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Moon of Alabama
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Moon of Alabama is a personal blog at moonofalabama.org about politics and history. Since 2011, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “Whodunnit? – Facts Related to the Sabotage Attack on the Nord Stream Pipelines”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 37 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Moon of Alabama as a counterpoint to mainstream Western media, mostly on Russia, Ukraine, Syria, Iran and media bias, and as geopolitical analysis.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- Called more analysis than live news on Ukraine, and liked by one commenter; told to read for Iran death toll estimates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 37 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Whodunnit? – Facts Related to the Sabotage Attack on the Nord Stream Pipelines3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-25
- Boeing's software fix for the 737 Max overwhelms the plane's computer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-04
What Hacker News says?
If we can have different point of views that would be helpful for a better judgement: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/08/the-russian-coup-plot-...
Comment linking /2020/08/the-russian-coup-plot-in-belarus-was-faked-by-ukraine.html
on “Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election”Submitted Boeing's software fix for the 737 Max overwhelms the plane's computer as a story · 73 points
HN discussionIt's interesting that instead of posting the report itself, or even a detailed article that criticizes the report, the top article on HN is a bland summary of an accusation from a third party with no direct quotes or attribution. It's basically a press release. The only article that I can find that actually tries to levy complaints of obstruction is this one from the NYT[0]. However, several of the WHO investigators…
Comment linking /2021/02/caught-in-the-act-new-york-times-intentionally-misquotes-scientists-to-fit-its-prescribed-narrative.html
on “US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins”Submitted A Short History Of The War On Syria - 2006-2014 as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe deafening silence regarding the fudged OPCW reports is an indictment on most outlets (WP is mentioned explicitly): https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/07/syria-many-media-lie-a... https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/15/deluge-of-new-leaks-...
Comment linking /2018/07/syria-many-media-lie-about-watchdog-report-on-the-chemical-attack-in-douma.html
on “France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax”Submitted Ukraine – Lights Out, No Water and Soon No Heat as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWhat is more worrying for Boeing is that a SW fix might not be that easy to implement. According to that article [0], the fix is running too slowly on the Flight Control Computers, that are based on a 80286 architecture. I am not sure how reliable this info is, and that should not be surprising given the cost of verification or certification of an aircraft, but I am still surprised that a 2019 plane, has still some…
Comment linking /2019/06/boeings-software-fix-for-the-737-max-problem-overwhelms-the-planes-computer.html
on “The Coming Boeing Bailout?”Submitted New York Times Covers Up Its Debunked Lies About Peng Shuai by Adding New Ones as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> I think any reasonable person can look at what's happening with the Uyghurs and only come to the conclusion that it's appalling Maybe, yeah Detention for fear of terrorism is bad when the US did it with Japanese born citizens in Wwii and it is bad when it was done in Guantánamo, and it is bad now That said, why are the supposed witnesses to these crimes changing their histories and narratives to make it seem like…
Comment linking /2021/02/they-dont-only-rape-but-also-bite-all-over-your-body-horror-stories-told-by-chinese-defectors-contin.html
on “The Uyghur Genocide: An examination of breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention”Submitted U.S. Warms Up Its Own Old Spy Stories to Bash Putative Chinese Espionage as a story · 6 points
HN discussionZenz insanity aside, I am just interested in why the "witnesses" strolled around western and specifically us affiliated mass media keep changing their stories and narratives https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/02/they-dont-only-rape-bu...
Comment linking /2021/02/they-dont-only-rape-but-also-bite-all-over-your-body-horror-stories-told-by-chinese-defectors-contin.html
on “The Uyghur Genocide: An examination of breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention”Submitted Whodunnit? – Facts Related to the Sabotage Attack on the Nord Stream Pipelines as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAnd rather, why are the supposed genocide witnesses changing their stories so much? https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/02/they-dont-only-rape-bu...
