by Assistant Editor Aug. 23, 2024 10:45 am When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, the last commander of the army of the Afghan Republic, was still fighting to the end. Sadat’s firsthand account of the disastrous withdrawal and the failures of the Biden-Harris administration are recounted in his new book, The […]

Story by Robyn Dixon, Catherine Belton . . . Ukraine’s punch through Russian defenses in the first foreign invasion since World War II exposed Russia’s military flaws and laid bare Moscow’s apparently illusory red lines. Now some are again questioning the centerpiece of Washington’s Ukraine strategy: a slow, calibrated supply of weapons to Ukraine to […]

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/the-houthis-have-defeated-the-us-navy.html#comments The Mob Bosses running the District of Columbia must truly believe that they and their families will come out of their bunkers, along with the World’s Billionaires, and expect to be congratulated by the Nuclear survivors, calling out “Best Wishes.” Every bunker built is known by the builders, every instigator of this Crime against […]

By Nick Gilbertson 22 Aug 2024 “Look, I think what it means for the left is that many people who are in the so-called far-left may actually find a greater, if not home, at least comfort in the policies offered by Republicans: To economically lift up the plight of Americans who are suffering, to stay […]

From Moon of Alabama blog: Alastair Crooke is a former MI6 agent and negotiator of hostage releases in the Middle East. He has an intimate knowledge of Israel. Recently Crooke has written a lot about the internal changes in Israel. The supremacist settlers have taken over the rein: An eschatological Right-wing cult now holds the majority in cabinet – and […]

Howard Altman Posted on Aug 22, 2024 8:40 PM EDT Images taken after the attack on Marinovka Air Base in Russia show several shelters containing Su-24s and Su-34s were affected by the strikes. Satellite images and post-strike photos emerging in the aftermath of a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Marinovka Air Base show extensive damage to metal […]

RT Kiev’s forces attacked a railway ferry at the port of Kavkaz in Russia’s Krasnodar Region on Thursday, RIA Novosti has said, citing local emergency services. The missile strike reportedly sparked a massive fire and a firefighting train has been dispatched to the scene. So far, there have been no reports of casualties. Fedor Babenkov, the […]

By Futurism dot Com NASA is still busy evaluating the risks involved in returning NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded on board the International Space Station since early June, to Earth. Their ride up, Boeing’s Starliner, has been plagued with technical issues that have forced the space agency to come up with several contingency plans. While NASA […]

Howard Altman Posted on Aug 21, 2024 2:55 PM EDT From Moscow to Murmansk, Ukrainian drones have attacked targets across western Russia over the last 24 hours. The head of Ukrainian intelligence told The War Zone that his agency carried out drone attacks on a signals intelligence center and airport near Moscow and a Russian airbase in […]

Max Seddon and Chris Cook Finacial Times Russia has trained its navy to target sites deep inside Europe with nuclear-capable missiles in a potential conflict with NATO, according to secret files seen by the Financial Times.  Maps of targets as far-flung as the west coast of France and Barrow-in-Furness in the UK are detailed in a presentation […]