For updates see Moon of Alabama

it is early to guess who miscalculated. In a few days, there will be better idea of the disaster. Meanwhile one hopes that killings in Gaza and West Bank will be less. There are many participating in MoA giving links to the events as the war proceeds.

Breaking News: Israel launches attacks on Iran.

possibly some telief for Gaza now https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/israel-says-it-has-launched-attack-on-iran-20260228-p5o6b9.html TV reports say that US taking part in the attacks.

John Helmer on Modi’s trip to Israel

depressing https://youtu.be/nwWJBsk3n_k

Scott Ritter discusses both Iran and Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/live/QzxLeLICcQs?si=P2ydKaKckgdCucEC with bit of historical background

Iran Files 1, part of a series by Kautilya

https://chandragupta.substack.com/p/the-iran-files-i-the-revolutionary

Monday forecast for war on Iran gone but

there are signs like this https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/iran-protests-resurface-at-universities-as-war-risk-persists?ref=top-stories and of five Kurdish groups in Iran coordinating their activities. And the possibility of nukes... a y links in NC. so future seems uncertain. more from Scott Ritter https://www.youtube.com/live/XzvbRHd57EU?si=iWlprFmxY94nc9VB

George Galloway with Max Blumenthal

https://youtu.be/HNhR-H9RUow

Scott Ritter on the war on Iran

via Naked Capitalism https://forumgeopolitica.com/article/war-iran Yves Smith comments 'Ritter is way better when he forces himself to put pen to paper than when he sounds off on YouTube'.

Scott Ritter on the two week delay in the possible attack on Iran

https://youtu.be/BCRE6IDTTLI from approximately 35 minutes afterwards. A different point of view https://www.youtube.com/live/3emHhJZjpe0?si=9FEOK0vJmq8NjuUu

‘The Duran’ assessment of the possible war in Iran

https://youtu.be/iFNa7AdXO7o seems realistic

About a recent John Helmer article

https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/dear-john

US Israel confrontation still pending from counter currents

https://youtu.be/KlvQs4X4AOc

War on the horizon

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/iran-war-watch-us-moves-towards-attack-footing-despite-questionable-odds-of-success.html

End of an era?

https://www.youtube.com/live/l5QmkVVlhNk?si=4uay3yu6VHTI0I5m https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-slow-epstein-earthquake/

Xi Jinping on the Chinese Financial System And Michael Hudson responses

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/dr-hudson-on-xi-jinping-thought-the

Some tales from my life

Old age blues: Joblessness still haunts me. About 40 years ago I was without job prospects in US with Possible visas to faraway countries blocked by TB rest. A friend got me a summer teaching job in his university four hours a day away from the family. I still get dreams about those days. P.S.I do not remember whether I formally resigned from ISI, Delhi Centre or what happened to my pension. I was told by the then director that I had up to give up my allotted flat before leaving. So, it is possible that I had a job but forgot about it. But job in Delhi without assured apartment would have been difficult. More details: Usefulness of economists: It was early 1988 I think. I had to spend a few months somewhere or other waiting for Australian visa and was in Stoney Brook for couple of months. This was when Bernie Maskit showed me Susskind’s thesis and also collaborated with me. I had to go to some office for authentication and while coming back, it started raining. I put my passport in A copy of New York Times which I used to read those days. I came back to my office and placed the newspaper on my table. After a few days, the newspapers accumulated and I threw them down the chute along with the passport. And panic ensued. Luckily the economist Veerappa Chetty ( of Chetty money fame and fathers of Raj Chetty) was also in Stoney Brook at that time. He could sound important and phoned the Indian Embassy in Washington and got me some temporary paper identification. During this time I also visited Mark Feighn in New York. Mark asked me whether I knew about Gromov convergence and started explaing to me and said that it is something that I should know. This resulted after a few years in a paler with Martin Brideson ‘On Hausdorff-Gromov convergence and a theorem of Paulin’. Meanwhile another ecomist Atul Sarma in Delhi arranged an authentic new passport. I still had a few more months to spend and ended up in Toledo teaching summer calculus courses thanks to Rao Nagisetty. Rao almost got me a job in Toledo but it seems that the president decided to hire a cook and I lost out. In spite of the tensions, it turned out to be a good period for learning some new mathematics, mainly Perry’s thesis and Gromov convergence.

John Helmer update on Iran, India…

https://www.youtube.com/live/N4DM3Nu3AhY?si=BdK9d3VTQBICiPMG

Glimpses of P.P.Divakaran, Indian scientist

https://bhavana.org.in/puthan-purayil-divakaran-1936-2025/

Discussion between Vijay Prashad and Michael Hudson

seems impoetant bu have not read it yet. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/michael-hudson-and-vijay-prashad-how-hyper-imperialism-shapes-global-conflict.html

Alastair Crooke update of US-Iran strife, Taco

https://www.youtube.com/live/l5QmkVVlhNk?si=2GKVMuNMPDftMABw