Moon of Alabama
Recent articles by Moon of Alabama

29 January 2025
How the Chinese beat Trump and OpenAI
The hype around Artificial Intelligence, the now failed U.S. attempt to monopolise it, and the recent counter from China are a lesson in how to innovate. They also show that the U.S. is losing the capability to do so.

10 December 2024
Syria falls
I have yet to fully understand how the collapse of the Syrian government could happened at the speed it did happen: Syrian government falls in stunning end to 50-year rule of Assad family -AP, Dec 8 2024

30 October 2024
Threat of North Korean soldiers is based on U.S. info campaign
Earlier this week I pointed to a Ukrainian (South Korean, U.S.) propaganda campaign which claims that thousands of North Korean soldiers will soon fight with on the Russian side against Ukraine:

27 January 2024
The ICJ could not order a general ceasefire. It ordered Israel to cease fire
The responses by U.S. main stream media to the ICJ judgment on Israel are moronic.

14 September 2023
Ukraine: Western military commentators finally accept the obvious
While not all politicians are yet there, the military and intelligence specialists, who are part of the western propaganda squads, have made their conclusions. From their mouth the truth is dripping to the media. While the headlines below may not express it, the content of those pieces, especially in the first four, is finally admitting the obvious. It didn't work and the counter-offensive is done.

25 June 2023
Prigozhin's Insurrection; U.S. admits defeat in war on Russia, China
Some thoughts on the insurrection attempt in Russia. I wonder who or what lured Yevgeny Prigozhin into staging this farce. In twelve or so hours things are likely to have calmed down. 'Western' anal-cysts will spend weeks fantasisingabout their wished for outcome which, of course, was never to happen.

14 May 2023
'Nearly a third of the world economy is now subject to sanctions'
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) just published a study about:

10 April 2023
AUKUS designed to remove public resistance to Australia stationing US nuclear submarines
The real reason for the AUKUS submarine deal might well have been the U.S. wish for a port and base in Australia from where it can send its own nuclear submarines to harass China. The offer to Australia to buy nuclear submarines was likely only made to remove Australian public resistance to the stationing of nuclear submarines (with nuclear weapons) on the continent.

13 January 2023
Ukrainian defence lines and what happens when they are breached
Soledar has fallen to Russian troops. Bakhmut (Artymovsk) will follow soon.