Comment linking /2021/02/they-dont-only-rape-but-also-bite-all-over-your-body-horror-stories-told-by-chinese-defectors-contin.html
on “The Uyghur Genocide: An examination of breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention”Submitted TikTok – How the White House Helped U.S. Investors to Raid a Chinese Company as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNo. Yes, he is generally what I would consider "anti-US" but Media Bias Fact Check reports no failed fact check in last 5 years. Also, before people label him as "left-wing", he was a very strong supporter of Kyle Rittenhouse from the beginning (even supposedly good sources like The Intercept lamented the acquittal). I have linked to his article on the day of the verdict below. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/11/…
Comment linking /2021/11/kyle-rittenhouse-is-not-guilty.html
on “Russia sends troops to Kazakhstan to put down deadly uprising”Submitted ProtonMail Lost the Public Trust It Needs to Do Business as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere are a couple of links that support your opinion. Unfortunately most people here might not be aware that western media is quite biased. http://orientalreview.org/2014/01/24/coup-in-western-ukraine... http://www.moonofalabama.org/2014/01/libya-syria-and-now-ukr... Dear fellow hackers, media is "The Matrix" regardless it's from democratic western countries , or Russia, China, North Korea. Ironically most western p…
Comment linking /2014/01/libya-syria-and-now-ukraine-color-revolution-by-force.html
on “What is really happening in Ukraine”Submitted Why the End of the INF Treaty Will Not Start a New Arms Race as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI like http://www.moonofalabama.org/ and https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
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on “I miss blogrolls”Submitted Why the Air Force Shot Down a US Weather Balloon as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt’s 1984, folks. No joke. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/09/facebook-allies-with-u... https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/10/01/twitter-suspends-acc... https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/20/ciad-a20.html (As for the R’s, I saw but can’t find a clip of John Bolton bragging about helping R’s elect people with similar pedigrees.) https://www.corbettreport.com/psychographics-101/ https://www.corbettreport.com/t…
Comment linking /2018/09/facebook-allies-with-us-regime-change-orgs-for-fact-checking-in-foreign-countries.html
on “Behind Cambridge Analytica lay a bigger threat to our democracy: Facebook”Submitted Shall We Drop Calls or Airplanes? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile the cause is just, I'm not sure I want to sign an Avaaz petition. After all, they are also a (political) lobby, with its own, somewhat questionable, agendas, not a grassroots movement in any way. I also seriously doubt that a petition is better than US citizens calling their representatives, as was recommended during the last struggle. [ http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/03/07/the-grotesque-and-dis... http://ww…
Comment linking /2012/03/avaaz-sponsoring-fake-reporting-from-syria.html
on “Save the Internet from the US”Submitted The Coronavirus – No Need to Panic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthis sounds odd. other reports said that the final landing for these drones is done with a local, direct link (which was a possible candidate for how it was hacked), but this article implies (if i am reading it right) that by faking GPS it was misled into thinking it was landing in its normal place. also, in the linked article it says that the underbelly was damaged because the altitudes differed by a few metres, bu…
Comment linking /2011/12/how-iran-probably-acquired-a-stealth-drone.html
on “Report: Iran Hacked, Hijacked U.S. Drone”Submitted Why I Did Not Buy a Smartphone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's difficult to find hard proof to support or against the claims. However there are invisible human natures lead people tend to believe one or the other. Here in HN the majority belief is China is evil. The dissidents against the belief will be downvoted. But the world is much bigger than HN. A lot of contents are just not in English. Here's a community that contains minority beliefs but in English. I've pasted in…
Comment linking /2021/03/is-china-hacking-random-servers-to-put-itself-into-a-bad-light.html
on “Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of victims”Submitted NSA - Recording One Billion Phonecalls Per Day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI just happened to read a new article on "Moon Of Alabama". Then I realize there must be some debate on HN. I'm not disappointed Here's what lead me to come back to HN: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/03/is-china-hacking-rando...
Comment linking /2021/03/is-china-hacking-random-servers-to-put-itself-into-a-bad-light.html
on “Chinese hacking spree hit an ‘astronomical’ number of victims”Submitted Why Do Editors Seek 'Dark Sides' of China? as a story · 1 points
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