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Moon Of Alabama was opened as an independent, open forum for members of the Whiskey Bar community. Moon of Alabama's purpose is to discuss politics, economics, philosophy and blogger Billmon's Whiskey Bar writings.
Some time ago, the commenting at Billmon's Whiskey Barbecame 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.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, February 22, 2021 Why Is Biden Creating Himself An Iran Quagmire?
Since he came to power President Joe Biden has done nothing to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran. The JCPOA was breached by the U.S. in 2018 when then President Trump left the deal and renewed a 'maximum pressure' sanction campaign against Iran.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 9, 2021 By Wrongly Calling The Capitol Rabble 'Terrorists' Joe Biden Will Likely Create Some
Those rabbles were in no way terrorists. They were not even a mob. Most of them were out-of-town rednecks who felt that they had been wronged. They wanted to express that. They were surprised when they found how easy it was to enter the Capitol and they apparently took more time to take pictures than to rearrange the furniture.
(16 comments) SHARE Friday, November 27, 2020 Iran's Top Nuclear Scientist Assassinated As Israel Tries To Provoke War
Today the top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fahrizade was assassinated in a complex terror attack while driving on a highway in Absard, a small city just east of Tehran. An explosion stopped his car. Then shots were fired at him from two directions.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 20, 2020 How Not To Challenge China
The headline of a recent Bloomberg column by one Tyler Cowen is:
Covid Is Increasing America's Lead Over China.
It's remarkable only for its fervent nationalistic delusion.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 1, 2020 What Would A Democratic Presidency Really Change?
Pepe Escobar is as pessimistic about a Harris (Biden) administration as I am. The incoming foreign policy team would be the return of the blob that waged seven wars during the Obama/Biden administration.
SHARE Tuesday, October 20, 2020 More Pressure On Russia Will Have No Effect
The purpose of the whole campaign against Russia, explains the Atlantic Council author, is to subordinate it to U.S. demands.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 18, 2020 In Which We Debunk A Covidiot Pamphlet
On the recent open thread commentator ADKC quoted from a post at the corona-nonsense blog Off-Guardian. The piece, published last week, is an updated rehash of one the same author posted in April.
The more recent version is unfortunately no better than the old one. It repeats false numbers, is scientifically astonishingly inaccurate, and draws false conclusions.
(20 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 15, 2020 Professor Chossudovsky Is Wrong - Here Is How PCR Tests Work
In a recent piece, The Covid-19 Numbers Game: The "Second Wave" is Based on Fake Statistics, he falsely claims that the tests which are globally used to detect SARS-CoV-2 infections also react to other viruses and thereby deliver false results.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 29, 2020 Strategic Aims Behind The War On Armenia
On Sunday Ilham Aliyev, the longtime dictator of Azerbaijan, launched a war on the Armenian held Nagorno-Karabakh area. That he dared to do this now, 27 years after a ceasefire ended a war over the area, is a sign that the larger strategic picture has changed.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 29, 2020 Belarus - NATO Lobby Acknowledges That Its Color Revolution Failed
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko had offered President Vladimir Putin of Russia to finally implement the long delayed Union State that will unite Belarus with Russia. In exchange he wanted full Russian backing for shutting down the U.S. led color revolution against him. Putin accepted the deal.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 29, 2020 MoA - It Is A Time Of Crisis And U.S. Foreign Policy Is Becoming Unhinged
The Trump admin is reacting to the pandemic stress by lashing out at perceived internal & external enemies. Sec of State Mike Pompeo is leading the external onslaught.
UN Sec General Antonio Guterres has called for an "immediate global ceasefire" to focus on fighting Covid-19. He has appealed for the "waiving of sanctions that can undermine countries' capacity to respond to the pandemic."
But Washington's not listening