea – Soon To Be Fired Related: State Department Wages Political Warfare—Against Trump – National Interest June 16 – Belarus – A…

Due to decades of Hollywood propaganda many people in “western” countries believe that the U.S. did the most to defeat the Nazis during World War II. bigger Nothing could be further from the truth. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin…

The difference between The U.S. and the EU is pretty stark. The U.S. has obviously given up on getting the epidemic under control. bigger The population of the U.S. is 328 million. The population of the EU is one third…

On Monday night a fight between Indian and Chinese soldiers cost several dozen lives: Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a commanding officer (CO), were killed in a fierce clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on…

The New York Times was given a preview copy of the memoir John Bolton has written about his time as National Security Advisor under Trump. Its piece about the book includes a curious contradiction. This is how the NYT writer…

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U.S engineered attempts to overthrow a foreign government by stirring civil arrests are usually named after a color or, at times, a flower. Thus we had an “rose revolution” in Georgia, a “green movement” in Iran and an “orange revolution”…

On Friday the U.S. embassy in Seoul hung up a large ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner and posted a tweet about it: bigger U.S. Embassy Seoul – @USEmbassySeoul – 22:04 UTC · Jun 12, 2020 The U.S. Embassy stands in solidarity…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: June 8 – Russia Attempts To Freeze The Conflict In Libya Related: Turkey tests military flights to Libya amid reports of establishing bases – MEE June 9 – How To Change The Meaning…

At Counterpunch Professor David Schultz sees a final fracturing of the Democratic party, labor, and civil rights coalition: George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis is not simply about the death of one Black man. His death…

Two years after a failed attempt to make peace with the United States, North Korea announced that will restart nuclear testing and its long range missile program. On June 12 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un of…

A new study shows that mandatory mask wearing is the most effective measure during the Covid-19 epidemic. On March 23 we started to urge everyone to wear masks during the Covid-19 pandemic: Wearing a mask helps with protecting oneself but…

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On Sunday protesters toppled a bronze statue of the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England. It was thrown into a river. Some had tried for years to get rid of the monument but others had rejected that as…

The war in Libya has become a proxy conflict between many international players. The Government of National Accord (GNA) under Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj is supported by the Muslim Brotherhood. Its main political and financial sponsor is Qatar and its…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: June 1 – It’s true … June 2 – Trump Calls Up Military For ‘Law And Order’ Campaign Stunt Related: Trump’s American Spring – Rolling Stone Another American first: a self-collapsing empire! -…

After the announcement of less-bad-than-expected (un-)employment numbers yesterday CNBC headlined: The recovery from the coronavirus sure looks V-shaped, going by these charts A better headline would have been: Can you believe that we could make up charts that show a…

The first round of the civil wars of 2020 seems to be over. It did not change much. Unjustifiable police violence against one man was documented on video. This enabled the issue to spread. Protest, first local then nationwide and…

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The U.S. has a service economy. Some 70% of its gross domestic product is generated by personal consumption. The emergency measures taken to slow down the covid-19 pandemic decreased consumption by a huge margin. The GDPNow model by the Federal…

Yesterday’s protests over the murder of George Floyd seemed smaller to me. A few hundred people in this or that city. There seem to have been more people on the march in New Zealand than in New York City. From…

by lizard hauled from a comment I think this relevant to how fractured the discourse is. it’s a repost from my litter watering hole. I know it’s going to be difficult to accept what I’m about to say because people…

Last week’s posts at Moon of Alabama: May 25 – Britain: Johnson’s Pandemic Management Is Trashing His Authority Related: “A National Scandal”: a timeline of the UK government’s response to the Coronavirus crisis – Ian Sinclair May 26 – NYT…

Last night at times violent protests took place in some 30 U.S. cities. The escalation of the protests is not to be driven by people of color who’s grievance about systemic police brutality and institutionalized racism is driving the original,…

Britain seems to have a meltdown of trust in the government over its handling of the novel coronavirus epidemic. While other European countries have reopened Britain is still under lockdown and has still some 2,400 new Covid-19 cases per day….

Two days ago a policeman in Minnesota, who was well known for his brutality, murdered a black man, George Floyd, by suffocating him during an arrest for allegedly paying with a fake $20 bill. (video, longer version) It was one…

One of the many mysteries of the Covid-19 pandemic is how the disease actually spreads. We were told to wash hands and about the dangers of droplets in one to one contacts. But newer evidence continues to point in another…

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The New York Times has a 4,000 words long piece about the war on Afghanistan. It tries to explain why the Taliban won the war. How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity and Carnage It is also a remarkable attempt…